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Creating Trim Detail Around the Bottom
of the Walls
Just to add a bit of detail, I want to create a basic floor trim
that we can run along the bottom of our walls. There are two
basic ways to create floor trim: You can create a loft, or you
can outline a spline and extrude it upward. The only reason
you would ever need to create a loft would be if you had a very
detailed and specific shape for your trim. Since the point of
this exercise is not to create the world's greatest trim, we will
use the spline technique (which will look fine).
Note:
Make sure that all the walls you have created are flush
with their connecting walls. Otherwise you could run into
problems.
The first thing that we need to do is trace our entire interior
using a spline. Adjust your snap settings so that they are set
to snap on Endpoint as shown in Figure 8-9.
Figure 8-9: Snaps set to Endpoint
Because wall objects can add extra geometry that your snap
setting will snap to, let's create a duplicate of your wall by
Shift-clicking on your wall, ensuring Copy is selected, and
clicking OK. With our duplicated wall selected, right-click on
 
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