Drawing Interior Walls

In this Task

• Interior walls will be added to the floor plan.

Associated Tasks

• Relocating the drawing origin.
• Using Rectangular Coordinates.
• Inputting X-Y data into the coordinate fields.

Before you Start

• The interior walls will be set to a width of 110 and a height of 2700.

 

Take Note

• The coordinate fields differ from the Length/Angle fields. They are accessed using SHIFT-TAB.
• Only X-Y-Z coordinates can be input into these fields.
• Coordinates referenced from a fixed origin point are referred to as Relative coordinates.

 

Adding Interior Walls

Ribbon : Architecture | Walls | Wall

Default Menu : Architecture | Walls | Wall

Palette : Panels Setup | Architecture | Walls

Interior walls are added using the same method used to add an exterior walls.

 

Right click onto the Wall tool and set the Width to 110 and the Reference to right. Left click onto the Wall tool and start from the vertex indicated by the arrow below.

Start point of new wall. Wall width is 110, reference set to ‘right’

TAB to the data fields and input a Length of 2590 and an Angle of 90, shown below. Draw the next line to the perpendicular point of the extreme right wall by using the keyboard J to draw to a perpendicular aspect, shown below.

When dimensioned, the new interior wall will measure 2700, shown below.

Draw upwards at 2700 then draw to the perpendicular point of the edge.

Input J to target the perpendicular point.

Set the wall reference to center, then draw another interior wall by connecting to the midpoint of the line shown by point 1 and draw to the perpendicular point (keyboard input ‘J’) of the line shown by point 2.

Relocate Origin

Ribbon : Modes | Coordinates | Relocate Origin

Default : Modes | Coord System | Relocate Origin

Palette : Tools | Palettes | Panel Setup | Coord System | Relocate Origin

By relocating the origin in the editor, all subsequent measurements are calculated from this point when using Relative coordinates.

By relocating the origin point of a drawing, a convenient 0,0 point can be positioned at a point from which it is convenient to reference the starting point of another wall. In this example, a new wall will be drawn, starting at point in the illustration below.

A new 0,0 origin point will therefore be fixed on the vertex shown by the pointer below.

• Go to Options | Advanced Preferences and check the option for Fixed Relative Origin. This allows the user to define the 0,0 point and such origin will remain fixed until changed by the user.
• Select Modes | Coord System | Relative. This allows the coordinate points to be reference from a 0,0 position.
• Select Modes | Coord System| Relocate Origin, the place the origin on the outer vertex shown by the arrow below.

This wall will finally measure 3300 and the reference is set to right. This means the wall will be started at a distance of –3575 on the Y axis so that the outer wall of 220 and the distance to the center of the new wall of 55 is considered.

Position new origin on outer vertex shown by arrow. New wall will start at point 2

Rectangular Coordinates

Coordinate fields at the bottom right of the editor

Rectangular coordinates are defined by positive or negative X-Y values.Rectangular coordinates are sometimes referred to as Cartesian coordinates.Lines that travel in a straight line from left to right have positive x values.Lines that travel in a straight line from right to left have negative x values.Lines that travel from bottom to top have positive y values.Lines that travel from top to bottom have negative y values.

 

Accessing the Coordinate Fields

Left click onto the Wall tool and start the new wall from coordinate position x=0; y=-3575, using SHIFT-TAB to access the coordinate fields.

Use SHIFT TAB to access the coordinate fields, input these values

As can be seen from the illustration below, the new wall starts at the position shown by the arrow, that is 3575 from the upper left outer corner vertex.

New wall starts at position shown by the arrow

Draw the new wall to the perpendicular point (keyboard input’ ‘J’) on the opposite vertical wall, shown below.

Wall drawn to perpendicular point on opposite side

Leaving the origin on the newly seated position, create a new wall to the measurement shown below. Start the new wall by using SHIFT TAB to access the coordinate fields, then input 3275 into the X field and 0 into the Y field.

Connect the end of the wall to the perpendicular point on the wall shown by point 2 below.

Start new wall at position x=3275; y=0 and draw to the perpendicular point (‘J’)

Using the same method and with the reference point remain in the fixed position of the upper left outside vertex, draw the walls at the intervals shown below.

Create new walls at the intervals shown by the dimensions

At this stage, viewed from an Isometric South East perspective, the plan resembles the illustration below.

Isometric view of exterior and interior walls