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    It would seem that there is more to the missing sides than just the surface mount fixtures!
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    I am guessing, but it would seem that regardless of the shape of the fixture, the light is eminating from a point source. If you look at the geometry of the fixture, and do an imaginary ray trace, the long shadow makes sense in the model. To fix this, in my wild ass guess of an opinion, it would seem that CA will have to program a light source that is a line rather than a point.
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    I will be adding a fascia for sure. The blocking isn't for the border planks, it is for the biased planks to land on near the border planks. I don't see any way around it. The client loves the border planks, so they are here to stay. As for the deck framing contractor, he will see the design before quoting, so if he has any ideas as to how it can be done better, I will be all ears. I think that perhaps the center blocking is probably not needed in the narrower decks.
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    Here is what the final project should look like.
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    Yeah, I said that later in our back and forth. I did the blank foundation like you said, and then it worked for the blocking. Thanks for that.
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    Here is the deck design concept. The deck sections are created with invisible walls, but that creates a ton of extra framing and foundation piers.
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    I had to do most of that manually. The blocking was copied from an original block placed automatically. I couldn't add any blocking manually using Anything added was at the ceiling level, and even when lowered to the floor level would not trim properly. That was the issue. Since we have been talking I added a blank foundation and now I can see the deck framing in level zero. The blocking tool works fine. The beam tool does not work at all, it just doesn't do anything. The joist tool works but not for deck defaults, for floor defaults. I was hoping for a manual deck editing tool for framing.
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    I started with autobuilt decks, but the joists were not working out at all. I had to manually re arrange the joists, and add support for the deck plank ends where they terminated at the border planks.
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    The house is only a there to show the relationship of the deck. I could build a foundation, but the deck was the project, not the house.Let me try that and I will see what happens.
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    No I did the deck on Level 1
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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