Create or apply an elevation template

Before doing the exercise below, place three service walls from the Knoll Currents catalog on your drawing.

1. Make sure you have selected the appropriate catalog in the dropdown box.
   
   

2. Click .
   This will bring up the Elevation Template dialog.
   
   
   
   Note: If you selected a frame before the command is run, that "pre-selected" frame and its associated run would automatically be selected when this window appears.  There would be no need to click on the Select Structure button.
   
   

3. Click  and click on any of the service spine walls in the run.  The command will find all of the service wall frames in the run and report how many "structures" it selected.
   
   Note: Once you make your selection, the dialog indicates the number of frames found in a "run". A "run" is some number of frames connected together inline.  Frames that branch off at an L or T connection are a separate run and require their own elevation template.
   
   If one or more elevation templates with the same frames in the same order already exist in the drawing, those templates are listed in the Assign to Existing Elevation box of the dialog.
   
   

4. To create a new configuration, type the name under Create New Elevation. For this exercise type Training-1.
   
   

5. Press Create.
   
   

6. The front elevation template will be attached to your cursor for placement. Select the insertion point and rotation angle on the drawing.
   
   

7. The back elevation template will be attached to your cursor for placement. Select the insertion point and rotation angle on the drawing.
   
   

8. The next step in the workflow is to start placing covers on the elevation templates.  See Apply coverings.

Note: The service wall frames placed in plan view have been converted into a Cap Standard.  All selected frames are now in a single block.  This is one of the fundamental paradigms of the Elevation Template, it converts a series of frames into a run and then treats that run as a single big frame.  This is required to support the ability of covers to span between frames.  If covers did not span between frames, there would be no need for this tool and Panel Builder would be used instead.
Warning:  The Cap standards created by the Elevation Template tool should not be exploded or otherwise manipulated.  The contents of the standard are designed to be maintained by the Elevation Template (ET) tool.  If you manually manipulate the standards created by ET you will break them and you will get unexpected parts on your take-off. Note that only the frames are part of the standard — the connectors generated by Auto connectors and the ends placed by FEAP are not part of it.  When you copy/move/erase a run, make sure to include these ancillary parts.