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Eric, I'm puzzled...…………………...according to the dims, the area of the 4 way is square? YARBRO_RESIDENCE_ADDITION.plan

Rob, the ceiling in the entry foyer is not a groin. it is going to be cathedral (4 way) to form a pyramid.

Go into your layer sets I (make a ) copy of the set with the fewest layers to turn off, rename it foundation set, turn off any thing left you don’t need, and you’re ready to go.

The client wants all rooms on the left side of the main entrance to have 12' tall walls (all rooms that have flat ceilings to have ceiling height 10') except of course vaulted at the living area, and tray / coffered in the great room / master bed. On everything to the Right of the main entrance 10'walls and approx. 10' (rough CH). See the sketch he made of what the Front elevation will look like. So I set the default ceiling height at 12' (doing a lowered ceiling in those areas at 120"). I opened each of the rooms on the Right side of the Entrance and set their individual ceiling heights to 120" (+/-) for now. About to start the 2nd floor and eventually the roof plan but not sure if I'm about to have a technology CAX11 night mare. Any recommendations / Suggestions? YARBRO_RESIDENCE_ADDITION.plan

Did you look in the Kohler catalogue? You can open the DBX and change the size...……...you can build a low wall (using the railing wall tool) place a custom counter top, place the tub in it. You can probably use cabinets (modified of course) to your spec / sized and place it. Hope this helps.

Eric, it didn't work for me either, but I got it. The center is open to the roof over the second floor. The roof over this area will be higher than the adjoining roofs and he wants a (I call it 2 way or 2 directional ) vaulted ceiling to form a "pyramid" type vault. I'm dreading this one too! If he's through making changes today some time I'll start the second floor (then the real fun begins). He just sent me a text and decided he wants fewer lites in all the windows (which I had modelled and mulled as units) based on the Manf. cut sheets he provided, now I've got to explode them and change the lites. I mulled them originally so I could copy and paste them more easily.

Eric, I couldn't get the Object Eyedropper to work for me on the barreI vault, but I did pull a wall section through the good BV, copied, and pasted it in the other two areas I needed the BV in, adjusted them manually and they're good. Also, fixed the wall intersection (Living room fire place wall) by using the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool. Same thing on fixing the Safe room wall (one more time) hopefully it will stay this way? While taking a closer look at that corner I noticed my wall wasn't framing to the "edge of slab" as I had originally set, so I adjusted that also. I'll work on the brick ledge and stair later. As always thanks for the GREAT help!

Eric, thanks for the added help!!! I don't know how much time to spend doing this stuff.....but I sure do appreciate every second of it!!!!!!!!!!

Eric, wonder why the corners of the wall on the good barrel vault are clipped off at an angle but not on the side you did with the eye dropper.

Eric..... no one will believe me but I can get it lined up next time I open the plan it’s tight back like that. I even pulled the wall back re connected it was fine close open its right back like that, deleted the wall redrew lose / open the program right back like that. I bet the eye dropper trick won’t work for me,,,,,, I’ll try it when I’m back at work tomorrow. Meanwhile thank you.

I managed to get one Barrel vault modeled, but attempting the same on the other side of the room (mirror image) is not working. I even tried copy reflect about that didn't work for ME either. It might work for you, if it does please explain what made the difference. I Checked the structure, on that side and it is the same as the side I was able to model. I even copied the settings of the first (successful vault and pasted them in) unless something changed and I didn't catch it??? The Video I watched showed the same steps I followed and that worked fine on the first one, so why won't it work on the other? The space is the same identical area, only difference is coming into the barrel from the living room side has two (cased openings) the other side coming from the great room has a pair of doors, then into the barrel vault going out into the 2-way cathedral vault (which will be complete when I finally add the second floor above and make that space open below). I was waiting on modeling the second floor since the Owner has made a gzillion floor plan changes just on the first floor. He explained to day (after a dozen emails and texts) that he is "Design OCD"!!!! Thanks for any direction given. YARBRO_RESIDENCE_ADDITION.plan

Joe, that did it again. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE ME...………...I did the ALL on layer set, again, and again, didn't do anything different this time, but it was there. Thank you again. Thanks to all of you who helped change my diaper!

