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4. When you are finished, click the Main
Edit Mode edit button or press the
Esc key.

Editing Straight/Curved Wall Combinations

If you move a straight wall connected to a
curved wall with a locked center and the
connection cannot be maintained without
changing the center of the arc, the walls lose
their connection.

Make Arc Tangent

If both ends of a selected curved wall
are connected to other walls at angles
of 45° or less, the Make Arc Tangent edit
button is available. Click this button to open
When an Extend edit handle of a curved wall the Radius of Tangent Curved Wall dialog.
with a locked center is dragged with the

Alternate Edit Behavior active, the
locked center setting will be overridden. See
“Defaults, Preferences, and Edit Behaviors”
on page 208.
If you move a straight wall connected to a
curved wall with a locked center, the curved
wall extends along its curve and the straight
wall will either lengthen or shorten as needed
to stay connected to the curved wall.
• Specify where along the curved wall’s
If the connection between the straight and thickness the radius should be Measured
curved wall cannot be maintained because of to. The wall’s radius is usually changed
the curved wall’s radius, it will be broken. by this action and a locked center auto-
matically becomes unlocked. See “Wall
Type Definitions” on page 383.

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