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Challenge Exercise: Architectural ■ 433
Challenge Exercise: Architectural
In this exercise, you use what you learned about altering objects to modify the floor plan.
You have the option of completing this exercise using either imperial or metric units.
Select one version of the exercise to complete the steps.
The completed exercise
Completing the Exercise
To complete the exercise, follow the steps in this book or in the onscreen exercise.
In the onscreen list of chapters and exercises, click Chapter 5: Altering Objects. Click
Challenge Exercise: Architectural Metric.
Metric Units
1. Open the drawing you saved from the previous challenge exercise, or open M_ARCH-Challenge-
CHP05.dwg.
2. Create the geometry to represent a wall 189 mm thick, working on the basis that the original lines
you created represented the outside of the exterior and structural walls. The image shows the bottom
stairwell. Note that the lines you drew for the stairwell in the Chapter 2 challenge exercise were
dimensioned from the outside wall to the leading, or inside, edge of the wall.
Add the door opening to the lower staircase to match the opening in the upper staircase.