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Dormer Specification Dialog

Using the Mouse Editing the Window
When selected, an auto dormer displays three Dormer windows can be selected, edited,
edit handles. The Move handle displays over deleted and replaced just like other windows.
the front wall and allows you to relocate the See “Editing Windows” on page 574. You
dormer. Two resize handles display on the can place several windows in the front wall.
side walls and allow you to change the width Unless the dormer's window has been edited
of the dormer.
or changed in the Window Specification
dialog, when the dormer width is changed, its
width changes automatically to fill the front
dormer wall. If the window has been edited,
its width stays fixed. If a change to the
dormer makes its front wall too short to hold
the window, the window reverts to auto
Move Resize width.

There are some things to keep in mind when Exploding Dormers
editing auto dormers and auto floating
dormers using the mouse. Click the Explode Auto Dormer edit
• Dormers move at 90° angles unless the button to explode the auto dormer into
Ctrl key is pressed before moving them. its component parts. The dormer walls, roof
planes, window, and hole in the roof/ceiling
• The dormer must be contained within one can be edited individually.
underlying roof plane.
The program treats roof planes over an
• Auto dormers cannot be moved beyond exploded anto dormer as though they were
the required knee wall.
manually drawn, allowing you to protect
them from being rebuilt in the Build Roof
dialog. See “Roof Panel” on page 781.

Dormer Specification Dialog

Select a dormer or dormers and click The settings in this dialog are also found in
the Open Object edit button to open the Dormer Defaults dialog, where they
the Dormer Specification dialog. apply to all dormers as they are created rather
than to a selected dormer.

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