There two primary ways to approach placing windows and doors in Claris CAD. You can create opaquedoor or window objects to paste over the wall (saving them as library objects makes them readily available) or you can modify the wall itself using the Clean Up tool.
If the overlapping object is another wall segment, and you use the Clean Up tool, you can actually modify the wall itself, creating a permanent opening without destroying the integrity of the wall. (The use of the Clean Up tool is covered on pages 3 and 4 of the Claris CAD New Features Guide.)
For this example, you'll draw a horizontal wall 20' long (using 1/4" = 1 foot scale) and put a 33" opening in the center of the wall.
1) Draw a horizontal wall 20' in length.
2) Now draw a vertical wall. The length isn't important, as long as it completely intersects the first wall. Use the Width box of the Walls floating window to set the width of the vertical wall to 33".
3) Select the Clean Up tool. (Here is where we follow the instructions in the New Features Guide.) Use the lower left method, the 'overlapping intersection' method,' from the Clean Up floater.
4) Hold down the command key and click on the vertical wall.
5) Still holding down the command key, click the horizontal wall.
You will now have two horizontal walls with a 33' opening centered between them. While drawing the walls you can use the usual modifiers to position them.
You can use Claris CAD s "cleanup" feature to make quick work of doors and other wall openings. Here's how to do it:
1. Make sure the main wall, the one that will contain the door, is not selected.
2. Select the wall tool if it is not already selected.
The Walls palette will appear. (If it doesn't, choose Show Walls from the Layout menu.)
3. Set the width of the new wall to the size of the gap you need. The example in Figure 2 will create a 3-foot gap in the main wall.
4. Draw a "wall" perpendicular to the main wall, intersecting it as in Figure 2.
5. Choose Clean Up from the Edit menu. The Clean Up palette appears.
6. Select the over-under method from the Clean Up palette (bottom row, left).
7. Command-click the wall with the window/door width and then command-click the main wall.
You will now have the original wall broken with end caps, at the location and width of the second wall.
If the overlapping object is another wall segment, and you use the Clean Up tool, you can actually modify the wall itself, creating a permanent opening without destroying the integrity of the wall. (The use of the Clean Up tool is covered on pages 3 and 4 of the Claris CAD New Features Guide.)
For this example, you'll draw a horizontal wall 20' long (using 1/4" = 1 foot scale) and put a 33" opening in the center of the wall.
1) Draw a horizontal wall 20' in length.
2) Now draw a vertical wall. The length isn't important, as long as it completely intersects the first wall. Use the Width box of the Walls floating window to set the width of the vertical wall to 33".
3) Select the Clean Up tool. (Here is where we follow the instructions in the New Features Guide.) Use the lower left method, the 'overlapping intersection' method,' from the Clean Up floater.
4) Hold down the command key and click on the vertical wall.
5) Still holding down the command key, click the horizontal wall.
You will now have two horizontal walls with a 33' opening centered between them. While drawing the walls you can use the usual modifiers to position them.
You can use Claris CAD s "cleanup" feature to make quick work of doors and other wall openings. Here's how to do it:
1. Make sure the main wall, the one that will contain the door, is not selected.
2. Select the wall tool if it is not already selected.
The Walls palette will appear. (If it doesn't, choose Show Walls from the Layout menu.)
3. Set the width of the new wall to the size of the gap you need. The example in Figure 2 will create a 3-foot gap in the main wall.
4. Draw a "wall" perpendicular to the main wall, intersecting it as in Figure 2.
5. Choose Clean Up from the Edit menu. The Clean Up palette appears.
6. Select the over-under method from the Clean Up palette (bottom row, left).
7. Command-click the wall with the window/door width and then command-click the main wall.
You will now have the original wall broken with end caps, at the location and width of the second wall.