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Sounds a lot like "Auto Topo". When I used to work with a surveyor and we just wanted to go get lunch, we would drive by and say to each other "looks like a hill".

This roof plane shape and then draw walls and your new roof planes on top of those second floor walls.

The landing and stairs must be snapped to the same location of cojoined lines. This is hard to do because the lines that appear in plan are not the snap points. It takes some trail and error to get the snapping points. You have to trust the snap settings to guide you to the correct place rather than based on what you see. In other news, are you designing this for the U.S.? If so, those winders are not to code.

Do you have a roof on your project. That could be light bleed. This occurs when a model is not built correctly and you are using RTRT. Also, this can be a symptom of not enough general lighting in the scene. To say the least, setting up a room for a really good RTRT view is not a simple equation.

Since those are similar sized objects, you could make a texture image in an image editor (Photoshop...) and then apply your texture with stretch to fit (size the image to the objects proportions. The image needs to be a .png to keep the transparency properties.

These two arrows are non connected but share an end point.

In addition to posting the plan file a sketch is always helpful. For this issue I assign you a sketch of your hand

@Joe_Carrick I have installed about 20 of the Zehnder systems and have a pretty good handle on the layout for the systems. If you want any info on methodology in layout, send me a dm. Alan

I am not sure about Wisconsin but your distributor might be the guy in Colorado. I was in a pinch on a project to get rough finished and Small Planet Supply (Washington State) was not getting me the full order. I was able to get a few items from the corporate office in New Hampshire.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/user/4901dea1-faf2-4931-9163-9d83f9f1406b/Richard-C

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/2b76de5c-15f7-46b3-81f4-b9d3e227573e/Zehnder-Q350-Q450-Q600

@rlackoreNice, the larger Brinks unit is almost a carbon copy of the Zehnder in appearance. I did a quick check on the unit and it appears to be almost the same unit as the Zehnder. I have been using Zehnder but looking for alternatives to cut cost. This unit is about the same price. Have you seen any of these installed and in use?

You can also save them into your library and then drop them in as you need to. I generally have all of my CAD details going to one page in my layout. I have a common group of CAD details on one .plan file arranged in groups to be sent as a page. This works well for me.

Depending on the height of the parapet, on my last project my roofer ran the membrane roofing up the vertical section and then the only metal flashing was the cap on the wall. In my case it was a pretty short parapet but from an economics standpoint, this made good sense to me.

Who are you drawing this for? My wife? because she lost her keys again and I need you to open up those drawers to see if they are inside. Maybe next to her phone?

If the dimension is in that cabinet run, it is being stopped by the cabinets. Check out the help files for Bumping and Pushing for a more detailed explanation.

Getting adjusted to a workflow for saved plans views is a 5-20 minute learning process. After you spend that time it will save you 5x on the first set of con docs based on what you are saying.

Those posts above will get you symbols (3d objects). If you are looking for actual crash detection, this will not give you what Revit will provide in that arena. Chief is visual BIM but not actual BIM.

A posted plan file may not be worth 1000 words but it is at least worth 17 wrong guesses.

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@Ed_Orum Was that disclaimer written by an attorney? If not, I can write one for you that will be equally worthless if not more worthless (unless that means less worthless due to a negative detracted by an additive).

The real time ray tracing/ rendering changes from 13 -15 are huge. But, it will mean that you may need a new computer or graphics card.

What are your computer specs? Do you have the latest drivers for you video card? Those are not issues that I have seen appear for anyone else posting on this forum.

The image cad blocks are one of those Items you may need to explode in order to change the line weight or color. Just an FYI.

In the bonus catalogue.