Create Structural & Non-Structural Walls

Video Transcript:

 Welcome! This video will cover how to input bearings by tracing over work lines.

Be sure to review the video Importing DXF Work Lines available on youtube and the Paragon training site.

To simplify bearing input, we are going to, add all walls at three and a half, inches. And put them all in at top of plate of nine feet, one and an eighth. In this demo there is going to be a lot of zooming and panning. So we'll use the mouse wheel to zoom and pan, as needed.

So without further ado, let's create our first bearing.

Click on create and from here we will adjust our top of plate.

Let's set this at nine feet one and an eighth. And we are going to set our thickness to 3 and one half inches. Select structural, and we will use the point selection method for adding bearing envelopes.  To aid in the input, edit the active snaps. These snaps assist us when we snap to a given point. We will uncheck everything except Endpoint, Orthogonal, and Work Lines. This will allow the snaps to ignore the other snap functions during the input process. As we begin, we can see that my first wall point is automatically set. So, I do not need to click to place the starting point. Press and hold the alt key as you draw, to allow for continuous bearing input. To complete our first bearing, I'm going to click to define the endpoint.

As you add the bearings think of items that may connect, so to add segments to the bearings. I did put in this front wall with three different segments but that is not required. The reason behind this is to give me some snap points later on for the front porch. thinking ahead here. Again keeping the Alt key pressed as you click to add points.

As we move up along this bearing we see right here, we've got a fireplace bump out. So we will add the bearings for this area. Just past the fireplace we have another interior wall we will add a location for. So, click, and then we will carry that on to the back. Again, I'm going do the same thing here with this porch by adding a few locations. Just to give myself some snap points as we come back to add additional items later. Zoom in and pan to make sure you are selecting the correct snaps for the bearings.

Next we will come all the way across.

And then click to start wrapping up the last of our bearings.

We have another interior wall here that I'm going to add points for. Select that, and then keep on going down. Click the snap point for the rear garage wall. Then move to the end and click to add the final wall.

Press escape, which is going to exit bearing creation mode.

Let's take a look at our 3D view.

Press the 3D camera icon, and we can see that the exterior walls are all created.

Next, we are going to input the remaining structural and non-structural bearing envelopes.

Return to 2D view. And let's go back to creating our bearings.

This one here at the back of the garage is a load bearing wall. So, set the start point on the left side. Then using point selection mode, Alt click the last point, and press escape to close.

Next we are going to access our bearing tool again and place this interior wall. We will do so using the point selection method. This wall is going be non-structural. So, make sure the property is set.

While pressing the alt key, Click to start it along the left wall and then continue over to the right side, then we will continue this to the back side. Press escape to end this bearing.

Alright, we have one more interior wall to create and that one looks to be non-structural.

We will use point selection, and take that all the way over to the right side and click. Press escape or insert & close to complete the bearing. Now let's access the 3D view to see our progress. The walls are looking good.

We are going to return to 2D mode which will do it for this lesson.

We hope this video provided a better understanding of how adding bearings by tracing imported work lines can save you time.

Thanks for watching.