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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.

I do a lot of fixes to other users plans so I have a database of plans to draw from. This is caused by using the eyedropper and spray tools to change the exterior wall material instead of using the wall type and definitions. I'm not even sure why it is an allowed function when it causes so many problems. Rule of thumb - if you use the material dropper on an exterior wall it becomes the only way to change it after that point. The odd part is that the behavior is random.

If you use the spray can to change an exterior wall type, you will eventually end up with a problem of not being able to change it any other way. You can change the wall type to something else and nothing changes. This is probably a bug but it is nevertheless a problem with using the spray tool instead of using the wall type and definitions to change a wall material. I do not use this method at all but I spend a lot of time fixing other people messed up plans and this is the most common mistake I see.

The spray can to change wall material is a last resort. It can cause problems down the road. As Michael has said, do it with wall definitions if possible.

I'm well aware of how the program works. I was simply pointing out that that functions name is a bit misleading. In reality I never turn it off.

I do not want them deleted. I sometimes just want chief to stop undoing some changes I have made to them. It appears to be no way to do that.

I think it just prevents an attic wall from drawing in. If it is already there it keeps regenerating to meet the roof weather it is on or off.

Thanks. I just shut it off and moved the roof planes up 4'. The attic walls regenerated despite auto rebuild being turned off.