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TRAINER: Let's put in some interior spaces.

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Adding interior walls is very similar to the process we

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use to create exterior walls.

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So I'm going to start with the Wall tool, or you can type WA.

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And I'll start with a simple rectangle,

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and then change the wall type to a generic 5 inch, which

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is a little bit more appropriate thickness for an interior wall.

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And I want to start by just eyeballing a rectangle here

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in this middle space.

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And it doesn't really matter how big you make that initially.

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Now, let's cancel out of the command.

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Now, I want to begin manipulating

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the size of this rectangle to make it more correct.

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And one of the easiest ways to do that

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is to select one of the walls and use

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the temporary dimensions to change

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the location of that wall.

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I'm going to zoom in slightly here on this location

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and show you the dimension that we have here.

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Notice that there's a small witness line associated

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with that dimension and notice that it's right down the middle

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of the selected wall.

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If you click this small little dot,

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it will shift that witness line first to one face of the wall,

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and then to the other face of the wall,

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and then back to the center.

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So what I want to do is get it to the inside face here,

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and the inside face here, activate the number,

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and let's just type in a nice round value of 6.

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When you use temporary dimensions to manipulate

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things, the object you have selected

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is what will move based on the value

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that you input in the temporary dimensions.

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Let me come over here to the Navigation bar

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and choose Previous, Zoom, and Pan.

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And let's continue.

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Now, it is certainly possible to continue

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in the same fashion moving the witness line grips each time.

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But I think it's a little bit faster to actually create

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a permanent dimension instead.

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Now, what's the difference?

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Well, if you click anywhere in space and deselect the wall,

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notice that the dimensions disappear.

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Those are temporary dimensions.

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They're called temporary because they only display temporarily.

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But if you come up here to the Quick Access toolbar

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and locate the Aligned Dimension tool,

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or use the keyboard shortcut of DI,

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this allows you to create the permanent dimension.

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And a permanent dimension will stay

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on screen regardless of whether or not anything is selected.

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Just like we saw with the temporary dimensions,

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we can control where the witness lines

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of the permanent dimensions are.

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And we can do this at the time of creation.

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So right here on the Options bar is a dropdown,

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and I'm going to designate wall faces.

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This will allow me to choose the face that I want for each

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of my dimension witness lines.

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So I'm going to choose the inside face of that exterior

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wall, the top face of this one, the bottom face here, and then

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the inside face here.

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And then move out to empty space,

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and this is very important.

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To place the dimension, you need to click an empty white space.

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If you click on some other object,

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it'll try to dimension that object.

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So always move away and place it in empty space.

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I'm going to repeat in the other direction using

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this face of this wall here, this one, that one,

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and this one.

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And then again, click to place it somewhere on screen.

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I'll click the Modify tool to cancel the command.

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Now, I'm going to pick the top wall of that rectangle.

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And notice that on the right, temporary dimensions still

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appear.

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We can ignore those, because notice

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that the values of the permanent dimension

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have activated as well.

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So I can click on that value instead,

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put in the number I want--

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press Enter, and the wall will move.

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When I click somewhere to deselect the wall,

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the temporaries on the right disappear,

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but the permanent dimension stays.

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That's why I like using the permanent dimension

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a little bit better, because it remains on screen,

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and it's easier for me to verify all of my numbers.

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So I'm going to select this vertical wall here, activate

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the permanent dimension value, and make that 16 foot 1.

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Select this wall here, activate the permanent dimension value,

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and make that 13 foot 3, and then

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click anywhere to deselect.

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Once I've got the rectangle shaped in size the way I want,

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I'll go back to the wall command,

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accept all of the defaults.

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And notice that if you move your mouse

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kind of near the middle of the wall,

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a small little triangle symbol appears.

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That's the midpoint object snap.

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And you can click right on that midpoint,

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start moving directly horizontal,

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and snap to the midpoint on the opposite side.

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And it's just that easy to bisect that space.

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Now, you can highlight the top wall here in the plan,

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and move your mouse over, and watch

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that little temporary dimension that appears.

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And when it says 10 feet, that's when

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I'm going to click and pull it straight down.

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I'll move over and do it again.

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And notice I get a new dimension, 10 feet.

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Do it again with a new dimension, 10 feet,

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and then one more time.

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And then this time it's a little tricky

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because the dimension keeps switching from side to side.

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So just put it anywhere, cancel the command,

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come back and select it, and make it 10 feet.

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The final space on the right will be a little bit smaller

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than all of the other ones at 10 feet.

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Now, all the walls we've added so far,

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we've accepted the default location line.

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Let's go back to the wall command.

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And if we started placing a wall right here at this endpoint--

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endpoint's indicated by a square symbol--

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notice that it would be centered on that endpoint,

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and the wall wouldn't be flush.

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So I'm going to press Escape one time to cancel the command.

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So if you come over here to this dropdown on the Options bar,

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you've got some location line options.

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And I'm going to choose Finish Face Interior,

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click right on that same endpoint

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again, and start moving straight down,

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and notice the difference.

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So now because I've asked for the finished face interior,

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the entire thickness is going the other way.

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Now, I don't care how long you make this, just pick it

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anywhere, press Escape one time, hold your wheel down, and drag

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until you've panned over and can see this other corner over

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here, click that endpoint, start moving

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in the horizontal direction.

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Notice that the thickness is going the wrong way.

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Tap your Spacebar, and that will flip the wall the other way,

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click anywhere to place the second point.

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Now, I'll click the Modify tool to cancel the command,

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go back to Modify tab, use my Trim and Extend to Corner,

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and select each of these walls.

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And because they don't currently touch one another,

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it will automatically do an extend instead of a trim,

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and we'll get a nice clean corner in that location.

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So let's Zoom back out to see how things are shaping up.

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Now, there's plenty more spaces that we could add to this plan,

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so I welcome you to continue using

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the same technique to add additional offices and exam

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rooms.

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And when you're done, it should look something like this.