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Bill Very good idea, some of the new handles are confusing as to wether they are old timers like us of newbies.

that feature has been around for a few versions cant remember when it was inroduced.

definitely a video card problem, are you using the on board card and not thr nvidia?

I had been complaining about X6 being slower than X5. However due to a computer crash, I took the oppertunity to put my C: onto a SSD 256Gb drive. It has increased my windows experience from 5.9 to 7.4, this is a 2-1/2 year old system. But the good news is it has significantly increased the speed of X6. I still have my files on a std drive, so initial acess is still slow, but if I can work on a particular file for a period of time the speed increase is really noticable. A $250 investment that has probably increased the life of this computer another year. I would normally upgrade about every 2 years.

FOR 10.08 you would need the Acrap drawing in something like version 2000i, its too long ago to remember exactly. The problem you are having is the dwg is being supplied in a later format than CA10.08 will handle. cheers

Glen from your picture it looks like the purlins are not rotated to the roof pitch, if they are that is perfect. I would love to know how it is done.

I have attached hopefully a view of what i get

Scott I was missing something, If you manually build all trusses, including adjust for dropped end gable trusses, then auto build framing you get the lookouts. I was manually fudging them. But as OP requested you cant get purlins. If use use blocking and manually adjust height you dont get full lenght purlis but get short pieces between trusses.

Perry that is correct. But unl4ess you use auto build you dont have the lookouts without a whole heap of stuffing around manually. I have not found a way to auto build trusses, an I missing something??

Perry That option is OK for rafters but as we seem to have to manually build trusses we have no lookouts. or am I missing something. I normally just draw in cross boxes in the cross sections, but this can be tedious if you have several. Scott the purlins run across the trusses/rafters so another roof plane does not work, we dont use a ply liner. As Ian mentioned in OP we can have a space for the purlins by making the sheathing layer 45mm thick.