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Ooh nice! I think I understand now. I'll try that. Got it. I did do a quick search but didn't see anything. If you have any in mind, please let me know. Edit: I searched "batten" and that helped. I see a few articles to look at. No further help needed! Thanks! Tom E.

Sorry - I still don't follow. The wall and it's siding layer also cuts around doors and windows and roofs. How is it different than applying a different texture to the walls?

I looked it up and I'm not quite sure how that helps me... I can either apply a texture to the wall or to the material region - how does that fix the fact that the texture looks flat and unrealistic? By "no comparison", I meant no comparison for its 3D results.

That answers, thanks!

Hi all, We do a lot of 3D renders for clients, and often they select James Hardie vertical siding in at least some areas. For renders, I've found there's no comparison to individual polyline solids for the battens with the downloaded JH panel texture on the siding and batten texture on the battens. The only problem is, it takes a long time. I use the multiple copy tool with copies every 16", but it still takes a long time. I tried to create my own "JH B&B, 16" O.C." texture using James Hardie's textures and photoshop, but wasn't happy with the results. I even tried a simple bump map, but the shadows seem wrong and the whole thing still feels flat and somehow plastic-y. Attached is an example photo. Any tips would be appreciated. I see CA has the capability to do normal maps and ambient occlusion maps in the texture tab of the material definition box, but no clue how to make or use one. If nothing else, is it possible to group select all my polyline battens and crop to an angled roof line? That would save me a lot of time. Thanks, Tom E.

Hi All, Is there a way to recess corner boards (similar to the recessing doors and windows to the sheathing layer) like you would do for James Hardie siding or similar? Thanks, Tom E.

Solver - is this planned for x13? If not, I'll put it in the suggestions.

Hi All, When I use the "Wall Elevation" tool, it will not grab the full wall in a two-story room, such as a two-story great room. If I use the full elevation tool, I have to either crop the rest of the house out and put my dimensions inside the picture, or use a filled, solid-white polyline to mask the rest of the house. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom E.

That's it!! I thought the built-in watermark tool was only for layouts, but I opened a 3d view and simply went to View > Watermark and there it was. Thanks!!

Hi All, Is there a way to add a watermark when exporting a render? I'd love to add the company logo on our renders without having to do that in a photo editing program afterward. Thanks!

Good Idea. I did it here:

Hi All, Does anyone else struggle to get furred and regular walls to play nice together? We always frame a 2x4 wall inside full height concrete basement walls, so I draw a standard 2x4 wall and in the "structure" tab of the Wall Spec dialog box i set the wall as "Furred". Generally speaking this works fine, but whenever the furred wall stops and a standard wall begins, there's issues. In the first attached screenshot, the highlighted wall shows where the wall changes from furred to not furred. Not only does it show an ugly split in the highlighted area, but it won't separate the areas (family room storage and Storage/Mech.) into two rooms. In the second screenshot, I made the previously highlighted wall into one, non-furred wall. That solves the room definition issue and ugly break, but it seems to do goofy things with area calculator. Any insight would be appreciated!

I would like to see something like this as well. Maybe they could set it up in a similar way to auto re-build foundations, auto re-build roofs, etc. There would be an "Auto re-build footings" checkbox somewhere that would add default footings to all foundation walls and move them with the walls or connect them as it does now. That would bring you to a good starting point. Then when the drawing is more finalized, you could edit the footing like a polyline, but as soon as you do, it requires you to turn off "auto re-build footings."

I'd love to get a developer's input on this - it seems very odd that the PDF's (at least the plans that I print out) are generally almost half the size of the entire plan file! And I have the printer DPI set to 144, too. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks DJP. I'll do that.

Hi All, After an upgrade to x12 I noticed that some of my manufacturer catalogs had a lot of items that said "No Texture" or "Missing Texture", especially James Hardie and CertainTeed. My 3D plants from the Bonus Catalog is also missing all its textures... and there might be others. I tried re-downloading and re-installing the catalogs but no good. Any thoughts on this?

If the Reverse Plan tool allows me to keep the saved elevation, I'd probably be willing to reverse the terrain myself. I'll have to test both ways i guess. Good advice - I think this is likely the way I will have to go!

Thanks guys. Any thoughts on reversing elevation views and preserving notes and dimensions per above?

Easy enough! Thanks!

Hi all; Does anyone know what happened to the "Save/Edit Active Camera" Items in the 3D menu in x12 when you have a camera view open?

Just to find the consensus, Is this other people's experience as well?

Are elevation views reversible (preserving notes and dimensions)? Then switching to this way would be a no-brainer for me.

Hi All, For whatever reason, I've made it a habit to add notes to my elevation views on the layout file instead of within the plan. I'm just now realizing that might not be a good idea, but I'm wondering if anyone else does this or has any thoughts on this? Is it best practice just to add text only where you need titles or general construction notes?

Hi all, Looking for a good process to reverse my plans as needed. I have a couple different relating questions: 1. I've been using Edit > Edit Area > Edit Area (All Floors) and mirroring over a line. I saw recently that there is a reverse plan tool (Tools > Reverse Plan). Does this essentially do the same thing? Any differences? 2. Is there a good way to reverse your elevation views and preserve dimensions/notes/ect? Thanks!

I guess i better jump on this train or get run over. Thanks guys!