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Place timber beams and columns from the catalogue

The Timber group's Column and Beam tools draw elements with real products from your market's catalogue — solid, KVH, Duo/Trio, glulam, LVL — so every element knows its section, grade and length for the lists. Here they frame a 3.6 × 2.8 m pergola: four posts, two glulam beams and five joists.

Tool: Beam7 steps · 7 pictures

  1. Start from the set-out: a rectangle sketched on the ground through the post centres, 3600 × 2800. Open the Timber group on the rail and pick Column. In the tray, choose a Product — here a KVH post, 140×140 — and leave Height at 2500.

    Start from the set-out: a rectangle sketched on the ground through the post centres, 3600 × 2800. Open the Timber group on the rail and pick Column. In the tray, choose a Product — here a KVH post, 140×140 — and leave Height at 2500.

  2. Click the four corners of the set-out. Each click stands a post there, centred on the corner and as tall as the tray's Height.

    Click the four corners of the set-out. Each click stands a post there, centred on the corner and as tall as the tray's Height.

  3. Pick Beam. Choose a glulam Product, 140×280, and set Axis on to Bottom edge so the beam sits on what you click. Click the midpoint of the front-left post's front top edge, then move towards the back post: the beam follows the pointer, held on the axis.

    Pick Beam. Choose a glulam Product, 140×280, and set Axis on to Bottom edge so the beam sits on what you click. Click the midpoint of the front-left post's front top edge, then move towards the back post: the beam follows the pointer, held on the axis.

  4. Type 2940 and press Enter: the beam runs from the front face of the front post to the back face of the back one. Draw the right-hand beam the same way.

    Type 2940 and press Enter: the beam runs from the front face of the front post to the back face of the back one. Draw the right-hand beam the same way.

  5. Now the joists across the beams. Still in Beam, set Type to Joist and choose a planed C24 joist, 45×195. Click the midpoint of the left beam's outer top edge and move across to the right beam.

    Now the joists across the beams. Still in Beam, set Type to Joist and choose a planed C24 joist, 45×195. Click the midpoint of the left beam's outer top edge and move across to the right beam.

  6. Click the midpoint of the right beam's outer top edge. Draw the other joists the same way, on 700 mm centres — five in all, the outer two over the posts.

    Click the midpoint of the right beam's outer top edge. Draw the other joists the same way, on 700 mm centres — five in all, the outer two over the posts.

  7. Open Timber lists on the top bar. The Element list gives every piece with its product, section, grade, length, volume and mass — four posts, two beams, five joists.

    Open Timber lists on the top bar. The Element list gives every piece with its product, section, grade, length, volume and mass — four posts, two beams, five joists.

Good to know

  • Type a length after the first click to set the beam's length exactly — to let a beam run past its posts, for instance.
  • The tray's Market list draws from another market's catalogue for this element; The model's market follows the timber settings.
  • Choose Own section in Product to type any Width and Depth instead.
  • Roll turns the section about the element's axis.

Related

ModulesJoin timber members and get the cutting listThe Joint tool cuts a carpenter's joint — tenon and mortise, dovetail, half lap, birdsmouth and more — into two timber members in one edit, and the cutting list and BTLx file carry every cut to the saw and the joinery machine.

Recorded in Kozorosa by the help recorder, which checked that the result is in the model.