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10.4 Delete Member ...........................................................................................................37
10.5 Edit Wand ...................................................................................................................37
10.6 Adding Secondary Panels to Existing MWF Panels ....................................................38
11. Exploring Secondary Layer Features..............................................................................39
11.1 Blocking ......................................................................................................................39
11.2 Bottom Tracks & Top Tracks .......................................................................................40
11.3 End Studs ...................................................................................................................41
11.4 Furring (Diagonals) .....................................................................................................42
11.5 Horizontals ..................................................................................................................42
11.6 Nailing.........................................................................................................................43
11.7 Openings ....................................................................................................................44
11.8 Verticals ......................................................................................................................45
12. Regenerate Panel Options .............................................................................................46
13. Delete Panels .................................................................................................................46
14. Create Shop Drawings and Options ...............................................................................47
14.1 Sheet View .................................................................................................................47
14.2 Bottom View................................................................................................................48
14.3 Elevation View ............................................................................................................49
14.4 Schedule View ............................................................................................................50
14.5 Side View ....................................................................................................................51
14.6 Send Request .............................................................................................................52
15. Output CNC ....................................................................................................................53
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1. Introduction: The Project Settings Hub
The Multi-Layer Project Settings hub is where the user has access to all the configurations
for the framing project regarding secondary framing. In the Project Settings command
under the Settings menu, the user will find the options Wall Type map, Structural
Templates, Secondary Templates, Opening Types, Sheathing Templates and Member
Tags. In these windows, the settings of the wall’s framing layers can be configured or
modified.
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1.1 Wall Type Map
In the Wall Type Map menu is where the user binds a template to a layer of the wall type.
You can use this menu to map Revit wall types to MWF templates present in the project.
Each layer of the wall can have its own template. You can attach Structural Templates
(MWF Pro templates), Secondary Templates or Sheathing Template. Using the Quick
Create under the Multi-Layer Panel will use this template mapping to frame the walls.
The Structural Templates menu contains templates created with MWF Pro. The
properties of these templates are aimed for bearing framing conditions and with a wide
range of options.
Create a Secondary Template by making a duplicate of one of the Default that comes
installed in the system. The Default templates starts as empty placeholder used to start
your project. All the families for the secondary templates are to be already loaded into the
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project, of category type: Structural Framing. Each template can also have a static
preview photo uploaded if needed.
You can now select one of the templates and click Copy. Give the template a new name:
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Click the command Modify to start creating the settings of that template. This will bring up
the Layer Properties. At first glance, the window appears empty.
Here you can drag and drop the available Features into the Current Layer Config pane to
create the configuration you want in this template. For example, to add Vertical members
and Framing around openings:
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Then you can configure the settings for each feature. In this example, for Openings we
will use:
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For the Verticals option, we will use Rotated 1x3s, aligned to the vertical studs, end studs,
cripples and join stud of the structural layer, and the member’s cutbacks to be long.
Once the template is created, hit the Modify button to open the Layer Properties of the
3x3 Frame template:
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Now, drag and drop the remainder of features and modify the families of each feature to
be 3x3:
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Sheathing Templates are created from the sheathing tools under the ProWall panels.
Here you can access the templates and apply them to your wall template maps. In order
to modify them, you need to access the Sheathing commands under ProWall.
By default, MWF has a series of codes for labeling each member. You can override this
and save it as a template and apply to your secondary layers.
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Once you have selected your wall, add the templates to the proper layer. You can also
write annotations on the side to help describe each layer:
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Once you picked the proper Structural Template, hit Select on the right side of the dialog
box. This will add this template to the layer you picked.
Notice that the frame type indicates which module (MWF Pro, Secondary or Sheathing)
the template belongs too.
To remove a template, hit the template on the layer and then select <None>.
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Once you are finished with this wall, navigate to the next wall and add the templates
needed:
You can configure more than one template map. For example, template map for Level 1,
Level 2, Level 3.
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This allows the same Revit Wall type to have different maps. For example, in a High Rise
building, the exterior Bearing wall may have Tripple stud layout on the first level, Double
Stud layout on the second level, and single Stud layout on the 3 level. This allows the
user to keep the same Revit wall types, just with difference framing templates.
To run Quick Create with MultiLayer, select the walls in the project you
would like to frame and then the command Quick Create under the Multi-
Layer Panel. Note that the quick create command may be under the
Operations menu depending on what version of MWF you are running.
This will use the template map to frame the wall with the appropriate
template.
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4. Changing Templates within a wall and Adding
Secondary Templates
In order to change a template within a MultiLayer wall, click the wall and
select the command Wall Properties under the Operations menu.
This will bring up each layer of the Wall with the template associated to
the layer. In this window you can add additional templates to the wall or
change an existing template. Here for example I will change the template
from a 3x3 frame, to the 3x3 frame @ 2’ spacing.
Pick the template you want to change, and then hit Select, and then OK in the Wall
properties.
