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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

and have a single layer of an “Air Gap” It is not possible to place doors, windows, or
material with a thickness of 0” (mm). fireplaces into an Invisible wall; however, if
a wall with openings in it is specified as
If a zero-thickness Room Divider Invisible, any openings in it will remain.
separates two rooms with different floor and/
or ceiling heights, its wall type will be Important Notes on
changed to the current plan’s default Interior Invisible Walls
Wall so that the platform step created by the
height difference can be enclosed. See “Floor • Floor, wall and ceiling areas are calcu-
and Ceiling Platforms” on page 427. lated separately for rooms divided by
Invisible walls.
Any wall, regardless of its wall type or
thickness, can also be specified as Invisible - • Invisible walls are ignored by the Auto
or vie versa - in the Wall Specification Place Outlets tool; it functions as
dialog. See “General Panel” on page 390. though they were not present.
Room Dividers are placed on the “Walls, • Cabinets, fixtures and furniture can be
Invisible” layer by default, as are walls that moved freely through Invisible walls.
are specified as Invisible. A wall placed on a • Invisible walls can be drawn through a
non-default layer and then specified as cabinet to attach to the wall behind.
Invisible, however, will not move to the • By default, Room Dividers are automati-
“Walls, Invisible” layer. See “Room Divider cally generated to connect “island” rooms
Defaults” on page 344.
to the larger structure around them. You
Walls specified as Invisible can display in can turn this behavior off in the General
plan view but not in 3D views or the Wall Defaults dialog. See “General Wall
Materials List. See “Displaying Walls” on Defaults” on page 340.
page 361.

Polygon Shaped Rooms and Decks

The Polygon Shaped Room and Polygon Shaped Room dialog and create a polygon
Shaped Deck tools allow you to create shaped room with regular sides.
rooms with regular sides and work similar to
Select Build> Railing and Deck>
the Regular Polygon CAD tool. See Polygon Shaped Deck to open the
“Regular Polygon” on page 317. New Polygon Shaped Deck dialog and
create a polygon shaped deck with regular
Select Build> Wall> Polygon Shaped
Room to open the New Polygon sides.

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