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Drawing walls
Drawing walls
To draw walls, you must first choose Plan > Create walls or select the Create walls tool.
Create
walls tool
Click in the home plan at the start point of the new wall, then click
or double-click in the plan at its end point. As long as you don't double-click
or press the Escape key, each new click indicates the opposite
point of the current wall and the start point of the next wall. While
drawing a set of walls, the start point of the first wall will be attached
to an existing wall start or end point if you click on that point, and
the last wall will be attached to another wall start or end point by
double-clicking on that point. If you keep pressed the ctrl key
(or alt key under Mac OS X) while clicking at the end point of
a wall, a round wall will be created and its arc extent will depend
on the point where you'll click a third time.
The clicked points are at the middle of the thickness of the drawn walls;
the thickness and the height of new walls can be changed in the preferences
pane.
If you already drew a room, you can
also create the walls around it by double-clicking anywhere in that
room.
Walls are simultaneously drawn in the plan and in the 3D view.
To end
the drawing of walls, choose Plan > Select or select the Select tool.
Select tool
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If you have a scanned image of your home plan at your disposal, import it as a background
image of the plan first. This feature speeds up the drawing of walls.
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To help you draw walls precisely, use the wall tooltip and the alignment lines. If you press the enter key
when the plan has the focus, the values displayed in the tooltip will become editable to let you enter with the
keyboard the length, the angle and the thickness of the current wall (if you didn't start any wall yet,
the tooltip will display the coordinates of the start point of the new wall). Use the up arrow, down
arrow or tab keys
to edit an other value and press again the enter key to confirm the values you entered. If you want to
use again the mouse to draw walls, simply move it over the plan.
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To help you drawing parallel walls, the angle of walls is a multiple of 15° by default. You
may cancel this magnetism by disabling magnetism in
the preferences pane or while drawing, by holding down the Alt key under Windows, the cmd key under Mac OS X or the Shift + Alt keys under Linux.
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The default height of walls is set from the value of New walls
height in the preferences
pane, and the default thickness of new walls is set from the
value of New walls thickness in that pane.
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Once a wall is created, you may change
its location, its length, its thickness, its height, its colors,
its textures and its shininess.
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The unit displayed by default in tooltips, plan rulers and plan grid depends on your country. You may switch
to Centimeter, Meter, Millimeter or Inch in the preferences pane.
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Choose Plan > Zoom in or Plan > Zoom out
to change the plan scale, or roll the mouse wheel forward or
backward while keeping the Ctrl key pressed (or under
Mac OS X, the cmd key pressed).
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Use default Aerial view while drawing new walls, you'll get a more useful
point of view on your home in the 3D view.
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While Create walls tool is selected, many tools and menus are disabled. If you need these tools, select the Select tool
again.