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Custom wall openings

Custom wall openings

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Custom wall openings

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to talk about creating custom openings for your wall hosted content. So, I have here a door on screen. And it's doing a typical straight cut right through the wall. And in one of the previous tips in this series, we talked about using the wall closure setting within the door family to determine where the wrapping layers would terminate and as you can see here, the drywall is terminating right at the face of the doorframe. Now, that's an acceptable way to represent that for overall large scale views and certainly works well for your model but if you wanted to show that a little bit more accurately, you might want to see the drywall actually come and wrap in and butt into the doorframe rather than sit next to it. Now I should say that you could easily do that with a 2D detail. So don't feel like you have to edit your model to achieve that level of detail and in some cases it's…

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