CAVITY WALLS
One of the main features of Easy Section is the ability to draw cavity walls and all the elements of cavity walls. To do this the system uses a data file with information about the cavity wall. You enter you own requirement for the cavity stating cavity width cavity insulation thickness, if any and the internal block thickness. All the routines that need this data, such as foundation,window and roof functions read it automatically. The values only change when the user changes them.

CAVITY WALLS
1. Inserts 65mm deep wall plate on inside face any width.
2. Inserts INSULATED cavity wall any hight from 225mm high. With this option you can select or enter a wall height. It draws the wall to that height. (to the nearest one block above.)
3. Inserts fillet of concrete, cavity width for top of cavity fill.
4. Inserts CONCRETE FILLED cavity wall any hight from 225mm high. With this option you can select or enter a wall height. It draws the wall to that height. (to the nearest one block above.)
5. Window cill, Quarry tile.
6. Window cill, Brick on Edge.
7. Window cill, Plinth Header.
8. Window cill, Plain Tile.
9. Inserts Door to any height using the current cavity wall width setting.
10. Inserts Story height Door and fanlight using the current cavity wall width setting.
11. Inserts Window, to any height using the current cavity wall width setting.
Items 13,14,15 are inserted as the wall is being built up. They do not take out bricks out of a drawn wall.
12. Inserts a 150mm high air brick across a cavity wall using the current cavity wall width setting.
13. LEFT facing cavity wall. Quick change of setting for the direction the external face of the cavity walls.
14. User entered cavity wall settings. Settings can be changed for cavity, cavity insulation and internal block thickness.
15. RIGHT facing cavity wall. Quick change of setting for the direction the external face of the cavity walls.

ROOF/FLOOR/FOUNDATIONS
The following interactive routines place floor, roof and foundations between two selected or entered points on the drawing.
1. Draws a complete roof,with truss, tiles, gutters and insulation to any angle, span and overhang required. Options on angle of roof, type of tiles, and soffit overhang. (see full details below.)
2. Draws the 'W' type roof truss only, to any span and pitch.
3. Draws a cross section of a timber felt covered flat roof, user enters joist size, spacing and deck thickness.
4. Draws a section along the joists of a timber felt covered flat roof, showing fall, user enters joist size, spacing,fall and deck thickness.
5. Draws a cross section of timber first floor with a plasterboard soffit, user enters the joist size and boarding thickness.
6. Places a 'Beam and Block' type concrete floor using either 150mm or 200mm deep beams.
7. Inserts a precast concrete plank type floor beam 1000 x 200mm deep on drawing.
8. Places a 'Beam and Pot' type concrete floor using either 150mm or 200mm beams.
In the following floor structures the user enters or accepts the default setting for the thickness of screed, insulation, concrete and hardcore.
9. Solid ground floor with no insulation.
10. Solid ground floor insulated under concrete slab.
11. Solid ground floor insulated over concrete with board finish.
12. Floating ground floor with timber battens and boards.
13. This places a timber suspended ground floor with timber joists and concrete ground cover. User enters size of joists spacing, depth of void, thickness of concrete cover.
14. Inserts suspended ceiling between walls, it evens the tiles and uses cut tiles as necessary, if part tiles are requited these are placed at equally at each end.
15. Places insulation hatching any length and thickness.
16. Places hardcore hatching any length and thickness.
17. Draws a concrete strip foundation taking into account the thickness of either the external cavity wall, or an entered wall thickness.user enters thickness and width.
18. Draws a concrete raft with ring beam and hardcore. User enters thickness.
19. Draws trench fill foundation to any depth using cavity wall data or user entered width.

Items 6 & 7 pot and beam floors, space the joists to the infill width, the last beam may not be equal and may need the block or infill adjusting.

