Pamir Walls Essentials – MiTek office:
Scope: This two day course is intended for users who are already familiar with timber frame design principles. Its aim is to cover in general terms all of the tools associated with the usage of MBA and the Pamir software for the creation of timber frame structures. It is structured to suit both detailers and estimators. A summary online quiz is used to gauge knowledge, understanding and ability to use the points covered.
Delivery: At MiTek office
Prerequisites: Minimum two months’ prior hands on timber frame building design experience.
Content:
- Project Setup and Workflow Standard Houses
- Project Setup and Workflow Advanced Structures
- Preliminary drawing import and settings review
- Creating walls and openings
- Creating wall panels
- Creating schedules and controlling visibility
- Adding Beams and Columns
- Creating Sole Plates
- Sole Plates schedules and dimensioning
- Creating Sections
- Creating Details
- Building Advanced wall panels
- Understanding Member defaults
- Controlling Junctions
- Using Auto Web
- Adding Wall Plates (Headbinders)
- Adding Openings (Lintels)
- Labelling
- Working with wall Layers
- Controlling Nailing
- Non-rectangular wall shapes
- Reviewing wall panels
- Applying Manual changes on the layout
- Review the training house.
- Frame Modification using Automatic and manual Beam Pockets
- Adding Manual Sheathing
- Creating Wrap-around Corners
- Adding Housings for services
- Create layout drawings, production sheets and various files (DWG, CNC etc.)
- Understand how to add viewports to our drawings.
- Use output manager to create our output files.
- Create Production Sets and export grouped wall panel information.
- Understand the Output Manager/Collections/Drawings/Files and how to make changes.
- Understand the Frame (production) output and configure.
- Print Production PDFs/Create Saw and Wall Framing machinery files.
- Filter Outputs/Include or Exclude Walls Panels as well as Quote Groups
- Saving/Synchronising to MBA
- Using Sapphire reporting
