glennw

Gene, If I am following you correctly... Is this what you mean? If so, you need to uncheck Invisible and No Room Definition for the selected wall - or pull the main wall through to replace the short piece of wall. And then for the room on level 2 above the lounge room, make it Open Below.

If this is something that you would use quite often and is always the same size and you don't want a label for, and...... You could use the Label to display a custom Description in Object Information. Save to the library for future use.

There are no decimal places - we use mm, which is as accurate as we need for most construction work.

It's probably on the General tab because it relates to the casings, lintels and materials, not just the casings.

Not using just a wall. This is a 2D Room Molding Polyline (the external room) - which will cut away for doors and windows - but only full height. It will automatically recognise doors and windows that it passes through and marks them No Molding On Selected Edge.

Have a look for Clay.

Create a second floor and build a 48" high room at the front of the house. It doesn't matter how deep the room is. Designate the walls as indicated. Auto build roofs. This works because roofs don't build off Knee Walls. Knee Walls build up to the roof, whose geometry is determined by other criteria.

You MAY be able to do what you want by using the Material List where you can change the units and unit formatting.

I am on a mac. It seems to be that whatever control is checked in the Active Layer Control Options determines the width of the dbx so that all of that options controls display full width.

If you make a wall No Room Definition, you can drag it into the same location as another wall. If you delete the No Room Definition, the wall will replace the original wall.

OK, I think I get it. You want it to be visible in a 3D vector view, but you want it to be horizontal, not vertical.

Chopsaw, I am lost! An Image IS visible in a 3d view. What am i missing?

Chopsaw, This should work. Place the image in plan view and open it's dbx. Check the location of the image file. Still in plan view, go Import Picture. I copy/pasted the path from above, but had more success when I searched for just the name of the image (FlameCA2.png). Paste the image into the plan. This is a quick one using an image file from the library.

You can also do this by stacking single layer wall definitions.

Overlaid a 3D screen capture in a cad detail.

Like this?

Probably quite a legitimate diagram. Easily done with a Cad Detail From View. Note that the dimension extension lines are not isometric.

Is there any reason why you can't use a single wall type to define both wall layers? From the help file: Furred Walls

I think I remember that in X12 the boolean operations would not work in 3D on poly solids. I think you had to convert them to Solids first. In X13, boolean operations work on poly solids. The other good thing about X13 is that the Fillet and Chamfer tools work on polysolids.

It is possible to break up a Cross Box to just cad lines or you can convert it to a range of other objects along the way. To break it into lines: Select the Cross Box. Convert To Polyline from the Edit toolbar. Select Polyline Solid. OK. Convert to Plain Polyline. Disconnect Selected Edge from the edit toolbar. You will lose the cross along the way though, so maybe not worth the exercise.

I assume you are talking about setting a default for this?

Larry, The diagonal line is the Wall Cap which is jumping up from the lower section of wall to the upper section. I am not sure why, but will continue to have a play and see if i can find out why it is happening - may be a bug?

And then you can edit the text directly in the library. Big improvement again.

No, I always joke about poorly designed tools that yield consistently inconsistent results and are a PITA to use! The terrain tool will only do what you tell it to do.

Because we can (and some users do) print from plan view?