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Hello! I'm trying to model this shelf ceiling closet and running into a couple of snags. The shelf ceiling creates a strange hockey-stick-shaped hole through the other side of the wall it's against. How do I prevent this? It was framed unusually IRL – against the drywall, not into the studs behind it. How do I model this? (For what it's worth, the divider wall has three layers of drywall on the interior side.)

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neither are cabinets, but auto rebuild stays on for them, same with stairs, same with arch objects....

Exactly. Manually drawn walls are not part of the foundation. To me, it's a request that isn't attainable.

As said, if auto foundation is on all the manually work would be deleted everything the foundation "re-builds".

adjust the sunlight, toggle the sunlight to on, then click move sun and sweep your mouse holding the left mouse down accross the screen

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Hi everyone, I’ve been running into a macro conflict issue with library objects and could use some advice. Here’s the situation: I create a macro in my plan and assign it to a custom field in a library object. Later, I tweak that macro in my plan. When I try to place the library object again, I get a message saying the macro conflicts with one already in the plan, which makes sense. So I delete the macro from the library object and place it again, but the conflict message still shows up. It seems like the macro is somehow still attached to the object. Is there a way to fully remove or reset the macro from the library object so I can avoid this conflict? I know I can just click “don’t show again,” but I’d rather fix it cleanly so the library object doesn’t override the macro in my plan. I have tried saving my plan, closing and reopening but get the same message when I place the library object (with no macro in it). Thanks in advance for any tips!

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Hi, I'm trying to show the sunlight coming through the glass window and doors in a 3D interior camera view; to know how much sun will shine into the room. Hope someone can help

Do you have the rough opening set to "show in room below"?

i just did one yesterday. is the room a "garage". attached garage walls here are typicallyy12" or so concrete above grade(plus below grade frost walls), so there always needs to be a cutout I did have the room below on the foundation set to be a crawlspace...which did not work. Changed it to garage and it worked

thank you! I'm always happy (and a bit embarassed) when there is such an easy solution to one of my questions.

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This use to work when I would lower the door but does not work now. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Thanks!

Don't change the setting in the wall dialog. If you already did, then go and set them all back to "use default". Then you can change the setting in the saved plan view dialog.

The other workaround is sending an orthographic camera set to 90 90 direction and tilt but you can't directly annotate that with regular cad based text and polylines

Nope, no second floor. It's weird cause all the rooms match in heights and stuff. There are 3 good trays and 1 bad one. Makes no sense.

Renderabbitt, thanks for the work around i will try it.

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Hello, I'm drawing a plan with a finished garden-level basement for the foundation. I have used pony walls for the basement walls which are 8" concrete on the bottom and 5.5" framed walls with siding on top. In the wall specification dbx, under display in plan view, I have selected "upper wall and lower wall" for my basement level floor plan saved plan view which shows the interior walls and finishes and things. I want to make a different "Foundation" saved plan view for the foundation and plumbing contractors with other information and without all the extra detail. In this view, I would like the pony walls to display the lower wall only (8" concrete). I don't think there is a way to do this because it looks like display settings need to be the same in all layer sets, but I thought I would put it out there and see how the rest of you might handle this scenerio. I tried making the wall a very light color in the foundation layer set, but it's not having the effect I was ideally going for. Thank you!

do you have a 2nd floor over that room, if so then you need to not recess it into the ceiling.

If you are sharing from X17 I would just export a project, because you were missing the as built plan. If you are sharing from X16 or prior make a backup which will include all files. You cant do a reference elevation in layout, just send your elevation from the as built and send your elevation from your proposed and layer it on top

Polycam exports pdf, DXF, etc, which means you import into CA and then draw over the walls. or try and use the CAD to wall feature of CA. Or are you asking if someone has imported polyucam's DAE or OBJ file and created plans from it? or something else?