Creating and revising walls

Step-by-step guide

Draw walls with and without chain enabled, use the direct distance entry technique, and apply flip controls for wall reorientation.

1. In the Options Bar, deselect Chain.
2. In the Modify | Place Wall tab, Draw panel, select Line.
3. Pick a point, pull it to the left, and press ENTER to place a wall.
4. Pick a point above the wall to create another wall.

With chain disabled, each wall is created separately.

5. In the Options Bar, select Chain.
6. Draw two or more walls to see that they are now continuous.

7. On the Ribbon, click Modify.
8. In the View Control Bar, expand Detail Level and select Medium.

You can now see the layers of the wall.

9. Select one of the existing walls and use the temporary dimensions to change the distance between the walls.

10. Press ESC.
11. Select one wall and click the Flip control to flip the external face.

12. Hold down CTRL and select more than one wall.

Now, there are no flip controls.

13. Press SPACEBAR to flip the direction of multiple selected walls.
14. Zoom out and select all the walls.

15. Right-click the selection and select Delete.