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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.

Chief may be accurate in the assumption of creating it as one 4 gang box.  It is exactly what an electrician would do.  Joes idea is a great work around.

I have not opened the plan but sometimes you need to explode the dormer so you have more control of it.  Auto dormer only gets you so far.

Make 2 copies of the circle.  You can use them for molding lines that will follow the circle.

The only way to have no floor is to define the room as "open below".

Plot lines are the way to go.  I had a client send me a CA project to complete.  He had a lot of live views and pdf and jpeg.  The layout and plan files were 170 meg.  I have a screaming fast computer so it was no problem but an average system could not handle it at all.

Use the same file name as your change the plan.

use a cross section of your stairway and detail it with your choice of notes, pattern fills etc.

You can also measure it from any elevation view or section view.

Dragging one to the next to eliminate it will work but it can be hard to get it to do that at times.

Different printer brands will have subtle differences.  I use two different print services and the finished product can at times look very different.

That one catches a couple of times a day.

I believe it is a recessed light with reflector trim and a spot bulb.  Many people just call it a recessed down light.

CA does it right.  It's pretty simple and universal for several decades now.  I would be a little cautious of changing the schedule to accommodate a builder that doesn't know the nomenclature.  I would be really surprised if the entire bay area has it backwards.