Adding Walls

Drawing Walls

 

If you have an existing structure joined to your deck, for example, a garage, you can add walls to represent this structure first and then join the deck to it. Alternately, you can add a wall after designing the deck shape.

 

Adding a wall to the deck design adds a ledger board to the bill of materials and removes posts along the attached deck edges (visible in 3D view). After you add a wall, you can edit its materials as well as add windows and doors.

 

Add a Wall before a deck

 

  1. Click Add in the Home ribbon.
  2. Choose Freeform Wall from the menu.
  3. Select the wall construction points in the design grid (see arrows).
  4. Add a deck to the freeform wall using the Freeform Deck command.

 

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Add a Wall after a deck

 

  1. Click Add in the Home ribbon.
  2. Choose Wall from the menu.
  3. Click the deck edges that attach to the wall.

 

NOTE: You can increase or decrease the length of the wall by dragging a wall grip point (represented by right_grip.gif).