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Unlike other windows, these objects’ can specify a custom label in their
Automatic Labels are blank; however, you specification dialog.

Editing Windows
Before a window can be edited, it must be width. The label showing the size updates as
selected. Click on a window when the Select the window is resized.
Objects tool or any of the Window In 3D views, a selected window has five edit
Tools are active. Doors and/or windows handles: the Move handle at the center and a
can also be group-selected and edited. See Resize handle on each edge. Click and drag
“Selecting Objects” on page 213. an edge handle to resize the window.
• Using the edit handles, a window resizes
To select a window that is part of a blocked
unit, click the component window, then click according to the currently active Edit
Behavior . See “Defaults, Prefer-
the Select Next Object edit button. See
“Selecting Components of Mulled Units” on ences, and Edit Behaviors” on page 208.
page 569. A single window or a group of windows can
be moved with the center edit handle.
Windows can be edited using their edit
handles, the edit toolbar buttons, and the A door or window moved against an
Window Specification dialog. See “Window intersecting wall temporarily stops when it is
Specification Dialog” on page 577. the casing distance from the intersecting
wall. Enable Ignore Casing for Opening
When you select a window in plan view, the
window size label displays the width Resize in the Plan Defaults dialog to turn off
followed by the height. For example, a 3036 this behavior. See “General Plan Defaults
window is 3’-0” wide by 3’-6” high. Dialog” on page 101.
You can continue to drag the selected
In the Specification Dialog window and it will resume movement past
or onto the intersecting wall.
The most precise method of editing an
individual window or group of To create a corner window, drag the Move
windows is to use the Window Specification handle straight out past the wall corner,
dialog. The window type, size, casing, parallel to the selected window’s wall. See
materials, shape, and more can all be “Corner Windows” on page 565.
specified in this dialog. See “Window
Specification Dialog” on page 577. Using Dimensions
Like various other objects, windows
Using the Mouse
can be moved using dimensions. See
In plan view, click either of the two end “Moving Objects Using Dimensions” on
handles and drag along the wall to change the page 479.

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