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    In this case there is no foundation level. Test Log Cabin.plan
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    If I go to level 0 the deck disappears or is only shown in the reference level.
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    When I use the manual joist tool on a deck project, the manually placed joists and blocking always end up as ceiling joists and ceiling blocking. I just know I am missing something simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out what that is. It is easy enough to adjust the heights, but then they are on the wrong layers and in the wrong groups. What am I doing wrong?
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    Basement apartment kitchen design. PBR. No first floor or roof, so I guess that is why the ceiling rendered brilliant white.
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    I am working on a large deck design and did a topographical survey of the property. Here is a view of the map. For the client, it would be helpful if I could increase the frequency of the elevation data that appears on each ISO elevation line. Right now there are only two elevation data labels on each line, one at the bottom of the contour and one at the top of the page. If you send the plan to a layout and crop the view, you have no data labels, or very few. It would be good to repeat the labels every 10' or so. Anyone know how to do this? Doug Norton Whitby Ontario 905 409 8487
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    Hey guys, thanks for all of the comments and suggestions. I am at the Fall Home Show this weekend manning a booth (oh my aching feet and back). So I am having a hard time participating in the discussion. Hopefully, I will be able to try some of the suggestions out later. If any of you are in the Toronto area, I am at booth 306 in the Toronto Exhibition Enercare Center 2018 Toronto Fall Home Show | Sept 28 - 30, Enercare Centre‎ so please drop by. Would be very pleased to see you! I really hate trade shows. but one must shake the trees occasionally to get fruit to drop. Lately, I have been really busy doing garage replacement drawings. Strange how things come in groups. More later when I regain my sanity.
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    The schedule is too wide to fit on a page. I would like to split the schedule to stack it.
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    Is it possible to split a schedule by column or rows?
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    Is this what you meant?
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    Also perhaps a couple of pictures of the problem area that you are referring to.,
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    Sorry, Stacey, I can't see the link. Can you just post the filename.plan. Just that file. I should not be too big to post.
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    The alternate designs would probably be for visualization for the client to choose an option. Before executing a framing command the alternate designs should be deleted. First though save the design file as some other name just in case. Just thinking out loud.
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    Could you post the plan file? I am sure that one of us can solve this.
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    Here is a solution. You can have multiple roof planes, and have some on a different layer. You can make some of them invisible. This isn't the case of two roof styles but rather a way of turning off the new roof plane to expose the new roof rafters. It is entirely possible to have more than one roof plane over the same roof area by manually drawing the planes.
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    Here is your building with a shed roof. I missed the note about the half wall after I deleted it. You can extend the roof plane to intersect that wall if you like. Eric pointed out the video about baselines, and that is how I adjusted the elevation of the roof by locking the pitch and editing the baseline to match the baseline of other another nearby hip roof. If you lock the baseline you can change the pitch and pivot the roof about the top of the exterior first-floor wall. Buid5_ShedRf.plan
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    OK, so you can't set the wall to invisible because CA will also make the imbedded doors and windows invisible. So I created a wall type that uses very thick glass to setup a framework for the doors and windows to be placed. Then by setting individual logs from the library, I can fill in the spaces around the doors and windows. Here is a picture of the result of that effort on a test model.
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    LOL Other than drawing this building the rest is easy. Here is what I have cooked up along with Cameron at CA tech support. In the library, there are actually some logs. I can't really use the log walls, because you can't do openings in them. But you can make exterior walls, turn them invisible, install windows and doors, and then stack individual logs up around all of the openings. Using the array feature it should go pretty quickly, sort of. I am certainly open to any other suggestions.
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    Has anyone done a log cabin? I have a client that I am designing a deck and would like to do a rendering of the proposal. Here is a photo of the client's house. I have to somehow recreate a model in CA. Has this already been done? I can't seem to find anything close in the catalogues.
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    As far as feeling stupid goes, I think all of us have worn that hat from time to time.
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    I use onedrive that is included with a MS Office subscription. I then use SyncToy (free from MS) to keep backup copies locally. This way I can access my work files when visiting a client and can also share a particular file or directory with someone that I collaborating with. Works great for me.
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    John, Thanks for posting that great video. Very well done.
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    Thanks Eric for that simple fix. I can't begin to tell you how embarrassed I feel.
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    Reads Eric's answer and then repeatedly bangs his head on the wall.
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    I have noticed something strange. Well strange to me, maybe it makes sense but I can't see why. I want to make a cathedral ceiling, The eave facia is deeper than the gable fascia and when I look at an overall view this is what I see. Is there an easy fix for this? The attached file is just an experimental file that I was using to learn how to control roof and soffit features. Also to get roof framing to behave without excessive thinning. Test ceiling file.plan
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    Thank you gentlemen. Both of the observations and suggestions were very helpful and have solved the problem.