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Cover it with a poly box with white fill and set the transparency to 80 or so.

There are a lot of things that cause this. One of the worst is sending a pdf file to your layout. Live views make files bigger. Even the camera view style you use can change the file size. Standard and vector view are alright but water color with lines added will be a much bigger file. Interior design elements can also make for an unmanageable file size. Certain objects have WAY more face counts than others. Storing a lot of jpeg images in a plan or layout file will also start adding up. It takes work to keep these files clean and lean.

You can also create a polyline of any shape and open it's dbx to show the area of the shape.

I would also double check the accuracy of those exterior walls. They show as fractions of an inch. If your thought is to change them AFTER you do the roof, it's a really problem prone way to do a plan.

Auto build roofs take their cue from the ceiling heights so it really does change how the roof builds.

Yes.

I would suggest pricing that window before getting to far designing it into the plan. It may never see the light of day with the harsh glow of cost showing on it.

It can get really crazy if it is also a brace wall and the truss has an energy heel. Many building departments want to see a detail showing the sheathing going within an inch of the roof sheathing attached to blocking in the energy heel.

Make sure the floor below has the exact same curve and is aligned. If it is off even a little, it can cause odd problems.

Could you raise the door off the floor?

Nice pictures. The windows and doors appear too tall to allow for a header. Maybe they plan on building it in at the rim joist level.

Your wall layers may be reversing. If so, highlight those walls and click on the reverse layers tool.

Trouble shootings greatest tool. Turn it off, turn it back on.

Extruded P solid. Adding the dentil trim would be a little harder.

Manually create a roof plane with structure defined by thickness of sheathing. Place posts, beams and rafters as required. You would not be doing an automatic roof here. Your room definition should have roof and ceiling shut off. There are other ways of doing this, but this method will give you the greatest degree of control.

It would be nice if there was an additional type of roof framing that would create an overframe condition just like it would be built in the real world. Trusses continue on with a repeat of the previous ones, it just has more framing above it where the overlapping roof plane happens.

You could do all the editing to create one box with mutilple bumps on the top. Once you have a single shape, then do the subtraction (you are only subtracting once).

Check your wall definitions and make sure they are the same main layer thickness. It shouldn't matter but I have seen it do odd things if they are not the same.

It is probably better to copy the file and rename it. Doing a save as while the plan and layout files are active can get you in trouble in a hurry.

Remember that an auto detailed section view does not update. It may be right but you are looking at previously generated auto fill patterns.

On a complex roof, it is often faster to do it all manually.

You might have better luck if you include trainers that do it remotely via goto meeting and the like.

I do not think it is balloon framed. It has a bowed area that does not continue to the main roof. The roof return (the lower roof plane) stops it. That means there would be a header over the opening to the bowed out area. You have this on your plans level 2. The ceiling may be the same level as the rest of the floor or it may lower a bit. If it is lower, you can place an invisible wall coming straight across and make the bump out a separate room with a lower ceiling.

Sometimes you need to add a light source near something you want to highlight.

you can create a cad box around each one with a macro that shows sq. footage of each box. There may be other ways as well but that one is pretty fast.