Kiwideziner

I have done a few of these lately where I raise the bottom chord of the truss, builder likes it as it is less work for him. I have attached a picture of the current project which is currently a live x-sect but a work in progress as we are changing a few things .

the video has a slider bar across the bottom you can only select a random point they have not made them in sections.

try the hometalk forum you will probably get a better answer as CA premier has more tools available.

To get around that problem I copy library items to my user location and rename as I like. However I dont use a lot of symbols and I use mostly the same ones each time.

Check that the reqd visibility is set in both plan and layout.

remeber that gives you an outline of the cladding, not necessarily the foundation.

linestyle end are set in preferences I think under cad, but have a look.

You can now draw in polylines to the specific area you want, these can be shaded or whatever.

Read the reference manual on the subject and it should be reasonably clear on what areas are what.

You can just put a horizontal line at each piont you want to measure to. the lines can be accurately positioned with the dbx.

In that situation I would probably have the stairs not build a handrail on that side for that section, and then maually model the balasters to the underside of the ceiling. Stairs is an area that CA needs to really work on.

or a different stud height, but only guessing without plan

I make the battens with poly solids and copy and adjust as reqd.

I find it normally just undos back to the last save, not just the last operation. This is painful at times.

There is probably a default somewhere , but I just use a mnual camera and rotate as needed.

draw it in elevation. by the way I thought they gave us symbols or something for that in X6.

Bernie in wall dbx select default top height and also default bottom - should fix it.

as an example for a remodel. I start off with existing_01 then _02 etc as reqd. then got to proposed_01, 02,-whatever (sometimes I may have several revisions in the same day as once I have completed a complicated bit I always do a save as) then I go to final_01. For layouts I use the same proceedure but normally have much fewer of them. Once I issue a layout set I also make a pdf copy so will have project proposed_prelim01 etc.then final_rev01 etc.

You still have to set the paper size in the PDF driver, sometimes in more than 1 place.

The blue line is the printer borders, ensure the the paper size selected is able to be printed on the selected printer.

It runs very slow for me. I suspect that the cage lanterns may be high poly with the round surfaces, also the stair railings with the panels at 90 deg . also there a a lot of cabinets which adds to file size. I think jusrt turn off as muchas possible while working on the plan to speed things up.

Draftsight seems to have got the correct programming to be the same as ACAD, some of the others do not quite get it right. And CA definitely has a problem interpreting some dwg files.

here is the plan file X6 after importing. I had to open in Draftsite and select all text except title at the bottom and explode as they had blocked the text with the leader lines. I find this is quite common so maybe it is something for CA to look into. silly plan.plan

I cant see a dwg file to open, Jim from your comment it would appear to be a problem in the dwg file and not CA.

In the example you give why not change the window then copy that window to where you want it? However i agree a match properties tool would be good