Rich_Winsor

What would a guy from Boulder Creek know about stream beds?....

OK, just kidding.... Highway 9 all the way baby! 

Close but no cigar.  Your hips should be at angles of deck.

Not even a Tiparillo?   Hey, I was just whipping up a concept

sketch based on the roof plane configuration BeeoHat posted

from SletchUp. I get what you are doing by refining the concept

and positioning the hip rafters over appropriate structural members.

However, I am not sold on the idea that the "doglegs" in the hips

and valleys in your plan roof are present in the "as built" structure.

I could be wrong as the only pic is murky at best but my guess is

that all the hips and valleys are straight from ridges to eaves as

in the OP's sketch. That's why I just sort of split the difference

as to where the hip rafters would cross the upper railing beams

and let the roof overhangs fall where they may. No big deal,

I enjoyed the vids.

Terrain / Terrain Specification / General / Clipping - Un-check "Hide Terrain Intersected by Building"

Here's my take.

Not sure how I feel about this. Is there accountability involved? Does the person being rated (either positively or negatively) see who is rating them?

No they do not. The whole thing is Bogus.

Agreed Ron, I soured on the whole concept when

I was slammed with a negative point when I posted

the quote you just referenced. I didn't even take a

position on the issue, just asked how the process

would work. Initially you could see who gave you

points, now they have changed it so you can't. For

my money I think they should just do away with the

whole negative reputation point thing. If we want

to have some fun and throw around positive points

I'm OK with that but I think it should be up to the

forum monitors to deal with the negative stuff.

Thanks, I enjoyed it so much I gave you one right back!    It only seems to apply to the individual post, is the member list the only way to see how many one has collected?

Just roll your mouse over anybody's "handle" and you

can see how many Rep. Points they have.

Has anybody else noticed that you can no longer

see who left reputation points by clicking on the

reputation count button in the bottom right hand

corner by the vote up and vote down buttons. Is

this an official change of position by CA or some

sort of temporary technical glitch?

PLEASE help I am going to pull my hair out.

Hey TJ, hair loss can be a serious issue.

I massaged your garage plan to clean up the roof

planes and make the exterior resemble your pics.

This should give you a good starting point.

Garage-A.plan

Keep asking for stuff. What you want is what we want.

OK, I want one of these.

Hey Timmy, here's the deal. I was using soffits because

I was working with Home Designer Pro. With CA its easier 

because you can use Polyline Solids for the upper walls.

Start out by drawing Pony Walls where you want the glass

to be. In the "Wall Specification" dbx go to the "Wall Types" 

tab and define the Lower Wall Type you want to use and

set the height of the lower wall. For the upper wall type

choose "Glass Shower". This will give you the lower wall

with glass on top. To build the upper portions of the walls

above the glass go to your plan view and draw a Rectangular

Polyline over the Pony Walls. Convert the Polyline to a Polyline

Solid and set the pertinent values in the "3D Box Specification"

dbx. to match the length and thickness of the Pony Wall below

and set a height for the upper Polyline Solid wall section. With

a little tweaking you should be able to get the desired effect.

What's better than a 90° Corner Window?

How about four 90° Corner Windows.

Here's a little concept that came about while

exploring a HomeTalk thread about butt glazed

corner windows.

I'll be back!

I've got nothing to add here. Just tired of

seeing David's mug every time I log in.

Perry's tip is the key.  You can't draw a round house with one wall.  You need to use at least two.

Why exactly is that? Why can't you draw a round room with

the "Curved Wall" tool without resorting to what amounts to

a work around? Is this where we are supposed to chime in

and ask for a "Round Wall" tool with a dbx where you could

control things like diameter and axes of reflection?

I recently bought a DeWalt DW030P Laser Distance Measurer

when I got tired of trying to use my trusty Stanley 25' PowerLock

without anyone around to hold the other end of the tape. Great

little unit accurate to 1/16". Easily calculate distance, area and

volume. As with most of these units outdoor daytime distance

measuring can be problematical but indoors it is great. Get one,

you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Newbie here,

                     How do I draw a round house?

