Slab Styles

Where can I find this command?

Keyboard:

vaSlabStyles

Icon:

right click [left click]

Toolbar: Objects

Menu:

VisualARQ > Slab > Slab Styles...

• New Slab style
• Edit Slabs
• Slab Style Components

Slab styles define the slab features. For each slab style, you can define the following parameters: Name and Attributes.

Slab styles are defined by different Slab Layers that can be added or deleted at any time.

Slab style composed by 2 layers:

1. Slab layer A
2. Slab layer B

After running the vaSlabStyles command, the slab Style Manager dialog box will appear. All slab styles are created and edited from this dialog.

Style Manager dialog box for the slab object

New slab style:

You can create new styles and duplicate existing ones from the different options in the slab Style Manager.

Slab styles can be created as regular slab styles, or as Grasshopper styles (styles driven by a Grasshopper definition).

When clicking on the New Style... button, select one of the two options available, which will create a new slab style or open the Grasshopper style wizard:

• Slab style: a new slab style is created with the default parameters.
• Grasshopper style: follow the steps of the wizard to create a new style from a Grasshopper definition:
  • Grasshopper definition
  • Global values configuration
  • Geometry
  • Parameters

Delete a slab style:

You can delete slab styles from the Slab Style Manager dialog box. You can only delete those styles that are not being used by any existing slab in the model.

Edit a slab style:

Select the slab style or a slab component item from the top left panel, and edit their corresponding parameters from the tabs that appear in the right panel.

Add a slab layer:

• Context menu: right-click on the slab style name to open the context menu and select New > Slab layer.
• New icon : select the slab style and click on the New icon, from the dialog toolbar. Select Slab layer.

Delete layers: use the context menu (right-click on the layer you wish to delete and select Delete) or the Delete button .

In the case of Grasshopper styles, do right-click on the style name to see the Context menu and select Edit, which will launch the Grasshopper style wizard.

Geometry

Thickness: this value shows the sum of the slab style layers thicknesses. To modify it, you need to modify the thicknesses of each layer.

Attributes

Attributes define the features of each slab style and its layers for display and print purposes. The valid attributes are:

• General: Layer, Visibility and Material.
• Projection: Color, Linetype, Line print width and Line print color.
• Section: Color, Linetype, Line print width, Line print color, Pattern, Pattern scale, Pattern angle and Pattern color.

Parameters

In this tab you can create custom parameters by style and assign values by style.

These values can be overwritten by object, from the Parameters section , in the Rhino Properties panel .

Slab Components

Layers

Slab styles can have different number of layers but they must have at least one.

For each layer, you can specify the following parameters: Name, Attributes, Type and Geometry.

Geometry

• Thickness: the thickness of a slab layer is a property of the slab style. However, it can be also edited for each slab object individually.

Construction

There are two types of slab layers which establish the intersection with other slab and wall layers.

• Type:
  • Core: layers with priority number 1. Core layers are meant to be the structural ones in a slab, so they will tend to connect with other core slab and wall layers.
  • Normal: layers with priority number 2. They tend to connect with other Normal layers after the Core layers are connected. When a slab and a wall intersect, Normal slab layers are trimmed by the wall layers.