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 4-1 to begin visualizing the many relationships that exist between the exterior wall boundary drawn in Chapter 3 (shown in bold), and the remaining linework that makes up the floor plan. One easily identified relationship is the lines that create the exterior wall definition. Most of the final exterior wall definition follows the outline drawn in Chapter 3. For this reason, the best strategy is to build from the existing linework in your drawing by using a series of commands found on the Modify panel on the Home tab of the Ribbon.