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I saved out your plan in X8. Hopefully you are on the latest version. It has a person in the foreground on a layer called People. It is a plant that uses an image of a person. Check out the image in the file. You will find her easily in the plan view. I grabbed that image from free stock photos on the internet. You can do this same thing with any image you like as long as you save it out with the transparency correctly.

People in the foreground.zip

If you want the live elevation, have you set it to Update Always?

Can we all chip in to an account and hire a student to assemble a bug and solution list based on the wealth of information in these threads? Especially threads like this one. I realize that there are very brief moments when I do not type pure and brilliant sarcasm but I am dead serious about this. I suspect we could generate a few thousand dollars to employ someone for this task. I bet we have 100 users that would pony up $20 bucks in a heartbeat for a database like that.

I like my icons to read a little easier. See attached.

8 ball crop.zip

See the attached image.It appears that # is the only character that does not obey the automatic sizing rule.

Kim, one of the issues with the live camera views changing when printing, corrected for me when I changed the view from Update on Demand to Update Always. Shot in the dark.

The elevation will only be updated automatically if it is a Live Elevation (X8).

Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never match wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line

One less item on Trumps list.

Correct.

You can do this with the Layersets. You just need to be distinct in what you send to layout being on it's own Layerset. Then you turn off the layers you don't want per Layerset.  The benefit of starting out with the Annotation sets is that you make these decisions before you start drawing and don't have to back track. Saves a lot of hair.

Are you in X8? If so, you might have shadows turned on in your camera view and the room becomes dark in interior views.

Uhhhh, 50 hours. But that would have been awesome.

Did you put that on page 0?

Two shots of watercolor elevations. One from plan view before sending to Layout as a live view. The area I show with yellow highlighter is a polyline polygon with white fill to obscure what is below grade and show a grade line. If I was to send this view as an image the below grade bleed through would be visible. Now when sending the view to Layout as a live view that stuff gets hidden. In a Borat accent "very nice".

From Plan

In Layout

There are no apples to oranges here in this comparison game. Edwards 2000 s.f. project will get him $6500. I just did a nothing project (attached) where someone needed a quick permit to repair their roof. 5k. We ended up adding some work to the project and submitting a revision which bumped this one up to about 6.5k. This is probably the smallest project I have done in 5 years and it is only 7 sheets with 2 of those being a paste up of the energy calcs (Title 24). I figured I would have about 5 hours into this project and I am pretty close to that at this point.

And then there is the project I am about to do a major revision for (4th major revision in 2 years and we have not touched the house yet). If I would have saved all the checks from that client I could buy a new truck (a really nice truck).

Stallings Roof Repair CD Rev 1C.pdf

For an amateur I for one give you a lot of credit for coming up with a very workable floor plan/space plan for this house. The basic flow of the house works very well. With few exceptions all of your rooms work well and it is great that you are placing furniture as you design.

Where I am not sold on this design (since this is a ground up build) is the overall form and mass of the house. It is pretty boxy. Many factors come into play which may guide this. Budget, setbacks, site constraints. If you are trying to build on a tight budget, every exterior corner costs a lot of money. Often you need to do a balancing act between budget and aesthetics to get to the goal.

For HVAC there are lots of choices, if you are using forced air (generally the least costly solution) then you will need to have some place where the ducts run vertically. The unit could be in a crawl space, attic or the garage.

Thanks for taking a look. Here is hoping for a camera fix soon.

See the images. In the south elevation camera I have cut the section line to get around the garage for a clean elevation view. Unfortunately I am getting an artifact from the camera view adjustment. Has anyone else seen this? Is this the way your video card cuts this view? Maybe this is a video card issue? My video card and driver version image attached.

LEH VIZ PLN V1b.zip

That is why Perry gets paid the big bucks.

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I have tested it a few times. Here is the file(s) if anyone can test this with the native Adobe printer but I don't think this is a pdf issue. I tried with the CA print to PDF, PDFill, and Foxit PDF. The Achiles heel in this appears to be when the elevation is set to "Update on Demand". The elevations are on page 4 of the layout.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/911uud488m4cnqo/BU%20for%20Issue%20Viz.zip?dl=0

So, I am ready to pull my hair out but unfortunately there is no hair available. Therefore I try another troubleshooting method. I ask myself, "Self, one of these things is not like the other, why?"

If you send a layout box and have it update on demand, you might get the shrunken head effect that shows in image one. Image two, or as I like to call it "I could kiss you Self" shows that if all the layout boxes are set to "Update Always" all will be well in the universe (unless you live in fear of gravitational ripples from black holes)

Image One

Image Two

Is this an HD file or a Chief Architect Premier file? You are posting in the Premier forum.

The dashed line is on the layer "Ceiling Break Lines" if you want to hide that layer. It is a layer that is untouchable but useful in indicating situations just like what you have.