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Turn on Active Layer Display Options, and make sure the Terrain Perimeter line has a red cross for used, and a check mark for displayed.

If you have Object Snaps turned on, a little red X will appear when you are close enough to the drop point to land on it. It's pretty small but I find it helpful.

Chief already has a video. Thanks, that saves a step

Why use a doorway at all ? Just break the low wall and pull it back to create opening.

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Kal could also, break the wall in plan view, and pull the left section up in cross section/elevation view to achieve the look

I've always used the "hold left button and use second finger to scroll out then in to get to second snap position" and have become good at doing it, but your suggestion is better, thanks !

Hardly used Fresh Untitled 1.plan

If you mean a a large and luxurious country residence, Chief can absolutely do it. It may come down to the power of your computer as to weather or not it can do (handle) big highly decorated designs.

How about, change auto dimensions color to red, select the ones you wish to keep, move them to manual dimensions layer and then turn off auto dimensions (Drawing before turning off auto dim.s)

Randy, if you mean is there a setting for auto dims that will limit the number of dimension strings it produces, I do not think so. You have to delete the ones you do not need. Especially with interior dims, when there is a line for every wall in every room, plus openings etc.

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From our residential construction guide for the county. NOTE that your roofing material may ask for a minimum venting, or you can void warranty

With electrical connections drawn and left as generated, a cad line (red) drawn between the switch and fixture, and the distance measured from mid line to mid arc, with a point to point dimension, you can see they are all almost the same. If they can program that in, could not they program them to be something like, never more that 1/3 switch to fixture length ? I am clueless when it comes to writing code, but that be a time saver.

I was wondering if this happens if you lock the Electrical, and Electrical Connections layers when your plan is finished and sent to layout. Will a locked layer change on you, on it's own ?

I attach this note to proposals to do as-built drawings. ( I got most of it from home inspection proposals.) Feel free to copy and use if needed. NOTE - As Built Plan Limitations As built drawings are limited to observable conditions. All are subject to verification in the field. Among things that limit observation are: interiors of finished rooms, floors under covering, interior of hollow walls, space between floor and ceiling or soffits, structural segments to which there is no access without defacing or tearing out lumber/insulation/masonry or finished work, painted surfaces and built in cabinetry.

Precut studs in this part of Northern CA are 92 1/4. This results in a wall frame height of 96 3/4 ( the actual measurement will usually be @ 1/8 in over due to imperfections in plates etc.) Allows for 5/8 in drywall ceiling with no wall board trimming. On a slab, an 8 ft piece of sheathing, held 1/2 in. up from the bottom of the bottom plate, just makes to within 1/4 in of the top of top half of doubled top plates. To me, a longer, even just a little longer, precut stud could mean buying 9 ft sheathing and trimming it all down.

Consider a deck top for actual work. I am happy with the one I recently purchased, see in signature

After you click on the dimension, and it shows the numbers, which they do when selected, you need to choose "Open Object", then you have a Dialogue Box, where you go to "Segments", and there, you may add text to the length shown, in the segment, or you may choose other segments, assuming you have more than one. That is the purpose of the numbers, they will not stay when you un-select the line.

A thread on this subject

Surfaces contained within Architectural Blocks or Symbols are not directly accessible for processing, they must be unpacked in some manner first. From my what I can determine this takes 3-4 times the processing than if they were not in an Architectural Block or Symbol. This gets even worse when these are nested together, blocks within blocks This is interesting. On my computer, a perspective overview of 70 chandeliers takes 3 sec., but if I select and block those same 70 ch.s it takes 7 sec. I think I will go back to my detail pages, which slow down work in layout views, and see what has been sent in as blocks and perhaps some undoing blocks in in order.

You can also use auto dimensions, and then 'weed out' what you do not want. Auto interior dims. will put one for each wall in every room, which you will not usually need, and so on.

After you build the floor framing, the gap will fill.

Thanks for the invite, wish I come up tomorrow........ And thanks for volunteering Alaskan Son for guiding services, I will be giving him a call soon, however I may have been skinning crab in Kodiak, before he was born (summers of '68 and '69)

In my case, we want open or vaulted ceilings, which restricts the potential for insulating the attic, or having a so called "high performance" attic. So the trade off, as you note, is "high performance" wall insulating system, 1" ridged form "cladding". Have not had to go to triple glazing yet. We are on a slab so not had to worry with floor assembly showing correctly thankful for that.