Doug_N

I can't see a way of putting a wall there

Oh oh. LOL

The other thing is that the end railings have to be 180 Degrees apart as well

Chopsaw, How did you do that??? Amazing.

Hi Ryan, The problem is a bit more complicated than that. Here is the architect's ask. CA's generated solution. Also I have the problem of putting a center railing in this plan

This is actually a problem I am having. The image on the left is cad work, and the one on the right is CA generated stairs. Can the one on the left be generated using CA? I can't seem to do it.

Mick, I can't use a default solution because there is a section of joists that are cantilevered over a beam. Those joists and only those joists are not lapped as they cross a load bearing beam.

The other problem that I had was that the joists would lap themselves over the beam. I turned off bearing beam to stop that from happening. Thanks Rob for figuring this out, it was driving me crazy. I don't know why I couldn't see that.

For some reason the header at the end of the floor joists has a gap between the joists and the header. Anyone know why? Moving the header results in turning off automatic framing. Really strange. I really would like to fix this but don't want to turn off automatic framing. 35 Markvill 2nd Storey Additing.zip

Again you are right, that is an underground fibre optic vault for the that communities internet company

Hi Chopsaw, Yes that is exactly what I did. Maybe I should limit the terrain to the SIB values for X and Y

Jacob Great macro! Thanks for the lesson! Doug

No that doesn't make sense. Damn!!!

Yes SIB is standard iron bar. This is what my imported file looks like. The plan file is my imported and adjusted terrain, the PDF is the surveyor's topographical. Untitled 3.plan P2021-099_TOPO_10-12-2021.pdf

Some of the elevations are for things like power lines, trees etc. I suppose I will need to sort out the ones that are problematic.

I will give that a shot! Hold my beer.

Hey Wilson, you're welcome.

Hi Dermot. I think the poster was looking for how to make a shed roof slope diagonally rather than straight across the roof. I get this type of request for near flat roofs that the owner wants to slope to a corner so that water can be directed to a downspout in one corner of the building. I mostly try to deal with this by means of notes on the drawing because rotating the baseline as Chopsaw suggested causes the rafters to be skewed as well, not really a good idea. It would be neat if you could make a shed roof slope in two directions relative to the main walls of the building.

My client provided me with a CVS file with Northing, Easting, and Elevation information. Is there a way to import that to make a CA topo model in the terrain? The files provided where a flat AutoCAD file and a CVS terrain elevation file. Any suggestions would be very welcome. P 21-099.txt P2021-099_sent.dwg

If I am understanding your question you are trying to remove the window frame and sash from the window width and height to get unobstructed glass area. %((width-6.in)*(height-6.in)).round(1)% will give you the result in sq ft rounded to 1/10th of a sq ft. If you are using a window schedule, be sure to turn off using a call out for the window schedule dialog box. In that case you should add something like [%schedule_number%] %width% x %height% Glazing Area %((width-6.in)*(height-6.in)).round(1)% And that would give you

Michael, Yeah, flattened in this case means just one layer. From what others have said, they bring the PDF into a vector capable editor (like AutoCAD) to do their markups.

As it happens I don't have a layout that matches that requirement either. I mostly do 11 x 17 pages so what I intend to do is to just print on 17 x 34 and set the drawing on the bottom left corner.

So this has never happened before (at least to me) but the City of Markham has gone electronic in building permit applications. No surprise there, lots of cities are doing that. The surprise is what they will accept for a drawing. The drawing must be a vector PDF This is a clip from the ePlan submission standard. I have included the whole document for reference. It would seem that CA does not currently support exporting of a vector based PDF. Anyone out there have any ideas about how I can do this? Exporting to AutoCAD mangles some of the text and dimensions so that isn't a workable solution for a whole project. I am at a loss for how to proceed. ePLAN-Submission-Standards-2021.pdf

No questions other than "What were they smoking?"

Great video Steve,