Doug_N

Unfortunately, all of my project files have been done in X13 and I wasn't experiencing this problem until about a month ago. The problem has gotten progressively worse to the point where it is becoming difficult to make any progress. There is no chance to save anything, nor report the error, as in Rich's example. Mine just crashes and exits. If you are in the clean up drawing problems during workflow, when a crash occurs, you have to go and check all the corrections that you have made. It is easy, at this point, to miss something that you thought that you corrected, but has reverted to the error condition. This is a real headache.

Updated the driver, but still getting the crashes. They seem to be more frequent as the project file grows.

Working on it. Let's see how this goes. Fingers crossed

I wonder if this is related to Covid-19? The device removed error and resulting crash seems to be spreading. My setup: X13 MSI NVidia GTX970 Windows 10 64b Pro 2 TB SSD drive C: data is mirrored to MS OneDrive. I would attach the working files, but the zip file is too big. I have reported this to tech support. This is the crash message. When it appears the menu for the program is locked and there is no chance to save whatever you were working on. If you click on "Check Knowledge Base" this is what you get:

Rene, Well that is disappointing to hear. Thanks for your feedback though. I will have to find another way to do the in situ background. CA certainly doesn't make this aspect easy, Doug

Rene, I bought a 3d camera to document my as built projects prior to doing renovation and addition drawings. I was wondering if could offer any advice for creating somewhat realistic neighborhood spherical background pictures so that I could drop my model into the actual neighborhood of the project? The camera that I bought is the RICOH THETA SC2

The roof baseline, when generated by CA is located above the outer plane of the wall's main layer. (from the CA Help File) Editing Roof Baselines The pitch direction and initial height of any roof plane - manual or automatic - is determined by its Baseline. See The Baseline. In plan view, a Baseline can be selected and edited independent of the roof plane. To select it, click on the roof plane at the location of the Baseline and then click the Select Next Object edit button. The Status Bar tells you when the roof plane Baseline is selected. See Select Next Object. If a roof plane Baseline is moved, its height will not change. Instead, the height of the roof plane will be affected. In most cases, therefore, moving a roof plane’s Baseline independent of the roof plane itself is not recommended. If the angle of a roof plane’s Baseline is changed, the direction of the roof plane’s pitch will be modified. The Baseline Angle can be modified in either of two ways:In the Roof Plane Specification dialog. This will change its angle relative to the floor, and will tilt the roof plane along an axis perpendicular to its Baseline. This method is helpful when a specific eave angle is needed. See General Panel. Using its Rotate edit handle in plan view. This will change its angle rela tive to the roof plane’s eave or ridge and will modify the direction of the pitch. This method is best when the pitch direction matters more than the angle of the eave. Both of these methods can be used to modify the same roof plane, although the second approach makes it difficult to control both the pitch direction and eave angle, and is not recommended. The length of a roof plane Baseline can be lengthened or shortened using its edit handles without changing any of the roof plane’s attributes. This is from a test file that I used to auto generate roof planes, then the edit roof DBX The roof BASELINE seems to be the place where the outer plane of the wall main layer intersects the top edge of the roof rafter when using conventional framing. Moving the baseline by editing WILL CHANGE THE ENTIRE LOCATION OF THE ROOF PLANE! This means that all of the intersections of the roof valleys, ridge intersection and fascia height for that plane will be changed. This is just a heads up that changing the location of the baseline may have unexpected results in the roof structure. It may be easier to delete the plane, and then draw a new roof baseline over the bearing wall, then editing intersections using the join roof planes tool.

Do you have any evidence that this is, in fact, the case? I have not seen any such evidence, and to the best of my knowledge, everyone who has reported this has a valid licence. I know that I do. I experience erratic mouse behaviour with X-13 that I never experienced with X-12.

Framing groups doesn't help with this problem unless you frame the interior floor, then change the "ballooning" attribute for the rear wall, then frame the deck, and make sure that you don't have automatic floor framing turned on at any time or command the floor framing to be rebuilt.

Using ballooning walls results in some unfortunate side effects on the inside of the building. Note that in your posted picture the inside floor terminates before the foundation wall.

Quite often the footing will cut through the floor slab with a very short stem wall or curb for the load bearing wall to sit on. This accomplishes several things. 1) There is a clear limit for where the framed wall above the curb can be placed. 2) It is clear to the inspector that the wall is intended to be load bearing. 3) The bottom plate is kept dry in most conditions.

That works for the deck, but results in a very strange floor platform for the rooms inside.

Nice solution!

Rick, please post the plan, so that someone can explore all the settings.

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I use a Brother MFC-J6945DW Printer, which will print 11 x 17 copies in colour. The printer was less than $500, has two media automatic feeders and will scan 11 x 17 as well. This size is pretty useful, and covers about 95% of all my client paper needs, and most applications that still require paper copies. Ink is not out of this world expensive either. I still wish that I had a 24" wide printer though, even though realistically it wouldn't pay for itself.

SB-9 Requirement for Soil Gas Control.rtf I have scanned a copy of SB-9 in the Ontario Building Code for Soil Gas Control The only part that I can see that mentions where the radon vent is to be located is near the CENTRE of the FLOOR, not the centre of the room. This could actually be worse for you. 3.2. Providing for Subfloor Depressurization (1) Except as required in Sentence (3), granular material shall be installed below the floor-on-ground according to Sentence 9.16.2.1.(1) of Division B of the Building Code.(2) A pipe not less than 100 mm in diameter shall be installed vertically through the floor. at or near its centre. such that (a) its bottom end opens into the granular fill described in Sentence (1). and (b) its top end will permit connection to depressurization equipment....

This unintended stair shelf is common in lots of houses. Sometimes this is addressed by adding a false wall on the shelf in the stairwell to make the wall look continuous, but that results in a void behind the wall. This could be filled with extra insulation or used to hide ducts or piping. If you do renovations, you're bound to find these "shelves" in lots of northern homes (houses with basements.)

I would create a ceiling plane below the stairs to get sufficient insulation that would match the suite floor insulation thickness, not that it is require, but it sure would make good thermal sense. I have a BCIN HVAC designer who would do the building calcs, supply design forms and drawings for you for about $500 or so. Adam Carter 1 905 419 1961. Canada HVAC Design. http://canadahvacdesign.com/. canadahvacdesign@gmail.com I am sure that Adam can make some recommendations that would suffice.

I would have a discussion with the plans examiner. The area under the slab is all connected, so it shouldn't matter where the radon rough in is located. (I am assuming that the rough in goes through the slab on grade.)

Where the heck did you snag a RTX 3080??

Does Alberta use the National Building Code? In Ontario we have our own version (OBC) with lots of goodies added onto it just to make live unbearable. SB-3 for fire rated wall and ceiling assemblies and sound transmission indexes are very helpful though.

Maybe put in in the furnace room and mechanically vent to room to the exterior. None of the air in the furnace room should get into the occupied space because of the HRV. The tough part comes when they do a radon test and find that you have to vent the gas, and then you need to go above the roof!

I have another question for you. How is the radon gas rough in accessed?