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Soffit Specification Dialog

8” x 8 3/8” = 28.26 square inches. 2304 • If surface materials such as brick are
sq. in. divided by 28.26 sq. in. per brick applied to a large soffit, the soffit center
gives 81.5 bricks. is assumed to be hollow, with only a sin-
• If the soffit depth is greater than both 4 gle layer of the material applied to each
inches (10 mm) and 1 ½ times the mate- applicable face.
rial thickness, then the surface areas of • For shingles and shakes, the overlap
the soffit back, sides and top are used in amount should be subtracted from the
addition to the front, if these surfaces are height, as opposed to brick or tile, where
not attached to a wall or other soffit. the joint width is added to the size.
However, only those portions of the • For materials in the area category, the
sides, top and bottom remaining after soffit area calculation above is used, with
subtracting twice the material thickness the material thickness treated as zero.
are used. So, for Dark Red brick, which
has a depth of 4", the sides, top and bot- • For materials in the volume, concrete or
tom surface areas cannot contribute to the earth categories, the true volume of the
brick count unless the soffit depth is soffit is used.
greater than 8 inches.

Soffit Specification Dialog

To open the Soffit Specification The settings in this dialog are similar to those
dialog, select the soffit and click the in the Soffit Defaults dialog, but affect only
Open Object edit button or double-click on the selected object(s).

a soffit using the Soffit tool.

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