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Floor Tools
Floor Tools
This help file will show you how to use additional tools related to the
Floor Plan Level which includes slabs and spaces. These tools are:
Grids
Grids can be placed on sites, building floors and spaces to help you
organize your layouts. On building floors, columns can be added to grid
points.
How to add a Grid:
- Start at the Plan you want
to add a grid (site, floor, space)
- Select the slab
- Press hotkey
F
- Input grid spacing
- Input grid angle (see
onscreen method below)
- Select grid origin* (see
onscreen method below)
- Click OK
Optionally you may define things onscreen:
- First make sure the slab is
unlocked by double clicking and selecting unlock and hit save
- Then for rotate:
- Click on the center of
rotation
- Click on the starting
location of the angle
- Click on the finish
location of the angle
- Or for origin
- Click and hold to drag
the grid until it lines up to the origin you desire.
*
Grid origin 0,0 is located in the center of the slab, it is a computer
defined point that cannot be altered; for this reason it may be best to
select to define the origin onscreen.
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Copy Slabs, Columns, Walls
When creating multistory buildings, often the floor slabs are identical
through certain portions (for example, 1-4 are identical slabs, 5-7 are
identical slabs, and 8-12 are identical slabs). In Onuma, it is
possible to copy the geometry of slabs to additional slabs. You can
also use this tool to copy columns & walls
Here's how:
- Create a multistory
building in Onuma
- Edit a slab
- Go to Copy
Slabs, Columns, Walls
- Select the slabs that are
identical to the slab you edited, additionally you can also copy
grid/columns/walls to the floors as well
- Click copy
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Edit Floor Slab(s)
Do you have an additional slab that is part of your current building
and not its own separate building? Using the Edit Floor Slab Tool you
can add additional slabs to your building in Onuma.
Example of additional Slab
Here's how:
- On the Floor Plan select Edit
Floor Slab(s)
- Click Add
Floor Slab
- Additional you can select
if these slab will be counted toward the SF
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Walls & Columns
On the Floor Plan you can also add exterior walls / building enclosure
and columns:
- First make sure you are in Edit
Mode on the Floor
Plan
- On the Add
Object(s) menu, go to Building
Elements > Walls and
Columns
- Enter the amount you want
of a Wall or Column and click on the object to add
To edit/move/delete Wall:
- Here you can change the
type, height, pixel thickness and lock or unlock the Wall
- Choose your settings and
click Save
- An Unlocked
Wall can be moved or deleted
To edit/move/delete Columns:
- Double Click on the Column
- Here you can change the
dimensions, type, height and lock or unlock the column
- Choose your settings and
click Save
- An Unlocked
Column can be moved or deleted
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Add a Hole to this Slab or Space
On the Floor Plan while in Edit Mode:
- Double Click on a Slab or
Space
- Click on the blue text Add
a Hole to this Slab/Space
- Use pen tool to select
corner points of hole
- Complete your polygon by
finishing at your first point
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