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edges you’d like to see in the floor plan view. When you’re finished, set the Underlay property
back to None, and not only will the lines you created with the Linework tool remain, but they
will update if the overhead model object is modified.
Let’s use the Linework tool to continue our exercise with the wall section detail by following
these steps:

1. Switch to the Modify tab in the ribbon, locate the View panel, and then click the Linework
tool.
2. From the Line Style drop-down menu in the contextual tab of the ribbon, choose Medium
Lines.

3. As indicated in Figure 16.5, click the inside face and the outside face of the exterior wall.
Also click the edge of the wall below the window sill.

Figure 16.5
use the linework tool
to modify the cut lines
of the wall element in
a detail.

Using Filled regions and Masking regions

Certification The next tool on the Detail panel of the Annotate tab is the Region tool, which contains two
Objective individual commands: Filled Region and Masking Region. Regions are two-dimensional areas
of any shape or size that you can fill with a pattern. This pattern (much like a hatch in Autodesk
AutoCAD software) will dynamically adjust based on changes to the region boundary. You can
manipulate the draw order of regions in the same manner as detail lines. Regions also have a
type property (Background) that can be set to Opaque (hiding the objects they are placed over)
or Transparent (letting the elements below show through).

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