glennw

Maybe not quite what you want, but there are some distressed paint colors in the library.

11 hours ago, Sandor09 said:

1 - Why do I see stone at the ends of the wall when I create just one wall, I would like to see as the image 1A from AutoCAD? image 1

Create a very thin wall with one layer defined as Air Gap.

Draw it at 90deg to the end of the main wall.

Put it on it's own layer and hide that layer - an invisible wall won't work.

10 hours ago, Sandor09 said:

2 - When I turn a corner why does the hatch (pattern) not all go in the same direction? image 2

Because that is how the hatch pattern is defined.

You can have 2 different wall definitions with different hatch in each direction, but it hardly seems worth it to me.

Include Objects from floor does it for me.

This is with a seperate schedule on each floor.

Or do you want only 1 schedule to include both floors?

Open the cameras dbx and down in the Options section, uncheck Show Lower Floors in Floor Overview.

Select the walls and on the Roof panel change the roof directive to Hip Wall.

Auto build the roofs.

Not exactly what you asked for, but it may come in handy...

You can use Chief to tell you where the various ceiling heights are on the floor plan.

Build your existing plan including the roof.

Make sure auto roofs is off.

Change the ceiling height.

Chief will create a line where the flat and sloping ceilings meet.

They are called Ceiling Break Lines.

There is a setting in Roof Defaults that determines exactly where they are located.

If I understand you correctly...

Change this wall to 8" roof pitch.

Change this wall to a Hip Wall.

Result:

You can't do it by the defaults.

You need to select the roof plane and do it in the dbx.

Why not use Pass Throughs instead of windows?

No casings, no frame, no sill......

7 hours ago, KarrLaurie said:

Is there a way to color up different areas of the terrain, or apply different texture to certain areas but at the same time allowing road and paths to be laid across different textures in the normal way.  

Do you want these area to display in 2D and 3D views.

Can you be a bit more specific.

When you say "textures", do you really mean textures, or do you mean a colored or hatched area? 

Do you want these areas to follow the terrain slope?

Break the edge of the sloping roof plane at the 60' mark and then drag the vertex down.

It is worth saying again...use auto roofs.

Use auto roofs.

You could also use auto roofs to do that roof.

Assuming you can remember the default wall type....

Group Select all the walls you want to change.

Open the Wall Specification dbx and change the Wall Type to match your default.

Like this?

Shouldn't they be "FEET", or "ft" and not "FOOT"s ?

Make sure you are using the AMD graphics card and not the Intel one?

1 hour ago, Renerabbitt said:

you can make a molding profile that becomes your planking and then convert it to a 3d molding profile

Rene,

It looks like you have used a 3D Symbol Molding?

Have you converted to a Molding Polyline or a 3D Molding Polyline?

Most times I find it easier to forget the retaining wall and use a Terrain Break and a normal wall instead.

After all, a Retaining Wall is just a normal wall with an embedded terrain break.

Or..

Try making the stacked block wall a Partition Wall.

You should be able to do that with roof planes by changing some of the roof settings.

Here is a very quick one:

1 hour ago, JiAngelo said:

I haven't mastered the reference display, you need to pin down the xyz coordinates of each building - and it always seems to vary between my plans because I don't start drawing at 0,0,0 in any of them

There is no problem accurately locating the referenced building either by xyz coordinates or Point To Point move. 

That is sort of what using reference plans is doing without resorting to a layout file.

When using reference plans it is all contained within the main plan.