Doug_N

A client wants floor plans in Visio format. Anyone know a path to get there?

This house is in Bucharest, Romania. How would you do an as-built of this?

Just my opinion on the video. The rendering is spectacular, with a well chosen backdrop. Materials and placement of furniture are also spot on. My only quibble is that the pans are much too fast, not letting the viewer let the scene soak in. Overall idea is awesome.

Draftsight and AutoCad LT are very similar it seems to me.

Gene is right, it is very difficult to diagnosis and suggest a fix

Hi Glenn, I think that it is not intuitive that you have to define the rotation point with a temporary point insertion to do anything but rotate about some point that may not be obvious.

I know that some people's opinions are less liked by most but a downvote on an opinion that is reasonably spelled out? Come one guys.

I suspect the problem that you are running into is using short wall segments to get the foundation offset for the bumped-out wall details. CA does not deal with small wall offsets very well, so one alternate is to use slabs to mimic the solid concrete where required. In perspective, I used a different colour concrete so that the foundation edit could be more clearly seen

More like grapefruits to pomegranates

Hi Michael. Please post the plan file so that people can see the problem and suggest a method or work around to achieve your desired design.

Eric, just wondering, why doesn't CA support export to a IFC format? It would seem a natural from the 3d model once fully developed. Enyone know?

Oops. lol

What makes you think this? I have a college architectural student intern working in my office now that is using an educational version of CA. Traffic on this forum is certainly not down from what I can see. Quite the contrary. I don't know if there are any statistics that are available for this forum but I would be amazed to see a downturn. You can make an ICF model by making your own ICF wall type. I have an ICF project now that is going quite well. I don't know where you are going, but if you think some other software company will treat you better, well good luck with that.

if you have your building already done with no terrain specified, and then import the dxf file, the terrain will automatically adjust to the existing building. Then when you open the terrain specification DBX you can adjust the difference between some point of interest and the first floor in the dialog.

To change the preference of getting richtext or plain text for the leader, use the preference menu Then uncheck this box that will result in getting this when you click on the leader menu

Hi Newell, I think this is exactly what you are looking for:

If you want to see those in section you can do it by attaching a variable to the macro that identifies which stair you are talking about like this: Here I use the global variable $s1 to identify which stair set I am referring to, $s2 for the next stair set and so on. %$s1riser_total=num_treads+1% Risers Run %$s1run=tread_depth%" Rise %$s1rise=riser_height.round(2)%" Then in a text box next to the stairs in elevation you put %$1riser_total% Risers Run %$s1run%" Rise %$s1rise%" A bit of a kludge but it works.

Shayne, In plan view you can attach test to the stairs and use a macro like %num_treads+1% Risers Run %tread_depth%" Rise %riser_height.round(2)%" The number of treads is plus one to count risers which is the way most architectural drawings will specify a flight of stairs. Unfortunately, you can't do this in a section or elevation view with macros.

I have a client that has used my design services over the years, and they have asked me to give them layout drawings with the snap grid visible and the drawing un-dimensioned. For this view they want the visible grid to be 2' squares. Other than drawing the grid with construction lines is there a way to just make the snap grid visible in the layout drawing?

The room dimensions are what real estate companies are looking for when they post floor plans to listing ads. I do floor plans without dimensions for this purpose for some of my building clients.

Ryan, you nailed it. Great answer, thanks. (Smack my forehead for not thinking of that myself)

Strange, the square unit with the fan on top is not in my library. What the heck??

Does anyone have a square air conditioner symbol? The unit that I am looking for has a fan on the top and is usually mounted on either a small pad or on wall brackets.

Line spacing too. lol ;-)

Double ceiling plates can serve 2 independent purposes. 1) To spread the load from the structure above over the studs more evenly 2) To act as a fire stop to inhibit the spread of flame in the interior structure of a wall to the assembly above. When a house has more than one dwelling unit, often the simplest way of complying with fire code in a wall assembly is double ceiling plates.