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Scott, I may have figured out how you can do your retaining wall with a glass rail on top. The picture is a narrow ramp with the base set at 60" thick. Open the dbx and turn off handrails. Then place a panel rail above the ramp and set it to "follow stairs". I'm showing one that is level (no slope) and another one that slopes and is curved. Set all the materials of the ramp to your desired retaining wall. It is concrete in my example. One last thing - there is a bug. If you change the slope of the ramp, the slope of the panel does not automatically update. You have to click on the panel, open DBX then close it again and it will update. I also show a couple of other things we talked about. The closet that does not go to ceiling was done by making the telling it to have no ceiling, make attic walls of closet invisible, place p-solid cap. The solid rails at the opening to the floor below was done with rail walls set to solid. If I remember right, you had done it with a normal wall and changed it to a rail wall. It's just a couple of steps faster.

Yes, you can stack windows on top of each other. They can also be designated level 1 or 2. It may bee easier to place it in elevation mode so you can see which window you have grabbed.

Because if there is currently no second floor, things could move when he adds the floor.

You can place a ceiling plane manually. Then drag the wall tops down to that point.

That's a nice looking pediment.

I guess there's the solution if he is comfortable with that look.

Not sure but maybe close the program and search for block130. Delete it without the program running.

I think he is asking about the corners and how to make the crown meet. A transition piece eliminates the corners coming together (not the same thing).

It won't do it because it can not be done in the real world. Crown molding has to exist in one plane only. For instance, it can not be done in a room with vaulted ceilings.

Jonathan is correct. BTW 6" high water table is really high. Are you basing that on an actual product.

+1 Best tip I've read here in a long time.

This is not a work around. It is how it is done, both in design software and the real world.

Create another level and build the cupola on that level. Define the room type as "open below".

One very fast way is to define every room as a porch. It will automatically give it a slab floor.

Note to average user: Be careful here. We help people on this forum on a voluntary basis. The knowledge level of some members is very low and it takes some patience to deal with some of them. If we suggest a "work around" it is to help you put out a fire. It is not intended to be a replacement for knowing what your doing or curtailing future software improvements.

If you do the plan in the version with the terrain you made it can slow the computer down. One way around it is to go into the 3d defaults and tell the terrain to NOT auto update.

I do this by sending both versions to the layout. They have to be in exact alignment. Send both view with the default line weights and color. Place the back clipped view in front and open the other view and change the line color to gray. The important lines will be crisp and black and the rest of the structure will be represented by gray lines.

You can also turn off auto framing and move it to anywhere you want it.

I stand corrected. It is for storing smuggness and the homeless.

He is a framer so naturally, he will do it how he wants no matter what you put on the plans.

The process - Send plan to layout. From layout, hit "back up entire plan". This will put everything in one folder including materials that may be unique to your system. The next person to work on it loads the plan file and gets the same thing you were working on. Make sure the plan you are working on is the one that feeds into the layout. If you change the file name of the plan, you have to relink it in the layout. You can also just keep it named the same throughout the process.

I agree it is a problem. A MAJOR problem. In my opinion, it is the weakest point of the program. It comes up a lot when you have a series of psolid objects blocked to create a bracket for instance. I'm not sure why some groupings can be rotated and others can not but this problem cuts into productivity. No solution, but I feel your pain.

shipping containers are usually just for storing smuggness.

Your instincts are right. Make it lean and send him just the walls. He will not care about the furniture and that will make it a smaller file.

Multiple users on the same plan is not the softwares strong feature.