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CAD>Points>Delete Temporary Points.

Open the stair room dbx. On the Moldings panel, uncheck Use Floor Defaults. Delete the molding.

Try doing that with a mono slab.

Eric, Good to see your vid. For my example, I use a mono slab, which works a bit differently.

Steve, There is another way to do this. Go to the Wall Definition dbx and enter -4" in the Foundation Offset. This will increase the size of the slab, leave the wall where it is and it will not push out the roof. In the plan, you will need to hide the invisible walls and draw cad lines (or some other method) to represent the true size of the slab. I suspect, using your molding method, that in a 3D vector view, you would see the line between the slab and your molding polyline?

Christina, Try excluding any cameras from your selection and then try Transform/Replicate again. You can just lock the camera layers to prevent them from being selected. You may also have to do a Rebuild, Walls, Floors and Ceilings which I find is needed sometimes.

Maybe I should have been a bit more specific: Go Preferences>Edit>Behaviours>check Concentric > Jump> enter 75'.

You could try Rotate Plan View, but make sure you read up on how the tool actually works and the ramifications of using the tool. Just try it on a copy of the plan first.

Go Preferences>Edit>Behaviours>check Concentric, enter 75'. Select the line, select Copy/Paste. Click over one of the corner (where any 2 line segments join) edit handles (NOT the centre Move handle) and drag in the direction of the offset. This will evenly offset every line segment by the same amount - unlike trying to drag with the centre move handle. It sounds like you need to offset both ways (I don't understand why?) - you can't do that in the one step. Do one side and then the other - only takes a second.

I would use some Distribution Regions with options like Evenly Scattered, Object Scaling and Random Angle, Object Scaling, etc. You can only have one plant type to each region, but it only takes a short time to copy one region (Hold Position), and select another plant. You can quickly build up a fairly complex looking plant layout. Very fast and easy to change the parameters to get different effects instantly. I think that landscaping always looks better with 3D objects rather than the 2D images which look....flat! 2D plants do not change appearance as you rotate the model or individual plants, but 3D plants will change as they are rotated. Here is a quick one I did in about 1 minute.

I believe that you are talking about how the dimension text cuts out the dimension line. This is caused by the fill for the text box. This is from memory, but you should get the idea - just have a play with these settings. At the moment, you are probably using Use Layer For Text Style. If, instead you use Custom Text Style or Text Style, you can specify a Transparent Fill for the dim text and the dim line will display through the text box. Oh, don't forget that if you want to hide or delete parts of the dimension string we can use Blank Segment and/or Suppress Dimension.

Open your profile by clicking on your picture in the top right hand corner. On the right hand side of the title bar there is a button - See My Activity. That should take you to all your posts. PS You have to be quick around here!!

For dims, you can do this in the layout on a Layout Box basis. Send your plan to layout as normal at whatever scale you want, with a default dim text size of 200mm. Open the layout box that contains the plan and change the Number Height. If you send the same floor plan to layout at different scales, each Layout Box can have a different number height.

I am not quite sure of what you are trying to do here. Are you trying to change the dimension text size in relation to zoom level? But taking a stab in the dark... Would the Minimum Display Size>Dimensions do what you want?

You can even do this in a Cross Section Slider View and use Tab to enter a platform move distance.

Kevin, You can add someone to your Ignored Users list. Click on your logon name in the top right hand corner. Select Ignored Users.

I would change the defaults. Go Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Floor Levels>1st Floor>Absolute Elevations>Ceiling - change it to 11'. This is the beauty of using Defaults. This will also change the garage ceiling height as well, but just open the garage dbx and change it back to the original height. Auto rebuild the roof as the existing ones will be too low - or you could raise the existing ones, but I would prefer to use auto roofs which would be left on all the time. It looks like you may have used auto roofs and then turned auto off. You can auto build a roof over the front colonade - make the front wall a hip wall and the end walls High Shed/Gable. There are many ways to do what you want, but this should get you going pretty easily. You will probably have a bit of cleaning up to do and maybe things like rebuilding the framing, etc.

You don't need to explode anything. Select the bay by one of it's walls. Hit Tab and the window in that wall will be selected. Open the window for editing.

To change window size, select a wall of the box and then Tab to select the window. I think you will need a manual roof (or something else like a polysolid) and a solid or similar to do the bottom shape.

I think you may need to post the plan. The easiest way to hide walls is to use layers to hide or display. Do not use the layout to do that.

Michael, I lose my selection with an Esc. OOB Esc cancels selection, cancels the current action and activates the previous tool.

Are you aware that you can select any object with a right mouse click no matter what command is current. No need for any shortcut or keyboard entry.

Ah, So you are using simultaneous keystrokes - not sequential. I don't use any simultaneous shortcuts - too hard to use.

Have you thought of moving the keyboard a little to the left (assuming you are right handed).

Scott, You have to take what I said in context. I was talking about using a single keystroke WITH the Spacebar. I can have a single letter (well...a single letter and the spacebar) cabinet shortcut "C Space" AND I can also have a shortcut "CB".