About Specifying the Components of a Slab or Roof Slab Style

Slab or roof slab components are the physical structures of the slab or roof slab, such as concrete, metal deck, insulation, and so on.

Slab/Roof Slab Components and Their Properties

Each component in a slab or roof slab style corresponds to a structural component or material of a slab or roof slab. When you create a component, you specify values for the following properties of the component:

• Name (generally identifies the material used, such as concrete, metal deck, or insulation)
• Thickness (analogous to the Width property of a wall component; can be a fixed value or a variable)
• Thickness Offset (specifies the position of the component within the slab or roof slab, relative to the slab or roof slab baseline or to adjacent slab or roof slab components; can be a fixed value or a variable)

Using Components from Other Slab/Roof Slab Styles

In addition to creating new components from scratch within a slab or roof slab style, you can also paste in components you have copied from a different style of the same type. That is, you can paste components from one slab style into another slab style, or components from one roof slab style into another roof slab style.