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Tips

Tips and Tricks to improve productivity.

  • Arranging Your Workspace - Undocking, Docking and New Window
  • User-Defined Custom Bracing 📺
  • Simplify Loading by Working a Level Above
  • Customize Mouse Buttons for Shortcuts
  • Add an Annotation With an Attribute
  • Creating a Custom Set of Tools in a Ribbon (tab)
  • Search and View
  • PDF Import - Modify Color
  • Wall Input Method - Point vs. Line Selection
  • Toggle Animated Camera - Animate a BC Framer 3D Model
  • Hide Selected Object by Type
  • How do I suppress (hide) labels for selected objects?
  • Customizing the Command Ribbons and the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
  • Adding Draft Mode to the Ribbons or Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
  • Checking and Adjusting Scale for Imported PDF Trace Objects
  • Exclude Materials - Adding and Clearing the List
  • Joist Labels With Consolidated Sequence Starting With Level Number
  • How do I show only parts of two different floors in a single Layout Viewport?
  • What is the BC Framer shortcut to select a member by clicking on the tag?
  • How do Floor Mods work?
  • Creating a Library of Notes for BC Framer
  • Extracting a trace object (.dwg) from one BC Framer (.mmdl) file for use elsewhere.
  • How do I set a deep beam flush with the top height of the I-Joist?
  • Do you have the BC Framer Quick Reference Card in PDF format?
  • How do I draw non-current levels faintly on the layout floor plan?
  • Creating a Cutting List or "Framing Sheet" for Wood Framed Walls in BC Framer?
  • Where does BC Framer Auto Save and how do I open the .sav file?
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