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Thanks all. I will turn the gutter off and make a molding for this condition.

How do I get the gutter to go to the edge as shown and stay there? I have selected the gutter polyline in plan and dragged it around but it disappears faster than a democratic victory. VIZ_BLD V2.zip

In more seriousness. It is a tall and slippery order to create a drawing based on someone else giving you dimensions. To create and accurate plan from photos is pretty much impossible.

If the photos are of this room, yes. All others, no.

ARCH D is 24x36. Your notes call out based on 22x34. I can print a page or 2 at 24x36 but I am not sure if this is what you want?

Is using the words "Canada" and "Intellectual" in the same sentence even legal?

That will be based on the Yoke they choose to use.

For my detail images, I wanted to be absolutely clear in how to build something. Dimensions in 3d are general in nature for most things. In the case of that bracket, dimensions in 2d are appropriate and what would be needed by any shop that was fabricating it. What counts is clarity. I was discussing this with a project manager yesterday and he had a lot of complaints about a particular job he was working on (not my drawings) because he found it lacking in enough dimensioned information. I did not see the drawings but just assured him that the final drawings from me will have plenty of information to get the job built. I try to draw what I want to be on site when I am building so that I can avoid a lot of RFI's.

All done in CA (the pars shown in the detial). Those are objects created with poly solids. I just sent camera views to layout. The yoke in the image was collected from the 3D Warehouse. Some small modifications done in Sketchup.

Or do something like this

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Very clear. A page with lines and numbers. Is this a connect the dots game. I love those. Draw a building footprint if that is what you are trying to dimension to. Besides, would'nt your surveyor use one control point from a corner and work in from there?

Post the specs of your computer and graphics card. It sounds like a graphics card problem. Also, look in your 3d view defaults to see what is different with the perspective view camera settings that might be causing the difference.

I opened your file and this is what I get for 22 pages printed at 144 dpi. You might be printing at a dpi that is too high to be useful. A lot of your layout boxes are empty so I may not be getting your full file. For an accurate file export a full back up rather than saving. KRAWCYZK-LAYOUT 9-27-16-Layout.pdf

The other method is to draw a cad line to match the camera location and the view direction. Copy and paste that across plans. It is a really weak point of the program.

The better stone textures are in the manufacturers libraries on the Chief website. Cultered Stone, Buechel Stone and Coronado Stone.

Holy crap that's cool.

I was asking after taking a (quick) cursory look at the general layout. I was just seeing some things that looked like they would benefit from some space planning adjustments.

I save out the different plan versions. I generally end up with names during design development like Bob_DD_V2 hip, Bob_DD_V2 flat...

P.S. Anna, is this your own house you are designing from the ground up or a remodel to an existing house?

Clean up this corner of the room. There are a bunch of messy bits here. Some tiny room divider walls and such.

If you take any image of a person with transparency for their background, you can replace that image for a 2d plant. This is better than your office mate with a personality like a potted plant.

Here you go. No ray trace. Need to kick this out and go to sleep type of image. This did go out of CA and into PShop to clean up some issues. Heck, I think I overwrote the original so I can't show the little bits I had to clean up but it was not much. This is just above the mark to keep it out of the Crap thread (I hope).

Just the right amount of squiggle. Very nice.

I have contacted tech support on occasion. That was for technical issues. Therefore tech support seemed like the correct venue. For training issues, where I am pretty sure I am botching how to work the program, I have the generous community on this site to cater to my every need. I sometimes cater as well. This is a fantastic shared economy of information. The closest thing to socialism that money can buy. David, be a better comrade. Na zdorovye!