104 — Brace Points¶
Brace points are the inserts a panel is braced from once it is standing. They are placed on the drawing, but what they really are is a safety decision: the panel’s weight is carried by whatever you set here until the roof ties it in.
Two ways in, same dialog:
Main Panel Details → tick Brace Points
ConstructiVision menu → Brace Points (
c:cv-feat-bracepts)
Note
This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.
The row¶
Eighteen rows, each one insert.
column |
what it means |
|---|---|
Enable |
whether this insert is placed |
T/B |
top or bottom |
Elevation |
how far up the panel |
Measure From |
which end the distance is read from |
Column 1–6 |
which column the brace lands on |
Type / Ext |
the insert type and its extension |
Enable comes first. As with every row-based dialog in this series, the fields stay greyed until the row is enabled — a row can hold a full set of numbers and place nothing.
Steps¶
Open Main Panel Details and tick Brace Points.
Enable row one.
Elevation
144— twelve feet up. High enough for the brace to hold the panel, low enough to reach.OK, then OK.
Reopen from the menu and raise it to
168. It draws on OK.
Why the count matters more than the placement¶
Brace points feed two things downstream:
the brace layout, which needs to know where they are, and
the load per brace — the panel’s weight divided across the points you enabled.
So removing a row does not just delete a symbol; it increases the load on every remaining brace. If you are working in cv-web, that figure is checked against the corpus as you edit and marked when it falls outside what has been seen before. A brace carrying far more than usual is not necessarily wrong, but it is worth a second look before the panel is stood up.
What to take away¶
Enable is the field that decides whether anything happens. Elevation is the one a bracing crew reads. Everything else places the insert.