General Q & A

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  1. What AM I Missing Here - SWT / CEiling Elevations

    By A_Joseph_PE,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views

  2. what are people doing to show the stair opening so the floor people can calculate the Joists/beams?

    By SH_Canada,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.9k views

  3. What Are The Best 3D Libraries?

    By usingchief,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.2k views

  4. What are the best practices when working in CA Premiere and sharing with CA Home Designer?

    By para-CAD,
    • 4 replies
    • 794 views

  5. what are these called and what type of molding do I look under?

    By winterdd,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views

  6. What are these lines and how do I get rid of them?

    By bdillard1,
    • 13 replies
    • 3.2k views

  7. What Are These Little Oddities?

    By OldCKD,
    • 11 replies
    • 2k views

  8. What are these red X's?

    By 2wheeltodd,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views

  9. what are these?

    By winterdd,
    • 8 replies
    • 1.6k views

  10. what are these?

    By winterdd,
    • 7 replies
    • 2k views

  11. What are you building?

    By ShaneK,
    • 7 replies
    • 2k views

  12. What are you running?

    By AmandaBrady,
    • 2 replies
    • 770 views

  13. What are your thoughts about Chief X10's new 'Plan Views' feature?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 10 replies
    • 2.2k views

  14. What Came First? House Or Plat, Or Does It Matter? 1 2

    By keithhe,
    • 40 replies
    • 5.8k views

  15. What can cause walls not to grow up to roof planes?

    By rockyshepheard,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.8k views

  16. What causes sunlight to bleed through walls when rendering?

    By DIYJon,
    • 3 replies
    • 418 views

  17. What Causes The 'floor Height To Be Grayed Out?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.3k views

  18. What Causes This Weird Floor Separation

    By briang552014,   
    • 10 replies
    • 1.6k views

  19. What code is referenced in CA

    By BillsburgChief,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views

  20. What controls the text height for "show length" label?

    By Michael_Gia,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.4k views

  21. What corruption is causing this roof plane to not be editable? See thread in Suggestions "Pls fix roof problem"

    By GeneDavis,
    • 2 replies
    • 875 views

  22. What determines how high your first floor is above ground level?

    By Markenbach,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.7k views

  23. What Determines Overview Camera X,Y Location?

    By HumbleChief,
    • 10 replies
    • 1.2k views

  24. What determines whether lookouts are autoframed or not? Got none on a shed dormer roof and I want them.

    By GeneDavis,
    • 1 reply
    • 117 views

  25. what did I do to my cursor?

    By lindatchambers,   
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views