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title: "Adding a Raking Tie to a Scaffold Tower"
slug: "adding-a-raking-tie-to-a-scaffold-tower"
updated: 2026-04-21T09:09:15Z
published: 2026-04-21T09:09:15Z
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# Adding a Raking Tie to a Scaffold Tower

Avontus Designer enables you to add a raking tie to a Scaffold tower.

## Add a Scaffold Tower

To add a raking tie, you need a Scaffold tower.

To add a Scaffold tower:

1. [Add a Bay to](/v1/docs/adding-a-bay-to-a-drawing-page) the Drawing Page.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-UIYA8JU2.png)

The *Bay Level Editor* appears.
2. In the Bay Level Editor, click **Add Level** as many times as necessary. We will add two more levels.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/add%20level(2).gif)

Avontus Designer adds the levels. The result should look something like this: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/bd567773-5e98-4552-a7b6-a796c5e40672.png)

## Add a Brace-Only Bay

The next step in adding a raking tie is to add a brace-only Bay. This involves creating a Bay, removing most of its components and adding braces.

To create a brace-only Bay:

1. Add a Bay next to the new Scaffold tower.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/new bay 2.gif)
2. Click the new Bay (to select it), then click the **Bay Details** dropdown.
3. Click the **Verticals** tab, click the **All** checkbox in the **Skip** row and then click **Apply**
4. Click the **Sides** tab, click two appropriate **Skip Side** checkboxes (to put a check in them). In this case, **T** and **B** are checked.
5. Click **Apply**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/bay%20details%20raking%20ties.gif)
6. Select the Brace only bay
7. Click the top **Planked** checkbox, to remove its check.
8. Click in the **Nodes** in Lift text field, enter the appropriate number of nodes and click the check to the right of the text field.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/nodes(1).gif)
9. Click the bottom **Ledgers** dropdown
10. Click the center button (to de-select all ledgers)
11. Click the tick icon ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/ledgers(1).gif)
12. Repeat the above step for the top **Ledgers** dropdown. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/image-XG28YDPQ.png)
13. Select the Vertical Braces dropdown
14. Click the **L** and **R** checkboxes in the **Vertical Braces** row
15. Click the tick icon.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/braces.gif)

The result will look like this, with the Bays facing different directions ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/ee6294a7-6abd-4b5b-9f81-ab21605deba0.png)
16. Select **More**
17. In the **Sides** tab, change the appropriate Base Direction to Backwards/Forwards. In this example, we will change the Left Brace to backwards.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/brace%20direction%20new.gif)

The result should look something like this: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/fe522400-5a1f-42db-bf61-1fe3bd235c7f.png) Next, add horizontal ties from the braces to the Bay.

## Add a Ledger-Only Bay

The next step is to add horizontal ties from the braces to the Bay. To do this, add a ledger-only Bay.

To add a ledger-only Bay:

1. Add a Bay next to the brace-only Bay.
2. Click the new Bay (to select it), then click the **Bay Details** dropdown.
3. Click the **Verticals** tab and click the **All** checkbox in the **Skip Vertical** row to put a tick in it and click **Apply**.
4. Click the **General** tab, click in the **Base Node Elevation** text field, enter the height at which you want the ledgers to connect to the Bay tower and click **Apply**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/brace%20direction%20new.gif)
5. Click **Remove Top Level**.
6. Unplank the bay,
7. Disable the T and B ledger leaving the L and R ledgers enabled

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The result should look something like this ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/4c89f2e0-ec4f-41d4-aa6e-091ce9f1c978.png)

## Put it all Together

The last step is to move the brace-only Bay and ledger-only Bay into place next to your Scaffold tower.

To put it all together:

1. Click the brace-only Bay and drag it to the side of the Bay tower, so that it glues to the Bay tower.
2. Click the ledger-only Bay and drag it to the side of the Bay tower, so that it sits on top pf the brace-only Bay and overlaps slightly into the Bay tower.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/raking%20tie%20move%20parts.gif)

The result should look something like this: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/85785dec-83cc-4843-9862-84a72bf43057.png)