See the frame behind your home concept
Looking at the frame can help you understand the columns and beams within a design. Switch between the finished view and the frame view, then take a clearer question into your next design conversation.
Start with a design that has an RC frame
Ask for a reinforced-concrete frame, or RC frame, in your home brief. ChatHome.ai can place columns, beams, and beams around the base, with brick infill between them. Their arrangement and sizes are preliminary.
The frame follows the outside walls and the inside wall lines needed by the floor slabs. Those internal walls are generally 230 mm thick, while lighter partitions sit on the slab. This can affect the clear space beside a wall, so check the delivered room measurements.
Show the frame in Explore
Find the Frame control
Open Explore in a design with frame members. The Frame control appears beside the walkthrough controls. The members are hidden at first so you can review the finished rooms; select Frame to show them.
If the pointer is captured for looking around, press Esc before clicking a control. A click can capture it again, so use Esc when you need to change the setting once more.
Compare from one viewpoint
Choose a room or connection between floors and pause there. Show the frame to see the members that relate to that space, then hide it to return to the finished view. The walls stay in place, so this is not a cutaway that reveals every member from outside.
The setting lasts for the current page session and resets when you reload. It does not edit the design. A public share viewer offers the same control in Explore when the shared model has a frame.
Look for a question worth discussing
Review where beams pass above shared rooms, where columns sit beside doors, and how the members relate between floors. Use the plan view and Measure tool to investigate a specific location.
The urban hillside brief asks for clear vertical relationships across several levels (a four-level hillside house is beyond what ChatHome.ai builds; the questions still apply). You can use that priority to frame a question such as “How does this upper room relate to the space below?” Keep the brief's seismic requirements with the professional design discussion; the frame view does not assess them.
The walkthrough is a visual review. Hiding the frame also changes which columns the walker encounters, so movement through the model is not proof of physical clearance.
Connect the view with the report
Open the preliminary structure report to see its frame section, including loads, support relationships, and indicative member sizes. Read its assumptions before interpreting a finding.
The frame and report are indicative only, never an engineered design or a safety sign-off. The report follows gravity loads; wind, earthquake, and other project-specific checks belong with a qualified professional.
Know what stays in your downloads
Edit and plan views retain the frame. Model downloads, the PDF plan sheet, the structure report, and the bill of quantities also retain it because they read the design itself.
A PNG captures the view you chose. Show the frame before capturing if it is part of the question you want to share, or leave it hidden for a view of the finished rooms. Save a clear image of that view.
Keep exploring
Try it with your own design
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