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See attached image. The elevations on the left are from layout with today's update. The elevations on the right were done last week. See how the sky is cropped on the left side right at the top of the chimney. The public beta was doing that also and the public release fixed it. Now it is back.

I get that same error often. The only solution I have found so far is reboot to clear the memory of the printer being on then off.

Hit update all if those are live views and see if they correct themselves.

You will need to send that camera view to Layout for printing.

3D Studio Max. Or Maya.

You are on the Attic level.

Drops the mic.

I have had 2 crashes recently. I just had one while searching some library items. This was not happening before the latest release. Anyone else crashing suddenly?

Most business's have a personality type that is a very good fit. For nursing, it is the people pleaser and fixer. For accounting, it is the type A focused nerd. For tile setting, often times it is the Heroin junkie (at least the best ones I have run into). Have you tried laying out the rooms cooked on Opiates?

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.