Mick, did you open the last plan file I uploaded? I've centered it, zoomed in / out and so help me CA I AM NOT SEEING IT ANYWHERE! I'm done for today! YARBRO_RESIDENCE_ADDITION.plan

No worries Joe...……...if I wanted to copy and paste the dumb thing I can't find it. I THINK I did exactly what J Johnson said to do, open the schedule from CAD detail management and made sure the schedules layer is turned on...………..AM I LOSING MY MIND!!!! (I'm about to lose my grip)

J - I am seriously trying...………..I did a complete back up save plan textures etc. Closed the plan opened the plan and reposting here again. Now believe it or not, I THINK I did exactly as you suggested, same results. I cannot find the notorious - infamous - driving me out of my mind crazy - Window Schedule. SO WHAT IN THE CA WORLD AM I STILL DOING WRONG?!?!?!?!? It isn't there IF I DID WANT TO COPY AND PASTE. YARBRO_RESIDENCE_ADDITION.plan

Joe are the Electronic Gremlins playing tricks on me? Or am I looking in the wrong place? Man this MAKES me feel DUMB1?1?

Chop, I know you're not pulling my leg...……...Honest to CA...…..I cannot for the life of me find what you found! I'm in my schedule layer now, even have SCHEDULES, TEXT layer turned on, Schedules layer is also on...….but I still don't see a schedule on the schedule layer set?????? Thanks Mike, but I already checked cad details. The only one that even had the Title Window schedule has no schedule on it.

On the current plan I'm working on, I don't know how it happens. I hadn't placed a window schedule, yet. I have a layer I named schedule layer and I use this layer to place all my various schedules. I opened that layer, there are no schedules anywhere on that layer. I zoomed out and in none to be seen anywhere. I turned on my window labels. All I now have are single window labels on each window, no double labels!!!! I still hadn't placed a window schedule. After making sure I had all the windows placed and with no planned changes, I went to my schedule layer. My window labels are turned on, OK? Now I go to schedules tool, select the window schedule and place it on the schedule layer set. The minute it appears I get double window labels (I know, that means the schedule is somewhere else correct?)………...give me a break!!!! I hadn't placed another schedule anywhere; HONESTLY! So I opened an all layers on set, there doesn't appear to be a schedule anywhere! I delete the new window schedule and the window labels go back to a single label per window. I go to the different plan layers I see no schedule ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!! I go back to my schedule layer set, reinsert the window schedule, and the minute it appears again, double window layers also appear. SO WHAT IN THE NAME OF Chief Architect am I doing incorrectly??????? I really get tired of asking for help on stuff like this, but I must be COMPUTER BLIND to the answer, after following the knowledge base, searching the all on layer set......KNOWING FOR A FACT that I only placed the schedule one time on one layer, am I looking to hard? Missing the obvious???? Plan file attached so some one can make me look silly.

Eric did a great video showing me how to make the doors arched top. I haven’t had opportunity yet to try it. The home owner isn’t concerned about it (at this time) he just wants me to get the plans done so he can start building by end October first of November. He and his fiancé are saying I do; in April he wants the house ready to move into then.

It was done this way because the existing house has a white brick with an added wash/parge of white mortar; the joints are barely visible through the mortar wash. Doing the same thing on the addition. What would you suggest I do.

True, but I didn't choose the location.....the Owner did. He's very picky about the front elevation of the home continuing the aesthetic of the (his Mom and Dad's Home) existing home, even to making sure the living room fire place and window wall is spaced from the existing home so that from the road you have a "rhythm" continuing from the elevation of the existing home out to the garage of the new addition (as viewed from the main highway). How can you argue with that? Thanks for your input David.

I don't know how that happened, but I edited and corrected it.

Dermot, when the update first came out a few folks reported issues they started having , that’s the reason I have waited to update. I don’t suppose you’ve seen any new posts regarding the latest update?

Chop, I think Rene had posted the first time about issues he had since downloading the update. The reason I hadn’t updated yet. I’ll wait at least until I work on this plan a little more to see if I have any new SEH error messages.

Thanks for looking at it Glenn.