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Search for the training video 10033. This video shows how to move the camera up stairs and navigate.

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Is this a lighting issue? In good plan you have lighting casting shadow in one direction. In bad plan the shadows throw 2 directions.

I always make my own for total control over the proportions of materials. Slab base, slab cap.

I don't like the way this will resize as a symbol.

The benefit of not making it into a symbol is to be able to unblock it once brought into your new file and resize it easily. If you make it millwork it will not resize on the longitudinal axis.

To put them in the library you just need to select and add to the library. I was just trying to get something that would be resizable about the proper axis and that is a different animal.

I would suggest posting the plan for a better answer to your question but I am not sure what you want your roof configuration to look like. Just extending the roof to those posts creates a host of other design issues. Can you make a sketch of what you are after? Then post the plan and I am sure you will get a live example of what to do.

Best book to familiarize yourself with building: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Construction-Illustrated-Francis-Ching/dp/1118458346

Make your text box transparent. You probably have a fill on the text.

I did not scroll up and look. Yes, one of the bonus libraries.

Are you using the Plant Chooser to search?

Charlie (boy genius). Great and simple idea for the elevations.

Nice trick to just delete the doors.

I have done small shop drawings for my metal shop details. I have not done a full set of cabinet shop drawings as that has not been needed. The basic cadd and dimensioning tools are solid in my opinion but I am not familiar with what something like 20/20 puts out.

Close down the Chief program then zip the plan file.

Scott, I should start a new thread for the Mammoth Mountain UGM in January. Snow fall permitting.

If we go next year we can walk on the bottom of the lake and collect fossils.

We finally found a location for that California user group meeting.

And raise your rates.

The pic is a little light

You can show your second floor while viewing the first. Hit the Reference Floor button as shown on the image. That will allow you to snap to the referenced floor lines.

Go to the plan view and show the roof planes along with the walls. Select the roof plane and hit the 3 hot key to make a break point on the roof where it intersects the wall. Now grab the roof ridge extension and drag it back to the wall line.

I am so happy (and sad) that this was not me being a dope and spending 8 years working on a CADD program to just be slightly mediocre. I should not need to delete the blocking to make this happen. See the section where I have lost my bird blocking.

It is balloon!