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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?

You could create a new wall type that has a different looking fill pattern as determined in the wall definition.

Create 2 plan files. One as is the other one with the grading changes. Both versions can be fed into one layout.

There is a quick fix. If there are a lot of dark materials and you do not want to add lights you can go to the 3d defaults and increase the ambient setting. It will look a little brighter on your monitor but a LOT brighter on a print. I think the color will stay accurate. It sounds like a luminance problem.

There is a dome in the library under "shapes".

Classic example of the software allowing something bad to occur. What would hold the weight of the bricks? Full size bricks need a brick ledge to bear upon. If you are using faux brick, you should change the thickness of the brick layer for accuracy.

x8 has a new feature of sending views to layout as "live-always update". This feature will slow everything down. Start with that.

absolute height is the only one that does not ever move. Individual parts of an overall blocked item probably have to be designated before you block them. It might be an interesting experiment if you mixed different height determiners in a group blocking. Which type rules?

The drop of the soffit is tied to the size of the sub-fascia, not just the pitch. Glenns method is a practical solution.

If the city is concerned with EXTERIOR wall surface, how is a dropped soffit cheating?

many ways to do this. One option - pull the roof planes back to flush with the wall then frame the roof. Turn off auto framing and pull the roof planes back out.

You may have inadvertently placed two windows in the same place. Save the plan under a different name and start deleting windows until you find the culprit.