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I am a big John Lautner fan, and I've been curious:  has anyone spent the time to recreate unique or wild concrete roofs similar to the ones he designed in some of his most famous works?  Shown below are images from the Silvertop Residence, Sheats-Goldstein Residence, and Casa Arango.  For those that have done similar, what is the process like?  I don't even know what tools you would use to start such an endeavor...

On 7/23/2020 at 7:05 PM, Alaskan_Son said:

Instead of placing that Layout Page Table directly onto a layout page, place it in a CAD Detail in Layout, and then send that CAD Detail to your layout page (from layout to layout).  This makes it very easy to simply copy that view and reposition/crop the layout boxes instead of having to meticulously mask ask adjust drawing order.  Here are a couple quick videos I made a little while back showing the method I typically use for this type of thing...

 

Videos no longer available but thank you for this description - I will use this idea.

6 years later - wondering if a Charlotte NC group ever came together?  I'd be willing to organize one for a monthly or quarterly get-together.

On 6/19/2017 at 10:55 AM, Joe_Carrick said:

Robert's answer will get the sheet size you want, but the borders are a different issue.  I have several sets of borders in the same layout.  Each set of borders is on specific layer(s) - naturally on page 0.  I have a layer set for each sheet size that displays just that border set.

 

It's fairly easy to create a new set of borders on page 0

1. Marque select everything on page 0
2. Copy/Paste Hold Position
3. Edit the Layer to "Arch E - 30x42"
4. Turn off the display of all other layers
5. Set the Sheet Size as Robert suggested
6. Edit the Border to fit the new sheet size.

You can create borders and layer sets for all the different sheet sizes and quickly switch between them simply by changing the Layer Set and Sheet Size.  You may need to "Center the Sheet" but otherwise it's pretty simple.

 

ps:  I have each sheet size border aligned to the same point at the top-right corner.  This keeps my title block that is along the right side of my layouts in the same positions.

Not to sound like a dummy, and also apologize for resurrecting a nearly 7-year old thread, but to clarify, you use this method to have a single Layout template that you can use for multiple sheet sizes (Arch D, Arch E, etc.)?  Do you still use this method?  I only use 2 sheet sizes, and this seems like a way to save myself a lot of duplication effort in maintaining 2 layout templates for the two sheet sizes I use.

As a builder, we use Buildertrend for everything: file storage, selections, change orders, invoicing, POs, billing, budget tracking, schedule, bids/estimates, and as a communication platform to both clients and vendors/trade partners.  We use the To-Dos, Daily Logs religiously.  

But the plans and specs come from outside tools; Buildertrend is just the repository.  Buildertrend feeds info to Quickbooks for issuing payments to vendors or tracking payments from clients, and our back office bookkeeping.

This system has worked well for us, our clients, and our vendors, across our whole portfolio of work from our smallest renovation project up to our largest (so far) $20mm build.

This may not be as helpful to a designer/architect, but considering design work feeds construction work, there isn't a downside to using a similar format to what the client is likely to see once they start construction.

On 11/24/2023 at 12:25 AM, mtldesigns said:

Hey Chief...

 

I recently bought a laptop to keep the business going, since my desktop STILL hasn't been fixed by Dell.  Supposedly tomorrow, hoping so.  My question is, this toggling back and forth to transfer my lone license is a PITB, when do you plan on having a sale for a person who needs a second license and who is current on his SSA?

Thanks

Would it make more sense to just do a month-to-month subscription on your laptop until you get your desktop/primary computer up and running, then drop the monthly subscription?  Seems more cost effective since your situation is likely to be temporary (if not already resolved).