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AutoCAD Architecture 2010
Features
§Wall enhancements - Cleanups and Endcaps
§Ability to modify walls and their cleanup and endcap conditions on a component level
§For example, better handling of
§Angled walls
§Cornered walls
§Intersecting fire-rated walls
§Manual approach as a powerful last resort, no auto update
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AutoCAD Architecture 2010 improves wall drafting productivity to intuitive tools that allow you to draw wall layouts that better reflect actual construction. Most of the enhancements to walls involve the ability to modify walls and their endcap conditions on a component level. Because of this AutoCAD Architecture 2010 has improved handling of common wall conditions such as:

• Angled walls
• Cornered walls
• Intersecting fire-rated walls

Wall enhancements has two main pieces – Cleanups and Endcaps. This gives the ability to modify walls and their cleanup and endcap conditions on a component level and provides better handling of Angled walls, Cornered walls and intersecting fire rated walls. This feature is very powerful feature and was requested by customers couple of times in the past. But this is not the first thing to do, it’s the last resort situation. People are encouraged to use the previous cleanup methods available in the previous releases and then as last resort, use this feature. This is quite a manual approach and so we have to keep in mind considerations like wall styles. If we make one of the manual edits to the cleanup and then for some reason if we need to change the wall styles for a group of drawings, we probably will not see the behavior that we want because these manual clean ups are not going to automatically update.