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  1. glennw
    My guess is that at some stage you had that room defined as a Deck - you defined it with railings. It has now lost it's room definition because it has lost its external walls (railings). So, replace the Porch walls - it will probably be named automatically as a Deck. Change it's room definition back to a Porch and the wall should be fixed.
  2. glennw
    Scott, OK, I think this is as close as you can get with the existing tools. This is only a small variation to what you want in that you need to use Fillet edit mode. Get into Fillet edit mode - with a hotkey. Select the corner and drag along one of the lines - DO NOT DRAG INTO THE CENTRE. Tab. Enter the distance along the line. http://screencast.com/t/VAEgSHo5Kp
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    Another way... Get into Fillet Edit mode. Select the polyline or whatever you want to fillet. Get into the Fillet command by shortcut, menu, toolbar or whatever. At this stage you can use a hot key or the Set Fillet Radius icon on the Edit toolbar to set the fillet radius. Click exactly in the corner you want to fillet. http://screencast.com/t/m5ZUVcFyT1
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    No, I dragged the outside edge of the roof plane to line up with the outside of the wall's main layer. In plan view, you need to turn on the "Walls, Layers" layer.
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    Ok, how about this one?
  6. glennw
    Is this what you are after?
  7. glennw
    Uncheck Automatic for the Callout Size?
  8. glennw
    I think the problem is that your roof isn't covering the walls. The roof finishes halfway through the walls OSB layer. Drag the edge of the roof out to at least the outer surface of the wall.
  9. glennw
    Try playing with the material properties. Try changing the material to a General material and upping the Emissive setting. How a color looks in real life can be completely different than a color swatch as it is influenced by lighting, shadow, reflection, etc.
  10. glennw
    Michael, I mentioned it because the obvious is not always so obvious. And it this case apparently it was not so obvious to OP!
  11. glennw
    For lines, there is also the Drawing Group which may help with what you are trying to achieve.
  12. glennw
    Or...if you want to use Baselines to build the roof, drag that baseline out to the front of the porch.
  13. glennw
    Are you aware of the difference between the reference grid a the snap grid? The reference grid you can't snap to whilst you can always snap to the snap grid if it is displayed. Also...when drawing or moving walls... they will snap to the grid according to the Resize About setting (Alt+Q). If this is set to Outer Surface, walls will snap their outer surface to the grid - similarly for any of the other settings. Cad lines should ALWAYS snap to the grid (if turned on).
  14. glennw
    I am not 100% sure of what you want. But..if you want to select all the rooms with the same hatch pattern (as for 1 apartment) you can do this with the Match Properties tool. Select a room. Select Match Properties from the Edit toolbar. Check Fill Type and OK. All the rooms with that fill type will now be selected. Select the Open Object icon on the Edit toolbar. Change the Fill Style as required - this will change the fill style for all the selected rooms. Unfortunately, you can't select rooms with different hatch patterns and edit their fill properties in one go. The above method only works where the hatch patterns are the same - for one apartment at a time.
  15. glennw
    Joe, No, only one wall. The wall definition has 2 main framing layers - a material with normal studs for the inner layer and a material with studs at very large centres for the outside or "purlin" layer. In a wall detail view, I used the Wall Bridging tool to draw the purlins in the outer wall layer. "It's not quite the same as a uniformly spaced "furring" layer in the wall type." No, not the same, but gets the job done quickly with tools like multiple copy. And there is even several choices in the dbx to Rotate and locate the purlin.
  16. glennw
    Joe, You can do this by using the Wall Bridging tool. Either on a separate wall layer or on the same wall layer as the studs or posts.
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    Doesn't the material list give you all that? You can filter by just category (Roofing). PS. you need to set the default in Default Settings...Structural Member Reporting.
  18. glennw
    Why do you have a wall running into a window?
  19. glennw
    Try the "Edit Wall Layer Intersections" tool.
  20. glennw
    The reason that you can't build a full width truss is that you don't have enough room to build the truss. Trusses are built between the roof and ceiling. You have rooms with ceilings on level 3 with no room for a roof truss. If you delete the rooms on level 3, there is no problem building a full width truss. So, do you want rooms on level 3, or do you want a truss?
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    Alan, For some reason, in section view, you need to block the 2 trim lines together and then do the trimming.
  22. glennw
    I believe that Perry is correct. Chief will only make the birdsmouth cut the width of the wall. It will not extend the cut into the room past the inside of the wall.
  23. glennw
    I just upgraded from W7 to W10 yesterday on my desktop PC. Went without a hitch except for my old Keywallet program that is probably 10 years old.
  24. glennw
    Johnny, No, not the same. The tool I used (Flare/Curve Stairs) looks a lot easier that the method Usuf used. http://screencast.com/t/dUlzSi0pfF
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    Alan, You can do that by using the Flare/Curve Stairs tool.