ROOF INSERTION
This function draws a complete section of a standard pitched roof with eaves overhang ,full tiling, a 'W' type truss, insulation and plasterboard ceiling.
The standard 'W' truss configuration uses 100mm wide members. This may not be the type of truss require in some cases but the internal members can be taken out, changed or moved as required.
The roof can be drawn to any pitch but very low pitch may cause error. NOTE The whole roof must be visible on screen when the final drafting is taking place, so the user must zoom out to this after selection of the second insertion point.
You will be prompted as follows.
1. Start point. This is the top inside face of the wall plate on the left hand side of the building.
2. Span of truss. This is the inside face of the opposite wall plate, can be selected or entered as a distance and angle.
3. Pitch. Angle of rafter in degrees.
4. Wall plate. Width of wall plate in mm.
5. Eves overhang. The distance from the back of the fascia board to the external face of the cavity wall. The cavity wall thickness is taken from the settings entered in CAVITY WALL SETTINGS.
6. Type of tiles. These is a choice of :- a) Standard concrete interlocking, b) Slate, c) Clay plain tiles, d) Interlocking slate tiles.
After the final selection the roof will automatically be drawn in the position selected, the number of tiles will be calculated and placed at the correct spacing.The tiles can be removed individually for the later insertion of roof lights or vent tiles etc.

LINTOLS
Items 1 to 6 insert cavity lintols onto a cavity wall using the current cavity wall setting as selected in cavity data function.
All lintols are three courses high
1. Combined Steel front tray, steel channel & block
2. Combined Steel front tray, arch, rear tray & block
3. Steel 'Z' front steel box rear beam for plaster.
4. Steel 'Z' front concrete rear beam.
5. Concrete boot lintol
6. Twin concrete plank beams.
7. Concrete beam, User enters size.
8. Concrete filled trough block, User enters size.
9. Rolled steel section - Channel, User enters size.
10. Rolled steel section - 'L' Angle, User enters size.
11. Rolled steel section - Box beam, User enters size.
12. Rolled steel section - RSJ, User enters size.
13. Timber section, User enters size.
14. Bolted timber beams, User enters size
15. Reinforcing bar, User enters size

TILES This section inserts different types of roof tiles into the drawing. These tiles are the same as used in the roof section therefore can be inserted and substituted with tiles used in that part of the program.
the Tile types are as follows:-
1. Concrete interlocking section
2. Concrete valley profile.
3. Half round ridge profile.
4. Bold roll tile profile.
5. Full slate section.
6. Half slate section.
7. Slate ridge profile.
8. Pantile profile.
9. Plain tile section
10. Half plain tile section.
11. Angle ridge profile
12. Plain tile profile.
13. LH Bold roll verge.
14. RH Bold roll verge.
15. LH pantile verge
16. LH pantile verge.
18. Ridge vent.
17. Vent tile.
19. Velux roof window
20. Dome roof light.

BLOCKS
1. Inserts 100mm wide block 75mm high
2. Inserts 100mm wide block 150mm high
3. Inserts 100mm wide block 225mm high
4. Inserts 140mm wide block 75mm high
5. Inserts 140mm wide block 150mm high
6. Inserts 140mm wide block 225mm high
7. Inserts 190mm wide block 75mm high
8. Inserts 210mm wide hollow block 225mm high
9. Inserts block wall of any of the above widths. With this option you can select or enter a wall height. It draws the wall to that height. (to the nearest one block above.)
10. As item 17 above using cavity wall construction. Each wall can have any thickness block with any width cavity between.

BRICKS
This section inserts single bricks and brick walls into the drawing. All are inserted at the bottom left corner.
1. 102 x 75mm brick cross section.
2. 102 x 75mm plinth brick.
3. 215 x 75mm brick long section.
4. 215 x 75mm plinth header.
5. 102 x 215mm brick on end.
6. 102 x 75mm bullnose
7. 215 x 102mm bullnose coping.
10. 215 x 102mm double plinth coping.
11. Brick wall insertions 102mm wide. The brick walls are inserted at the bottom left corner. The height is either given as a numeric number or indicated by a pick on the screen. The bricks are inserted to the nearest whole brick beyond that distance.
12. Brick wall insertion 215mm wide. Selected as above.

STANDARD LAYERS
Qick popdown list of standard layers single click creates and takes you to that layer.

OVERLAY LAYERS
See the manual for full details of hou to use the overlay layers. Simply these layers only display one at a time. When you select an overlay layer, that layer switches on and all the other overlay layers switch off. No other layer setting is affected.