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Space Planning

Chief Architect. See “Selecting Objects”
on page 213.
• Room boxes can be resized, rotated, and
rearranged. See “Editing Box-Based
Objects” on page 237.
• Try to line up the rooms so that they are
just touching. Excessive overlaps may
cause your rooms to form incorrectly.
Closets are the exception. You can over-
lap a room with a closet, or place in
inside another room box.
• Rooms can be copied and pasted using
the Copy/Paste edit button and
deleted using the Delete edit button.
When you Build House, the “Space Planning
• Select Tools> Space Planning or Boxes” layer is automatically turned off. The
click the Space Planning Configuration room boxes that you created are not deleted,
however.
button to access the room box tools
and place additional room boxes in your Multiple Floors
plan. Select a tool and click in the plan to
place a room box of that type. If you specified a two-story house, follow
these steps:

• Select Tools> Space Planning> Toggle 1. Edit and arrange the room boxes on
Floor 1 as desired.
Room Boxes or click the toggle but-
ton to hide or show the room boxes. 2. Select Tools> Space Planning> Build
House tool to create the walls on the
Build House first floor.

When the rooms are in place, select Tools> 3. Go Up One Floor and notice that
Space Planning> Build House to the positions of the walls on Floor 1 dis-
convert the rooms into a building model. play in red as a reference.
Walls and doors are inserted between the 4. Arrange the rooms on Floor 2 as desired,
rooms that you arranged. using the reference display as a guide.

5. On the second floor, select Tools>
Space Planning> Build House t o
complete the second floor.

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