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Wall with red brick hatch material
To use a material in a wall style, it needs to be defined first in Style Manager. For information about assigning a
material to a wall style, see “
Specifying the Materials of a Wall Style ” on page 732.
For information about defining Materials, see “ Creating and Editing Material Definitions ” on page 522.
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Wall endcaps: In the wall style, you can define endcaps for the wall start and end. The standard endcap style is
a straight line. If you need different endcaps, you need to create a wall endcap style, and then assign it to the wall
style. For more information, see “
Applying a Wall Endcap Style to a Wall Style ” on page 741 and “ Wall Endcap
Styles and Opening Endcap Styles ” on page 738.
Walls with different endcaps
NOTE You can override the wall endcap style on individual walls in the drawing.
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Opening endcaps: In the wall style, you define the endcaps for any doors, windows, and openings inserted in
the wall. By default the opening endcaps are 4 straight lines for the jamb start and end, and the sill and head of
the opening.
Opening endcaps around a window
For more information, see Opening Endcap Styles.
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Wall display: the visual appearance of a wall is defined in the wall style. Here, you define the layer, color, linetype
settings of the individual wall components, hatching, and the cut plane display of the wall in plan views. The
display settings defined in the wall style can be overridden for an individual wall. For more information, see
“
Specifying the Display Properties of a Wall Style ” on page 733
Specifying Drawing Defaults for Walls
Use this procedure to specify the default settings in the current drawing for dimensioning walls and for wall cleanup.
The cleanup settings apply only to new walls that you add to the drawing and do not affect existing walls.
1 Click Format menu
➤
Options.
2 Click the AEC Object Settings tab.
3 Under Wall Settings, select an option for wall dimensions: Dimension to Center of Opening or Dimension
to Outer Frame of Opening.
4 To force the endpoint of a new wall that is drawn within the Autosnap Radius of the baseline of an existing
wall to snap to that baseline, select Autosnap New Wall Baselines.
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