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5 hours ago, MarkMc said:

Not sure what you're after. Guessing it's an addition? in which case perhaps a 3D reference view with some creative layer settings. Here made the addition Glass house and referenced the as built set to standard. On the addition plan the first shows only walls and roof, second shows only attic walls and roof, third only attic walls.

Yes it is an addition but part of the overhang has to remain so I was looking for a way to illustrate that in the demolition plan.  Thanks for the replies Mark and Joe!

I searched "Glass Vector View" but have to admit didn't look close enough .  When I searched vector clear I came across the tread "Can a Material Be Nothing?" where you wrote about making a new symbol without a panel which sent me in the right direction.  I ended up making a symbol so it looks like it is glass.  Thanks for the help!!

Hello, 

Not sure if this possible but I am trying to show how far a roof has to be removed for a renovation job.  I thought to use a vector camera view and add some notes overtop in the layout.  I am trying to place a piece of glass at the point where they have to stop removing the existing roof.  I have the same material as the windows of the house which are see through but the separate piece of glass remains color filled.  Is it possible to make it see through? I just want to have the outside lines showing.

Thanks for any help!    

Thanks for that!  I was doing something similar to that but whenever I moved the camera, the lines have to be manually moved also which is why I started to look into this to save some time.  Personally I would like the program to improve on items like that, which can make it easier and faster to produce construction drawings rather then all the 3D Photo stuff which I find is plenty good the way it is for showing the customer what the project will look like.  

Thank you very much!!

I should have been more patient and checked out the layout page also (or just close a cross section view camera) but when I was trying it, I changed the layer to a red color to check it and only the color of the 3D overview cameras changed on my working plan but not the cross section lines so I assumed it wasn't working.  However when I send it to the layout, as Michael suggested, the cross section lines also had a different color. 

I assume it is not possible to have the callout on a separate layer as the cross section line? If that was the case it would really suit the situation because I want the cross section lines less visible on the floorplan layout to make it cleaner looking but the callouts on the side can stay black and very visible.     

Hello Chiefers, 

Is it possible to change the line color for a Backclipped Cross Section view?  I have a callout on both sides of the plan with a short/long dashed line connecting them which is black but I would like it to be more of a lighter grey so that it is lighter on the prints.  Can't seem to find anything in the settings and changing the layer color doesn't do it.  Thanks for any help!

Double click on the room so it opens the  "Room Specifications" window and at the bottom in this window there is "Floor Structure", click on the edit button of the Floor Structures and change the material there.  That seemed to work for me although I did have to pull up your walls a bit to hide the gap in between because it was still showing the regular concrete from the walls.  

It worked, until I changed the railing to invisible then it went back to the regular concrete.  However, I went in the actual floor structure settings in the Room Specifications and changed the Floor Structure material and then it worked.  Thanks for your help!!  

I have them invisible on my plan.  Its not a big deal as I usually don't change the concrete anyways but when it came up I thought it be nice to know.  I tried some different settings in the wall definition and wall structure but it won't change it for me.    

I didn't ask but would still be interesting to know what the answer would be to also change the side of the slab?

Sorry, not 100% sure what happened but it looks like I re-posted something that Solver and David helped me solve the other day.  Thanks for your replies and renewed help anyways!

The framers like to have the size of a door or window shown on the floor plan and the supplier likes a door or window schedule.  I thought I could please both and make a label that shows schedule number and door size however when I make the schedule, the schedule number displays on the plan and I can't get the label settings to show up.  Picture 12 is what I want (with the schedule number), Picture 11 is what shows up when I make a schedule and Picture 13 is the label setting of the item. 
What I am doing wrong? 

Awesome, thanks Solver!!

But I can't  

There must be a setting I'm missing or something simple like that.  

I have attached a plan, if someone wants to open the door to the solution. 

Thanks for the replies Eric and David!

Only displays the schedule number, no sizes.  Not sure if that makes sense but to me it seems like that as soon as a schedule is made it "overrides" the actual label.  

The framers like to have the size of a door or window shown on the floor plan and the supplier likes a door or window schedule.  I thought I could please both and make a label that shows schedule number and door size however when I make the schedule, the schedule number displays on the plan and I can't get the label settings to show up.  Picture 12 is what I want (with the schedule number), Picture 11 is what shows up when I make a schedule and Picture 13 is the label setting of the item. 
What I am doing wrong? 

Thanks for explaining that.  I did not know this but had wondered before where the "ground 0" would be.  

Thanks for the advice!  The roof is a gable roof so that sounds like a bit more work. 

17 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

This can pretty easily be accomplished one of 2 ways...

 

1.  In the truss detail

2.  Using the truss polyline

Does this have to be done manually to every truss?  That be a bit of a pain 

14 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

Also it looks like it is time to update your signature.

Oops, you guys said something about this a while ago so I should know better.  My bad

I'm searching for how to make piggy back trusses and find this.  Is it possible to make piggy back trusses in X12 or is there a round about way to achieve this? 

Thanks in advance!

12 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Not a spreadsheet but here is a Cheat Sheet Curt Posted a few years ago....... the VRD is now the VSD in X11

 

Curt's Energy Heel Info.pdf

 

Thanks for that, this will come in handy!! I still find it amazing how so many of you that have a lot of experience with the program take the time to explain and help solve our problems!  I think Chief Architect should have a reward system for you people. So many points per post (that's helpful) and a golf trip to Coeur d'Alane with enough points  

Thank you much for the explanation! That fixed it

Sorry was out for a while and thanks for the replies.  I have attached a plan.

Headers.plan

Yes I did