JJohnson

Do you have anything like this, there?

See Building>5.>Replacement In Kind.

http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/docs/handouts/bpc-005.pdf

Microsoft Word has a 'small caps' option in format/fonts.

Letters that should be capitalized are just larger.

Quite readable

Jim:

 

I agree. 

 

My question is related to a project I am working on that includes a large turret that will have a circular stairway between the main and 2nd story.  The height between floors is 16' 1-3/4" thus a landing is required.  Landings for residential stairways are governed by R311.7.6.  What I am questioning is the reason for the landing size change in the 2012 IRC vs. the previous version.  This new change is forcing me into making a larger diameter turret so I can get the stairs to land in the proper location at the 2nd story elevation.

I know you're figureing out landings, but note that the railings are guardrail height, 42" above tangent, with a handrail attached per commercial railing requirements. 

Residential code allowes the 32 to 36" handrail to act as guardrail too, nothing higher required, at least here in CA.

The stairway may be more recent than 1860's when US Capitol was built.

I use a non-default cursor for work (the one that has the yellow circle behind the pointer) because I do a lot of presentations to display my work and whatnot. But whenever I'm inside the Chief Architect workspace, I've noticed that the cursor changes back to the normal white arrow. You can turn the cross-hairs on and off, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Is there an easy sollution? Maybe something I'm not seeing, etc? Thanks

 

Eddie

CA uses the windows system cursor, of your choice, in select mode. 

I have always used the basic white with black outline for everything

In version X6, my cursor has lost the black outline making it a bit hard to see.

Did not have that problem in any previous version.

I use a non-default cursor for work (the one that has the yellow circle behind the pointer) because I do a lot of presentations to display my work and whatnot. But whenever I'm inside the Chief Architect workspace, I've noticed that the cursor changes back to the normal white arrow. You can turn the cross-hairs on and off, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Is there an easy sollution? Maybe something I'm not seeing, etc? Thanks

 

Eddie

Look up the thread ' Cross Hair ?' from Feb. 26   Might find something there

especially the reply by Doug Park.

Sorry I do not know how to provide a link to a past thread.

Just wondering if anyone else is thinking of taking the training at the PCBC in June.

2. Is there a way to put a solid fill in the cross hair arrow pointer and move it to the "front"? I think the arrow should show up no matter what color you are on. I noticed that when on some of the darker colors it becomes very hard to see. Maybe nobody else has this problem, but after a long day in front of a computer screen this "old fart" has problems seeing and I want to blame it on something other than my age. 

Well Larry, now that I am running version X6, I have lost the black outline to my arrow cursor and although it is on top of everything so far, I have trouble seeing it too . . . .

As far as the extra post is concerned open the DBX for that wall and increase the post spacing to be more than the length from the corner to the door and the unwanted post should not be there.

Would corner boards solve this ?

Purple is a good color

 

red can conflict with reference lines

 

Lew

Changed to purple

For some creation modes we use a cross cursor + instead of an arrow or cabinet or ... When we are using the cross cursor we hide it when cross hairs are on and the aperture size is zero.

 

The Arrow cursor is set in the control panel of the system on Windows.

 

There is also a transparency setting for the overlay that draws feedback for selected objects, cross hairs and cursors.

 

Cursors are drawn on this layer when the "Synchronize with Cursor" option is checked. If you uncheck this option then Cursors are drawn by the system and don't use the transparency setting.

 

The transparency can also be controlled. 20% is the default we chose. You may want to try tweaking this up/down. Anything less than about 5% or greater than about 75% is probably no good, but that is a judgment call based on your personal preferences and the colors you choose for highlighting things.

Thanks, haven't been to that part of control panel for years.  Always interesting to delve into deeper functions of the program, like transparency setting.

Doug.....What about giving a solid fill to the pointer arrow that's with the cross hairs so it is "in front" of everything?

I have a solid filled white with black outline arrow that shows over everything but I have never changed it and do not know where to do that.

I have red cross hairs because when they were black I was accidently leaving then in screen shots, and having to redo the shots.

Doug.....When I move my cursor around in plan view I just have cross hairs. When I move over the cursor over to an elevation I have cross hairs "plus" an arrow pointer. It's this arrow I"m talking about having a solid fill. Right now it has a fill, but it is semi-transparent and many times when the cross hairs and this arrow is over a colored area it is hard to see whereas if the arrow had a solid fill that wasn't semi-transparent things would be much better. That is, at least for these tired poor eyes.

Are you in "Select Objects" mode ?

In other modes like doors or windows you will not have the pointer.

In some other modes like "Revision Cloud" you will have a special symbol instead.