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Aligning Walls

• Specify the Wall Radius, which is mea- When you click OK, the curved wall will
sured from the curved wall’s Arc Center adjust its length and position so that its ends
to the Measured to location. become tangent to the walls it is attached to.

Aligning Walls

Wall alignment refers to the way wall and is the line along which any snap points
segments line up with one another, either on will be located. See “Editing Walls” on page
the same floor or on the floor above or 367.
below. Walls may need to be aligned in a
variety of situations. Aligning Collinear Walls
To make alignment easier when drawing or Collinear walls are parallel walls connected
resizing walls, “sticky” points and extension end to end and drawn on the same floor.
lines identify points that are either collinear When collinear walls join end-to-end, the
or orthogonal to the end points of other walls snap together. If these walls have the
walls. See “Extension Snaps” on page 169. same wall type and identical specifications,

Resize About and if Object Snaps are enabled, they
will merge to become a single wall segment.
The Resize About line specified in the
General Wall Defaults dialog controls two Creating a Nook
important aspects of wall alignment:
Walls can be aligned across an opening such
• What part of a wall retains its position as a nook, so that they are collinear, using the
when its wall type or wall type definition
is changed. See “Wall Type Definitions” Break Wall tool.
on page 383.
To align walls across a gap
• Where walls snap together to form an
intersection. See “Connecting Walls” on 1. Select a wall to build a nook into and
page 360.
click the Break Wall edit button.
See “General Wall Defaults” on page 340.
2. Click at a point on the wall close to one
The Resize About line is the line along side of the nook area. Do not worry
which a selected wall’s length is measured in about exact placement right now.
the Wall Specification dialog. See “Wall 3. Click again near the other side of the
Length” on page 370. nook. Two short lines at each location

The Resize About line is also the line along where you clicked indicate Wall Breaks.
which a selected wall’s edit handles display,

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