glennw

You can do it quickly yourself with the Polygon Shape Deck tool or the Regular Polygon cad tool, auto roof, steps that transform/replicate around the centre point. define the rail, tidy up..... This one took about 10 - 15 minutes.

I see the Multiple Copy tool technique - I forgot about that one. It certainly has some problems when used with roof planes.

OK, I figured out what happened. In trying to select your small roof sections, I selected another roof by mistake and then selected the correct small roof section. This auto places a temporary point where the 2 roofs meet. This is then the Current Point. Lesson - deselect the incorrect roof before selecting the correct roof.

I would not expect it to work with Multiple Copy. Multiple Copy does not have the necessary settings to copy and rotate.

The roof will Revolve around the Current point which is located down below the plan. That point in the centre of the circle is not the current point. Use Delete Temporary Points and then place a "Place Point" in the centre and it will become the Current Point. You also do not need to check Move in the Transform/Replicate dbx.

I think you can do what you want in the material list. I did this very quickly to see if it could be done, but it may help. I have not done this before, so it's all on the fly. Instead of calculating the wallboard as # of sheets, calculate it as area. Generate a material list - you will get a square area for the wallboard. In the Comment column, use a formula like "=count/your sheet area" - in this case I used 32 sq ft. This will give you a result of the number of sheets. You can also set the number formatting as required (units, decimal places, etc). It is still pretty restricted as you can only use sheet size per wall - which is really no different than the normal way of doing things.

What tool did you use to rotate the plan? Rotate Plan View? As strange as it sounds, Rotate Plan View does no really rotate the plan. Better to use Edit Area (All Floors) or another method.

If I make any changes to any of the cupboards, the tiles on the bullnose section jump around. PS. It's not the edits to the cupboards that cause the material jumping. All I have to do to get the material to jump around is rebuild the model either with Rebuild 3D or Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings.

My guess is that some of your cabinets are using the default material and some are not using the default material - ie, you have edited the material on some cabinets. You can always select all the cabinets and change the materials to use the defaults.

Thanks, not my best day!

I am still not 100% clear about what you want to achieve. It sounds like you want to use an old plan, but use all your new defaults. Here is another guess. Open the plan in X12. File>Import Default Settings Import the defaults from your template plan - you can select the defaults that you want to import.

What are you trying to do - your post is a bit confusing. Edit area (All Floors) Defaults are saved with the plan file.

Just to make sure, did you check the Preference setting?

I was just about to suggest that you check and make sure that you are using the graphics card and not the onboard graphics. What does Video card Status say (in Preferences)

You need to cut the existing roof eave overhang back where it encroaches into the new porch. The existing roof eave is preventing the wall from building up - same as the real world. What type of wall do you want - brick for the full width, cladding for part of it. You may have to go up to the attic level and change the wall type.

Everything seems to run smoothly on my mac with your plan. No slowdown or delay.

Have a look in the help file for Align Walls.

You firstly need to create a material from your picture. You then apply the material to an object (like a polysolid) with Stretch To Fit checked) Open the Help file and search for Creating Materials.

I am not at the computer at the moment, but I think the size of casing that is applied to a mulled unit comes from the first selected window or door - or something like that. Are you saying that if you manually mull 2 windows together (that have different casing sizes), the casing size is different than both windows?

Newell, Something like this? I am not 100% sure how you want the drive to be - can you elaborate a bit more. What problems are you having with the stair. You may need to move or delete some walls to make room for the stairs. Place and configure the stairs and then fix the walls. Moheb Building GLENN.plan

It is the room ceiling heights on level 1.

They are your Porch (+Breakfast) ceilings. Your ceiling heights are too high and are building above the roof. Lower the Porch ceiling heights, or...raise your roofs.

Open the wall dbx's and have a look at the settings.

Ah... Try this one: 1.5-dormerGLENN2.plan

Is this what you want? 1.5-dormerGLENN.plan