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Box Tools

Box Tools

Select CAD> Boxes to access the Box “Polygon Shaped Rooms and Decks” on
Tools. page 354.

Rectangular Polyline Box

A Rectangular Polyline can be drawn Draw a 2D box from the midpoint of
in either of two ways: one side to the midpoint of the
• Click in the drawing area to place a 24” x opposite side. The sides of a box can be
24” square polyline at that location. resized, but a box always has four 90°
corners.
• Click and drag from corner to corner to
draw a rectangle of any size. Boxes have some unique editing behaviors.
See “Editing Box-Based Objects” on page
Once created, a rectangular polyline can be 236.
edited into any shape or converted to a 3D
object. See “Editing Closed-Polyline Based Cross Box
Objects” on page 231.
Use the Cross Box tool to create a 2D
Regular Polygon box with an X-shaped cross in the
interior to represent framing in a cross
You can draw a regular polygon based section detail.
on the length of a side, or the length of
the radius to a vertex or a side. Select your
options in the New Regular Polygon dialog
and click OK. Click in your plan to place the
polygon.

In cross section/elevation views, Cross
Boxes are used to represent joists and rafters
members that are perpendicular to and cut by
the camera’s clip plane. See “Cross Section/
Elevation Views” on page 1052.

Blocking Box

Use the Blocking Box tool to create a
2D box with a diagonal line in the
The settings in this dialog are similar to those interior to represent blocking or bridging in a
in the Polygon Shaped Rooms dialog. See cross section detail.

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