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Someone wake up Lew. This thread is bound to be like getting the Games of Thrones episode early this week.

Great info. Just read the first few pages and this puts to rest so many questions that have been bantered about on this forum.

I use layers. Let's say I have a patio where I use a slab to make it display in 3d. It is the keeping track of line weights and fill pattern and then the fill pattern weights to make sure when I go to the 3d view or the site plan in Layout, I have good visual definition. Sometimes (or often) those two different views (my 3d rendering vs. condocs) each need different levels of visual punch per item.

This is something worth discussing in depth. The big schism for me comes with trying to make sure my 3d objects work well as 2d objects. This comes into play if you don't want to make redundant items in plan view so that the site plan I send to layout for con docs is accurately reflected in the exterior rendering.

A fairly typical file structure for one of my jobs. All the plan and layout files live in the Plan folder. Printing goes to the Plot folder.

In your plan view, CAD---> Cad Detail From View. Then clean them up and save them as needed in the library.

Are these Live Elevations? Probably so if you are sending Technical Illustration. They get blurry and then if you are in Layout and update the view they get great. Then they get blurry sometimes again. Then they get great again. Hakuna Matata.

I'don't much rather have cable railings follow stairs than floor framing per room.

Try the variations on the Blocks to import or not. Grasping at straws.

Custom Muntins are easier to create than using p-solids.

That is not good. I never noticed this since whenever I am making a custom profile I happen to be working in the elevation view at the time. Therefore, the CA anomaly matches my workflow.

My bad, he nailed it

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I can't believe that Berkley Breathed missed that one. Has anyone else been following the new adventures of Opus, Bill the Cat and the others on Facebook?

And here is a picture of a kitten in a sweater:

It's gonna' be one of those days.

"Ding, Ding, Ding... and in this corner weighing in at 74 years of combined experience...."

Thanks Justin, I am working on a pool using the road trick now. Great solution.

I have heard of Jelly Roll Morton but who is this Belly Rails Balusters and what instrument does he play?

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Turn off Live Elevations for that camera. When you send to Layout, look at the camera options.

Joey, I think you are on the wrong chart. I suspect the reason for avoiding trusses (which would probably be a cheaper and easier to build with) is that this "loft" area is going to be used for storage. Therefore, the floor joist table would be more appropriate.

Perhaps this will help.

Is your client an engineer? Your question, and the design of long span structural elements are why we have structural engineers.

Post the plan and see if anyone else can work with it.

Draw the roof planes and adjust the heights to where you want them to be. In the roof dbx click the button to hold the roof slope and change one of the others to move up or down.

JC, this sounds like a complete waste of your time to just draw walls with Chief and then port to ACAD. Why are you not drawing in ACAD from the start? Chiefs power is in that it is a 3d based program. And the question must come to the table, why not just use Chief to do it all?