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- We're going to be looking at how we work with walls.
And for that reason we've got a very simple drawing
made up of one arc here, you'll notice
and some lines as well, like so.
They're all on layer zero.
We're going to use those as the baseline
for our walls in this simple little project.
Now you'll notice sitting down there
in the bottom right-hand corner of the drawing area
we've got the design tool palette.
Now this design tool palette is extremely useful.
So don't close it, always leave it open.
It's got lots of content in AutoCAD Architecture
that you'll always need to use.
So for example, we're working with walls.
There's a walls tab there.
And you can see we've got walls available to us
that we can start placing in our project.
If you want to auto-hide it, you can do that.
Like so like you can with any AutoCAD pallet.
I'm just going to leave that unhidden like that in the corner.
Now, let's have a look at these walls
and how we can place them in AutoCAD Architecture.
Now, if you go to the Home Tab on the ribbon,
you'll notice here we've got wall
and we've also got curtain wall and curtain wall unit.
Let's just go to wall first.
Now as soon as I do that
lots of things pop up on the screen.
Don't be fazed by that.
The help screen pops up in the top right.
And what's really nice there is Autodesk
now pop these little sort of bubbles
that they're almost like thought bubbles.
And it says hang on a minute.
While adding a wall, use control to flip the wall.
You shift to change the wall justification.
Use offset to reposition the wall if you want to.
You can tell AutoCAD Architecture
not to show you it again.
When you click on that link, it won't appear again.
But they're useful.
They're really handy little tips.
So I always leave them on just in case
there's something there that I don't know.
So I'm just going to close that for now
but it will pop up again at another point
perhaps when I'm working in AutoCAD architecture.
Now you'll notice because I've clicked on wall,
I've now got on my pointer here on my cursor.
I've got justified baseline start point or
and that's on my dynamic input on the screen.
So what it's telling me now
is I need to start placing my wall.
What I am going to do, I'm going to hold down
the wheel on the mouse and just pan slightly
so I can see all of my lines in my arc.
Now, the properties palette has popped up.
Now this will happen a lot in AutoCAD Architecture
and I can now just click on browse here
and my Styles Browser will kick
in another pallet, you'll notice.
So I've now got a lot of pallets
and not much screen real estate.
Don't worry about that.
I'll show you a way to cope with that in a minute.
But you'll notice I can pick a wall type.
So I've got external brick
with 102 insulation block and 100 plaster there.
So if I click on that,
that will give me the wall type
and I can click on the plus sign
and I can add that object to the project here like so.
So if I just double click on that
or I click on ads that adds that particular
type of wall and makes it available.
You'll notice it updates here in the properties.
Now the good thing is,
I can just close the Styles Browser like so
and I can now still just place the wall
with the properties palette open.
But I don't even need the properties palette open either
because I can just use my design palette over here.
So I can go, I want an external brick wall.
There we go.
It's exactly the same wall
but it's just on that little design palette.
So I click there and lo and behold,
everything kicks in again,
my little hints here, so I can close those
but I can also have it all ready to go here.
So what I can do now is just literally
start using my object snaps.
I'll go round and I'm just clicking away
on each snap, just going around
the little lines that I've got here.
Now when I get to this end point snap here,
a click and then I can right click and I can go arc.
Now, all I've got to do here is go for the point snap
which isn't actually on at the moment.
So the idea would be,
let's just jump down to object snaps,
switch midpoint on, switch the object snaps menu off.
There's my midpoint there, just make sure I get that.
Get my end point there, get to this end point here.
And then you'll notice now that's trying to do arcs
so I can right click and I can undo what I've just done.
And you'll notice now,
can you see on back in the line setting?
So just be aware of that when you undo
like you do in a lot of the context
sort of sensitive kind of right clicks there.
You want to make sure that you are in arc or line mode.
So when I get to that end point snap there I click
and you'll notice now it's done the arc again.
So I've got to make sure that I go back to line mode.
Like so, I've got my arc there, that's great,
but I need to be able to go line like that.
So we know it's a line and not an arc.
So just be aware of that.
Right click select line or select arc.
It can be confusing when you first start
using AutoCAD Architecture.
Now the good thing is,
I've done this in one continuous loop
going all the way around the lines
in the arc, I can right-click and close
and that will close out.
You'll notice the property pallet disappears.
If I zoom in real close though,
you can see that if you use that line
and all of these wall segments now,
can you see they've all got their lovely
trimmed corners, the cavities are all trimmed
and my walls are now placed nice and neatly
in my AutoCAD Architecture project.
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