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Building materials

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- [Instructor] As we continue to talk about attributes let's talk about building materials. So if we go to options at the top we have this building materials and we click on it and it pulls up this dialog box. And what we have here is a lot of different building materials that Archi CAD uses. So these building materials can be used in walls, slabs, roofs, and other composite elements. And so building materials are made up of a few different things. So first we have the name of the building material. We have a field that's associated with it. So how it looks on floor plan or in elevation or in a section. And then we have associated fill, cut fill pens and we have cut fill background pens. We also have a fill orientation, so we can orient the fill by the element itself or related to the project origin. We also have a surface. So surfaces are the representation of how this will look in three dimensions or within your…

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