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14. Move the window so that its lower midpoint sits at

the endpoint of the lower left corner of the face. Start

to move the window again by its lower midpoint

15. To place it exactly relative to the face corner, we will

use the angle bracket format. Enter <4’,0,14’2>.

Don’t forget the foot symbols, because the units are

now set to architectural. Also, the movement is in the

red-blue plane, so don’t forget to include a zero

placeholder for the green direction.

16. Copy this window anywhere in the lateral direction.

Type 6’ to set the window spacing.

17. Now type 5x. This creates a total of five copies,

evenly spaced at 6’.

18. We can squeeze in one more window on this face, so

type 6x.

19. This won’t work at the current spacing, so try 5’-4”.

TIP: Even though you’re working in architectural units, you can

still type in decimal values - in this case, 5.33’.

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20. This face is 40’ long, and we want 4’ from each side

to the window centers. Therefore, the spacing

between the first and last window is 32’. Enter this

value.

21. Type 6/ (note the division symbol) to divide this 32’

length into six spaces between windows (seven total

windows).

22. The windows are a bit crowded, change the number

of windows by entering 5/.

23. We will now create the top floor. Select the three

front edges of the roof and offset them inward 14’.

If the offset edges are thick, zoom in closely to see if

there are slight overhangs, and fix them. This would

happen if there were slight innaccuracies when

creating the footprint, such as rounding digits of

angles.

NOTE: Like with the other tools where exact values are used,

you can continue to update the offset distance.

24. Push/Pull this face upward 13’.

25. Copy the arched door to the top floor, by dragging its

lower midpoint to the midpoint of Edge A-B.

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26. Let’s make this door a bit wider. Use Scale with

Ctrl/Option so that the scaling will be relative to the

center of the door. The scale factor appears in the

VCB, but you cannot update it while Ctrl/Option is

pressed. So click anywhere to scale the door, and the

factor will be adjusted afterward.

27. Type 1.25 to increase the original width by 25%.

If you want, you can verify the new width by

switching to decimal mm units, and measuring the

width. It should be 2125mm, which is 1.25 times

1700 mm. If you do this step, be sure to switch back

to architectural units.

Exact Rotated Copies

1. Now for the roof deck. Draw a horizontal half-circle

arc whose diameter is Edge A-B.

2. Offset the arc inward 9” (for inches you do not need

to include the “ symbol). The inner arc has thick

lines, indicating that it is not aligned in the plane of

the lower roof.

3. To resolve this arc, zoom in closely to the ends of the

arc and fix them.

4. Push/Pull this parapet to a height of 1’-6”. You can

type 18, or 1’6, or 1.5’.

5. We will now add some railing posts. Zoom in on the

first segment of the parapet wall. To place the post

exactly in the center of the wall, create a construction

line parallel to Edge A-B, that passes through the

midpoint of Edge A-C.