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Make Mulled Unit

casing. The casing tops do not have to be at
the same level. The casings are modeled as if
they are one unit but the windows remain
separate objects for dimensioning and the
Materials List.
Windows can be automatically mulled to
doors if the bottom of the window is at the
elevation of the floor, equal to the bottom of
the door.

The Minimum Separation value in the
Notice how the windows and door in this Window Defaults dialog specifies how close
example are separate, with spaces between window and door units can be to each other.
them. Doors and/or windows can also be This setting also controls the width of the
organized into a unit in which there are no shared casing between adjacent windows.
spaces between the windows and door units, See “Window Defaults” on page 562.
and the casing between them is shared. To
help organize their display in plan view, you Mulled Units in the Library
can place stacked windows of varying A selection of mulled window units is
heights on different Window Levels. See available in the Windows library. To place
“Window Levels” on page 570.
one in your plan, select it and click on a wall
in any view. See “Placing Library Objects”
Automatically Mulled Openings on page 939.

To form a mulled group of windows and/or
doors, move them close enough together so Make Mulled Unit
that their casings touch. Once the casings Windows and doors can be selected as
touch, the windows are mulled together with a group and blocked together into a
one casing between the two of them.
single unit by clicking the Make Mulled
The sill of each window in the group must be Unit edit button.
at the same level for them to share the middle

Make Mulled Unit

The Make Mulled Unit edit tool must be within 24” (600 mm) of one another
allows you to block a group of in order to become a blocked unit; however,
selected windows and/or doors into a single their casings do not have to touch.
unit.
Windows and doors in a mulled unit can be
Wall openings in a mulled unit are referred to framed as a single opening or as multiple
as components. Components of a mulled unit openings, and can be listed as a single unit or

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