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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Attic Walls

In Chief Architect, walls are built between Removing Attic Walls
the floor and ceiling platforms of the current
floor. See “Floor and Ceiling Heights” on Occasionally, the program will generate an
page 425. When the program detects an open Attic Wall where one is not wanted. There
space between a wall and the roof plane are several ways to address this:
above it, it automatically creates an Attic • Turn off the display of the layer that the
Wall on the floor above that wall to fill in the Attic Wall is on.
gap. • Specify the Attic Wall as Invisible. See
Attic Walls are typically found above Full “Room Dividers and Invisible Walls” on
Gable Walls, forming a gable or closing the page 353.
top portion of a side wall of a shed roof. • Some interior Attic Walls can be sup-
They are also generated above all exterior pressed by specifying space they enclose
walls when the Raise Off Plate value in the as a Shelf Ceiling. See “Shelf Ceilings”
Build Roof dialog is 3” (175 mm) or greater. on page 427.
See “Build Roof Dialog” on page 780.
• Select the Attic Wall and Delete i t .
Attic Walls are often found on the Attic floor, When Auto Rebuild Attic Walls is on,
but can be generated on other floors, as well. the program will specify the wall as Invis-
See “The Attic Floor” on page 721. ible automatically. If you delete this Invis-
Attic Walls are specified as such in the Wall ible wall, a new Attic Wall will be
Specification dialog; if automatically created.
generated, that will be noted as well. If • Turn off Auto Rebuild Attic Walls in the
needed, you can specify a regular wall as an General Wall Defaults dialog and then
Attic Wall. If you specify a wall as an Attic
Wall and it is currently on its default layer, it Delete the wall.
will be moved to the “Walls, Attic” layer, See • Combine the Attic Wall with the wall
“General Panel” on page 390. below. To do this, select Combine with
Above Wall in the Wall Specification
When you Rebuild Walls/Floors/
dialog for the wall below. See “Roof
Ceilings , all automatically generated Panel” on page 395.
Attic Walls in the plan are deleted and rebuilt
unless Auto Rebuild Attic Walls is also Knee Walls
checked in the General Wall Defaults dialog.
See “General Wall Defaults” on page 340. Knee Walls are a bit like Attic Walls in that
they are not meant to generate to full ceiling
height. Instead, they build upward until they
encounter a roof plane. Unlike Attic Walls,
however, Knee Walls are used in the interior
of a structure, typically to separate unused

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