Wall tool or with the Modeling - Properties - Wall command. If you modify any of the wall properties that will affect the walls created later on.Define wall properties before starting drawing.
You can set these properties by right-clicking Wall tool or with the Modeling - Properties - Wall command. If you modify any of the wall properties that will affect the walls created later on.
Wall General Properties
Like any other architectural elements of ARCHLine.XP® , walls have also their color, layer, line type, line width and priority properties.
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Walls have further general settings: specifying hatch direction and the position of the reference line, or enabling side marker. You can also set the exterior and interior wall material.
Hatching directions
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You can select the global hatching direction or you can disable this option if you want to use a hatching direction related to the wall direction.
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Side marker
Enable this option to mark the outer side of the wall. This is a global switch for marking wall reference lines on each wall. Markings will not be plotted.
The Reference line buttons
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These buttons place the reference line on one or another side of the wall or makes wall axis coincide with the reference line, depending on your choice and the vector of drawing.
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Type in the distance of the wall reference line and the location line.
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Exterior and interior wall material
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You can define different interior and exterior wall materials.
Click on the right icon button to use identical interior and exterior wall materials.
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2You can perform material selection by selecting the appropriate texture in the ObjectCenter, Material set and dragging and dropping onto the wall. See chapter 8.5. Modifying properties for a detailed description.
Wall status
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There are four possible wall statuses:
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New wall
In regular case the wall possess with New wall status.
Existing, Wall to be demolished
The first three status make it possible, to make a distinction between existing walls, walls to be demolished and new walls on your drawing in the case of the reconstruction or extension of an existing building.
You can assign colors to the existing walls and to the walls to be demolished in accordance with standards in force. The program will color walls in the drawing with these colors. Color assignment is global, so the program will apply settings to all the existing walls and walls to be demolished in the drawing. Walls to be demolished will not have 3D rendering.
Oblique wall - Wall not connected
Using the Wall not connected status, you can create oblique wall by specifying the angle of inclination, where you can insert openings into. The inserted openings fit into the wall and adopt the angle of inclination of the wall, of course.
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Oblique walls are displayed on the floor plan with their section view at the height of 1 m.
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Layer properties
In Layer properties you can define the specific properties of the one-layer wall: wall height, wall height related to the current floor, wall thickness and wall body material.
Wall height
You can define wall height in accordance with the elevation of the actual floor. In this case wall height will take the value set in the Modify floor elevation dialog box.
If you select the Floor elevation option in the pull down list of wall height, the height of the 2.7 meters wall will change to 3 meters, in line with the actual floor elevation.
In the case of layered walls, click on the Mirrored button to rotate the layers.
Layers
Click on the 
option on the left hand side of the dialog box.
In the dialog box popping up you can create multi-layered walls, consisting of up to 7 layers. You can either select such wall structures from the default sets or create your own multi-layered wall layer by layer. It is worth creating and saving the wall structures often used. With the help of these structures you can display the nodes on the cross-sectional drawing similarly to the way they are displayed in a construction drawing. You should prefer using multi-layered slabs to achieve this.
Click on the Insert new button to add new layers. Layers before the insertion will be intact, while layers after the insertion will shift.
Click on the Delete button to delete the wall layer selected.
The program will display the total thickness of the multi-layered wall.
Displayed layer
Select the layer in the list you want to display and click on the Displayed layer button. The Arrow will jump to the number of the layer to mark the representative layer (usually a brick layer).
This is very useful when displaying walls on the floor plan or in 3D without any layer. The program will use the marked layer properties to display the wall.
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In the case of the floor plan: Enable the second icon at the wall in the View menu - Doors, windows, and wall scale dialog box. The wall will have the properties of the hatches of the displayed layer.
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Layer properties
Click on the field to activate the desired wall layer. To modify layer name, material, height, elevation and thickness, double-click on the actual field. You can also define wall height with specifying elevation. To do so, select the Floor elevation option in the scroll down list.
Layer priorities
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In the case of layered walls, you have to specify the priority of individual layers to have proper wall joints. Click on the Priority field. You can assign a priority index to each wall layer (ranging from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 10), and this index will define which layers will join (with L or T joints). High priority layers will cut through low priority layers.
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Layer line You can set layer by layer the width and color of the line between the layers of the multi-layer wall.
The program will offer the 0 line width as a default.
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Line width between layers: 0
Line width between layers: 0.3 mm. |
You can return to the Properties dialog box by clicking on the 
Arrow button.
Layer hatching
Select Layer hatch on the left hand side of the window to set the hatching parameters of the selected wall layer when displayed on the floor plan.
You can set the general hatching properties of the wall in the upper side of the dialog box, i.e.: color, line type, line width.
In the specific parameters section you can set the background color, the pattern, the hatch density, the transparency, the showing of hatch boundary and the angle of wall hatching.
2In the case of walls you also have to define hatching parameters for the cross-sectional view. You can set this parameter in the appropriate material properties window of the actual layer.
&See Chapter 4.2.3.5 Material properties dialog box and Chapter 11.3.1 Hatching properties.
2To hatch the insulating layer, select the Hatch32 type hatching.
Irrespective of the Column and Row (density) values of hatching, the layer will be filled with a periodic pattern. This pattern automatically follows the layer if you change layer width. The same concerns cross sections, but he hatching of insulation will be rotated 90°.
Walls with different inner and outer line representation
On the floor plan, the other side of the wall contour line can be represented with a different line properties.
Other side means the opposite side of the wall reference line.
The line properties can be set in the Other side sub dialog:
Walls with layer axis line representation
On the floor plan, the main wall layer axis line can be represented with a different line properties.
The line properties can be set in the Displayed layer axis line sub dialog:
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Sets You can save your own wall properties into the sets, and you can also load wall properties from the sets.
The program contains default wall properties; you can select any of them or add new properties.
&See the description of sets in Chapter 3.2.3. Using sets of properties.
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