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Chief is dimensioning to the extents of the cad block - not to the objects within the cad block.

When you create the Cad Block, you can nominate where you want to locate the Insertion Point by using a Place Point snapped to the centre of the circle. The obvious place for an insertion point is the centre of the circle - but it can go anywhere, on the line, centre of circle.......even away from the Cad Block. After you create the cad block, you can then snap the Insertion Point to the Place Point (which doesn't get included in the cad block). This means that not only can you move and snap the cad block with the nominated insertion point, but you can dimension to it as well. You current Insertion Point is off centre of the circle for some reason - I am guessing you eyeballed it there? so...to clarify: Explode your cad block (the circle and the line). Snap a Place Point to the centre of the circle, or on the line - where ever you want the Insertion Point to locate. Select the line and the circle and Make Cad Block. Select Insertion Point and snap to the Place Point. You can delete the Place Point as it is not connected to, or part of the cad block - it was just used as a temporary snap point.

In Oz (about 35 deg south) we are typically required to do shadow diagrams for June 21 at 9am, 12 noon and 3pm.

Copy and Paste from one plan to the other.

I will put my hand up for this one. Send me a private message with your contact details and the services you require.

You can change the default for vector views. 3D>3D View Defaults>Vector View Options>View Types With Color On.

It sounds like you used Rotate Plan View - bad move. Read up on Rotate Plan View and don't use it - except to rotate your terrain back to zero degrees. Then use Edit Area to do the rotation.

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Or...another way. Select the polysolid in elevation. On the Edit menu select Solid Feature and then draw the hole. Reshape the hole.

Another way if you want something a bit more complicated is to open the dbx for the Deck room and uncheck "Automatically regenerate deck framing" and check "Keep deck framing after the deck room is deleted". Drag one of the railing walls back to break the room definition (or you could check No Room Definition). Drag the rail back to recreate the room definition (or uncheck No Room Definition). Open the room dbx and uncheck Floor Under This Room. This will now allow you to paint or change the material of any decking plank - not just the boarders. What this does is create a deck room without any floor platform. It uses the retained floor platform from the previously created and deleted deck.

Rene, Very understandable given the conditions. Often I don't know if I am misunderstanding, missing something or not following the thread correctly, or if it is the poster who is not understanding or making some type of mistake. Anyway...all is good. Take care.

Am I missing something? You can select a single room or multiple rooms and then use the Auto Interior Dimension tool from the Edit menu. This will only give you dimensions for inside the rooms.

Can you post the plan?

Ok. I just revisited this thread, particularly Eric's video near the beginning. He was having trouble getting some roof edit fields available when he selected 2 roof planes (before he changed the width of the room). This should be the expected behavior because he is selecting 2 roofs that have different ridge heights - it may not look like it in the 3D view, but they must be different heights because the spans of the 2 wings are different. The roof at the rear will have a different ridge height because it will need to extend a tiny amount (a little V) to tie in with the ridge of the front roofs. If the ridge heights are different, you cannot use the dbx to change their ridge heights. In the exaggerated plan below, you can plainly see that the ridge height for the main front roof is at the normal ridge line height. The ridge height for the rear roof is at the top of the small V, which is equal to the front ridge height. This is why the ridge height becomes available when both wings of the floor plan are equal - the ridge heights are then the same. Try selecting the 2 smaller front roofs and the rear roof. Because they both have the same ridge heights, that choice becomes available for edit in the dbx.

Try this - although I am not sure if it is the problem or not. Open the dbx for one of those dimensions. Dimensions panel>Options>is Suppress Wall Widths checked? Can you post the plan the picture came from?

In the cross section view drag a selection marquee around all of the section. This will only select all the cad work - this is good unless you have already done any cad work. I haven't looked at what happens in X11 - only X12.

I see the same as Eric - all looks good. Are you sure that you deleted the old Auto Detail polylines and then Auto Detailed again. Auto Detail does not delete any previous auto detail polylines.

Do you mean like a Frieze? It's time to read the manual.

Think of Elevation Lines as you would draw contour lines. I still believe that Elevation Points are just too hard to work with - especially on a complicated site. It is much easier to find and control Elevation Lines than a whole lot of points. Elevation Lines will result in a smoother terrain than a whole bunch of points. Even though the survey shows points, I would still draw Elevation Lines. An Elevation Line is just a string of elevation points spaced at about 2' centres.

This may help a little. You could then go back to Drawing Sheet Setup and check Remember Print Settings After Printing. Uncheck Update Automatically. This will remember the Current Sheet setting and will only display the current sheet. Downside is that it will remember the other settings as well - but that may not be a problem if your print jobs use the same settings.

The Material List will give you individual wall lengths and a total length for each wall type.

Does this not help?

Tom, If you want to send me the plan or post it here, I will give it a go on my machine and see what happens. PS, I just noticed that the last posts in this thread go back to 2017 - 3 years ago. Much has changed since then.

Chopsaw, You need to turn off Auto Rebuild Terrain as well or the terrain keeps generating. Thinks like Terrain Features maintain their shape when Clear terrain is used.

I think they are referring to the actual shaping of the site - ie, contouring the site.