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Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2015 09:38:19 GMT

Looking for any opinions on the bracing tool.
Does it work for additions?
Is it quicker than manual placement, is it easy to use?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2015 20:33:49 GMT

I use it all the time, I find it great. I now have a bunch of presets made to suit what I might be bracing. e.g JamesHardie RAB which will attempt to apply RAB to exterior and GIB to interior. I also have basic notes in the preset that get scheduled into my bracing plans also.
The basic bracing in the picture below took about 2min work to achieve to give you an idea.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2015 22:29:43 GMT

Thanks Danj
How does it deal with additions & can it do subfloor anchor & braced piles?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2015 23:17:14 GMT

It varies on the alteration. Sometimes I just get an engineer to do the calcs.
As for sub floor yes it can but its a bit more of a manual process. The bracing can also do multiple tables for wings, etc

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2015 02:59:29 GMT

Thanks Danj, I will download the trial & give it a whirl

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 01:48:05 GMT

If you have any questions I am happy to help.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:53:12 GMT

Thanks Dan
I do have a couple
When I have placed Gib bracing & I may want to change the braces in the garage to Ecoply how do I do that?
I have tried selecting an individual element, opened the dbx & clicked the drop down, but the only available choices are all the other Gib braces.
Do I have to set up custom braces in that set before I place the bracing?

I really want to be able to use it for subfloor also, how do you do that?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:11:35 GMT

You will need to create a new preset that will include the brace types you want to use. First you will need to add in the ecoply brace types, see picture, then create the preset with the types. Make sure you set Ecoply to EXT only so it will only show on exterior walls. Also the tool applies braces based on priority from top to bottom so you want your ecoply braces at the top as the tool will apply these first to the exterior walls, it will then search down the list until it finds Gib types to apply to the interior walls. Hope that makes sense. You should also be able to schedule the description.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:05:57 GMT

Thanks Danj
How do you do the subfloor bracing?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:36:16 GMT

I a bit busy at moment but will try post something by end of tomorrow. It might be easier to actually make a video.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 03:22:03 GMT

Thanks Danj I appreciate your help, I can see potential with this tool, it will be great if I can include all of the bracing.
Especially as the new Ezybrace calculator does not have subfloor bracing in it!

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 02:51:36 GMT

So you want to add the braces (Anchor Pile, etc) as a preset, remember to set it as a fixed Bu's and not Bu/m. Then on your pile plan you want to draw a random walls each way and generate your bracing, it will throw all sorts of error at you but ignore them, we are just after some brace lines, elements and the table.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 03:03:36 GMT

You want to delete the walls and the braces, then go to your object tool and manually add your braces from your cadimage folder, selecting the desired brace type as required. For anchor piles you will need to add a brace twice, one for each direction. You also want to duplicate your brace lines out to suit making you update the number in the object to reflect how many braces you create. Then you want to select your table and go to your cadimage menu and update. Now within the table properties there is a drop down box near top "Location of Storey" you want to set this to foundation of One (assuming single story) and it will now display the correct values in your table. (I have checked these values against the branz bracing calculation sheets and had had no issues with accuracy, yet). Now with "Foundation" selected if you add more braces and update your will get an error but it will still do the maths, once complete you need to go back into the table and select "Foundation of One" again and it should all work again and you should end up with a page like picture below. I really hope this makes sense.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 03:14:36 GMT

I have been trying something along these lines, the bit I cannot find how to do though is set the fixed B/u's. Is this done in the preset or the calculation?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 03:21:06 GMT

Ok I found it in the preset

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 03:24:23 GMT

Thanks Danj
How do You schedule the descriptions?

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 05:05:04 GMT

Down the bottom in scheme setting click Add > Additional Object Properties and find Cadimage Bracing.gsm and add Label and Description

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:34:53 GMT

Hi Danj
I cannot get the table to work, when I replace the GS1-N braces for anchor piles from the object tool, then recalculate (changed to foundation of one) the table errors with insufficient bracing for all lines (doubled up) & appears with no bracing.
I can do a straight swap with the Gib braces for the anchor piles through the preset but then the table shows them as having a length.
I have set them to fixed BU's in the preset & then followed your instructions but I cannot get it to work.
Could you email me a plan file with a basic set up & the table with presets for this
Thanks
I have p'm ed you my email

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:58:59 GMT

Hi all,

Can anyone help me installing the bracing tool, please?

I'm Chilean, but I develop projects to NZ, I purchase the cadimage tools, but I can not see the bracing tool anywhere. I update my working enviroment as the Cadimage knowledge database indicates to, but somehow I can't see the Bracing tool in my Addons.

I thought that the bracing tool is discontinued but I can see you guys using it in AC18, so I think that maybe this happens because the region/ip of my laptop (Chile) is blocked to actually download it, just guessing.

It will really help my to improve me drawings.

Thanks a lot.

Re: Does anyone use Cadimage Bracing?

ci-JoshOs — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:02:44 GMT

feifei wrote:
Hi all,

Can anyone help me installing the bracing tool, please?

I'm Chilean, but I develop projects to NZ, I purchase the cadimage tools, but I can not see the bracing tool anywhere. I update my working enviroment as the Cadimage knowledge database indicates to, but somehow I can't see the Bracing tool in my Addons.

I thought that the bracing tool is discontinued but I can see you guys using it in AC18, so I think that maybe this happens because the region/ip of my laptop (Chile) is blocked to actually download it, just guessing.

It will really help my to improve me drawings.

Thanks a lot.

The Bracing tools is, as you suspect, only sold here in New Zealand. If you're working on NZ projects where you are though, then we can probably figure something out for you - just PM me your email address and I'll get in touch.