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I am unlicensed and in California and often do my own engineering coupled with prescriptive code and get 99 of 100 plans through Alameda/Contra Costa/Sonoma/Solano etc. Counties on a regular basis. I absolutely sub out engineering on projects where I don't wish to take on the liability...but give me a flat lot with a 400 sq ft addition in Oakland or Walnut Creek and I'll run with it with confidence.

+1 True, and if I need a blind plate then I make a roof plane produce it for me and take up most of the heavy lifting so I can manually manipulate it:

Sent an email.

Why has it been a struggle? Help us help you does sending multiple plan files to layout help you? Using the layout to navigate your different designs.

Far Cry! you mean a soft whisper see above. Only thing that's missing is the line drawing as the load calc is often together with a panel schedule.

Took me all of 2 minutes to find this listed as a requirement in a local municipality. They don't usually ask for it, but it is listed, even though it has a statement illustrating that it is a guide: https://www.walnut-creek.org/home/showdocument?id=2682

That looks like a layout file and not the plan file here is an example of using notes to generate a panel schedule: PANEL CALC EXAMPLE.plan

I've had to do it for Contra Costa County. Did it long hand before X-12. I've got a client that we have to put the circuit numbers into the fixture symbol designation. I've been building out new note tools for this very thing. You should see the craziness some of Texas is going through with electronic submittals. Then I've got a client from Maine that you could literally have a 4 year old draw up and they would stamp it over the counter.

Turn your sun off and see if it goes away..that'll start you in the right direction of troubleshooting the problem

Your duct is picking up other environment light. maybe protruding through an exterior surface. haven't downloaded the plan yet. EDIT: or what he said ^

BTW assuming you are a junior drafter, for assumption sake, my local counties and municipalities don't require me to show half the items they have in their checklists. Get around the desk clerk and over to your planchecker and let them tell you what you need. Don't ask if you need to include something, ask a generalized question. Or submit and let them come back with a revision requirement. No harm in that, and you may save a boat load of hours. My local plancheckers get so annoyed when I include too much because the last guy told me to. Unless they are subbing out the plan check, your local checker takes on some of the professional liability and is happy to do so if you prove your competence.

Use notes and note schedule and take full advantage of the custom fields available in notes. Could whip up a bullet proof panel schedule that can be used for years to come with a little bit of front end planning

Sonoma and vallejo counties homie, commercial projects, depends on the occupancy type. Assembly, for instance..in fact a lot of Bay Area counties require this.

That is not what I have found, but maybe you know of a fast way to adjust multiple pieces of framing for multiple walls quickly? I can remove the material from the unfinished walls in plan view very quickly (for all walls at the same time), and for any surfaces that need to be changed to greenboard, Type X, etc. I can do that pretty quickly in doll house view (set the default and simply click once on all of the walls you need to change). If I were to manually change all of the framing for the joists and plates involved I would have to open up a lot of separate views and adjust each piece individually, which in my opinion would take a lot longer. The WAY WAY faster was in reference to drawing a bunch of material regions after your surface deletion/hiding. That would take hours. I can think of a handful of different ways for modifying framing members. I can frame an entire house using manual tools in less than an hour in most cases...not that I would want to, but it wouldn't be a problem. I don't have a marker on your skill sets or how many hours you have in the program to know what tools you are familiar with. I think it would help the conversation and in guiding you to find out what region you are in and what level of granularity you are expected to provide in your region or to your contractors. It would also help to know your experience level and take a look at some example plans.(absolutely no insult meant by this, it is a necessary question I would ask anyone looking to employ me for training purposes for instance). I personally draft upwards of 40 plans a year for individuals and firms all over the world, and each drafting standard is different. I know a few drafters love to take on material take offs, but the majority would rather stay away from those tools all together. I personally don't carry the right insurance to cover me from a contract crew floating over milestones because I messed up a board foot. If you are a design-build I would tell you that I would drop a wall schedule in and add the length column to your schedule, or run a macro and call out your own wallboard.I would rather approach it in those ways rather than go through what you are trying to do in the current version of this software. Without the need for the material cut lists, the drafting methods that are standard in chief architect make a lot of sense for most regions. I might suggest exporting your material cut list to excel and then split out your different gyp boards in excel. Simple enough to do. For the amount of effort that I gather you've put in toward making an accurate material list, you could've just done it long hand and been hours further ahead in your draft set. As a marker, most CD's on a 2000 sq ft. 2 story house take from 20-30 hours for the majority of power users including prescriptive structural sheets...with some drafters getting down in the 5-10 hour range with the right templates and consistent project types.

We call this a California corner..we Californian's like to take credit for everything

Worm is doing that, the Interior Layer still shows up in plan view.

Funny I almost mentioned its other uses specifically because I thought you might roast me. haha

The Delete Surface Tool was specifically designed to temporarily modify 3d geometry in order to capture that geometry as a symbol with the Convert to Symbol Tool. It will not do what you are looking for it to do and is not a bug unfortunately. Naming conventions, classifications, and good old construction-based locution run amok in the software and have been pointed out on many occasions. The function you are seeking for automatically changing wall interior layers by room type should be a standalone request and I'm sure a few people will jump on board as it has been suggested a few times...as well as the option to have Interior layers of a room automatically change intersection options to go outside of the room as in the case of a shower finish. An offset if you will. Wall Type Exterior and Interior Layers being broken into Layers has also been suggested many times and is one I push on about year after year. I would suggest you turn off the Room Interior Dimensions layer and forget that it ever existed. If I draw an L shaped room and send it to my builders with that layer on I'd quickly be nicknamed The Dodo Bird. I haven't read all of your posts, but I get the sense that you want to change the interior layers of a wall without having to draw a new wall. I would suggest you save your various wall types to your library. Very fast way to draw a new wall with a high level of accuracy for your average use case. While you are setting up your standards I would suggest you add the Define Wall Types Tool to a Toolbar. A few less steps to be able to modify wall definitions. Make sure to use the Save As Template Tool when your finished. Quick to look up any mentioned tool in the forums by getting into your Customize Toolbar Tool by right clicking a toolbar tray. Hope that helped ..and welcome to the forum!

Not if you don't want to. I tend to duplicate my sheets as I go from the project browser.

You could create a macro to handle double digits if you don't want the 0 to preface 10,12, etc.

Dev team is still focusing on Stair Tool improvements for X-13...was pretty happy with that news since they gave us a significant upgrade to stairs in X-12

I may be confused...what method of numbering are you using? I use the XX-# inserted into the page label. In this way you can always type in XX-1.1 to manually insert a page without reordering the other labels.

He’s just as awesome in person as well.

Yes, without providing a tutorial, the short answer is to make new CAD symbols to all of your fixtures and save the fixtures with their new CAD symbols to library to use later. One time setup, years of efficiency.