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And don't forget about the next crash which is coming, no matter how you look at it. Buy low sell high has its merits. IMO ,right now is not the time to buy in California..

ok so we all agree he was a draftsman- designer and quite good at it. and maybe not.

You could always simply just turn off framing rafters in that camera view unless you need to see the rafters.

I would say if you need that kind of detail , upgrade to Premier and do it all

of course someone would have to see the plans to make that judgement but its kind of like the lower part of a retaining wall usually is a much thicker block and more rebar than the upper level, maybe in this case it's just not enough weight or lateral loads to require more rebar.. Call the engineer of record from the building permit and ash them to make you feel better about it.

I don't think a lot of people are doing it yet, for me 3d and 360 views and making a video to send to the client are better.

around here every GFCI must be labeled but not AFCI. Every exterior outlet must also be GFCI and WP.

Sometimes when you actually print to PDF, those lines will go away

Like Jon says, You can create any rafter tail you want using "rafter tails and adjusting the roof DBX how you want it. It's hard to tell you exactly how to do it without a picture.

In the layout, turn off "layout box borders". for the dimensions just make the layout box larger by dragging it and put the dim's outside the cabinets

Around here people buy those large tract homes ,1.5 mill+, and call me out to add to them before they even move in. I've done 4 of those this year. One job we gutted most of the house and replaced with better.

I will sometimes put that plat map on my plan and trace the street as close as you can. them work out the lots one at a time using their info.. Not perfect but you can only make your plan with the info you gat or tell the client you need the exact info.

I also show the 2nd floor exterior walls on the 1st floor using a reference set.

LIKE WHAT?

for me the 2nd floor framing is always shown on the 1st floor, how else would you show posts to beams and floor beams.

Johnny, you have broken the rule about designers vs. Architecture, no one ever wins or loses this argument. this has been around this forum forever and believe me it's a lost cause. I have seen many many people without any formal education do just fine in this business. Hell I remember when they gave away Architects licenses and all you had to do was sign your name.. I think they wanted more members. Who knows what's right and wrong, I think there are enough projects to go around for everyone.

You know , you do have to re-link the plans when you move them

I also get this all the time and reported it as a bug for a few versions now, wish they would fix this soon. Try to delete all your joists direction annotations and replace them with new ones. Sometimes that works for me but not exactly sure why it happens.

What version are you using? You can reset the side windows using preferences / reset.

I just don't get that kind of slowness so it has to be a system problem , for me, one time a mouse driver caused some slowness, and the other time was a macro problem and the last was using, generated sun and sun follows camera together. all fixed except the last one which should never be done together anyway.

Yes Adobe may look like that but it prints ok for me, and creates a much much smaller file and when you have a 25 page set , that makes a huge difference.

too many default places, Chief please narrow it down to one place. I may have missed it ,but there are also places in the framing DBX. just too many default places.

I believe most of the USA will experience more regulation in every aspect of plan check and construction ,like we have experienced here in California for 20 years, at least. Most of our country has been far behind, and a lot of people will need to catch up. I'm amazed by the states that still require no framing plans or shear walls or energy calc's or engineering or anything about Green buildings , and some still need no plans whatsoever. What is good about all that is that people will need to hire you to do it, b/c it's just too much for a lot of people to handle.

Anyone around that long should at least get a Chicken dinner

I remember seeing Dan's serial # of like 64.