DRAWZILLA

ARE YOU KIDDING ME, IT TOOK ME 3 MINUTES INCLUDING THE LATTICE, MUCH FASTER THAN MANUALLY USING P-SOLIDS. Also what about when your client wants to move something for me it would be automatic for you , you would have to adjust every piece of lattice.

If I understand you correctly, you just change your title to A-# and the numbers will change automatically when you add or subtract a page.

of course any custom p.c. would require manually done, but this is good for a quick p.c.

here is a video http://screencast.com/t/YK369GYZ

No video's on what I'm doing. I'll do a video

Using the deck tool, you can move all of that stuff as you like including footing depth. I like it just b/c it's faster for me.. Of course you do have to set the defaults to what you are doing. I also have to deal with loads every day.

I use post to beam all the time when I don't need the beam to extend past the posts. If you do need the posts in any other place ,just use the post to beam tool with no posts ( newels set to "0" ) and place the post using the post tool. There may be times when you need to do it manually. Any patio covers I do, I use the deck (no railing)tool from the second floor , set the decking to lattice 2x2's etc., Then you can adjust the post to beam however you want, it also places the conc pads automatically. Solid cover or lattice, you can also place the height to whatever works. At least I like it for patio covers.

No, I just pick it up and slam it to the concrete floor a second time.

I just don't understand those foreign DAM languages

Yep when in doubt re-boot, is always the answer

is attic walls checked in your camera view? That's what they are.

This is how I do it also.

I think Chief placed the outlookers at the bottom of the rafters you are using. You have to move them manually from there.

Agree w/ Ben, you will spend a lot of time waiting for the less expensive plotters unless you have a separate computer just for printing. The are just too slow for production work.

If you need to have an accurate framing, this won't work, I hope Chief will fix this. the first post shows a hip or valley which we all know need to be a size larger than the rafter and Chief calls this a ridge and there is no way to have ridge hip and valley the same size, for me they are all different sizes, manually fixing these is all we can do at this point..

Please stop ,just make your observation and end it, why do you like to attack me b/c I also have my side too and anyone who cares can make up their own mind. They did try to get rid of Designers.

Richard, I WAS THERE AND I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. DO YOU.

jpg's are bad (pixilation) pdf's are good, they just print better in my experience.

I think its more about what the general populous can afford, rather than the design of any home. everything is really about money after all.

I have been complaining about the Rafters showing below the ceiling line for many versions now. The program just won't cut oversized rafters at that point. In almost every job I have the hips are much larger than the rafters ( because of bearing hips now), Just changing the hip size won't do it for me. I use framing labels and we need the actual size shown with a cut at the bottom. Right now I have to shut off the rafters in these interior views but then I don't get the rafters showing outside through the windows. Chief please fix the framing to be as it would be in real life.

I don't ever get junk with Acrobat paid version. But I always have the latest, now use Adobe Acrobat DC. You can also reduce-optimize file size with it

Clicking on trusses will (even if you do not have trusses)do the same thing--0" birdsmouth cut

If you are using Adobe acrobat, they have a "save and send" tool that you can send any size file you want. As far as getting Pdf's to the layout, just use the Pdf import tool where you can import just one page of a 20 page doc, if you want.

Years ago they tried that in California, so what did they do, they grandfathered all designers that joined a designers group,(money only --no test) to licensed Architects ,in hopes of getting rid of Designers. Didn't work.

I have also been BSing for over 40 years.