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For that PDF, did you rotate it after importing? If you need to rotate your image, make it a jpg first.

He did mean polyline solid. If you draw your solids in the elevation view it will be easy to manipulate them. Also, you can use the Make Parrellel tool to rotate the entire object to match your slope of the roof.

What you wrote makes no sense. If the 1/8 scale fits on 12 x18 then the 1/4 scale should fit on 24 x 36.

P.S. The plan may open on floor one but the room is on floor 2.

Working in X7 and seeing the same slow down issues that others are seeing. I just reopened the attached plans. I am making some design development refinements and so I first opened the plan "PB Bath A". I went to delete the columns that are at the interior of the space: The first time I tried this it took about 5 seconds after hitting delete to be able to move to the next task. Not the typical time frame in the past for deleting a pretty simple item. I did this for about 4 columns and thought that maybe it was due to the boolean shape I created by building the bath tub. There are a lot of faces there and I noticed some slow down after creating that item. Next I deleted the bath tub shapes and then deleted columns without any time lag. So I reopened the original file where I had the time lag and copied the columns back in to the no bath file to see if there were delays in deleting the columns now. No delay. Just for fun I hit delete again on the original file columns. No time delay. Is this some sort of Non Darwinistic Law of Random Selection? Please try and delete my columns in the PB Bath A and see if you get a delay. PB Bath A working delete column test.zip

Thanks. I am going the route of uploading to YouTube for now. I will let them do the conversion for me.

I have finally jumped into the walk through pond. Based on searching previous posts (are you reading this Joe?) I installed and am using the Xvid codec. I sent the video to a client who could not open the video. I sent him to the Xvid site to download the codec but I don't like to do that sort of thing (making work for clients). Is there a better codec to use that will work for more folks and including working with Quicktime? Can any of you mac users play the attached video (it did not work at the Apple store tonight)? round cupola 1.zip

I need some support ledgers bolted on to my place in Carmel. See you on Tuesday.

Uhhh, yeah! That's what I was trying to say as opposed to not reading your post with any intelligence.

In the Eagle Catalog.

A.D., when are we going to hang out. Or, wait, maybe you are me?

I see what Arthur sees.

In the attached movie I have some areas that I am not happy with the camera movement. I am trying to focus the movie on the cupola. If you see the plan views I have a pretty smooth curve for my path by adjusting to a circle but there are some bumps in the camera that bother me. One thing I can not seem to do is get the cameras to display with a focal point. Is this possible with the walk thru camera? If I could aim each camera better this might solve the problem areas. Thanks for looking. cupola 3.zip

Thanks all. I had not downloaded that bonus library. That will work.

I was looking in the library but could not find such and item. Are any in the library or bonus libraries?

Here is another one by the city of Portland with easy to read graphics. I believe the information is redundant. Basically, you can design a deck to meet these standards without an engineer. If the deck is more than a few feet off the ground the question arises, "Do you want an engineer to CYA?". DECK BUILDING GUIDELINES.pdf

Post your plan or it's just guessing.

Did you rotate the texture or the pattern? I think you did not rotate the texture or those lines would reorient. But, without having the plan file to look at.....

Yes, I send to layout early in the process. My first prints will be either the as built or very rough elevations that are used as the base for a lot of layers of trace paper. I need those at scale and the easiest way for me to track that is by sending to layout. I have title blocks in my layout file for 8.5x11, 11x17 (both horizontal and vertical) and for 24x36. Once I am done with design development my layout boxes get rescaled and moved accordingly for the construction documents.

No. It is all or nothing. But, there have been eye opening improvements since X2.

I can understand that you may print from the plan file (as some do) but I never do that. I am always working with a layout file open that I am feeding images. That way, for plan views and elevation views, I will be printing at a known scale. I even will often include a graphic scale so that if someone does not print out at the correct size they have a scale for reference. I am assuming the blue box you were referring to is the sheet size indicator in the plan file?

Post you plan and I will try and output a pdf file for you. Are you trying to print 8.5 x 11 sheets from the plan file or from a layout file?

Your drawing sheet and paper size should match, ideally. That is the reason for the unusually large quantity of pages.

For materials, make your cabinets out of specific materials: Door Color Cab Base color Toe kick color Etc. Then, when you change that color from red to blue, everything with that assignment will change. Anno sets are for creating construction documents. If you are not making con docs you may not see their power.

More importantly, why are you not using Annotation sets? 5 minutes to learn, 15 minutes to set up for your plan (which can then be copied to all plans) and it will save you at least 5 hours a week for the rest of your natural life. I don't know what you bill an hour but that 5 hours a week buys me a lot of donuts.