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Laying out the Walls
For most floor plans, the walls come first. As you begin to further define the
interior of your cabin by adding a closet and bathroom, certain relationships
can be established with lines already in your drawing. By spending a moment to
recognize these relationships, you won't need to draw as many new lines as you
might expect. In this chapter, I'll show you how to build most of the new walls
from the four exterior wall lines you drew in the previous chapter.
Take a moment to study the floor plan in Figure 4.2. Notice how the closet
and bathroom are each built from their respective corners. Recognizing this
relationship, our basic strategy will be to start with the exterior walls and work
our way in from there. The standard thickness for your exterior walls will be 6
(150 mm), and 4 (100mm) for interior walls. Exterior walls are slightly thicker
than interior walls because they are sturdier and load bearing and have an addi-
tional layer or two of weather protection, such as siding or stucco. Finally, you'll
cut four openings in these walls (interior and exterior) for the doorways.
FiGuRE 4.1 The basic floor plan of the cabin
TIP Because you'll be doing quite a bit of drawing in this and the next
chapter, this is a good opportunity to activate the Dynamic Input feature
introduced in Chapter 3 if you've turned it off. Since the purpose of this
chapter is to develop drawing strategies, try turning it on and off as you
work through the exercises. You'll see how the information displayed in the
drawing area changes as you move from one command to another.
 
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