WOOD FRAMING WALL+

SHOP DRAWINGS

Shop Drawings

Finish your modeling with built-in shop drawing

generator and deliver your wall framing

estimation the same hour. Build your complete

shop drawings with dimensioning, part lists and

material take-off automatically

Solution will collect all elements from one wall panel and make assembly with predefined views, add dimensions, add tags, make

sheets and put the views into the sheets

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Shop Drawings

Shop drawing workflow consists of following steps:

1. Wall+ → define Shop Drawing Configuration

2. Wall+ → make shop drawings for one wall using Create Frame Assembly

3. Wall+ → sort frame members

4. Add shop drawing views into the sheet for one wall and save it as a template for the future walls

5. Wall+ → make shop drawings for other wall segments

6. Wall+ → update shop drawings if there are any changes in the model

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Shop Drawing Configuration

3 tabs (Assembly Views, Schedules and Sheets) below go for assembly views setup, schedules setup and sheets setup

Shop Drawing

Configuration – the list of

saved shop drawing

configurations. Configurations

can be saved, duplicated,

renamed and deleted

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Assembly Views

Assembly Views tab:

Create Assembly Views –

predefine assembly views,

view graphical presentment,

framing layers you want to

present

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Assembly Views

Create new views by clicking button New

Click Duplicate to duplicate selected view. Full

row should be selected to activate this option

Click Delete to delete selected view

Select Move Up/Down to move view in

configuration dialog

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Assembly Views

Create View –

select the views

you want to create

in the assembly

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View – select the view type to create in the assembly. The list of view types comes from Revit. It can be: section, elevation, plan view,

legend, 3D view etc.

View Name – enter name for selected view

Framing Layer – select framing layer you want to filter in the view. It can be: main Frame, Vertical Nailer, Horizontal Siding,

Sheathing, Log etc. If None is selected then all layers will be visible in the view

View Template – select view template for every assembly view. View templates brings such information to the view, like scale,

graphical presentment etc. The list of view templates comes from your current Revit project. You can find and modify your project

view templates in Revit → View → Graphics → View Templates → Manage View Templates

Dimensioning Rules

Dimensioning Rule

– dimensioning rules

for the selected view.

Dimensioning rules

are saved under

separate name and

can be used for other

projects

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Dimensioning rules can be created and modified under Edit Dimensioning Rules

Dimensioning Rules

Dimensioning rules can be saved, duplicated, renamed or deleted

Dimension Type – select dimension type which comes from your current project

Dimension Position – predefine how dimension should be added on the stud. Dimension can be added on the stud Left, Right, Location Point or Mixed position

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Dimensioning Rules

Side – stud dimensions could be added at the

wall Top or Bottom

Relative Distance to Frame – distance index

from the frame to the first dimension chain.

It takes Dimension Line Snap Distance from

the dimension type and multiplies it by this

value, which is 1.5 by default

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Tags

Elements in the views can be tagged. The list of tag families comes from your current project

Sample tags are loaded to your project using Load Families & Schedules

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Structural Framing Tag – select a family for tagging all studs

and plates in the view

Sheathing Tag – select a family for tagging all sheathing panels

(Parts) in the view

Structural Connections Tag – select a family for tagging all

details, like anchors, clip angles etc. in the view

Tag Other – tags other elements, like electrical switches,

openings etc. in the view. Tag families comes from Annotate

tab → Tag All

Tags

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Special Layer Filter

Layer Number – use

this option if there

are more than one

same layer used in

the wall type.

Before using this

option switch on Use

Layer Number

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Layer number comes from the wall type

Single Layer – use this option if you need to show only selected wall layer without other layers. For example, the front side view with

a sheathing will be shown with main frame by default. If this option is switched on then only sheathing will be visible

Insert Grids

Insert Grids – adds Grid symbol into assembly views with shop drawings

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Insert Grids

Original grids need to be created by the

location line of the wall in the plan view

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Insert Grids

Grid symbol is a special family that we created. You will be able to predefine

its design, end segment length, head radius, etc.

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Detail Views

Create Detail View – whereas with a simple

assembly view, you see only the assembly itself –

in isolation from other parts with which it interacts

– Detail Views lets you see how a given assembly

relates to other pieces of the pie, like walls, floors,

elevations, grids, etc.

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Schedules

Wall+ will create schedules in the wall assembly by

predefined settings

Schedule Template – select a schedule from your

current project to be a template for the assembly part

list, material takeoff and other schedules

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Select any regular schedule from a project to use it as

Schedule template in assembly Check schedules created in assembly views

Sample schedules will be loaded with Load

Families & Schedules. You can modify it or create

your own with your own columns, filters etc.

The software automatically create additional

parameters that can be used in schedules. For

example, Framing Member Mass – will show the

mass (weight) for every element

Note: elements needs to have material assigned

with a Density value

Materials can be assigned to the element

subcategory in Manage → Object Styles

Schedules

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Sheets

Wall+ will create sheets in the wall assembly by

predefined settings

Titleblock – select the titleblock family to apply for

assemblies. Titleblock family list comes from your current

project

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Sheets

Create first assembly → add views to the sheet manually → open

Shop Drawing Configuration → Sheets → select a sheet to be as a

template for other walls

W-100 1 Sheet

Newly created

assembly sheet

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Create Frame Assembly

Create Frame Assembly – makes shop drawings for selected walls. Select any frame from the wall and

after pressing Create Frame Assembly the software will create shop drawings according to predefined

configuration

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Update Frame Assembly

Update Frame Assembly – updates assembly of selected wall if any changes are made in Shop

Drawing Configuration

For example, dimension type was changed in configuration. Result after update process

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Sort Structural Connections by Mark

Sort Structural Connections or

Framing – sorts framing

members for proper element

tagging. You can find parameter

with sorted values in Properties

→ Identity Data

The software uses Marks from

Framing Configuration

FM SortMark – parameter with

sorted values. It contains

Framing Member Mark values

and a number that is sorted by

framing length

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Other features

Select Elements in Frame

Select Elements in Frame – selects all framing members of the same type in a framing. For example,

select a Stud → Select Elements in Frame → all Studs from a wall will be selected

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Select Elements in all Frames

Select Elements in all Frames – selects all framing members of the same type in all the framings from the

project. For example, select a Stud → Select Elements in all Frames → all Studs from all walls will be

selected

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Select Elements in all Frames by Level

Select Elements in all Frames by Level – selects all framing members of the same type in all the

framings from the same level. For example, select a Stud → Select Elements in all Frames by Level →

all Studs from all walls from the same level will be selected

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Select all Frame Elements

Select all Frame Elements – selects all framing members from a wall. For example, select a Stud →

Select all Frame Elements → all elements, including frames, nailers, sidings from a wall will be selected

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