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I would probably fake the second door for the rendering with a poly solid or some other custom object. It does not make sense that there is not an option for a screen door as you are trying to create.

I am losing my edge. Good thing we were not using pistols at 20 paces.

I am guessing that you just want the one door to swing both directions? If so, see the image.

I recently started getting selection issues and was thinking it was my keyboard. Now I am not so sure. My issue comes up as not being able to Shift select items. This is very new for me and I have only been working in X10 lately.

X9 will be fine. You will probably have some text wrapping issues.

I am having issues (long story). But this problem in CA is probably the one that can be solved without a Doctorate in Psychology. See the images and plan. My balcony railing is causing a break in the wall connection of some sort. Please show me this easy fix and make it so easy I am embarrassed. DOL_DD_V1ss.plan

Not yet. I tried deleting the saved plans and creating a new view. Same result. I tried with the zoom checked and unchecked. Same result.

Elevations are fine. It is the switching of the plan view. The second frame is my clicking the tab to return to the saved plan view. I click the tab on the window view. Should I be changing to clicking from the project browser? I hope not since my project browser is the farthest object from my active work space.

I have this plan view as a saved plan view (x10). When I click through to my layout tab and then return to the plan view, it is jumping to a new camera position as shown in the second pic. I have 2 monitors and keep my library, ALDO and Project Browser on the second monitor. Any ideas why this has such a high suck factor?

Linda, don't share your product key. That is yours alone.

This is a source of frustration but I realize that a 2d plant image has limitations (and I don't really want to bog mile file down with 3d plants. I did not want the base of my pine tree to move with the camera so I tweaked this tall Pine image so the trunk is centered at the bottom and the main trunk is a bit more to vertical.

For each unique view sent to layout there should be a unique layerset. I have layersets for Site Plan, Framing plan, floor plan, elevations, landscaping plan, mechanical plan... I also have unique Annotation sets for each of those.

Ohhhh, never mind. Build roof framing is the magic trick. Now go back to work, dinner or the basketball game.

Why does this happen (to me). I made a change to that flat roof element at the gable end. You can see in the perspective view that things are all honky dory. But, in the elevation things are all wonky donkey. What is the magic trick to get the wall to rebuild? The rebuild walls and floors button does not do it? Closing the camera view and making a new camera view does not do it.

Bold assumption Micheal.

Relationships with Realtors. Locally, about 50-70% of the houses purchased immediately have some work done. Usually something large unless the house had been turned by a flipper(or "Developer" as I have been informed is a better term).

If I read the original post correctly the choice is bla, bla, bla, something technical thingy whatever or buy a new computer. Duh, buy a new computer.

When I am clicking to in layout to open up the plan view X10 is always opening a new plan view window tab in .Plan. Is there a setting to have it switch to not opening new tabs but just going to the one that is already open? I am aware that I could head back to the plan file without clicking from layout but (dammit) I like to click back from layout. It is a very intuitive workflow.

What was meant was to click on the tool bar icon for creating a new dimension string (or whatever hot key you have assigned to create a new dimension string) then hold Shift and do a marquee selection over your entire area where you want to delete the dims. This makes your gross selection specific to the active tool. This will not work for selecting awesome clients. That is a custom tool bar icon not yet available except in metric.

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It takes some time to be able to assign a number to a job. I work my fee structure as a time to a maximum. I rarely don't hit my maximum and that is mostly due to a high level of perfectionism. I did end up below my max on a job recently but I am also not great at tracking time unless the job happens in a short period of time. Basically, I am stating a high enough bid based on the scope of work and what I feel I can charge. I am on the high end of hourly rates that I am shooting for and don't mind being turned down on a proposal. I used to get about 90% of the work once I met a client. After a class at a JLC Live show I realized that I was only charging about 25% of what I should be charging. I left the show and immediately wrote a proposal for twice what I would have the previous week and got the job. On jobs that I have not gotten recently I go with the idea that "we are protected by our rejections".

The calculation is T(L)-X =M/N Where T is the time you have already wasted plus some more time L is the loss of accuracy in what people are asking you to convey on the drawing X could be just about anything you like M is whatever Measly sum Micheal will ask for N is for now

Tony, I would guess (and that is all I can do in this situation) is that they own the copyright to the work you did while an employee. I you message me I can send you to ask this question of a friend who is active in the graphic arts guild and is often in D.C. lobbying on behalf of copyright issues. Word of warning, her emails can be long. Really long.

X10 renderings showing the same settings with the exception of the global illumination. The brighter ceiling has no global illumination. The global illumination is a much more attractive look but I can not get the ceiling brighter. I have tried using different backgrounds but nothing is changing it (except a blue sky which gives a blue cast to everything. Any tips.

Doug, that will change over time. I had those struggles in the first year of using CA and would break the model badly enough to want to start clean. That never happens anymore as I know the software well enough to fix the problem or not create it in the first place. Or, if I am in a deep hole the kind folks on this forum have bailed me out.