Bracing Updates in Archicad 27

Building Dimensions, Floor Area approximation and Orientation

A new feature that has been added to the Bracing Tool is the automatic Dimension, Area and Orientation Calculation. After all walls have been selected, the ‘Calculate Bracing’ Dialogue will automatically extract this approximation from the selected wall geometry. By clicking on ‘Estimate from selected walls’ these parameters will be populated.

Please note that the area, width and length is an approximation of the rectangular shape around the selected walls and not the actual dimensions of the building. These values should be manually adjusted to allow for eaves overhangs and non-rectangular areas.

Bug Fix

In the past Bracing was sometimes placed without consideration of window and door openings, this has been rectified, and all openings are captured during the placement of bracing and bracing placed accordingly.

Interface

Minor interface changes have been made that further enhance the ease of use and enable a deeper understanding of the Bracing Tool.

Bracing Adjustment:

Re-Label Bracing

This describes how to use the Re-label Bracing function.

After placement of Bracing we can see that there are some anomalies in the placement.

Line P has no bracing and can move to line up with and interior wall

Line D can be removed as there is no bracing

Line B can be removed as line A will accommodate those braces

Line R has no bracing, or space for bracing

Lines M can be placed on the exterior wall

Lines M and N are placed in too close in proximity to each other.

Now we can adjust this to the following by moving and deleting as described above.

After we have adjusted the bracing lines we can add bracing where we deem they would be most applicable as follows:We can then select all the Bracing Elements, this would mean bracing lines, braces and the previously placed bracing table.

If we now select the CI Tools>Bracing>Re-label Bracing, the Bracing lines, Bracing and Bracing Table are updated automatically.

This function will also highlight bracing that is redundant and therefore not attached to a specific bracing line as can be seen below.

These can be deleted, and we have an updated Bracing placement with correlating bracing Table also indicating compliance.