glennw

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  1. Chopsaw, I have it in the back of my mind that in versions a long time ago, that if you wanted additional angles, you had to select 7.5 as well as enter the additional angle - you couldn't get the additional angle without checking 7.5. So maybe it is a hangover from then because 22.619865deg IS within .5deg of 22.5deg (3 x 7.5). Or maybe I am just remembering incorrectly. Can anyone else remember this?
  2. Ah... You mean more like this? or...
  3. glennw

    Addition

    What is stopping you from using Build New Floor?
  4. You can change the default material for psolids at Default Settings>Materials>Foundation/Slab. But it will change the default material for those objects as well - so probably not much help.
  5. Open the Define Material dbx for the siding material. Go to the Material List panel. Change the Material List Calculation to Area. Generate a ML.
  6. Probably hidden off screen somewhere. Try Preferences>Reset Options>Reset Side Windows
  7. You will have to post a plan for that one. For the windows, have a look at Vertical Stacking.
  8. Are you talking about Visual Cadd - I used that for years, as well as Generic Cadd (2D and 3D) before that - great programs. Generic 3D even had 3D dimensions and text as I remember.
  9. You can certainly display a hatch pattern in both plan view and section with Auto Detail (it just can't be the standard insulation pattern). Hatches in both views are determined by the Fill pattern property in the wall definition - don't check the Ins column as that will overide the assigned Fill if/when you Auto Detail. The material list will automatically give you the wall and ceiling insulation quantity for any areas that are marked as Conditioned.
  10. Are you using tab stops or spaces (or a combination) to get the columns? Post a simple plan.
  11. You can also do it here:
  12. Larry, Are you talking about a sill that cuts into the brick skin of a brick veneer wall rather than sitting on the face of the brickwork (that is easy to do)? Is there any significance in the window being double hung?
  13. Can't you use the Bottom Component Size to adjust the top and bottom sash sizes?
  14. I just started having a play with this one and I was using walls - not polysolids. Only thing is, I used walls that are 1layer (stone) and 1mm thick and used them to draw the outside surface of the actual walls. This means that it is very easy to control things like second floors, heights, invisible walls, materials, openings, foundations, etc. I just did this in the last 10 minutes to see how it would work. The shaded "walls" are actually rooms defined by the 1mm thick walls. This is the smaller structure built with all walls as well
  15. glennw

    Corbels

    You don't shape the side of the wall, you shape the bottom of the wall. Create a new short wall that extends out to the fascia, drag the bottom of the wall up and start shaping it. The bottom of the wall becomes the underside of your curved corbel. The big drawback is you can't shape it into a proper curve. What I did was draw a circle to the shape, placed break points in the wall and then snap the break points to the circle.
  16. Chopsaw, So how do you resize a tiled window? In this case, I have to have at least 2 windows tiled vertically (side by side)
  17. That is normal behavior. The double arrow allows you to drag the window edges to resize tiled views. When you see the double arrow, it means you are at the edge of the window - click and drag and see what happens.
  18. glennw

    Corbels

    In that case you can use a wall and shape it in an elevation view in the same way as shaping the polysolid.
  19. glennw

    Corbels

    Is the corbel thin like a wall (like the pic below), or does it run all the way along the wall like a frieze? I used a wall to do this very quick one.
  20. There is a Leader Line default at Preferences>Appearance>Text>Leader Lines>Number of Segments. Or you can use a Text Line With Arrow and draw it in Continuous Mode (right mouse button) and draw as many segments as you want.
  21. Have a look in the help file for Auto Archive and Auto Save Files. To find the location of your Archives Folder go Preferences>General>Folders>All Program Paths>Show>Archives Folder
  22. I can duplicate this. Looks to me like you have dropped the floor -4" after you placed the slab footings. Check the floor heights in the foundation level because that will be supplying the floor for the room above. That would also explain the window height change. You are dimensioning from bottom of window to top of stem wall. Drop the floor -4" and the windows move down to follow the floor - hence the distance from bottom of window to top of stem wall reduces by 4".