Add a Wall

Add a wall as follows:

1. Activate the drawing window. You can also add a wall in the model, but clicking the points is easier in the drawing.
2. Do either of the following:
   • Select Walls > Insert Wall.
   • Right-click to open the context-sensitive menu, and select Insert Wall.
3. Select the wall in a dialog box.

   If you have used the adding function before, the previously selected wall is now the default wall. You can check which wall is selected from the status bar. You can change the wall by first selecting the Select Another Wall function from the contextual toolbar.

   The Wall Dialog Box

4. If necessary, change the locating height of the wall or the reference line, or select another function from the contextual toolbar.

   Auxiliary Wall Adding Functions

   When you are designing a parametric building model, use the wall center line (CENTER) as the reference line.

5. You can also select the wall's presentation method on the contextual toolbar. The coarse/accurate presentation method is especially important when adding a log wall. By default, the presentation method of a log wall is coarse. Individual logs are modeled in the accurate presentation method, but this also increases the size of the model and slows down its handling.

   Coarse/Accurate Presentation
   2D/3D Presentation

6. Begin adding the wall from the absolute origin, which has been marked in the 2D drawing with a cross near the lower left corner of the drawing window .
7. Select the corner points of a wall group one by one. You can also select the Rectangular walls function from the contextual toolbar, which allows you to select the start and end points of the diagonal of the rectangular wall group. When you are adding exterior walls, select their corner points by moving clockwise around the building. In this way, you can make sure that the outer face of the wall will face outward and the inner face inward, ensuring that windows added later are placed in the wall with the correct facing. When adding, an arrow will indicate the outer face of the wall. The wall reference line will pass through the selected points.

   

   You can select the locations of the corner points in several different ways.

   Selecting a Point Location

8. Do either of the following:
   • When you are adding an open wall chain, select the Confirm function.
   • When you are adding a closed wall chain, click the last point to the start point. The wall chain is closed automatically. If you are designing a parametric building model, and the Settings > Constraints and Automatic Sketching > Automatic Floors is enabled, the program asks you to select a floor structure.

     Automatic Floors

Note

• See also Adding a Wall in a Parametric Building Model.
• See also Adding a Log Wall.
• If you start selecting exterior wall points by moving counter-clockwise, select the Adding a Mirrored Wall auxiliary function.

Add a Combo Wall
Walls
Parametric Building Model