How to Create a Ribraft Floor
Tips and Tricks • Andras Bognar • 18 March 2021
AEC - Tip of the Day, Archicad
![How to Create a Ribraft Floor](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Tip-of-the-Day-architect.jpg)
![Ribraft Floor](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1b-1024x356.jpg)
Use the slab tool with a complex profile and the beam tool for it.
- Place the Slab with using a composite profile
![using a composite profile](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1d.jpg)
2. Choose the beam tool and set the same building material as the complex slab’s top skin has.
![beam tool](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1e-1.jpg)
3. Place the beams below the slab’s top concrete skin bottom plane
![Placing the beams below the slab's top concrete skin bottom plane](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1f-1024x349.jpg)
4. Set at the MVO the beams to display Hidden Line under slab
![displaying hidden Line under slab](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1c.jpg)
5. At the beams settings set the hidden line type
![beams settings](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1g-1.jpg)
6. See the result on the floor plan
![result on the floor plan](https://centralinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1a.jpg)