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Maybe that plan has an errant default setting. Defaults are plan specific.

I seriously doubt you have it "99% complete". That comment might make scare the competent users away from you. It is code for "crazy guy".

I did not load plan so this is based on pictures you posted. Maybe the wall with the garage door should continue over inside the turret. Without doing that, it would be hard to get a proper sized portal frame for brace wall.

I have noticed it also. I'm glad you sent it in.

I do not have a cheat sheet but I do have a suggestion. If you hold the mouse arrow over the icon without clicking, it will pop up a short text description of what the icon does.

Almost all text.

It is under the structure tab for floor.

Tough to know without plan but I have a guess. You may have a 2nd floor in play at that point. If so, tell the room definition to be "open below".

Click on the roof plane tool and draw in a manual roof. It helps if you create a cad line first with the exact distance you want the roof to extend. Then you can create the manual roof plane from that line toward the house. Stop the roof plane at the siding, not the framing.

Save a screen shot as a jpeg. Then you can import it into the plan.

It will quickly go the way of the avocado colored appliances.

file - import - import picture.

Room definitions tell CA your intent. Defining a room as a porch will in part determine how the foundation is built. There are many ways to do what you want. A quick one would be to call it some other type of room like a bath or kitchen. The foundation will build under it. You can then open the dbx for that room and manually change the name to "porch" and set the structure to be a 4" slab.

"have fun with your design and figure out how to build it later" That is the mentality that gives this industry a bad name.

Apparently he likes pocket doors.

Under the roof tool icon there is also a ceiling tool. You can place ceiling planes manually.

Go to default settings. Under cabinets click on materials and set it to the darker oak. The other cabinets will update if they were placed as default cabinets. In many cases it is faster to use the material painter. If you want both versions, you should save it as two separate plans.

Use a glass door with a broken arch top. Place a window in the same place that is higher and wider. Settings for window - Arch top broken arch, no sills, sash at 1/8 inset 5" (or whatever you need to have the glass in the same location as the glass of the door, frame 1/8". The mullions are a bit wacky. You will probably want to create a custom mullion.

The notes you have added on the layout side of things will not be in the exported file. If your engineer needs them, they will have to look at your pdf file and recreate those notes.

Your roof is too low. Take a section view of that area and you will see that the baseline of the roof is below the top plate of the lower level.

You can always send it to a layout and create a pdf of the layout.

Try making the radius of the curved wall bigger then it will work.

The problem is the curved wall. A window can be placed at an intersection but not one that is curved or angled.

I'm not so sure how accurate it is. It shows an 18' drop from wilbur ave. to canfield. It is pretty flat there. I also checked it against a lot I own east of town that I have a topo for already. It is right for some of it and off by 20' on others. Great tool but might require visual confirmation. Good job finding the site. Thanks.

maybe a molding polyline?