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You could create a symbol of the sill, casings lintel all together with a center stretch plane in the y- axis, personally I would show a detail of the casing as shown and leave elevations with a square casing with a note pointing to the detail.

awesome, glad to help, if you wouldn't mind editing your topic to add [solved] it will help other people find it

You have inadvertently shrunk your selection pane to the top of the preview screen. If you drag your mouse over the top of the selection preview window your mouse cursor should change to this icon: when it does, simply click and drag down to set the size of the selection window. Alternatively, you can deselect and re-select the "show/hide preview panel" icon as mentioned above and it will reset your "selection panel" If this solves your issue and you feel so inclined, edit your post to include [solved] cheers!

There are separate forums for the home designer line of products, try your post out over there and I'm sure someone would be happy to help. Also best to post in Q&A website: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/

Are either of these items unchecked in your library(under the library browser)? re-check them

This would be my approach, why not make it 3d so you can just use a fixture schedule and custom fields etc plus have the benefit of correct elevations etc. not to mention macro implementation/object info etc. Just use a library symbol that is similar and designate your cad block to that symbol

Would use a half wall and adjust the height according to your sunken floor elevation. You can do this after the fact by designating your invisible wall as a railing in the wall dbx. general tab and in rail style tab set it to solid. Then designate the height in the newels/balusters tab

When opening this plan it appears as if no manual editing has been done and all roof planes are connected

Solution? 2019-08-13 10-53-31.mp4

I probably need more info from the OP...if I am understanding correctly he wants the same text in 4 rich text boxes, in that case one identical macro could be placed in 4 boxes and you would only need to change the macro's text. This is particularly helpful in ensuring that redundant information remains accurate

Use Macros in your rich text, then change the macro's text

A quick vid for you: 2019-08-13 10-19-46.mp4

Thats still a lot of work, I would fight hard to get the originals

You can do it a number of different ways, I think for this scenario set your ceiling material to insulation air gap, check no flat ceiling in your room dbx. and set your roof structure to have beams as required

Just a thought, it may be more cost effective to request one as needed, converting to PDF can get pricey. Would you be willing to share one so we can see what the workload would entail?

The part that was tricky I didnt clarify...speaking about adding dimensions and annotations over a rendering gets tricky

tricky but doable, you need yo do a orthographic floor overview using the line drawing technique

What glenn said, +1

Quadro has never been worth the premium for a Chief Architect only workflow IMO, CA does not utilize the gfx card to this extent

Thank you, appreciated...whats crazy is I spent nearly no time on this one..I might save it for later and really keep working it as an exercise. The new Thea is pretty exciting

CA model only, no imports, spent 30 minutes establishing materials, camera settings and environment, 9 minute render. no post processing

That was from April last year, I may still have been in x9, did you try to install?

Sent you a text, 510 Bay Area here.

just to clarify, CA's native format is a calibz file, are these calibz or 3ds or dae etc?

unless its a raised mono in which case CA wont let you? womp womp