215 — The top profile

The shape of the top of the panel — a parapet, a slope, a stepped edge.

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.

Where it is

Program Options → Top Profile.

Notice what is missing from the title

Every feature dialog so far has stated a cap: Rough Openings (4 max), Windows (6 max), Dock Levelers (3 max). This one is just Top Profile.

That is because a panel has one top. It is not a list you add to — it is a single description, so there is nothing to count.

Three shapes of dialog, and you can now read all of them

what you see	what it means
a palette and a list	a feature with usual sizes, several per panel
a list, no palette	several per panel, sized by circumstance
neither — just fields	one per panel

You can tell how a feature behaves before you use it, from the shape of its dialog.

What it holds

Enabled, a Mark, a Material, and the profile’s own dimensions. Enabled is worth its own mention: like the weld rows, a profile can be described and switched off, and the description alone does not put it on the panel.

Top profile or top steps?

They sit next to each other in Program Options and answer different questions:

Top profile	the shape of the top edge — one per panel
Top steps	discrete steps in that edge — up to two

If the top of your panel is one continuous shape, this is the dialog. If it drops in distinct steps, that is the other one.

What to take away

One top, one profile, no cap to look for — and a dialog with no list is the product telling you there is only ever one.