alt="img"/> Notice that the Wall tile is split into two sections. The top section defaults directly to the Architectural Wall command, and the bottom section of the tile allows you to be more selective on the type of walls you pick from.
You’ll see that the Architectural Wall default in the Properties Box has opened.
If you would like to select additional walls to use at this time, you can select the drop-down arrow of the Wall Tile and the wall selections will appear.
Once you select the wall type you want to use, the Properties Box will open.
It just depends which steps you feel comfortable using and are more efficient.
After clicking on the WALL command, you will then select the type of exterior wall you want to use.
Next you need to adjust the wall height. Since we are doing a single story, you should change the wall height to 10’-0”. After that, you should determine how the walls will connect to each other.
Once you have selected all the important factors of the wall, the next step is to begin drawing the wall.
After you have clicked on your wall and have selected either GENERIC or BRICK ON WOOD STUD, click the starting of your wall close to the top left and inside the elevation markers.
As you draw your wall, notice the measurement numbers are in 6” increments. You can either drag the length of the wall to 50 feet long, or you can just begin drawing the wall and type in the distance of 50 feet (or whatever distance you need the walls to be). If you zoom in close to the wall, you will see the wall measurement numbers will change to increments of one inch.
Continue to draw the walls all around and make them 50 feet on each side for this exercise. Your drawing should look like the following screenshot.
Once the walls are all placed, click the MODIFY Arrow.
If you click on the DETAIL LEVEL Button at the bottom left, change the detail level to FINE and then you can see the hatches symbols in your material on the wall detail.
Use the DETAIL LEVEL Button to show the hatch detail for walls and other objects.
The next step will be placing interior walls in the space. Follow the same steps as before to select a wall, but select an Interior 4-3/4” Partition (that is a basic interior wall thickness). Once selected, it will appear in the view window.
In this example, we will be creating a room, 17’-0” × 17’-4”, in the bottom left corner. Begin by clicking the mouse on the exterior wall to place the new interior wall you selected in the bottom left corner and (release the mouse button) drag the wall up the screen 17’-0” to make the wall and click the mouse button to stop the wall.
Next, we will complete the room by drawing the other wall. If you are still in the Modify/Place Wall command on the ribbon, then you can continue to extend the wall over to the left or whichever wall you are connecting to.
Click anywhere on the white screen in the drawing window and the command will end and the project will have a completed room.
If by chance you had drawn the wall and gotten out of the wall command before extending the other wall, as seen in the following screen shot, don’t worry. There is an easy fix for this.
Simply click on the wall command in the Architectural Ribbon, and select the INTERIOR 4 ¾” PARTITION wall again.
Connect the wall to the existing wall in your drawing.
Then extend the wall over to the other side or to another wall you want to connect with.
The completed room layout should look like this:
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