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Hi Mebe,
The best way of learning this is the "hands on process" :-) so first, try the settings with a simple model (4 walls and a roof) so you'll be ready for the Victorian house
Two notes regarding the walls and your questions
1 - The dimension appear center to center because it is Punch's default.
So--> Click the Selection Tool (arrow)--> Click a wall to select it--> Properties bar (right of the screen)--> Select the options next to Centers / Surfaces as desired. There are 4 possibilities for a house dimension review, set Punch according with your necessities (see attached)
2 - Punch uses wall sets, this is the reason why all the linked walls change. If you wish a wall with a different thickness draw the wall out of the room and move it with the arrows in the keyboard. This will prevent the walls to link
In addition, I'd suggest to draw the house (closed) perimeter and add the interior walls after. If the exterior walls are fused in a closed perimeter will not change with the addition of the interior walls
Let us know if you have additional questions
Patricia
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That's some awesome advice about wall sets! Just to be clear for anyone else reading: After creating the wall away from other walls, you must use the keyboard to move your wall in order to avoid automatic inclusion of the moved wall into the wall set of the close wall.
Making the wall further away and dragging with the mouse will NOT suppress this and AS 4000 WILL add the wall you just dragged to the wall set if you use the mouse. (It's was maddening, I assure you. :)
Yes, I have one more question that I can't really find explained clearly: How do I model a room under a staircase? In my case, there's a half bath / WC that's under the stairs. The stairs are just normal straight stairs and AS4000 seems to create a monolithic block down to the floor.
The documentation seems to suggest that a floor cutout might help me, but I'll be darned if I can figure out how to use a floor cutout to put a room under a straight staircase..
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Hi Mebe,
Don't worry, you will see this advice in many posts of this Forum :-)
Just let me clarify the concepts--> the exterior walls can be fused only with other wall in the starting point and other wall at the end point, this is why, after you create a closed perimeter with the exterior walls, you can join the interior walls with the mouse, and they will not be fused with the exterior walls
The "monolithic block down to the floor" are the stairs with skirt walls. You can select / unselect this option--> select the staircase--> properties bar (right of the screen)--> check / uncheck the skirt walls option
You can add other walls in order to complete the room. The floor cutout function is the creation of the hole in the floor to install the staircase, or pipes, etc
For floors and cutouts, always remember 3 things
--> The ceiling elevation is the bottom face of the ceiling. This means that if you the floor of the second floor is @ 108", and your 1st floor has a ceiling of 12", the ceiling elevation will be 96" and the settings of the cutout will be the same: elevation at 96"and thickness= 12"
--> If you used Autofloor in the 1st floor, the ceiling elevation will be the walls' height + the Autofloor thickness
--> If you used a floor in the upper floor, you must consider this thickness in the floor cut
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