To Restore a Body Modifier to a Mass Element

Use this procedure to remove a body modifier from a wall and add it to the drawing as a mass element. Restoring a body modifier to a mass element allows you to modify the shape as a mass element and then add it to the wall again as a body modifier. You can also restore the body modifier to a mass element while leaving the body modifier still applied to the wall. This is useful if you want to create other walls with the same shape.

If the object used to create the body modifier was a conventional mass element, it is restored to that mass element. For example, a Gable mass element is restored as a Gable mass element. However, if the body modifier was created from another object, such as a slab, or was edited using Boolean operations or face editing commands, the body modifier is restored as a Free Form mass element.

1. Select the walls you want to change.
2. Click Wall tabModify panelBody Modifiers drop-downRestore.
3. Note: This procedure restores all body modifiers attached to a wall.
   Create mass elements from the body modifiers:

   If you want to …	Then …
   create mass elements from the body modifiers while keeping the body modifiers attached to the wall	press Enter.
   remove all body modifiers from the wall, and create mass elements from their shapes	enter y (Yes), and press Enter.