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Roof Directives in Walls

Check Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom to have
the bottom of the selected wall clipped by the
roof plane below, as where a floating dormer
wall meets the main roof plane.

Exterior/Interior Pony Walls

Before It’s not uncommon for an individual wall to
be an exterior wall near its top, and an inte-
rior wall near its bottom.

Full Gable
Wall

Upper Wall
Type
Extend Slope
Downward

Lower
Wall Type

After Lower Wall Type If Split By Butting Roof
Clerestory and Dormer Walls Check Lower Wall Type If Split By Butt-
ing Roof to achieve this. When this option is
Occasionally, walls are built between two checked, the selected wall is specified as a
roof planes rather than between a roof plane pony wall and a second, lower wall type can
and a floor platform. Common examples be specified. Unlike with other pony walls,
include clerestory walls and the side, or the the change in wall type occurs wherever a
cheek, walls of floating dormers. roof plane builds to the exterior of the wall.
See “Pony Walls” on page 351.

Clerestory wall built between two roof planes

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