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Even with the stucco as a layer in the wall DBX you can dimension to the cmu location.

Oops. I misread the post. I just wanted to make is look pretty.

I believe this has to do with the exterior layers not matching. I did not match the number of layers in the walls but just added and exterior layer of stucco to match the dimension of the last layer of the wood framed wall.

1.Save out a version of the file for the calcs. 2.Change the siding material for that is in the specific area of concern 3. Run a materials calc and check for that material

Is this what you want it to look like? I might be tempted, based on the house style to do a larger return that covers the entire door. roof trouble return.zip

Ooops. it is the Axonometric that is 45 deg.

By definition an Isometric view is at 45 deg. You can save out various camera views with altered values but since there are not locks on cameras it is going to be very easy to move it out of those values.

I sometimes find that I need to rotate the texture but not the pattern. I guess it has to do with the orientation of the object but I have not investigated the deep reasons. I just make a new texture and rename. See attached plan. CCC Brick Soldier course window tweaked.zip

I am a sloppy modeler. I had primarily worked on my own projects (house flips) that didn't require perfect rendered views as I am using the 3d model for my own visual study. In the past few years I have worked for more clients where I did need to render for their viewing. The vector view is where the most imperfections in the modeling will show and the changes that were made from V3 to V6 have been stellar. I believe in V5 I almost completely stopped the need for clean ups in Layout view. V7 is just around the corner (see the post for Beta testers which means we are likely less than 90 days away) and there has been so much flack about the need for the option to auto update elevations that I am hoping that this is on the list of changes. Bottom line, if you do exclusively residential and some light commercial with standard type construction CA is a great tool. It is not a tool for a 50 person Arch firm and it is not a solid modeling tool like Rhino. It does not have the camera tools of Maya or Max. It is what it is, like Popeye.

That was the best. My dads printer was placed in a windowless room. I can still smell it.

Or you could probably build one in CA in less time than it would take to search for it. I have a strong suspicion if you put this out in the general forum as a challenge or request for help it could be done in about 3-5 min.

Anyone remember when a full update meant praying that you did not erase all the top layer off the Mylar pages or tear the Vellum?

Here is some info that I gleaned when asking about RayTraces. I believe it may have been form Jintu, this is for exterior but some of the info will apply: Here are my typical exterior raytrace settings that You can try. //////////////////////////////// A) General Increase number of passes to get rid of the pixelation. Try 10 passes or more. B )Lighting Uncheck Use CAmera View settings and use a dark grey or skyblue color. Ambient Occlusion: min. .1 - max. 3 or 4 Direct Sunlight: 4 to 6 C) Advanced Check only the Use Photon Mapping. Caustics and Depth of field are taking too much time to compute, prolonging render time. (You may also uncheck them altogether specially for exterior shots. Lighting Settings above may compensate enough for their absence). D) Image properties Contrast - 60% //////////////////////////////// Then I read more of the thread. You have an ancient computer. If you are running xp than being able to render your interior in one hour sounds stellar. Take a good look at the time you are spending to get the results and figure out if spending 1k to 1.5k on a new computer makes sense. You can probably quadruple your computer speed for about 1k.

select at the window, it will select the bay, then hit the tab key to get the window, then open the dbx

PolyLine Subtraction

The boolean tools in CA work quite well.

Thanks for looking. I am still working on the plan and moving markers. Doing everything I did earlier but no more freezes yet.

Hello All, In the attached file I have had 2 different elevations freeze on me this morning within about 15 minutes. I think it is happening when selecting the Markers. I have saved cameras for the elevations. I was just working on the North and South elevations which both froze. I can still work and close the elevation but my mouse does not work in the elevation window. F7 dd fin 1.zip

Had you closed and restarted CA or your computer?

Post your plan file.

The screen name is Fecal Llamma. Let's just be happy that he/she has not updated their profile with a picture.

What I see is a hand drawn sketch of surveyors information. There is going to be inaccuracy with the hand done drawing. Since the survey has numerical information I would import the survey image, scale, rotate and trace. Even if the actual ordinate information of your cad lines is not perfect you are working in the spirit of what is required to define the site plan. Yours is an architectural drawing not a legal survey. Even when I get CAD from my surveyor the house lines are always different from my field measure. I trust my field measure.

Lew, you live in New York. Pizza Hut? You realize that nothing you say is credible from this point forward.

I am a fan of CA and find it an amazing tool for residential. Where you need to evaluate is on your interactivity between users. This software is geared more to a solo operator. I know there are offices that use is for production with multiple seats but it is lacking any file referencing. If your projects tend to be done by individiuals, then it will work great. If you are thinking about having two people interact on the same plan, it could be messy. My Layout sheets are fed by several plan files, existing, proposed, details and sometimes another in rare instances or the end of the project and I need to crank something out fast for a deadline. With this in mind, in a pinch, you could have multiple people working simultaneously once the plan is locked down but would not be a great practice.