Explore the process of constructing interior walls for a building project, considering factors such as wall dimensions, wall types, and efficient layout planning. Learn the importance of creating new wall types instead of modifying existing ones to avoid disrupting existing parameters.
Key Insights:
- The process of constructing interior walls starts with laying out the walls without dimensions, then adding dimensions to match the plan.
- To ensure efficiency, it's crucial to pay attention to details such as equal dimensions and different wall types specified in the plan.
- When constructing a new wall type, it's recommended to create a new wall type rather than renaming or changing the parameters of an existing one to avoid altering other portions of the project inadvertently.
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Now that we have the exterior walls and the framework for our building setup, we're going to go ahead and mock in the interior walls. And the process that I'm going to use for this is we're going to just look at the plan here and we're going to go with it. We're going to see how we can just lay it out with any dimensions, and then we'll go back through, add the dimensions, and have it match the plan we see here.
Before we get started, I just want to show you a couple of things that'll help us to do that as efficiently as possible. So first off, when I look at the plan here, I can see there's EQ, which means equal dimensions for this wall down the middle. So I know right off the bat, I can go in and I can draw that wall from the center line of the wall at the midpoint of these two walls here, and I'll have that one in the right location.
Going forward, you can see we have an equal dimension of 11'-6" here and here. So I can roughly place this wall down the middle and get it pretty close. For these two, we'll probably have to just put them in and then dimension them because there's not really a good way to fake those in.
The next thing that we're going to want to pay attention to is when you look at the plan here, it's calling out for a 4-inch wall at this location and a 6-inch wall at this location. We know that we'll have a different wall type than the one we draw here. So let's go ahead and get started.
So the first thing I'm going to do here is I'll activate my wall command. And for this one, I'll use WA as my keyboard shortcut. And I'm going to go through and I'm going to check all of my settings here.
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So first off, basic wall, generic 6-inch. We know that it's going to be generic 4-inch. And as I go through, you'll notice we don't have a 4-inch wall type.
So what we'll need to do is we'll need to create one. Right now, with the type selector set at generic 6-inch, what I can do is I can go to Edit Type and I can say Duplicate. What this will do for us is it'll create a new wall type with the parameters that I set.
A lot of people will look at this and think, well, I can just rename this one or just change the parameters here. And that's not the case. Whenever you want to make a new wall type, it's best to make sure that you use this Edit Type plus this Duplicate option because you never know where another wall type is being used.
So there's a tendency to say, OK, well, nobody's using this generic 8-inch, so why don't I just make this one my 4-inch type? Well, the problem is when I change this generic 8-inch to be 4 inches wide and rename it, if it's being used elsewhere, those parameters are going to take effect and we could have messed up somebody else's work. In a project of this size, it's not as big of a concern, but it's just good to set those fundamentals. We'll choose Edit Type, Duplicate.
First thing we'll do is we'll change the name. We want it to be 4 inches, and I'll hit OK. And the next thing we need to do is make sure that the width is set to 4 inches.
So I'll click Edit. And here, this is the structure of the wall that we're going to be messing with. Right now, we're not setting any materials.
We'll get into that in later lessons. But here, we'll just simply change it to 4 inches. And if you remember, our units are always in feet.
If I want it in 4 inches, I can type 4 and then use the quote symbol, or we can do 0 space 4 for 0 feet 4 inches and hit OK and OK again. Now we have a generic 4-inch wall type. I'm going to set the location line to wall center line, and we'll start off by drawing that one right down the middle.
So I'll go in, find that midpoint, which is that triangle symbol, find it again, and click. And then I'm just going to rough in the other two. So I know it goes down kind of like this, maybe somewhere in between a couple of feet over.
OK, and then I know the plan sort of has a wall here, and then there's another wall in that location, roughly. That one, we remember, is a generic 6-inch. So I'll set that up.
Now, by no means is this the correct layout, but it's pretty close. And so what we'll do next is we're going to go through and add some dimensions to this and then make sure we have all the walls in the right location.
