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Exporting and Importing Wall Types

• Specify a Continuous R-Value.for the Explode Layers button remove or
selected wall type definition.
restore these gaps.
6 A preview of the selected wall type • When Plan View is the selected preview
definition displays here. See “Dialog
Preview Panes” on page 42. type, click the Line Weights button to
toggle the display of the wall layer and
• When the selected preview type is a 3D pattern line weights, or thicknesses. See
view, a gap is shown between each of the “Line Weights” on page 1331.
wall layers in the preview. Click the

Exporting and Importing Wall Types

Wall type definitions created in Importing Wall Types
one plan can be exported as a .dat
file and imported into other plans. This is a To import wall type definitions into
convenient alternative to re-creating one or the current plan or layout, select File>
more wall type definitions that already exist Import> Import Wall Definitions.
in another plan. The Import Wall Definitions File dialog is a
The wall type definitions available to export typical Open File dialog. See “Importing
from the current plan are listed in the Wall Files” on page 64.
Type Definitions dialog. See “Wall Type When wall type definitions are imported, the
Definitions Dialog” on page 386. names of the wall type definitions in the .dat
file are compared with those already present
Exporting Wall Types in the current plan. If the program finds
identical names, it will ask you if you want to
To export wall type definitions from replace existing wall definitions with the
the current plan file, select File>
Export> Export Wall Definitions. same name. Click Yes to replace existing
files in the plan file, or No to keep the
The Export Wall Definitions File dialog is a definitions already in the plan.
typical Save As dialog. Exported wall types
are saved using the .dat file extension. See Wall type definitions that you use often
“Exporting Files” on page 60. should be saved in your default tem-
plate plan. See “To create your own template
plan” on page 98.

Wall Specification Dialog

To open the Wall Specification and click the Open Object edit button.
dialog, select a wall or group of walls

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