TABLE OF CONTENTS You will probably use walls more than any other type of object as you develop your designs. Therefore, it is critical to learn all the dimensions of this multifaceted object if you are going to use ADT successfully.
Much more than the solid space boundaries described in Chapter 6, "Space Planning," walls are complex beasts that represent interior and exterior partitions in almost every conceivable architectural situation. Like other objects, walls are controlled by styles that define their subcomponents and display properties, among other things. Beyond style, you will learn numerous additional techniques to lay out walls, clean up intersections between walls, and alter wall form both in 2D and 3D. This chapter's topics include the following:
Understanding Wall Components
Laying Out Walls
Cleaning Up Walls
Working with Wall Styles
Altering Wall Form
Like solid space boundaries, walls partition space: but they do a lot more having components representing the actual sandwich of real-world materials constructed in the field, such as stud, brick, concrete, and masonry walls. In AutoCAD you might have been accustomed to drawing double lines to represent walls, tagging the linework to identify wall type, and listing the components of wall types in a schedule table. In ADT, all the information about walls comes from objects and their styles: tags and schedules merely report on this data (see Chapter 14, "Schedules, Display Themes, and Areas").
Walls don't have to be monolithic; they can be straight or curved, and can have gables, steps, cutouts, projections,
