Adding Walls, Windows and Doors

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Drawing Walls

 

If you have an existing structure joined to your deck, such as a garage, you can add walls to represent this structure first and then join the deck to it. Alternately, you can add a wall after designing the deck shape.

 

Adding a wall to the deck design adds a ledger board to the bill of materials and removes posts along the attached deck edges (visible in 3D view). After you add a wall, you can edit its materials as well as add windows and doors.

 

 

C-RedButton Add a Wall before a deck

 

1.Click Add in the Home Ribbon.
2.Choose Freeform Wall from the menu.
3.Select the wall construction points in the design grid (see arrows).
4.Add a deck to the Freeform wall using the Freeform Deck command.

 

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C-RedButton Add a Wall after a deck

 

1.Click Add in the Home Ribbon.
2.Choose Wall from the menu.
3.Click the deck edges that attach to the wall.

 

NOTE: You can increase or decrease the length of the wall by dragging a wall grip point (represented by C-Right-Grip ).

 

C-RedButton Add windows or doors

 

1.Click Add in the Home Ribbon.
2.Choose Door or Windows from the menu.
3.Click the desired location on the wall for the door or window and click the left mouse button once to place the door or window.