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■ Select the black linework for the perimeter of the floor plan, and press ENTER.
■ On the command line, enter y (Yes), and press ENTER.
The exterior linework is converted to walls that display editing grips. The perimeter polyline
was drawn in a clockwise fashion, so the exterior and interior wall components are oriented
correctly.
■ Press ESC to hide the wall 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 one 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].
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