Wall

You use this function to create single or connected walls with one or more layers.

Freeform Wall

You can use this tool to draw single-leaf walls with a polygonal floor plan.

Profile Wall

You can use this tool to draw profile walls; in other words, single-tier walls with any cross-section.

Upstand

You can use this tool to draw masonry on the bearing surface of a slab on a wall. The top level of the wall below serves as the bottom level of the upstand.

Plumbing Component

You can use this tool to draw linear or polygonal-bounded plumbing components like masonry and plumbing walls, for example.

Create Walls from Lines

You can use this tool to automatically generate walls from existing lines.

Create Walls from 2D Plan

You can use this tool to generate three-dimensional walls based on two-dimensional lines (with any offset). This way, you can quickly convert 2D floor plans to volumetric models.

Create Walls from Rooms

You can use this tool to automatically create walls on the basis of rooms you have already defined. Allplan automatically scans the drawing files for adjoining rooms and creates a wall where the offset distance between rooms matches the thickness of one of the defined interior walls.

Slab

You can use this tool to draw slabs and slab-shaped architectural elements.

Recess, Opening in Slab

You can use this tool to insert recesses and openings in slabs and plates.
You can choose between a rectangular, round, polygonal (inscribed or circumscribed) and free-form opening. In addition, you can select an opening with an outline saved as a symbol. Slab recesses can be inserted from the top or bottom.

Downstand Beam, Upstand Beam

You can use this tool to place downstand beams and upstand beams in slabs and walls.

Column

You can use this tool to draw column-shaped components with different outlines: rectangular, oval, chamfered, round, polygonal, freeform, or based on a closed 2D outline that has been saved as a symbol.

Flush Pier

You can use this tool to insert flush piers in walls.

Chimney

You can use this tool to create chimneys from one to two flues and combine them with up to two shafts in different arrangements.

Block Foundation

You can use this tool to design individual foundations with rectangular, circular or polygonal ground plans, e.g. for use under columns and piers.

Slab Foundation

You can use this tool to create slab foundations with a rectangular or polygonal floor plan.

Strip Foundation

You can use this tool to create strip foundations, for example, below straight walls.

Door

You can use this tool to insert door openings in walls. You can then apply a door/gate SmartPart to this opening.

Window

You can use this tool to insert window openings in walls. You can then apply a Window SmartPart to this opening.

Corner Window

You can use this tool to place windows that extend beyond the corner in adjoining walls. You can then apply a Corner Window SmartPart to this opening.

Opening Designer

You can use this tool to design door and window openings by entering parameters for facing blocks, rabbet shapes, roller blind housings, lintel and header elements, etc. These openings can be saved and retrieved when needed.

Facing

You can use this tool to draw facing.

Rabbet

You can use this tool to draw rabbets on the left, right and at the top and bottom of a window opening.
In the case of walls with multiple construction layers, a rabbet can be inserted on a side of the opening or in individual construction layers.

Lintel, Header

You can use this tool to place a lintel, header above an opening in the wall.

Smart Window Sill Symbol

You can use this tool to insert inner or outer smart window sill symbols in window openings with horizontal bottom levels.
This tool works just like the Smart Window and Door Symbols tool.

Roller Blind Housing

You can use this tool to place a roller blind housing above an opening in the wall.

Niche, Recess, Slit, Opening

You can use this tool to insert niches, recesses, slits and openings in walls.

Polygonal Niche, Recess, Slit, Opening

You can use this tool to insert niches, recesses, slits and openings with a polygonal boundary in walls.

Joint

You can use this tool to insert joints in walls.

Creating wall openings

You can use this tool to create niches, slits, recesses, and openings in walls. To do this, you select 3D solids and smart 3D symbols according to certain criteria and convert them to Allplan openings. For example, you can import the 3D solids and smart symbols as IFC data from other programs by using the interfaces integrated in Allplan.

Creating slab openings

You can use this tool to create recesses and openings in slabs. To do this, you select 3D solids and smart 3D symbols according to certain criteria and convert them to Allplan openings. For example, you can import the 3D solids and smart symbols as IFC data from other programs by using the interfaces integrated in Allplan.

Dimension Walls

You can use this tool to automatically create dimension strings for one or more walls. It is possible to create several dimension lines in a single step. The dimension lines are associative.

Example:

A dimension string centered on openings is placed for a wall with a window. When a new window is inserted in the wall, the dimension string will update automatically to include the new opening.

The dimensioning information will also update automatically when the opening in the wall is moved or deleted, or if the width of the opening changes.

Sill Height

You can use this tool to determine and label the height of the bottom level of an opening in architectural components.

Elevation Point

You can use this tool to determine the heights of the top and bottom edges of any architectural component and mark them with an altitude pair.

Change Archit. Properties

You can use this tool to display and modify architecture-specific properties of architectural elements, 3D objects and 2D surface elements. You can also change different elements in a single operation.

Apply Archit. Component Properties

You can use this tool to transfer properties of architectural components to other components of the same type. You can also use this tool to modify element-specific properties of architectural elements (analogous to creation method).

Define, Modify Reveal

You can use this tool to create or modify reveals. Allplan considers facing on the right and left.

Conversion for Building Alteration Work

You can use this tool to define the building alteration category and specify how components and 2D surface elements look.

Demolition Object, New Building Object

You can use this tool to convert openings of the demolition and new building categories in as-built walls to demolition and new building objects.

Join Linear Components

You can use this tool to join two freestanding linear components (for example, walls, beams, upstands, strip foundations) in plan view.

Join Linear Component with Line

You can use this tool to join linear components (for example, walls, beams, upstands, strip foundations) with lines (or their virtual extensions) in plan view.
The components will be shortened or lengthened as appropriate; the lines do not change.

Delete Section of Linear Component

You can use this tool to remove sections from walls, beams, upstands, strip foundations, vertical surfaces and baseboard.
Elements inserted in these sections (such as windows, doors) will also be deleted.

Show, Hide Junctions

You can use this tool to show or hide junction lines (for example, the lines where walls intersect).