Shelving Unit

The Shelving Unit field contains the key components for setting up shelving systems (see Figure 1).

Under the heading, on the top row, you will find a the Auto Fill choice which, if activated, fills the shelving unit with shelves automatically. If you do not want shelves added automatically, select No.

On the second row you will find three different automatic functions that enable you to easily fill a template layout with shelving units: Auto, Copy and Auto/Copy.

Auto, Copy and Auto/Copy

When you draw larger systems with identical shelving units and work with templates, you select one of the three components Auto, Copy or Auto/Copy from the first row under the Shelving Units heading:

According to the exercise in the Templates chapter, you have already drawn a template layout that consists of two single rows and a double row (see Figure 1 below). Now you would like to fill the templates with identical shelving units.

Figure 1

Proceed as follows:

In the Shelving Unit field, pick the Auto/Copy component (third button from the left). Snap it to one of the template components in the drawing area and click.
The whole template layout is automatically filled with shelving units and below the drawing, you can see an elevation of the unit (see Figure 2 below).

Figure 2

Shelving Unit

When you start a drawing with the shelving units immediately (without using the templates), you then select the regular Shelving Unit component and an Elevation from the second row under the Shelving Unit heading.

You would like to position a row of three identical, single shelving units in the drawing area.

Proceed as follows:

Select the Shelving Unit component and place it in the desired location in the drawing area by clicking.
In this example, you want three units so click another two times to place these in the drawing area. Leave the drawing area or press the Escape key to drop the component that appears automatically.
Back on the component tab, select the Elevation component and move the component close to one of the units on the drawing area until the elevation snaps to it. Click to position the Elevation.
Move the mouse pointer outside the drawing area or press the Escape key to release the new elevation that appears automatically. In the drawing area, you now have three units, of which one has an elevation.
Now, in order to copy the elevation in the drawing area, double-click on it. A dashed little rectangle with an "R" inside appears (a copy of Reference 1).
Move the rectangle close to the unit nearest to the one that already has an elevation. When it snaps, click to drop it.
Without leaving the drawing area, go to the next unit and click. Continue until all the shelving units have references, i.e. are marked with "R 1".

Elevation

The Elevation view is a references to the two-dimensional (plan view) Shelving Unit component. It enables you to view and modify the component from the side. Read more about elevations.

Additional Height

The Additional Height component snaps to an elevation and is mainly to be used for changing the height on only one side of the upright.

Shelf

The Shelf component snaps to an elevation and allows you to add shelves to it.