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■ On the command line, enter y (Yes), and press ENTER.
The exterior linework is converted to walls that display editing grips.
■ Press ESC to hide the grips.
The walls clean up automatically, and the software places them on the correct layer.
Now that the exterior walls have been created, the height of the walls needs to be adjusted to accommodate
the 10' [3300 mm] floor-to-floor heights in the building. Making this change is easy - just select the walls
and change their properties.
4 Change the height of the exterior walls:
■ Select 1 of the exterior walls, right-click, and click Select Similar.
■ If the Properties palette is not open, right-click again, and click Properties.
■ On the Properties palette, under Dimensions, for Base height, enter 10' [3300 mm].
■ For Justify, verify that Right is selected.
■ Press ESC to hide the grips.
5 Convert the interior wall linework to interior walls:
■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, right-click the Interior Wall tool, and click Apply Tool Properties
to ➤ Linework.
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