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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.

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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.

You would have to use Chief architect to create the existing structures as a model. The SLR could be illustrated with terrain functions. You could also use polyline solids with water at the material.

When you start to hear stories about staying up til 4 AM to get it to work, I don't think I would be too interested. Just type a note and move on with your day.

maybe your upper stair section should be wider.

The blend tool works great if you want something like stained concrete.

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If you make your own logs, the material becomes important. A solid color is not a problem. If you use a wood texture, you will have to copy it and make a new material with the angle of the material set to match the pitch of your log rafter. It takes some work but it will look nice.

I may be from text that was changed by re-sizing the window instead of opening the dbx and typing in the font size.

I have done designs using both systems. The one scenario that need to have basement on level 1 is a sloped property with a partial crawl space on the daylight side and a DECK on the daylight side. Floor framing usually displays on the floor below as it should. If you have a deck on level 0, it has no where to display it except for level 0. If you even think you might have this occur, set it up from the beginning with the basement on level 1. It is really hard to add another floor below level 0 after the fact. It can be done but it is a lot of time and tricky techniques. I probably place basement on level 0 about 90% of the time as the deck at walkout thing rarely occurs.

I could work remotely. I do this all the time. Send me your email and I'll send you a sample plan. tom@idahodesignbuildgroup.com

when you send it to layout. Bottom of dbx, make sure the plot line options are set to defaults. It may not fix the problem, but I have experiences some odd behavior if these are not set to default. On my system the shadow shows up. Maybe it is a video card issue.

You may have to explode the dormer and do some manual manipulation of the parts. The auto dormers are a good start though.

There are many camera types to send it to layout. The most trouble free will still be sent as plot lines.