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Frame wall

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Frame Wall – frames selected walls or parts from the model according to predefined configuration.

First time framing walls

Load families

The first time you click Frame Wall in a new project, you will get a message that the framing families are not loaded. You can load them directly from here:

Click OK:

Framing families can be also loaded using Wall+MSettings Load Families:

Read more about how to Load Families

Wall+M checks the status of selected walls. If there is something wrong with the walls, you will get a detailed report. In the image below, you can see possible report messages.

Let's solve the problem of a selected wall type:

To fix these kinds of problems, you usually need to go to Link Wall and check the situation:

The wall type has framing possibility disabled, so you just need to select the checkbox near the Frame column:

There is no problem if framing configuration in not assigned to the layer. You can assign it in the Link Wall dialog, or Wall+M will give you this option during the Frame Wall process:

Selected a sample framing configuration, which automatically comes with Wall+M, and click OK:

Result:

Read more about Link Wall here.

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