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I come from the standpoint of working with hundreds of clients, many of them other designers on this forum. It is a system that works for me. If you have a system that works for you and one other person that's great. Don't change anything.

All the files used by a layout file have to be in the same folder. Don't change plan file names or you will lose the link. Using dropbox as a drive common to both of you may not be the ideal way to do this. Use it as a way to upload and download the latest FOLDER and title it by date so you can tell the most advanced version of the project. I think you will find that things will work nicely if the folder is on your computer as you work on the project.

Glenn, Just when I think I know every trick there is about this program, you came up with one I did not know about. Adjusting floor heights in section view could be very useful at times. Thanks.

I agree. It probably was a little mean spirited but the point remains. This forum keeps getting the same type of questions over and over and over. They are BASIC functions that are learned with a variety of means like videos, trial and error. Some of these new users are overly relying on this forum. That is all I was trying to say.

I'm shocked by the problems your having. Usually 1 day is plenty of time to become an expert with a high level architecture program. I would call tech support right away, there must be something wrong with the program.

Someone will be along shortly telling you to use moulding lines etc. Your method is fine. Psolids are rock solid. They don't have a mind of their own. They will not hop around on you for no apparent reason. The down side is, a change in the plan means moving all your various parts manually. btw, nice looking design.

Eric, I believe that will only show up if he auto details it and he doesn't want to do that.

It would seem that the change will show up if you shoot a new section view and hit "auto detail".

It would be very nice to be able to notate the view without converting it to a cad detail but your idea is a great one for what we have now.

I often see plans with a header mistake. 9' ceilings with 8' doors and they are calling out for a 12" glb header. They are forgetting about the top plates and the RO requirements.

I forgot one part. You have to also check "draw rails" and it will then display as you want.

In the railing specification under newels/banister, there is an option to select plan display and choose whatever fill you want. It however, does not change anything. This seems like the place it would happen but apparently not.

You are using panels as the rail type. I believe when that is checked it takes on the fill properties of whatever panel is used.

I always name and save the file before I have done anything to it.

Preference/render panel only has options for hardware edge smoothing of low, med, high. I do not see any numbering selections and I can not find the software edge smoothing control at all.

I'm sure this took a lot of your time. Thank you for the input. They are all really good points. I have not tested this but I believe that having pictures placed on the plan as jpeg or pdf can also slow everything down. I know it really changes the size of the plan file.

Give the two windows a specific label. Open the dbx and under label, set it to specify. Call one "left" and the other "right". They will then show up as different windows in the schedule and the size will still show as the same.

Maybe some other aspect of the window could be changed. Just a guess but maybe frame size, glass type etc. There are a lot of factors in any given window. You may have to experiment with it a bit.

Make one of them 1/16" smaller and they may show as two different windows.

You could check archives and see if that saved version still has it as one intact block.

Maybe you saved the plan file as a different name. You might need to re-link to the file you are working on. From the layout, look for the icon that looks like two links in a chain. Follow the prompts from there.

SoCal is a big area. You may want to be more specific.

I believe you can manually drag it to the next marker and it will go away.

Good suggestion.

I understand the various ways of changing it back. Perhaps "bug" was not the best description. It is at best an "interesting" choice of program operation. New users of CA tend to change walls by using the paint tool. If there is a decision to change ALL the side, It becomes a lot of extra steps to reset everything back so the wall type will change it for you. Using the painting tool for exterior materials removes one of the best features of CA imo (changing the siding all at once by changing the definition of the wall type). Your list is great for showing the various ways of fixing it though. Thank you.