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    Improving construction through advanced methods design. Advanced design software for the design and construction industry

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  1. Bingo, DB you are the man!!
  2. I have rope lights under the kitchen cabinets, and this light bloom above the cabinets is a problem. (X-17) After making all kinds of adjustments that seem to correct the problem, the next time I open the view, the bloom is back. Here is a link to the file, the file was too large to upload. Addition.plan
  3. Doug_N

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    Neil, We were wrong!! You are 14 hours ahead!!! That makes 10 EST Midnight in Queensland. You were patiently waiting for me to send a zoom, and nothing. Those Canadians are not to be trusted you must have thought. Sorry, I should have checked with Dr,.Google. We can try again tomorrow, I will be on at 8am which should be 10 pm your time. My bad.
  4. That may have been a follow-up sequel to Faulty Towers
  5. Doug_N

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    Hi Niel, Thanks for the latest version. I was afraid it may have grown to the size that you couldn't upload anymore. So are we on for Tuesday at 10 EST?
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    Neil Please send me an email (in my signature) so that I can send the zoom link. Also your most recent plan. A link to OneDrive or Dropbox is fine. Doug
  7. Try pulling the dimension set outside of the others, Maybe none of them have dimension extensions. I see the actual dimension has been moved. I suspect that dimension set does not have the same default set as others.
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    So the question is what time should we Zoom to see if I can help? How about 10am EST? That would be 10pm your time, right?
  9. Doug_N

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    I have a paid account so no problems there. What is our time difference? I am EST.
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    Sorry Neil, I did the roof extension because of an assumption that I made from this view of the house posted earlier on. Maybe we can do a zoom meeting and I can see what you are doing and help you a bit, perhaps early next week? I opened the model that you posted in the last post, and all the roofs were joined. I also had no problem with floating roof dormers, once I set the wall height of the dormer in the dormer DBX to ensure no interference with the ridges. The wall poke up through the roof on the side of the first floor because in the wall DBX under structural, the default wall height is turned off. Turn that on, and the wall no longer pokes through the roof. Oh, and the missing trim, is because in the default preferences for roof, you have the sub facia and the facia boards turned off.
  11. Does raise up, do you mean all floors the same amount to each floor has increased ceiling heights? Assuming you mean the latter, go to preferences and change the default ceiling height for each floor level. This would also require that you haven't changed any individual room ceiling heights.
  12. Doug_N

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    Here are all of the steps in X-16
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    X-17 is now a free upgrade to subscribers. It really is a huge upgrade and well worth the effort. Hopefully you are a CA subscriber. I will do a video and do this again showing all of the steps.
  14. Doug_N

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    This is best handled with the roof in auto rebuild. There is a porch with invisible walls to generate the front overhang. The pitch of the overhang roof is reduced by adjusting the pitch using the roof dialog in the wall DBX. The peak over the door is created using the gable line tool (only works if the roof is in automatic). I nearly forgot to mention that the preferences was set to ignore upper floor. Turn that off.) The floating dormer is adjusted by setting the wall height to allow the dormer roof not to exceed that ridge height of the main roof. I included the file that I worked on for your review. Hope that helps. (All done in X-17) Michael's House.2.zip
  15. Hi Angela, Perhaps post the plan file on the forum. I would like to see what is happening there as well. It is not clear, at least to me what you are trying to do, so maybe a bit more description. Now for something else, are you currently a BCIN designer?