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Drawing Walls

• When drawing and positioning exterior Wall Angles
walls, make sure Grid Snaps are With very few exceptions, walls should be
enabled. Once these walls are in place,
you may prefer to turn Grid Snaps off to drawn and edited with Angle Snaps
draw and position interior walls and other enabled. Walls that are drawn at irregular
objects. See “Grid Snaps” on page 172. angles can result in wall connection,
alignment, and room definition problems.
• If you wish to input wall lengths as you
draw, make sure your General Wall If a wall is drawn at an off angle, the Off
Defaults are set to Resize About Outer Angle Wall icon will follow the mouse
Surface. See “Entering Wall Lengths and
Angles” on page 358. pointer and a Caution symbol will
display over the problem wall in plan view.
• As walls are drawn, Intersection Snap
indicators, “sticky” points and extension To correct the wall’s angle, click on the
lines identify points that are either collin- Caution symbol that displays over the
ear or orthogonal to the end points of wall and select Fix Off Angle Wall from the
other walls, making alignment easier. See contextual menu. In the Fix Off Angle Wall
“Wall Intersection Extension Snaps” on dialog:
page 170.
• As walls are drawn, Angle Snaps take pri-
ority over Object Snaps. If you prefer that
walls draw at any angle so that they can
snap to other objects, uncheck Always
Snap Walls On Allowed Angles in the
Preferences dialog. See “Snap Properties
Panel” on page 127. • The Old Angle is stated for reference.
• When walls enclose an area to form a • Enter a New Angle in the text field.
room, the program will orient all exterior
walls so that the siding material faces out- • Specify whether to Lock the Start, Cen-
ward. See “Wall Type Definitions” on ter, or End point of the wall when its
page 383. angle is changed.
• To flip the layers of a wall after it is There are several other ways to fix a selected
drawn, select it and click the Reverse wall if it has been drawn at an off angle:
Layers edit button. See “Editing • Click the Open Object edit button
Walls” on page 367. and specify the correct angle. See “Gen-
• Initial wall heights are determined by the eral Panel” on page 390.
default floor and ceiling heights of the • Click and drag an end edit handle until the
current floor. See “Floor Defaults Dialog” wall snaps to an Allowed Angle. See
on page 714. “Angle Snaps” on page 170.

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