9.4.7.1. Total slab profile

If you want to create special slab structures (like arched slabs), you have to modify the front view profile of the slab. With this command you can create closed profiles. You can place the profile on either side of the slab, and you can cut the profile from several sides. The program cross-sects these profiles, so you can easily create sophisticated structures like cross vaults. You can modify the profile in the floor plan and in 3D if you want.

Modifying slab profiles on the floor plan:

• Select one side of the slab to be modified in the floor plan. The program lays out its front view. (If you have modified a slab profile earlier, the program will use dotted lines to display the actual front view.)

• Place the laid out image. Use the NEXT keyword to change the reference point of the image laid out.

• Specify a closed profile to represent the frontal shape of the slab using the Profile definition tool in the Toolbox:

&For a description of the Profile definition, see Chapter 8.2. Specifying profile.

If you want to use a pre-defined profile of the profile library, click the Select from list command.

2Use the Object tool-  Closed profile command to create library profiles.

If the View menu -Automatic refresh option is enabled, you can see the result in the 3D view.

Example

You can cut a profile onto a slab having an arced side connected to the cut side. In this case you have to complete the automatically laid out slab side so that the profile will contain the entire projection. Otherwise the Bool operation will cut the arced side of the slab.