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5. Difference Between Template Instance and Types
(Lock)
In the wall properties, you will notice there is a lock option. When a template is locked, it
acts as a type, meaning, if you modify the configurations of the template and save the
changes, all layers locked to that template will change after regeneration. When the lock
option is not checked, the active layer acts as an instance. It is still using the last active
template, although it is no longer in relationship with it. If you change the template it was
originally locked to, it will not affect the framing of this layer. By unchecking the Lock
option you can also go modify that layers settings by hitting the Edit option.
After hitting Edit, the layer properties will pop up where you can modify that layers
instance. For this example, I changed the Spacing options to 1’0
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Hit OK at the bottom Right of the dialog to
save the changes, and then hit Ok in the Wall
Properties again. Now only the Verticals
feature has been changed, and regenerated
in the wall properties
Be sure to select the Sheathing Category at the top of dialog to have access to ProWall
Sheathing templates.
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Select the template, and hit OK at the bottom Right of the wall properties. Be sure to set
your view to View Parts to be able to see the sheathing Panels.
Through the template map, you can add your sheathing templates to each layer:
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When the sheathing Layer is being used, the frame type for the layer is called: Sheathing
Layer plugin:
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7.1 Joins and wall parts
By default, the secondary layers will extend to the Revit Wall Parts.
As for the MWF Pro Structural Layers, they are following the MWF Wall Join:
In combination, you can use the MWF Wall join for the MWFPro frame type, and Revit
parts for the secondary. Take note that the parts aligns Ends studs for verticals, and the
extensions for horizontals. You can modify the parts of the wall to have more control on
the Join cutbacks.
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Select the part of the wall you wish to modify and Enable
Shape handles:
Stretch the part of the wall where you want the framing
to stop. After regeneration, the layers will align to Revit Wall parts:
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You can also stretch parts in elevation, the secondary layers will follow this as well.
This allows a lot of flexibility for oddball wall joins or framing conditions.
The Align Joins command will activate the option that allows all secondary layer
to be stretched to match the same main wall as the MWF Join. The arrow of
the MWF Join points to the priority wall.
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After regeneration, the secondary layers will follow the
main wall.
8. Opening Types
There are 5 different styles for Opening types in MultiLayer. Default, Kings only Framing,
Boxed, Do not frame and Frame Through. Each type has a different style of framing. In
order to use the opening types, start with the ones installed with the software, duplicate it
and customize it to standard. You can create new by copy pasting originals through the
Project Settings hub:
Or you can access the opening types directly through the layer properties, Openings
features:
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The <Do not Frame Marker> function is to ignore the opening, but stop the members from
intersecting the void. It does not have any functionality to add critical framing members,
although you can set a tolerance if needed.
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8.2 Frame Through
The <Frame Through> Marker function is to completely ignore the opening altogether.
The Kings only framing type places kings on both the left and right side of the opening.
This marker type you can change the orientation of the stud member, change the family
type, override the family to read the same as the verticals in the Layer Properties, and
member cutbacks.
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8.4 Boxed
The <Boxed> framing marker will place a perimeter of members around the opening.
With this marker type you can define the Header, sills, verticals and cutbacks
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There are options to control the Header and sill alignments, quantities of Kings, Jacks
and cripples.
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Each member of the panel has a label name which can be found under the member
instance properties. Please note that the MWF Pro label tags will be copied to the new
Label Id:
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9.2 Master Container
The Master Container value is the number of the panel which contains
all layers in each panel. This Id can be changed using the Renumber
Panel tool. To see the Master Container panel number, select any
member of a secondary layer and find this parameter under its general
Revit Properties.
9.3 SSFT_Id
This id is auto calculated for each layer. This is the id for the member’s layer group it
belongs too. Each Layer will have its own SSTF_Id. When creating Shop Drawings, if you
want your BOM to be grouped by layer, make sure to input this field as a category.
To see the SSFT_Id panel number, select any member of a secondary layer and find this
parameter under its general Revit Properties.
The Label is unique for each member of that layer. The first letter describes the type of
member, for example. C14, would describe the 14th Cripple. Or HD1 would describe the
1st Header Door. The Tag would describe only the prefix, such as C or HD. There is a
default configuration for the tags which can be overridden per layer.
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To see the Label of a panel, select any member of a secondary layer and find this
parameter under its general Revit Properties.
Each member has a set of tags. These tags can be accessed through the Project Hub –
Member Tags:
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Once the map has been copied, the map is now editable to which ever Short Text needed.
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Now that the layer is reading a new template map, the members have different tags and
labels.
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10.1 Add Member
To move a member, run the <Move Member> command. Then select your member, and
pick point to the new location.
To extend a member, run the < Extend Member > Command. Then select the member
you want to extend and input the start or end extension values:
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To delete a member, run the < Delete member> command. Then select the member you
want to delete.
The Edit Wand was created so that you can do the modifications to your panel using Revit
tools, then run the Edit Wand so that MWF can recognize the changes. For example I
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extended a cripple, moved a king, and deleted a stud. At this phase there is nothing in
the edit Ops list because the panel doesn’t recognize the changes yet.
