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Architectural project: Drawing walls

Architectural project: Drawing walls

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Architectural project: Drawing walls

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- In this video, we will begin drawing the walls from this floor plan sketch. We've already scaled the sketch up, so it's approximately at the right scale. Now let's go ahead and begin drawing the walls. Click Line, and let's start down here in the lower left corner. I'll draw a line all the way over here. I don't really know how far that's going to be yet, so I'll just draw it in approximately, like that. I notice down here it says 8" thick, typ. So I can offset this line eight inches. So click Offset, type 8, Enter. And then select the red line and click below it to offset that down. And then press Enter. I can pan, we can see that maybe a little better. No angles are given here. This looks to me like it's part of an octagon. So let's draw in an octagon with a four-foot edge and we'll put that in there. I'm gonna pan over to the side a little bit and use the Polygon tool. The number of sides is 8. I don't know where the center would be, but I can use the Edge option. And then I will…

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