In-wall junction for concrete walls

Modifying connections function

You can create user-defined formwork sections at the ends of concrete precast walls. These are the walls for which 'Concrete wall' was selected in the Design Mode dialog box. You can choose any position and angle for this formwork section.

To create an in-wall junction for concrete walls

1. Click Modify Design (How).
   

   Activate Modify Design in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Precast Elements Task Precast Wall Task area Precast Wall

   • Menu bar: Change Precast Elements Precast Wall

   • Palette: Tools Change area in the following module(s):

   Precast Wall

2. Go to the context toolbar and click Connections.

   Note: To modify a wall, you can also double-click the triangle symbol indicating the viewing direction or you can open the shortcut menu of the triangle symbol and select Properties. In this case, the last function you selected is automatically used for the selected design.
   Select Esc and then Connections.

3. Click Manual in the input options.
4. You can now see a search area at the crosshairs. Click the concrete wall on the end of which you want to create a connection.
   Then click the wall end.
5. Change the connection option by clicking the Previous / Next Option arrow keys. You can also click the Name of Connection button, thus opening a list where you can select a connection type.
6. Right-click in the workspace or click OK to confirm the selected connection type.
7. You can make the changes to the in-wall junction manually in the dialog line. As required, enter the name of the formwork symbol, the 1st point for the formwork angle, the 2nd point for the formwork angle, the differential angle for connection, the shortening for the connection, symbol reference point and its direction.
8. Click to confirm the entries.
   

Note:
If columns are within the wall, you must divide the wall near the columns by using the Delete Section of Linear Component tool so that the program creates the in-wall junction correctly.