Doug_N

You can "put the bushes behind" the tree by changing the draw order.

Steve, great video. I have had than problem lots of times and solved it by deleting and stretching walls, but your solution is very elegant.

By Layout Page your are referring to the layout file? Does that mean I should define the variables in the layout first, then use them in the plan file? filename.layout > page xxx %$lotarea=999% filename.plan > First Floor (plan view) [polyline shape] (label) %$lotarea= area.round(2)% Something like that?

HI Ruby Geeks I am using two plan files for a layout, one of the house and one for a detached two story garage. In doing the site statistics I create ruby global variables for floor areas, exterior wall areas, ridge and eave heights for inclusion of a lot statistics analysis. I do the tables in a cad detail file in the house plan file, but I can't find a way to pass the values of the variables in the garage plan file to the cad detail sheet in the house plan file. Any ideas on how to do this, or a work around? Doug

Are you in Vector view?

If you are adding the leaders in the layout file you are in for a rough ride. One workflow that works well for doing situations is to create these types of drawings in a CAD detail page in the PLAN file. You can block these, and save them to your library and then you can link them to a layout file with no problems at all.

Oh yes, you have hit the nail on the head, thus avoiding thumb damage. Lol

I have struggled with this default darned deck eating into the exterior wall situation for, well forever. I had no idea that there was such an easy solution and had been manually adjusting the ledger on every project. Finally, an answer!! Awesome...

How about this Perry?

What Perry said plus... Not only that but if the existing header is not adequate and there is another window opening going into the same wall (meaning in that room) or the existing header is within the construction building permit scope (material changes to the room that the header is in) the building department may require the header to be brought up to current code.

I would also make sure that you don't have pony walls as interior gable ends, remove wall caps from attic walls and define the siding for the walls as a wall type and not paint the siding in a wall type with a different siding.

This may help. Sorry, no music this time. Existing.plan

The demo only fails if you move the object vertically. If the object is moved horizontally, the relationship is maintained. The segment linked to the text box should be able to be linked horizontally or vertically. I think that should be a settable default option. As for the music we now are 50/50 on that topic.

LOL, i forgot it was on.

You can do that although the answer of how to do it is sort of counter intuitive. Also, the part that connects the arrow to the leader line is the part I am referring to,

Good suggestion and I am going to bake that into my template.

Yes there is. You can do it with room poly lines and then assign a macro to each polyline area like this %$rma1=area% where $rma1 is a variable that stores the area for that room polyline. Do that for each room, and then you can make a text box that adds them all up. "Total living area for apt 1 is:%$tarea = $rma1 + $rma2...% and so on until you have them for every area. The total is generated automatically, and if you change a room area and refit the polyline for that room, the total is automatically updated as well.

And if you don't have enough segments, after you do the text you can break the leader and add more segments. The "3" key is very useful.

I agree with Eric, this is not a project that an auto generated roof will complete. You will blow hours tinkering with invisible walls and still get questionable results. Here is one that I did by modifying the roof after getting an autobuild. It was pretty easy to do and achieves what you were looking for. The siding was changed in my model so that you could tell which was mine and which was your original. 1668575055_Desiredroof-DN.plan

Michael kind of shamed me into doing with substance. Not perfect but pretty close. Substance is limited to 3 colours and the sample had 4 colours. Oh well.

Yup I am sure that I could, just don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Feeling just a tad lazy today. lol.

Anyone have a material like this? I don't see anything in the catalogue.

Hi Cam, So I played with your plan file, and noted that you have some extra roof planes. I deleted them, turned off auto roof rebuild, and changed the slope of the shed roof as Eric mentioned in his earlier post. I attached the revised file so that you can see what I did. You may be able to apply these techniques to your project. 778952992_Piper_3rdRound2_4_2021 (1).plan

Ahh I see. Well the gullwing roof is not too difficult to do manually either. Do one side of the building using two roof planes, one for the shallow slope and one for the steeper. Use the join tool to put them together. Pull the peak back from the ridgeline, then select both planes. Copy and paste then reflect about the center of the house and you should have it.