Doug_N

So the question is what time should we Zoom to see if I can help? How about 10am EST? That would be 10pm your time, right?

I have a paid account so no problems there. What is our time difference? I am EST.

Sorry Neil, I did the roof extension because of an assumption that I made from this view of the house posted earlier on. Maybe we can do a zoom meeting and I can see what you are doing and help you a bit, perhaps early next week? I opened the model that you posted in the last post, and all the roofs were joined. I also had no problem with floating roof dormers, once I set the wall height of the dormer in the dormer DBX to ensure no interference with the ridges. The wall poke up through the roof on the side of the first floor because in the wall DBX under structural, the default wall height is turned off. Turn that on, and the wall no longer pokes through the roof. Oh, and the missing trim, is because in the default preferences for roof, you have the sub facia and the facia boards turned off.

Does raise up, do you mean all floors the same amount to each floor has increased ceiling heights? Assuming you mean the latter, go to preferences and change the default ceiling height for each floor level. This would also require that you haven't changed any individual room ceiling heights.

Here are all of the steps in X-16

X-17 is now a free upgrade to subscribers. It really is a huge upgrade and well worth the effort. Hopefully you are a CA subscriber. I will do a video and do this again showing all of the steps.

This is best handled with the roof in auto rebuild. There is a porch with invisible walls to generate the front overhang. The pitch of the overhang roof is reduced by adjusting the pitch using the roof dialog in the wall DBX. The peak over the door is created using the gable line tool (only works if the roof is in automatic). I nearly forgot to mention that the preferences was set to ignore upper floor. Turn that off.) The floating dormer is adjusted by setting the wall height to allow the dormer roof not to exceed that ridge height of the main roof. I included the file that I worked on for your review. Hope that helps. (All done in X-17) Michael's House.2.zip

Hi Angela, Perhaps post the plan file on the forum. I would like to see what is happening there as well. It is not clear, at least to me what you are trying to do, so maybe a bit more description. Now for something else, are you currently a BCIN designer?

If you're not careful with this method, the deck wall can suddenly replace the external wall. That is why I put in the changing the wall spec to furring.

When doing the edges of the deck, also do an edge parallel to the exterior wall, but offset so that there is a space between the edge and the exterior wall. (That edge can be an invisible wall.) Make click on the edge and open the DBX for that wall, make it a furred wall. Now move that up to the exterior wall and presto. You have a deck that is adjacent to the exterior wall but not cutting into it. Hope that helps.

this is what I see

Just move the walls to the new size, and rebuild the roofs, framing and foundation to suit.

Here is a view and quote from the OP on what they are looking for after they did some editing.. I think my video covered that, unless I am missing something.

You are so close. Now you need to make the roof plans join. Here is a video that I made to address this exact situation. Sorry there is a glitch in the middle that cuts off a comment in mid sentence.

You can manually adjust the ridge like to match. Make note of the ridge height that you would like to match, then use that on the roof to be adjusted locking the facia top height. This will disable auto rebuild, so you will have to join the roof plane intersections yourself.

Make the railing layer have dashed lines.

Dennis, Please watch the video. Thanks

Great advice from both Gene and Michael. Nice work colleagues.

Wow, this would be a question that Rene Rabbitt might be able to answer. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/profile/10037-renerabbitt/ From my experience, the answer is no, but then Rene is the expert, so if there is an answer other than no, he would be the one that would know.

Hi Dennis, If you have started this project, then posting the plan file may help someone to answer your question. Also a photo of an example might be clearer than your posed question. Something like this?

I see! Sorry i misunderstood the problem.

It seems that you can do a macro to get a line length, then use a global variable to use that in a text somewhere else. There doesn't seem to be a way to get dimension data from the actual dimension itself

I really don't understand the problem. CA can do text both ways, at least if you use richtext. For the library user, I think he should do an early withdrawal on his request.

Rich text and just underline the characters not the spaces. This would be a good feature for CA to implement though.