Drawing Interior Walls

In this Task

• The interior walls will be drawn using snap modes to connect new walls to existing walls.
• The properties of the walls will be changed.

Associated Tasks

• Modifying the wall elements such as color, fill etc.

Before you Start

• Take care to connect the center line of new walls to existing walls. Zoom in as high as possible to connect these correctly.
• Walls will only join automatically if their edge or center lines are aligned. Use the GEO auxiliary lines to correct align the wall center lines.

Take Note

• The Walls draw their width equidistantly around a center line. For this reason, you will need to zoom in significantly to ensure the start and end points of the walls connect to the corresponding points on existing walls.
• When walls are connected, the walls are joined and the intersecting internal elements are removed.
• A different wall color is used in the video animation of this task. This is for visual clarity only.
• Snap modes are not necessarily required, but specific snaps such as perpendicular can be used where necessary.

Drawing the Interior Walls

Drawing interior walls onto the sketch is another conceptual process, using the outline of the image as a reference. Snap modes are used to connect lines to perpendicular points on opposite walls.

Select the Wall tool from the Architecture menu, then create the interior walls using the GEO lines to connect the new walls to existing walls.

Start the interior wall by using the GEO snap to attach to the wall at Point 1 below. Draw to the projected point at point 2, then draw to point 3. Hold down the SHIFT key to maintain the constraint. Right click and select Finish after point 3.

Using the GEO snap to create the interior walls from the snap points in the exterior walls

In the example above, Point 1 was obtained using snap point at the vertex shown by point 1, above left.

Points 2 and 3 were created by the GEO lines aligning at points 2 and 3.

To end a wall sequence, right click and select Finish from the local menu. The walls should immediately connect and their interior joins should be removed.

The result should be similar to the illustration below.

First interior wall draw, connecting to existing walls

Use a similar method, create the remaining interior walls. Use the snap mode ‘J’ to snap to the perpendicular aspect of opposite walls. For example, connect the wall to point 1 shown below, the use the ‘J’ snap mode to snap to the perpendicular point on the opposite wall.

Connect the inner wall to point 1 above, then drawn to the opposite wall using the ‘J’ snap mode to snap to the perpendicular point

Use this method to create all the interior walls so that the result is similar to the illustration below.

Exterior and Interior Walls

Modifying the Wall Properties

During the conceptual sketching process, a bold, denser line was used to capture the outline of the exterior and interior walls. When the walls are captured, the sketch elements can be returned to their original layer properties.

In this task, the walls will be filled with a solid brush pattern, similar to the walls in the image. The wall pen outline color will be adjusted so that it more closely resembles the image.

The layer 0 can be switched off prior to selecting the objects on the wall layer.

Use Edit > Select by > Layer > Walls to select all the wall elements in the editor.

From the Layer toolbar at the top of the workspace, change the Pen color to Dim Gray, the pen width to 0. Add a Solid brush pattern, using the Dim Gray color, shown below.

Changing the wall elements

The result is shown below.

Wall color, line width and fill changed

Wall Height

At the commencement of this Session, the wall height of 2700 was input prior to drawing the walls. This provides a wall height when viewed in an Isometric view.

In the example below, the layer which contained the image is switched off so that only the wall elements are visible. Use the Design Director to switch of the layer 0.

The floor plan is viewed from an Isometric South East View (point 1) using the Suppress Hidden Line visual style (point 2). Right click in the workspace and select ISO-SE view, then select the Suppress Hidden Line visual mode, shown below.

Using the Isometric South East view, above right and the Hidden Line visual style, above left

The result is shown below.

Floor Plan shown in Isometric South East view using Suppress Hidden Line visual style