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Edit Handles for Walls

edit handle. To move a wall at Allowed Click and drag a Same Wall Type edit handle
at any angle to draw a new wall segment of
Angles, use the Alternate E d i t
Behavior. See “Alternate” on page 209. the same type as the selected wall.
• The footings of Foundation Walls and
Slab Footings can be selected in 3D views
and edited using the edit handles. See
“Footing Width and Height” on page 697.
• The Same Wall Type edit handles can be
enabled, allowing you to draw a new wall Wall Layer Intersections
segment of the same type as the selected Edit Handles
wall.
The Edit Wall Layer Intersections
Same Wall Type edit tool lets you control how a wall’s
Edit Handles layers build into another intersecting wall.
When you click this edit button, the selected
The Same Wall Type edit handles wall’s standard set of edit handles are
allow you to draw a new wall replaced by a set of Wall Layer Intersection
extending out from either end of a selected handles which you can use to modify the
wall and with identical properties as that length of each wall layer. See “Connecting
wall. Walls” on page 360.
To temporarily enable the Same Wall Type
edit handles, select a wall and click the Same To edit wall layer intersections

Wall Type edit button. You can also 1. Select a wall and click the Edit Wall
enable these handles globally in the
Preferences dialog. See “Architectural Layer Intersections edit button.
Panel” on page 121. • This edit button is not available if the
wall is not connected to another wall at
When the Same Wall Type edit handles are either end.
enabled, two edit handles display just beyond
a selected wall’s Extend edit handles in plan 2. Zoom in on either end of the wall so
view or when the top edge of the wall is its edit handles can be clearly seen.
selected in a 3D view. • A Wall Layer Intersection edit handle
is located at the midpoint of each wall
Same Wall Type edit handles
layer.
3. Click and drag a Wall Layer Intersection
handle either towards or away from the
opposite edge of the intersecting wall.
• As you drag, the wall layer will snap to
the wall layer lines of the intersecting
wall.

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