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title: "Brace Only Bay"
slug: "brace-only-bay"
updated: 2025-04-24T00:12:47Z
published: 2025-04-24T00:12:47Z
canonical: "docs.avontus.com/brace-only-bay"
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# Brace Only Bay

You can modify a Scaffold Bay leaving behind only the braces.

To create a brace-only Bay:

1. Add a Bay

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/Brace%20only%20Bay.gif)
2. Click the new Bay (to select it), then click the **Bay Details** dropdown. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/5514a507-f6c2-442b-b1ce-3d2636a4aa8d.png)
3. Click the **Verticals** tab,
4. Click the **All** checkbox in the **Skip Vertical** row

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/skip%20all.gif)
5. Click the **Sides** tab,
6. Click two appropriate **Skip Side** checkboxes (to put a check in them). In this case, **T** and **B** are checked.
7. Click the appropriate **Brace Direction** dropdown, select **Backwards**, **Note:** For the two unchecked sides, the Brace Direction should be backwards for one side and forwards for the other.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/side%20direction.gif)
8. Click **Apply** Your bay should look something like this ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/5119d60b-9301-4071-a0b5-09ec04c2a428.png)
9. With the Bay selected, Click the top **Planked** checkbox, to remove its check
10. 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.
11. Click the bottom **Ledgers** dropdown

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/nodes.gif)
12. Click the center button (to de-select all ledgers)
13. Click the tick icon.
14. Repeat for the upper level

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/add%20ledgers.gif)
15. Click the bottom more button
16. Click the **Sides** tab of the popup that appears.
17. Click the **L** and **R** checkboxes in the **Vertical Braces** row (to put a check in them) and click **Close.**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/brave%20only%20bay%20final.gif)

The result should look something like this: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/ae69c864-58f0-4711-91e1-d1c2f7dff95f/Images/Documentation/17a32dd2-ec03-4b47-90a1-92b720aa6955.png)