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- [Instructor] All right, let's talk about walls.

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So walls can be found in the toolbox,

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and under design we have walls.

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So if I click on this

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and if I click on this little arrow again,

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Archicad or Graphisoft has provided some basic walls,

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give you an idea of the different compositions

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that you can use.

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But let's go in and double click on wall tool itself.

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And let's look at some of the settings that come with it.

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Walls can extend or can be linked to different stories.

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And what that means is that I can create a wall

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that the bottom of the wall is linked to the first floor

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and then the top of the wall is linked

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to the third or the roof or something of that nature.

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And if I'm going through the design process

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and I make a change to my stories,

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the elevation of each of the stories

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changes from like 10 feet floor to floor to 11 feet,

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because they're connected

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the wall will automatically adjust with that change.

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So it's a very powerful parametric option

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that comes with this element here.

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And so as we go through this, this has similar options

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for the composition of the wall itself.

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So you can have a basic wall

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which is basically just a volume that has a thickness to it

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or you can have a composite.

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And so those composites

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can represent different buildups of material.

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For instance, we're probably going to use something

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like a three and a half inch with chip WO7.

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I think that will make sense for now.

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But there's also this other option here

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which is a complex profile.

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And we'll get into more about this later

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but this can represent different vertical condition.

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You can create your own

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and this can represent different parts of the building.

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As you can see, like a millwork versus a foundation.

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So there's a lot of flexibility in this tool.

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And it also has different geometry methods.

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So you can use just basically a straight line

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or it can be like a trapezoidal construction method

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or you can use a battered wall.

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So if your wall was slanted for some reason at some angle

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or if your wall had a thicker base than the top of it,

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and let's see here, so you also have the reference line.

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So again, kind of similar to the slab

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where the line that you're using to construct the wall

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or lay it out

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can be placed in a different location

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relative to the composite.

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So what this is allowing you to do is say,

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okay, I just want the outside face of the wall

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or I want the center of the wall

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and that's the center of the entire width of the wall,

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or I want the inside face.

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And so if you're doing like a project

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that's like existing conditions

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and you've measured the walls from the face

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then you'd probably want to use something like this.

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If you're doing a new project

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and you're expecting to give this information

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to a contractor or someone to build it

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you probably want to use the core

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so that you are measuring it accurately.

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So let's use core outside.

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And then you can also offset where that position is.

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So if I wanted to use the core as the reference line

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but I actually want to offset from that core location

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like a couple inches or 5/8 of an inch

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or whatever it might be, I can adjust that here.

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You can also adjust how high it is off of project zero.

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So wherever your reference elevation is

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you can adjust that there.

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You can also adjust where it shows up.

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So if you only want it to show up on the home story

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or if you want it to show up on all relevant stories.

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So if that wall extends from the first floor

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to the third floor and you want it to show up on all floors

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then you'd want to select this all relevant stories.

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And then it also has the ability to define how it's cut.

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So if you want it to show a true cut at a certain height

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then you would probably want to have a symbolic cut.

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But if it was something like a pony wall or a short wall

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that was only three feet high, and it wasn't actually cut

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but you wanted to have some better representation

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of how it is showing up

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then you might want to say outlines only.

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So there's a lot of ways

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that the wall can actually be represented on the floor plan.

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So we'll just stick with symbolic cut

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and maybe I'll show you a couple of examples

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of how that looks or what the differences are with that.

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And again, there's some options of the cut surface.

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So if you wanted to change how the cut element looks

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you can adjust it here.

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And then you can adjust the pen

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that is being used to cut or uncut.

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And then similar to the slab, you have the ability

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to override what that surface looks like.

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So if you're rendering it

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and the surfaces that have been defined

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for the building materials

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that are used to make up this composite

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are not the ones that you want to show in the rendering

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but you have some other ideas of what you want to see,

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you would just select whatever edge

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that you want to have changed.

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And then you can go through and find a surface

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that represents kind of the finish that you're looking for.

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So we'll just use the stock ones for now.

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And you can align the textures to the wall edge

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and then you can also adjust the classification properties.

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So I use this classification properties

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to automatically delineate what kind of wall it is.

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And this helps me out

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when I'm building out schedules or assemblies.

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And then you can also adjust

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if it's a load bearing wall or a non load bearing wall.

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And that comes into play a little bit later.

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And then you get to say what location it is.

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And this comes into play if you're doing energy analysis.

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You can also define if it has a fire rating or not,

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and the U value.

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And so this gets into a little bit more complexity

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but all this information can be predefined

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and you can create a favorite

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with the wall types that you're using.

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And it'll just make your construction process

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a little bit quicker.

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So it's on the wall, exterior, 3D.

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And so let's just place this wall.

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I'm just going to go around.

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I'm going to go up here to my geometry method,

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how I want it to be built,

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and I'm going to select this polygon method.

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I use this often.

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And again, I can just push the space bar

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and I can click on that and I have just placed my wall.

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So now it is around the entire footprint on my building.

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And let's just look at this in 3D.

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So go to view and elements in 3D view and show all in 3D.

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And there we have it.

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We have our wall and it looks pretty good.