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Keith, I don't believe that you can control the schedules with layer sets. This is a copy of my post from the other thread that may help: You may be able to get some of the functionality you are after. Open the electrical symbols "Symbol Specification" dbx - not it's "Electrical Service Specification" dbx. Go to the Options panel and then the Options section. Here, you can specify different categories for the symbol - like Outlet, Switch, Light, etc. You can then open the "Electrical Schedule Specification" dbx, down at the bottom of the General panel, there is a Objects To Include section where you can choose from Outlets, Switches, Lights or Other. In both locations you can check more that one box. In the Electrical Schedule Specification dbx, you can also restrict the schedule to a single floor. http://screencast.com/t/C4xaJPDtE2Q9

Not good! I may have to cancel my trip to the UGM!

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I don't think that you need to build the roof manually, although I am not sure how HD Suite works. If it is the same as Chief, my guess is that you are changing the ceiling heights in the Floor Defaults dbx - with auto roofs toggled on, this will effect all ceiling heights (and thus roofs) that have Default checked in the Room Specification dbx. So, if this is the case, don't change the floor default ceiling height - change the ceiling height in only the pool house Room Specification dbx. Otherwise, do as Mick says and go over to the HT forum.

Larry, The reason that you are seeing different behaviour depending on wether you are using the scroll wheel or the in & out hotkeys to zoom is that you have Zoom Using Field of View checked in the render preferences. When this is checked, zooming in and out with the scrollwheel leaves the camera in the same position and just changes the Field of View so that it looks like you are zooming by moving the camera - BUT, the camera isn't actually moving - the FOV is changing to make it look like a zoom. Also, when this is checked using the in and out hotkeys (or the arrow keys) the camera actually moves and the FOV stays the same. (I am assuming that the in and out hotkeys do this as I can't test as I have changed my hot keys). So..when you are playing around in the vid with the different zoom methods, you are getting different results. You can see the above effects if you tile your 3D view and plan view and note what happens to the camera in plan view as you use the different methods to zoom. Have a play with the Zoom Using Field of View setting toggled on and off and see what the differences are.

Mick, This behaviour should be controlled by the Snap Distance. What value is yours set to? Try decreasing the snap distance to about 10 and see what happens. This is a screen pixel setting, so it is affected by the zoom level. I guess it is also affected by screen resolution.

Mick, I think the default text indicating the wall framing layer is there to cover the cases when a wall has more than one framing layer. In that case, you get a wall framing detail for each framing layer , named Wall Layer 2, Wall Layer 3, for example. The name in the cad framing view title bar will be the same as listed in the PB and is editable.

"Wall Layer 3" is telling you that the framing layer is layer number 3 in the wall definition - it's not the wall detail name. To get the wall detail name to display automatically, open the text box that says "Wall Layer 3" and use the Insert...Global...Plan Info..."View Name" macro. This will display the name of the wall detail as it appears in the Project Browser. Did you know that you can change the name of the wall detail in the Project Browser by right clicking and Rename. This is then reflected in the above text box if you use the "View Name" macro.

Tim, They are on the locked system layer called Cross Section Lines. I suggest that you copy it (or trace it) to it's own custom layer where you can separate it from other cross section lines.

Scott, Try Tools, Toolbars & Hotkeys... Customise Toolbars...Toolbar panel...Reset Toolbars in the bottom right hand corner. Dennis is telling you to right click any vacant toolbar space and then from the drop down menu, select Toolbar Configurations...Extended Tool Configuration. I don't think this is what you want though - that only changes the configuration. II think you are asking how to set the toolbars back to factory defaults?

Dennis, Your posts are confusing. But...You won't get the Build Framing For Selected Objects icon on the Edit toolbar unless the selected wall/railing has a framing layer in it's definition. If that's not the problem, you need to explain in more detail.

My guess is that the roofs with the white (Bone) framing have Roof Plane Specification dbx...Options...Roof Layers...Soffits, unchecked. When this is unchecked, the framing material uses the fascia material instead of the rafter material.

There are heaps of ways to do this. Select the wall, scroll wheel (or centre button) click (should be Pan) and drag to do the pan, pick up the selected wall and drag. Aerial view also works.

Zowie, Depending on how you want to handle the layout boxes and the title information, sizing, etc. You can change to the larger sheet by going File...Print...Drawing Sheet Setup. This will change the sheet size and place your original layout boxes and title information in the centre of the larger sheet, at the same scale. You may need to edit or move the title information and move the layout boxes. I assume you want all the layout boxes and title information at the same scale as the original and don't want to increase the scales of all the layout boxes along with the sheet size increase.

Dennis, Should you be using Build...Distributed Objects...Spline Distribution Path?

Mick, That is not an "orthographic elevation camera" as requested by the OP.

One way to get a round column to the library is to use a Cylinder. Select it, Shift Select it again. Make Architectural Block on the Edit toolbar. Add to Library on the Edit toolbar.

There is an Endcap Printed Length setting in Preferences...CAD...Line Properties that may help.

Larry, In this video, you don't show the dbx for the room. I bet the floor structure for the ROOM is set to Default, so that when you change the FLOOR default, the room is following.

Michael, I am not sure if this is the only way but it does work. You need to use the Plan defaults to set an Additional Allowed Angle to match the angle of the wall, so that the camera snaps to that angle when you draw it. I'm sure that you can figure it out from that.

Christopher, Go down to the foundation level. Draw a Slab Footing (Build...Wall...Slab Footing). You can use the "Align With Wall Above" tool to get them lined up.

Joe, I hope you are going to do it in m² and not as sq m.

Joe, We usually use m² for site and floor areas. Same for counter tops, windows, doors, etc - this format can cover a huge range of areas. We may see sq m sometimes, but I try to avoid that. If a property is very large, we will use hectares. (1 hectare = 10,000 m²). It is not usual to call up cross section areas for framing members, but if the area were very small, we would use mm² - I don't think I have ever used this. We never use square or lineal centimeters.

Johnny, Here is an easy way. http://screencast.com/t/qWmShYmDpZ

Johnny, Chief has no problem building a multi level plan (with floors missing) with an auto roof over only the top floor. No need to manually build a roof. And the auto roof doesn't build over the intermediate floors. Off hand, I can think of several ways to do this, depending on wether you want floor/ceilings or not. Once again - you just need to learn how Chief works and stop trying to force it to work like other programs.