If your project already has MWF Panels created, and you want to add secondary layers
to it, you will need to run the Operations> “Add Secondary” command to convert the
existing Pro Wall Panel into a multi-layer panel. Once the command has been run on the
wall(s), you can then click on the wall and open up the Wall Properties through the Multi-
Layer Panel, and add secondary templates to the layers needing. Once a panel has been
converted, if you click on an MWF Stud, you will notice a new Master Container assembly
with a new panel number for Multi-Layer Panels.
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If you need to hide the MWFPro Label. Simply regenerate the MWFPro layer Panel using
MultiLayer Regenerate command.
11.1 Blocking
Blocking option allows you to place blocking between the studs in the
secondary panel. This is option you can save in a secondary template.
You can only place blocking if you have verticals and end studs selected
in Current Layer Config option. The Blocking option dialog box allows you
to select the type of family you will be using, rotation of the members,
select the spacing and also you can stagger the members.
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11.2 Bottom Tracks & Top Tracks
Bottom tracks option allows you to place a member on the bottom of the
secondary panel. This option can save be in a secondary template. The
Bottom Track option dialog box allows you to select the type of family you
will be using, rotation of the members, a cutbacks option that option could
be use when there is End Studs in the layer. Also have an Extension
option and apply coping to the bottom track.
The Top track option allows you to place a member on the top of the
secondary panel. This option can be save be in a secondary template.
The Top track option dialog box allows you to select the type of family
you will be using, rotation of the members, a cutbacks option. That option
could be use when there is End Studs in the layer. Also have an Extension
option and apply coping to the Top track.
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End Studs option allows you to place members at the start and end of
the secondary panel. This option can save be in a secondary template.
The End Stud option dialog box allows you to select the type of family
you will be using, rotation of the members, a cutbacks option. Also have
an Extension option and apply coping to the members.
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11.4 Furring (Diagonals)
Furring option allows you furring along the face of the secondary panel.
This is option you can save in a secondary template.
The Furring option dialog box allows you to select the type of family you
will be using, rotation of the members, select the spacing and also allows
you place angle to the members.
11.5 Horizontals
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11.6 Nailing
Nailing option allows places nailing throughout the secondary layer. This
option can also be saved in secondary template. Also our Weinmann
CNC can read these nail patterns and will show up in WUP file.
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11.7 Openings
The Opening option is where you can select different types of opening
conditions on how you can frame your openings in your Secondary
template. This is option you can save in a secondary template.
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11.8 Verticals
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12. Regenerate Panel Options
The Regenerate Panel command has 3 different options:
Regenerate Selected Layers will only regenerate the layer in which a member is selected
of that layer.
Regenerate Structural and Secondary will regenerate the MWFPro Layers and all the
secondary layers.
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14. Create Shop Drawings and Options
The Shop Drawings commands allows you to automatically create viewports of the
secondary layer of the panel. The shop drawing gives you an elevation view, bottom view,
side view and a bill of material. You also need to create View Templates for the views
and all members need a reported length for the bill of material to read.
Sheet View allows the user to show the details on how the sheet will look like when you
generate a MultiLayer shop drawing. You have an option for the sheet name, gaps in
between the viewports and the distance between the title block to the views. You can also
create own setting template by hitting the plus icon .These information are be saved in
setting template and can be used on the future.
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14.2 Bottom View
Bottom View allows the user to show the detail on how the bottom view will like it. An
option that allows the user place dimensions and what type of dimensions. Also an option
for View Range where you would like the view to cut the wall. Note the Side View takes
its visibility/graphics from a Revit View template. These information are be saved in
Settings and can be used in the future.
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14.3 Elevation View
Elevation View allows the user to show the detail on how the elevation will like it: how the
overall dimension are placed, if there are dimensions on the openings and if there are
labels on members and openings. Note the Elevation View takes its visibility/graphics
from a Revit View template. These information are be saved in setting template and can
be used on the future.
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14.4 Schedule View
The Schedule option allows the user select which field they would like to show in the bill
of material. Option to select the text note type for the title, header and body of the text.
Also alignment of the text and an option to have the field hidden. These information are
be saved in setting template and can be used on the future.
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14.5 Side View
Side View allows the user to show the detail of how it would look around an opening. You
have option to select dimensions styles and also a view range for the offset and depth of
the panel. Note the Side View takes its visibility/graphics from a Revit View Template.
These information are be saved in setting template and can be used on the future.
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14.6 Send Request
If the standard settings does not fit your company needs you can always send us a
request file, if you need any extra dimensions styles, labeling styles and extra views and
so on. In the request you would need to out in your information like company name,
contact person, an email address where we can reach for questions about your request.
There is an option where you can upload Images and example files for us to better
understand your request. After you fill up all the information just send over the send
request file.
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15. Output CNC
An output CNC of Multi-Layer Panels to Weinmann machine can be achieved. Access
the tool through MWF Pro Wall Menu> output > Weinmann CNC. Make sure that the
MultiLayer checkbox is checked.
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