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i just did a folding sliding door for a design, i used an overhead door, i built individual doors and made them a library item and inserted them in, i then used cad to draw them in plan. I had to draw a polygon over the overhead door dashed line to hide it, A lot of work to get this result.

Thanks David. Is there a way to have railing wall extend down to bottom of stair? The railing wall stops at top of stair and then stair is obviously set in.

Also stair railing should be continuous, how to do this in ca?

Thanks guys, that is great. The 3rd stair at top i had to pull wall from above down to fill in opening, but the framing shows thru, is there a way to do this so it does not happen?

HI everyone, i tried looking through forum to get this answer and i couldn't find an answer. Is there a simple way to show a knee wall with cap for stair railing. it is a very common way to do a stair railing cost effectively. I am hoping that in x9 they have this figured out? I took a look at videos and they did not help. I want a wall that follows stair with a cap on it. i know i could do polyline solids but that is dumb. Any help would be appreciated Cheers. David

Hi Kirk, thanks for reply, what if I lock certain layers, can someone with another same build open these? What if I turn off material list for layers, can this be turned on? David

I turned off both the material list and can lock any layers i choose to. This way customer can not do a material list and can only change unlocked layers. I tried this on home designer pro 2018 and it worked. Anybody know if someone had a premier version if they could rename file or unlock layers? Here is the file, let me know if anyone can change name and resave or if you can open file and change items. skogg material list and layers locked except cabinets.zip

Interesting, is this contract you would be willing to share? johnny then do you charge extra for the file?

I would appreciate if anyone could share their intellectual property note they place on drawings. I am assuming designers do?

I downloaded a trial of designer pro to see what it could do and it definitely opens x9 files.

Yes there is a switch to allow pro users to allow them to modify. i was more concerned that the customer now could do more with the design like budget takeoffs and such, if they want file they should pay extra for it. one customer is telling me how great there 2020 designer can do things, but I don't think 2020 can export material lists or attach area labels to things like counters, back splashes etc. the customer seems quite impressed with 2020's ray trace 360's. as everyone knows we can produce 360's very fast not in ray trace views that look great. i wonder how long it takes 2020 to produce a ray trace 360... as long as CA? i hardly ever do ray traces anymore, instead I do 360 renders and lots of water colour views.

I do some design work and some renovator customers have home designer pro and want to get chief files. I have never signed a contract with these customers and was wondering what others do if they request the file. I would like to have one price for the design and an additional fee if they want the file as well. Looking for some advice.

Ok, i thought maybe you rubi guris might have a way to extrapolate this data...

Hi Joe, i was looking for an automated way of exporting materials from each room at once.

Hi Ken, i want a list of all materials but by room not by floor

Hi all, is there a way to get a material list in a schedule or spreadsheet that shows quantities by room?

Mark, did you see 2020 now has a 360 virtual view like ca? Have you any experience with their virtual view?

Thanks Eric, then i suppose i would need to add my flush door fillers in manually.

only problem is when i turn this off there is still no way to change the door width size?

So i just need to turn off automatic blind corners then?

Is there a setting ca uses to determine how far to pull cabinet doors and drawers away from another intersecting perpendicular cabinet? I looked around and could not find it and there is no way to change as far as i could see it was locked.

i work for a custom cabinet shop and we do whole house renovations and we apply fillers flush to doors/drawers in corners, next to walls all the time. Maybe if you were a builder grade cabinet shop then perhaps you would not do this. Here are an example of a some fillers we are just completing on a reno.. Once doors go on we have flush fillers to door face, looks good, maybe more than most do?

Hi glen I don't need volume but only sq ft, I show it as a counter to show it has depth in 3D view . how would I make it a material? in material list the counters just kind of show up, you would think they would show up with each cabinet or room? Is there a way to change how they are calculated?

I use polyline solids for shower benches and shower shelfs, is there a way for ca to calculate these in material lists?

Thanks Joe, this is awesome...not i can see where fillers need to go and gables and overhangs. Cheers.