Renerabbitt

Here you go, maybe something helpful in here:

BTW you can create a custom note schedule in plan and let your plan drive your labeling convention and then utilize macros. Just need to send the plan view to layout… I have a video that caught a lot of heat where I build a condoc from plan only, it’s on the forums somewhere, I’ll try and find it tomorrow.

Because RT is not dynamic… I can go back to any of my plans from the last 5 years that utilize Text and uniformly change all text to print a page at a different scale. Also, all of my details can immediately have text adjusted for scale uniformly without changing the size of the view sent to layout. The same way it is nice to adjust text in notes, callouts, labels etc just by changing your text defaults. Makes collaborating a breeze and adjusting to new features as they rollout when you’ve got a stocked library full of text based items. Part of increasing margins is to increase efficiency… when you start automating redundant tasks, you can see a 60 hour plan get cut down to 25

You could accomplish it, but would be very cumbersome to setup and not user friendly for any future collaborative work. You would simply be making global macros for each page that you could callup in your DIY page table. You would lose the automation of the page label (though you could create smething similar with a complex macro) and would be an awful lot of work for adding or deleting pages. If this was a one-off plan set that you wanted to have a uniform graphical quality to I would understand. I don't see a lot of difference between what you show there however. Easy enough to turn of the Layout page Table heading and make your own, adjust your column widths. Yes you don't have control over kerning or row height sure, but I would encourage all user not to use Rich Text in their plans and layouts anyways.

When in the Edit Toolbars Tool, in the panels named Tools, and Toolbar, under the View Type section, the View Type indicates which view you are adding a Toolbar to. If you want your user added Toolbar to show up on all views, make sure it is checked in the Toolbar Panel under the Toolbars Section for each associated view you would like that Toolbar to show up in

Are you using Tools\Layout\Layout Page Table? Are you entering info on each layout page using Tools\Layout\Edit Page Information\?

Just curious what other info you are trying to display in your Layout Page Table, as it already has the capability to show everything you just listed?

Has this always been the case and I'm just now noticing? I feel like this should be changed, I guess there may be a case for illustration purposes. See image-The painting is selected:

Its the rope lights, no ambient user added light

Just letting people know, RTX works on the SB3 in my sig. 3k exports at a sample rate of 500 take about 15 minutes with 1k textures and a couple hundred lights. (line-over option)

Either I am missing something or you are. I use the SAM method and absolutely do not rename plan files...ever...it's a terrible practice..if you ever want to rename something, rename the containing folder. Save a template layout and template plan with as many cameras, SPV's, CAD details sent to layout as you like . Template plan is linked to template layout. Start a new plan, draft up your building. Save the plan file. Start a new layout, Tools/Layout/Referenced Plan Files/ change to the plan you just saved. No renaming at all. Plan file should always remain the same name, ie John Doe Project.plan. (save them in the same folder...210525-DRVA-V1-R0) Have a different version, do the same process.

Very difficult to find a card right now..we might see some if nvidia does in fact block cryptomining on their next inventory of cards. I've been looking for months.

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I live in the Oakland Hills, thanks for the mention @joey_martin. I know a few other designer/drafters here as well, give me a buzz @mborean

Feel free to contact me at renerabbitt@gmail.com or 925 300 7004

A simple P-line with global macro that parses perimeter length of the p-line. 210504-51.mp4

I would love to be able to work proficiently in 3d. That being said, is there some method of drawing and moving walls in 3d using dimensions that I may be unaware of? The only way I know of is drawing a wall segment, bump it all the way to its opposing wall, then tab-input the inside to inside dimension...cumbersome!

Strongly suggest redundant info unless you are using a macro. Very easy to change that info in one spot and forget the other. Just use a "per detail, or per plan" note or use a macro.

Personally, my job as a drafter and designer is to illustrate a specific set of instructions in the simplest way possible. List your staircase width in your plan view, and your walls are dimensioned...the builder should be able to do his calcs from there. If you really feel the need to get more detailed and want to show a floor framing view you can setup a reference layer set showing your floor joists on another floor or simply rename your views to illustrate your intent: Foundation and 1st story floor framing: 2nd Story Floor Framing:

Use a detail, spec a dimension in that detail or put per plan, simple enough. You can snap dimension lines to roof planes.

You can do this using landings instead of the staircase tool, You have to do some trickery to be able to control stringers though. Image on the right is landings

Yeah I am aware of the warehouse SAM method, certainly plenty of users still using that system, and it certainly works. For what I do in m own workflow, I can't imagine a faster system, different from the warehouse SAM. All of my legends, such as electrical and wall legends, all of my schedules including panel schedules, all of my keynotes, scales, standards, and many of my details that parse info from components in plan, live in CAD details. My project Browser is extremely well organized and I have different plan templates for different types of jobs, with coinciding macros for the type of project it is, slab on grade for instance. Those CAD details are already sent to a layout and I simply change the reference file at the start of a new project. For instance, CAD detail "typical foundation" will be a SOG in the SOG template vs a stem wall detail in Platform Template. Since the CAD is named the same, changing the reference file simply changes that detail..works flawlessly and is lightning fast and very dynamic.

That would be a big adjustment to my workflow. My system works really well for my own projects but not so much for collaborative. Furthermore trying to incorporate a detail warehouse plan into collaborative work just starts feeling a bit sloppy. Many of my details and schedules are parsing info from the job itself. My details carry macros from a job information macro that changes for every job and some of the details pull info from architectural components. A warehouse plan is just a disjointed and sloppy solution for something that should be built in IMO. I could make it work, but would definitely lose time trying to download the many work-arounds to collaborators. To be clear, I have a ton of systems in place that automate my process, and they are built around CAD details with macros, and they can get very very complicated...and with an adapting market out there that my own business model is setup to take advantage of, I am constantly doing fill work for production needs for various companies around the world. This piece of the software just needs to catch up, it makes too much sense...even the newest methodology in videos from Chief utilizes CAD details for plan organization, storing schedules in CAD, making the Project Browser a center-stage tool. .

Off-topic, still bummed that this is not a captured\transferable option for the Style Palette Tool

Yes but what a PAIN in the butt. Just had to do that for 35 CAD details I use in my template plan. So much wasted time. A simple export all tool and import all would be hugely beneficial. Especially since my details are already sent to my default layout template.