Adding openings

…Once you have the basic geometry like walls, floors, and roofs in place in…your model, you'll begin the steady process…of refining the model as the design progresses.…In many cases, you'll find the need to cut…holes in these elements, like simple passage ways through walls.…Shafts for floors.…Elevators and equipment in floors and skylights and dormers in roofs.…In some cases, you'll find it easiest to edit the…sketch of the element in question to represent such penetration.…This approach would work well for floors,…which represent double volume spaces, for example.…In other cases.…You might use an opening object to actually cut through the solid geometry.…

So in this movie we're going to explore a few examples of opening objects.…And I'm going to start with a shaft opening and the…file I have opened here on screen is called, Shaft.…Now the opening objects are on the architecture tab.…You can find them here on the opening panel.…We're not going to do all five opening types.…But we are going to look at a couple of these.…