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Exterior Wall Placement: Outside, Center, Inside — Room Sketch 3D

How Exterior Wall Placement works in Room Sketch 3D and how it changes your Gross and Usable area. On a 16×12 rectangle, toggle Outside, Center, and Inside and watch the dimension chains and areas update (224/192 → 207/177 → 192/163).

1 minUpdated 2026-06-19
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What this video covers

  1. 1First: how rooms are measured (face to face)
  2. 2Gross Area vs Usable Area
  3. 3Outside mode — the line is the inside
  4. 4Center mode — walls straddle the line
  5. 5Inside mode — the line is the outside
  6. 6Putting it together

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