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New and Improved Features by Chapter

Displaying Objects CAD Objects
• Improved the initial settings used by the • Two CAD Details, a “Details Template”
Active Layer Display Options side win- and a “Schedule Detail” are included in
dow. See “Activating a Layer Set” on installed Residential Template plan. See
page 188. “CAD Details” on page 333.
• The “Default Set” Layer Set was
renamed “Working Set”. See “Layer Walls, Railings, and Fencing
Sets” on page 187. • A water table or cap can now be specified
for pony walls. See “Wall Cap Panel” on
Editing Objects page 401.

• The Delete Objects dialog can now be • Pony walls can how have a Railing as the
used in camera views. See “Delete upper wall. See “Wall Angles” on page
Objects Dialog” on page 283. 357.
• The top heights of railings can now be
• N e w Stretch CAD tool. See “Stretch
CAD” on page 274. edited in 3D views. See “Wall Heights”
on page 369.
• The Transform/Replicate Objects dia-
log now adjusts an object’s height as well • New options for displaying the upper and
as its width and depth when resized. See lower pony walls in plan view. See “Pony
“Transform/Replicate Object Dialog” on Wall Defaults” on page 342.
page 269. • N e w No Post option for railing newel
posts. See “Rail Style Panel” on page
• Garden Beds is now an option in the
Convert Polyline dialog. See “Convert 404.
Polyline Dialog” on page 267. • N e w Outline, Always, and Hide options
for displaying doors and windows in
• New “Include in Schedule” Property in
the Match Properties dialog. See pony walls. See “Pony Wall Defaults” on
“Matching Properties” on page 280. page 342.
• N e w Ignore All Off Angle Walls option
• T h e Reflect About Object , Center suppresses all warning symbols for off-
Object , and Make Parallel/Perpen- angle walls. See “Wall Angles” on page
357.
dicular edit tools no longer recognize
camera symbols as reflection or align- Rooms
ment axes. See “Editing Objects” on page
207. • N e w Lock Floor Top and Lock Floor
• Objects on multiple floors can now be Bottom radio buttons in the Room
selected and edited as a group. See “Edit- Specification dialog. See “Room Types
ing Objects” on page 207. and Functions” on page 414.

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