Thanks

How many locomotives will you be storing?

Oh, not that kind of roundhouse. Here's my round house.

Yeah, the two guys singing....

Man, you're all messed up.

That's a different campaign. The "happier than _" series.

The best one was happier than a camel on hump day.

This one is the "15 minutes could save you 15% - Everybody

knows that - Well did you know that _" series. Got it?   

Wasn't that a commercial? Next question..... Which commercial? Progressive insurance or the two guys who sing..... Another insurance commercial.... Nuts..... I can hear it, just can't remember the company, obviously not a good commercial.

GEICO

....I guess I thought that what Rich suggested was a no brainer and everybody knew of that option.

Everybody knows that?

Well..... did you know that the great pyramids were a mistake?

Scott....Have you ever played around with just the roof sheeting showing on the rafters/trusses?

Interesting question. No. But if you do an OVERVIEW, you can use the surface delete tool to eliminate the shingles and see only the ply. I do not think there is a layer where as you can turn off shingles and see the ply. Turn off roof layer and you lose the shingles, ply and roof framing.

You can use the "Adjust Material Definition" tool to redefine

the properties of the siding and shingles to "Transparent"

to reveal the layer beneath. You can use the "Break Wall"

tool to select portions of the walls to be transparent. You

can also change the appearance of individual roof planes.

Rainman, check out this thread. You will find some info and Glenn's downspout there.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/404-roof-line/?hl=downspout#entry3470

Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can change
the email associated with your CA account by going to
the "My Settings" link in your user profile. On the left

side there is a link to change your email & password.

I think I am going to install an SSD drive, that will really speed things up for me.

I can't believe that rig doesn't have a SSD. If you have

the bucks spring for the SSD. You won't be sorry. All

you will get is noticeably faster boots and program

launches, absolutely quiet operation and a "Windows

Experience Index" that is pegged at the top of the

charts at 7.9. By way of reference my Western Digital

Velociraptor HDD which at the time of purchase held 

the speed crown for spinning media only garners a

WEI of 5.9.

What is a "shadow board" exactly?

I'd have to say that it is very aptly named for something that's definition is so hard to nail down. 

Wow! Thanks for all the great info guys. Personally I find these kinds of threads that deal with methods of work much more instructive than posts that deal with individual problems or bugs. The old teach a man to fish deal. Not saying that there isn't valuable info to be gained in seeing solutions to someone's individual specific problems, but if I'm not having that problem it doesn't really affect me and I'll leave the bug chasing to the entomologists in the crowd.

Glenn: Thanks so much for sharing your hot key list. As Bill mentioned it is a bit daunting but as you said your hot keys are way more intuitive than CA's default choices. If I am going to embark on learning a system of hot keys yours looks like a much better system to start with. The good thing is that it won't take me any time to un-learn CA's system as I was only using about a half a dozen of their hot keys. The notion of turning off the display of the toolbars made me think of a time when I inadvertently switched my video card resolution to a value that wasn't supported by my monitor. My screen became an unintelligible jumble. Somehow I was actually able to navigate out of the situation by clicking my mouse in the general area on the screen where I thought the appropriate command buttons would be.

Bill: I'm with you in that the sheer size of the hot key list is rather overwhelming. Hopefully over time I can adapt to it.

BTW, your dog apparently is smarter than mine. My little guy only has 2 modes; total relaxation or full blown enthusiasm.

There is no graduated scale so no numbers are needed.      

Electromen: Very cool website. I should have known that they would have come up with something like that. Am I understanding the concept? You just plug the thing into any usb port and then you have an auxiliary programmable keypad?

Lew: Now with the advent of the cell phone it is much more acceptable to be seen mumbling in public.

Finally, I didn't realize what D.Scott was doing in his videos was calling out hot keys. I thought he was invoking some sort of mystical incantations.

Thanks again guys