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Example Name Wall Endcap Style Description
Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625 Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625 (End2) For wall style Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625 Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625 to
define a possible second end condition.
Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625 Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625 (Jamb1) or wall style Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625 Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625 to
define a jamb condition.
Best Practices for Wall Endcaps:
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Endcaps are drawn for each component. Components for which there is no endcap defined will terminate as soon
as another component’s endcap is encountered. For that reason, you need to draw a complete endcap for each
component except for those that are intended to terminate at the location on the wall where the endcap is applied.
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Endcaps are applied perpendicular to the direction of the wall. The endpoints of each endcap are normally drawn
so that an imaginary line connecting them would be perpendicular to the wall edges, except in the case where an
endcap is intentionally skewed.
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It is typically not recommended to define endcaps for walls with variable width components. As a component’s
width is changed, it’s associated endcap will adjust to accommodate the change in width, however the endcap will
maintain its proportions, causing distortions to occur to the end effect.
Wall Opening Endcap Styles
Wall Opening Endcap Styles apply to door, window, opening and door/window assemblies that are inserted into a wall.
They consist of a collection of wall endcap styles that are applied to the head, jamb and sill conditions of the opening.
Wall Opening Endcap Style Naming Conventions:
The naming convention for a wall opening endcap style is similar to that for a wall endcap style:
<Associated wall style> (Opening<Index>)
Example Wall Opening Endcap Style Names:
Example Name Wall Opening Endcap Style Description
Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625 Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625
(Opening1) Wall opening endcap style for a wall style named Stud-3.5 Brick-3.625
Sheathing-0.5 Air-1 GWB-0.625 .
Wall Cleanup Group Definitions
Wall Cleanup Group definitions should allow objects anchored to walls in other cleanup groups to be moved or copied
to walls of the current cleanup group unless there is a compelling reason to not allow it. Cleanup between host and
xref drawings should be turned on by default unless performance issues arise. There are no naming conventions for
wall cleanup group definitions.
Wall Modifier Styles
Wall modifiers are typically best created “on the fly” by first creating a 2D polyline and converting it to a wall modifier.
During the process you are prompted for a name to assign to a new modifier style, which is created from your geometry.
Modifier styles define minimal information about the shape of the modifier itself. There are no current conventions
for naming or application of wall modifier styles.
NOTE Wall modifiers can vary widely in shape and size from one instance to the next, even if they belong to the same style.
To ensure that the modifier you wish to apply to a wall represents the shape that you want, first draw a 2D polyline and then
use the right-click menu to convert the polyline to a wall modifier. You will be prompted for a new wall modifier style name
during the process; each converted polyline must define a different modifier style. For these reasons, you may find it more
effective in many cases to use
body modifiers instead, which are not style-based.
Palette-Based Wall Tools
The only wall-based style that can be assigned to a palette-based tool is the wall style itself. However when the wall
style is used, any substyles that it uses, such as wall endcap styles and wall opening endcap styles, will be imported
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