224 — Feature Strips, in cv-web

The recessed bands that break up a blank panel face — what the drawings usually call a reveal or a rustication. Tutorial 114 places the same strips in AutoCAD.

Note

This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.

Two dialogs, not one

This is the clearest structural difference between the products:

	cv-web	AutoCAD
horizontal	Horizontal Feature Strips (19 max)	Feature Strip
vertical	Vertical Feature Strips (19 max)	the same dialog

cv-web splits them. AutoCAD keeps both in one place. Same data underneath — if you move a project between the two, nothing is lost — but you reach them differently, and it is worth knowing before you go hunting for a vertical option inside the horizontal dialog.

How many you actually need

Measured across both sample projects — 146 panels:

	strips	panels
horizontal	four	82
horizontal	none	44
vertical	none	135
vertical	six	8

Four horizontal is the working answer. Nineteen slots is headroom — no sample panel comes close to filling them.

Vertical is genuinely rare. Only eight panels in the whole corpus carry any, and all eight carry six. If you are reaching for the vertical dialog, it is worth confirming the elevation actually calls for them.

The type field

cv-web’s strips carry a type — reveal, chamfer, or rustication. That choice is not decoration: it determines how the resulting surface is classified, and a chamfer follows a different standard from a reveal.

The default depth is 3/4 inch, with the usual reveal range running 1/4 to 1 inch.

Watch the lesson

A companion video for this lesson is planned alongside the written curriculum.