Insert parallel walls

One of the input variants of walls is “Parallel Wall”. Here you select a reference line, of an existing wall for example, and choose the start position with a numeric value. After that the new wall direction is automatically parallel to the reference.

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Room boundaries

Room boundaries are no walls but behave like walls, that means they intersect with other walls and create room contours. They can be used for split level constructions (to build rooms on different levels) or simply to create rooms or floors where a wall ist not really needed.

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Numerical input of walls

There is one input variant with numerical finishing. This can be used for a single wall or a complete building contour. After you have inserted the walls as a “preview”, you have to go through the walls and edit the length and direction. To start this process, insert your walls and press ESC on your… … »»»

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Multilayer walls, 2D representation of walls

The property dialogs of walls, ceilings and floors have a separate “structural layer” page. Here you can define new layers with properties like thickness, building material and resulting 2D representation. Complete multilayer walls can be save to the catalog and loaded in the future.

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Rooms on different levels, split level and layers

In this Video-Tutorial we show you how you can split levels with the 3D CAD house planning software cadvilla. The basic workflow: There are three different methods how we can define split levels in cadvilla. The ground level of the ground floor in our model project is in our example zero meter. Option 1 –… … »»»

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Edit buildings

All functions to mirror, copy, rotate, move or change the length of a building / floor are combined in the “Edit building” toolbar. The video shows some standard operations and the handling.

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