Doug_N

How to do a peel back the layers assembly. The attached plan file has all the layers of a siding 6 wall saved as separate wall types. This isn't very useful for construction drawings, but for illustrative purposes it is pretty amazing. Some of the wall types have to be set to furred walls in order to prevent them from replacing each other. Assembly Layers.plan

Doug, What is it that doesn't work for you?

I have had this happen when redesigning an as built plan. All rooms are defined, then some walls get demolished, and new walls added. Not every time, but sometimes a second room label will appear. I just delete the unwanted labels, seems to work ok, but it can be confusing as to what label belongs to what room.

Thanks for the replies and help Eric and Dermot. I've got it from here.

Thanks Eric, I was unaware of selecting only the rightmost window. So all windows have to be identical? In this case, the two outermost windows are casement, and the rest are fixed glass. No way of doing that I guess. Doug

Has anyone had any experience with bow window modifications? On a bay window, you can click on the window that you want to change, press tab to select it, then press tab and you have an individual window. No so much for bow windows. I am trying to make the individual windows bigger, but can't seem to select them. Anyone know the trick here?

You nailed it Mark. Well done, and thanks!

You're right, it is better but still not aligned. The wall still requires manual adjustment to get the outer wall surface to match.

That doesn't seem to work for a second floor

I am curious about how to enforce wall alignment when CA doesn't want to cooperate. (Maybe because of my understanding of preferences or configuration). Please see the attached file for a view of the problem. Wall Alignment.zip

I agree with you 100% Michael, and the only thing that I used where your suggested stock macros. The only difference is how I handled the schedule and adding the floor number as part of the room number. Doug

Michael, Here is the plan file, the numbers seem to line up to me. Can you show me where they don't line up? Doug Untitled 1.zip

OK Michael, Here is what I did, and what happened as a result. I created a simple building with some rooms. Added a second floor derived from the first floor. Added a room schedule and simplified it to just show what we were interested in, including floor numbers and room numbers. Set up the schedule to include all floors So here you can see that the first floor works fine. Just to be sure that the schedule and room notes were synced, I changed the description of one room to make sure that the schedule and rooms where synchronized. I change the description of a second-floor room as well, and it seems that the second floor worked equally well even though the schedule is on the first floor.

Michael, Actually you can put the schedule anywhere, just set it up to include all floors. Doug

Thanks for the reply. Good to get your perspective.

I do that with a layer called, strangely, construction lines. Just saying.

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A bit off topic but I don't know if this is worthy of starting a new topic. Why are you switching from Revit? I have a manufacturing suite because I also do industrial design, but not much of that anymore and I was thinking about switching the sweet to Revit. Not that I an abandoning CA at all. Just another weapon in the tool box.

Great points guys, I was facing the same problem and couldn't figure it out. I assumed that I did something wrong with the upgrade.

And bug the developers to include it in the "Suggestions" part of the forum too. At least in my, sometimes not so humble, opinion

Thanks for the suggestion Michael and Robert. For now, I guess that is what I will use. And to you Perry (Drawzilla), I am sorry if I came across as being curt. Just going through a really grumpy phase right now.

I see this as a workaround and not as a solution. It kind of works if you only have new and existing, but doesn't allow for extended comments. Client Option, Client to Specify, Renovated west wall only etc.

What I am hoping to do is what is done for windows, doors and for that matter walls. Here is an example for windows. But for rooms, no such joy. Adding existing or proposed to the name of the room creates clutter in the drawing, and is not ideal. Adding text to each line in the schedule is cumbersome at best and if done with notes requires the addition of a note in each room.

Is there a way to add comments to a room schedule. I would like to include "existing" or "proposed" to any given room.

If you look at my solution there are 3 cross elevation data lines starting at 6" inside the garage, 4" out about 4' from the garage and 0" about 12' out from the garage, There are also 2 elevation lines at the edge of the property at 0" running parallel to the long dimension of the terrain perimeter. The cross-lines are only the pavement width long so they ramp the driveway and leave most of the terrain untouched. It works. Here is a plan file. Garage.plan. Notice the contour lines as well.