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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

The Attic Floor

Chief Architect automatically creates In some situations, you may find it necessary
a floor above the top numbered floor to draw one or more walls on this floor;
level of each plan. This floor is called the however, even if you enclose an area with
Attic floor and has only one purpose: to walls, rooms cannot be created on the Attic
provide a space for automatically generated floor.
Attic walls. See “Attic Walls” on page 378.
If you wish to create an attic loft, bonus
Because the Attic floor is not meant to be a room, or storage area in your plan, you will
living area, a warning message will display if need do so on a numbered floor level.
you try to draw walls or other objects on this
floor.

The Reference Floor

When there is more than one floor in a off in the plan. It can be turned on or off in
model, it is often helpful to see how they the view’s Layout Box Specification dialog,
relate to each other. Any floor can be shown however. See “Plan View Panel” on page
as the Reference Floor along with the 1303.
current floor.
If the Reference Floor is turned on when a
When the Reference Floor Display is turned view is printed, it will be included in the
on, the floor that you were last on prior to the printed output. See “Displaying Objects” on
current floor is used as the Reference Floor page 1322.
and is shown in red. Objects on the current
floor can snap to objects on the Reference Note: If objects on the current floor and the
Floor; however, objects on the Reference Reference Floor have edges that line up, the
Floor cannot be selected or edited. Reference Floor may be difficult to see on
screen. When lines of two different colors are
Reference Floor Display superimposed upon each other, discoloration
may result.
To turn on the Reference Floor, select
Tools> Reference Floors> Reference Reference Floor Display
Floor Display or press F9 on your keyboard. Options
The Reference Floor can also be toggled on
or off quickly in floor plan view by clicking The display of objects in the
the Reference Floor Display toggle button. Reference Floor is controlled by layer
set. You can control the appearance of the
If the Reference Floor is on when a floor plan layer set currently in use by selecting Tools>
view is sent to layout, it is always on in that Reference Floors> Reference Floor
layout view and is not affected if it is turned

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