glennw

I wasn't suggesting that deleting the Joist Direction line is the solution, I was rather pointing out how screwy the framing is.

Delete the Joist Direction line to the left of the stars and see what happens:

Doug, The Joist Direction Lines are there for more than the framer, they tell Chief how to build the joists - direction and size. I was demonstrating that there is something wrong with your joist direction/bearing lines witnessed by the fact that the joist direction line to the left of the stairs is not doing anything and maybe causing problems. Sorry, I don't have the time to troubleshoot the exact problem. You need to go through the plan and try to find conflicts with the various floor platforms. Maybe use Bearing Walls instead of Bearing Lines. Check all your Bearing Walls, Joist Direction lines, Bearing Lines and framing defaults.

Am I missing something here? If you don't want studs to display, don't you just need to use a wall definition for the existing walls that doesn't have a framing layer?

You have some problems with your Bearing Beams and Joist Direction lines. I rotated the joist direction line on the right a little. Notice how it is controlling the joist direction for a bigger area than you intended.

When you insert a sink into a cabinet, the sink stays connected to the cabinet - even if you drag the sink away from the cabinet. Once the sink is dragged away from the cabinet, you can select the cabinet (by clicking on the cabinet or the sink) and then hit Tab to select the sink to delete (and leave the cabinet). It sounds like you may have deleted the cabinet and the sink?

Well, I did think long and hard before even mentioning Rotate Plan View.

Do a search of the forum for "z fighting"

I don't believe that drawing 2 plans is necessary. I hate to admit it, after all my negative comments about the Rotate Plan View tool over the years. This may be the only case that I can recommend using it - but it won't be foolproof and use it with caution. Be aware that the coordinate system will rotate with the plan view. ie, if you rotate the plan view by 45deg, zero deg will be northeast to the screen, not east, as is normal. When you use this tool, your view of the drawing will rotate and the crosshairs will remain ortho to the screen. It is probably just as easy to use Angle Snaps which default to 15deg increments OOB and you can also select 7.5deg or custom angles as well.

I am not sure that you can come to a complete stop, but you can get very close to it by decreasing the speed after a key frame and increasing the time for the next key frame.

You may be able to use an addition framing layer on the outside of your wall definition. Size and spacing can be defined by the material. Members can be edited in 3D, plan or in the wall detail. This is all done auto:

Scott, I think that in this particular case Chief is getting confused with those short horizontal walls on either side of the building. They do not line up with the internal horizontal wall on each side. You are drawing a straight Bearing Line - although, even if you shape the BL to follow the walls, it still isn't 100%. Lucky we have other alternatives like Bearing Walls. The fact that those short walls are external walls may also have something to do with the problem. The other thing that may be contributing to the problem is the overhanging floor.

Try: Build Image>Create Billboard Image. This will display in both rendered (as long as you have Textures set to display) and vector views (with Patterns toggled on or off). This was one I did a while ago. The painting on the wall is a photo of their painting.

I thought of both those tools. Material Regions will cause lots of problems, especially at the corners. Wall Niche will not provide the shaping required. I decided it was better to stay away from walls.

I would use solids for the wall along with boolean operations to get the recess. Then use a molding polyline. You can do the rail, lining boards and shadow line all on the one molding polyline.

How did you send the view to layout. If it was an elevation view the Rescale Layout View should be available and work. it looks like you may have sent an image to layout. Posting both the plan and layout will help more.

Right click one of the corner grips of the layout box and stretch.

Scott, I played a little more. The problem occurs where the two short walls in the red circles are. For some reason the Bearing Line is failing to work at those walls. If you want to use a Bearing Line, select one or both of those walls and mark them as bearing Walls and then use a bearing line in between. or, you could forget about using a BL and make the internal horizontal walls Bearing Walls.

Scott, I am about to run out and haven't got a lot of time. If the Bearing Line doesn't work, use a wall with the Bearing Wall attribute cheked. The horizontal red line is a Bearing Line. The beam is marked as a Bearing Beam. The walls are marked as Bearing Wall. PS. the problem with your horizontal Bearing Line is that it overlaps the floor platform. Have a play with the ends of the line and see what happens when you shorten it up.

Scott, The plan might help. I assume the red objects are referenced objects? What are the cad lines you have selected? A short plain english translation of what you are trying to do with all the pictures may help us.

Scott is correct - forget the retaining walls and instead use Terrain Breaks and normal walls.

Have you fully explored all the options in the window dbx - especially those on the Frame panel.

Another way would be to make a symbol from the roof plane and rotate it flat (negative of roof pitch) using Rotate in the Symbol Specification dbx.

If you can get access to a copy of X10, you could use the Print Model command which prints all the elevations, roofs, etc, so that you can cut them out and make a paper model. This feature was dropped in X11. Is that what you are talking about?

OK, I give up.