stephenbc

it was the context "Owner Object".  Thanks Michael

yes, but my macro is greyed out when I try to insert it in the windows specification dbx.  Sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable on the macro front, but I'm clearly missing something here.

Not sure how to write a macro for displaying the area of a window object.  I see macros for closed polylines and boxes, but wondering windows are possible?

right, you are.

That happened to me a few weeks ago.  I found that it's because I've built the wall framing.  Try deleting the wall framing and you might see the interior framing 'appear' again in the dbx.

Thanks for the suggestions.  As it turns out, this problem is the result of a string of points that seemed to have been generated so close to each other and in one direction, that it looks like a thick red line.  The only thing that gets rid of them (or in this case what looks like a thick red line) is to delete temporary points.

In an effort to determine what caused the placement of all these points, I thought back to all the things I was doing and I can only suggest that it may have been a result of roof generation on walls that are curved and others that aren't orthogonal.  The situation created an undesirable roof plane in one place which I deleted, then modified others.  This may have created all these intersection temporary points, that ultimately looked like a line.  SSA found the solution.

So, Alaska, maybe you were doing the same thing?

Yes, they are all off.

Anybody ever see this red line that just happened to appear and not go away?  Note the layer set is all off.

Yes Perry, weird.  After further digging, the issue appears to have something to do with framing.  I had manually (select box) deleted framing on the house...leaving the framing on the (separate) garage.  This somehow caused the 3D in-fill on the house walls to disappear.  After deleting the wall framing on the garage...the house walls filled again.   

Yes, Fir Stud 24" OC.

Wondering what I did, as I don't see the main layer in 3D anymore.  Any suggestions?

Me thinks you are right...will try it!  Thanks Michael.

Is it possible to auto generate roofs that have a pitch of say 4.5:12 on the top floor and 3:12 for extensions above the first floor all at once?  I'm finding that rebuilding the roof has to be set at one pitch for the whole structure.  Anyway around that?  Thanks.

S

I've attached a simple plan.  Ideally, I'd like to add a gutter on the ends of the curved roof.  I'm not sure how to do this, so any help would be appreciated.

Hmmm...not sure why plan didn't attach...will look into it.

Gutter on curved roof.zip

I'm experimenting with a curved roof that covers a building with non parallel walls at each end of the curved roof.   Walls like this have the effect of rendering the ends of the roof as not level (if soffit width is the same along the walls), thus CA won't automatically display a gutter on these roof plane edges.  How does one get CA to add a gutter to roof edges that are not level (i.e. slightly sloping)? 

Thought that might be the case...thanks Mike.

Reviewing the CA videos I see that all the dormers are created on a single roof plane.  I'm interested in creating a dormer on a second story where the roof has many planes because it is created off a slightly curved wall.  It appears that placing a dormer or auto dormer won't work because CA seems to not like creating a hole across two or more roof planes.  To accomplish this, I'm wondering if one would have to create this dormer manually, and if so, create openings in each roof plane to make it work?

Has anyone come across a situation like this?  And is this the only way to accomplish this across a multi-plane roof?

Thanks again.

Thanks for the ideas.

S

If one wants to display the pre-construction terrain with the post (planned) construction terrain on a section/elevation view, how does one create two terrains in one project?