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Newell, I used a skylight set to a hole. (uncheck skylight in dbx) Then in a elevation determined height above floor for 30" above ridge. In this case 222" above. Set ceiling height in the room to 222". The 2 side walls in dbx set balloon thru ceiling to get them to reach the roof. Tharp.Ben_Remodeling-EDIT.plan

try a different stone, the image of the texture is the problem. to low a resolution.

I also saved and closed the plan just a minute ago and went to open the plan again and the time stamp was when I originally created the save as test plan name. It was 30 minutes difference!

It has gone back to not saving! I went to browser to type a report, stopped typing when I thought it was working. Then went back to it and it didn't work again. I see why you were going crazy.

well, upon further testing. I did a save as a new name and everything works as it should here, set my auto save to 1 minute, auto archive to hourly.

I can confirm the same behavior on here! will report now.

Send me a message, I can fix your roof and teach you how, online as we fix it.

Lance, If you are using X8 in roof dbx, structure tab. check mark by soffits "flat under eave sub fascia" Change gable and eave sub-fascia size + the soffit material thickness = the size of the fascia +1/4" for the pitch of the roof.

sorry misunderstood, no breaks on ssa

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Not working for me. using X8

I have done reverse plans for builders, it is a pain if you havent set up the building to be centered on 0,0 point in plan view. I have actually set up my template plan to have a large point marker set to 0,0. I get my size of the first floor perimeter walls set then center it on 0,0 The time editing is usually the building section cameras. If you use live cameras. Otherwise, the reverse plan command works quite well.

Yes Mark and I set the original outside stem wall height in the room dbx.

Mark, Here is a sample to look at, made the heights in a cross section camera view using a dimensioned horizontal CAD line. Then a room molding polyline for the cap to the lower wall. hth, Michael stepped-fdn-wall.plan

Brian, Maybe it is the direction you are drawing your walls? Are you using the same wall selection handle? the small diamond on the end

post the plan, my guess is your using an exterior wall or your copy was made incorrectly.

Cool!

I prefer using a p-solid in an elevation view. set the thickness and adjust shape as needed. then copy and move to other locations.

Shift select all your walls of the Porch, open dbx and uncheck no locate under the general tab. then your roof commands will work.

Have a look at the 2nd-floor wall dbx and make sure it's not an attic wall. Also, check you have a room definition. If not then check to see if the first-floor wall under options is not checked to balloon thru ceiling. If that all fails, delete the wall and rebuild it. I have had this happen before and 9 out of 10 times its an attic wall issue.

Hi Scott I would be interested in talking with you to see if I can help. Send me a message, email or call . Check my profile for contact info thank you, Michael

I would suggest asking the surveyor for a gpx file if possible. Although it is not lines that are imported, but elevation waypoints. I used an online tool for getting these waypoints for a simple lot. Relatively flat compared to yours. (geoplaner.com) It takes a lot of clicks of the mouse to get enough points to make it work well. 105 in my example Yours is much more complex, best if you go with chop's suggestion to use as a tracing layer.

I would also suggest placing a curved cad line first to follow along with the curved wall tool. It makes it very accurate in placing the first time.

I can help, and am close by. Please send me a private message in this forum with contact details. Thank you, Michael

Steve, change furring walls to split framing, then baseboard works.