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Great. Sounds like it could be short enough for me to pick up the donuts for the soccer team. The little rug rats beat us last time and I want every advantage possible (including sugar induced mania).

What? Hook me up man. What is the workshop on? alan@lehmandesignstudio.mumble

I guess....7 or blue.

Rich, if you sat down at your keyboard at 11pm. not matter what time you left your desk you only worked about 48 minutes.

Here is a link to a very nice guide by a great builder. Really great of them to share this info for the building community. http://hammerandhand.com/best-practices/manual/

That's what you get for living in wine country. Here we get 20 lashes.

I am trying to do what I said above but I am not sure this is workable. Possibly the best solution is to change the layer on the item and use that for copy and paste in the plan.

You will probably need to save outlets to the library with the layer assignment that you desire and then grab from there to place your electrical items. If I remember correctly you may need to group some items and save the group to the library or the electrical items will default back to the electrical layer. Maybe...

@JJohnson, that form was written in 2012. Does it still apply after the 2013 code adoption?

Check out the latest addition to the downloads library for new shower wall and door hinge components. New faucets as well.

Not in California. Unless you consider the golf team.

Without trees over the roof I think that gutter would get flushed out about every 4 hours in your neighborhood. (I lived in Seattle for 9 years, worked on my own and for Buffalo Design)

It depends on if you want to pay someone for this task. If you have budget for this go to this website and post it as a job http://www.creativecrash.com/# This is a pretty simple script although you will probably want to provide several trees for the distribution so they don't have to code an actual tree. There are other websites that specialize in freelancers for film and modeling projects of this sort. It may be as easy as taking your distributed path of trees with the slight rotation into a proper 3d modeling package and just putting a modifier box around the group to stretch asymmetrically in Z at one end. I suspect you could do this in Sketchup but I am not very familiar with the program. I do know you could do this stretch easily in Maya or Max.

I needed to open up the image in Photoshop and zoom in but there is clearly a chain drain at the back of the house. They must have a concealed gutter continuous on each side. I suspect there is a second chain drain on the other side in the back.

First, thank you very much Tommy for making the effort to put this out for us. Second, Uhhhhh, I will knock the way Yusuf is proposing to show the volute and handrail. That is a tripping hazard and if my building inspector saw that he would punch me in the face with my own fist.

What command are you using when copying and pasting? Hot key? If hot key, try directly from the pull down menu.

More importantly, is that a wicked cool looking floating analog clock?

Post some images. Post your plan file which will contain the settings you are using. You have provided very few clues.

Are you using the dimensions to change the placement of the wall? If so, you must do this in one direction. Find a starting point and move away from there.

Have you tried aligning things with the make parallel tool? Post that plan as that seems very odd if they are parallel.

If i remember correctly you can only edit roof planes in v10 from the plan view. Make your plan view look like the attached image by breaking the roof plane where it is circled and then stretch it up along the direction of the arrow. How to get the correct height in that ancient software is a mystery to me. I did use v10 when I first bought the program but only for a few weeks as X1 was just being released.

Use an invisible wall to divide the room in order to make the distinct ceiling planes

What do you want it to look like? Can you sketch out the desired result?

If you are using X6 you might do well to use the pdf output directly from Chief. I am very happy with the results currently.

Due to the economic crisis in the U.S. we have been downsizing and therefore a 400 s.f. house in the us is all that we can afford to build. Most families are sleeping in one room, vertically. Our cars have also gotten much smaller so most garages are barely bigger than a bread box. I primarily travel by skateboard or when traveling long distance I throw a net over flocks of seagulls and hope to be pulled in the general direction of my destination. Or, refer to Glenn's post.