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I am assuming this is pretty good. I have a direct line to my pc with Comcast.

I think 3 step is if you can actually dance. What I do near musical sounds has never been confused with dancing.

I am with Jim in the Attic Wall Camp. But, we are guessing without a plan file. When you go to post a plan file make sure the file is not currently open in Chief and then zip the file for upload. If it is too big, put it up on a file sharing site like Drop Box.

The 2 step do step why step twice step web forum....see the pic.

See the attached image. Once in the cabinet DBX select the actual door to change in the DBX camera window (1). That brings up the "Front" tab (2). From there you can select the door of choice from the Library (3).

I rarely agree with Scott on important issues like this but I think he nailed it regarding Todd's avatar. I just can't focus on the question because I keep thinking you are having issues with the brick layer showing up on the inside of the room.

The only way I have had this worked consistently is to click my heels together 3 times and chant....

I am pretty sure the Guttenbergs outlast the Brother printers.

I have been using the Brother MFC-J6920DW for about 6 months. Superior on ink usage to the HP all in one models I had in the past. The things I really love about it are the 11x17 scan bed and that it has 2 paper trays so I can keep both 8.5x11 and 11x17 paper on board all the time. The 11x17 scan bed is great as I use 11x17 paper for as built field notes and so I can scan and import easily.

I was being a bozo and not switching out of vector and trying to use the (then unavailable) cross section slider. Thanks Jintu and Val.

Jintu and Val, are you able to do this with an orthographic view. When I try to do this with a perspective view in the "Top View" I do not have a plan view. I have a two point perspective view from birds eye.

I do similar but use the orthographic floor overview. I change that to the top view and shoot a watercolor rendering. I sent that to layout and then I modify a layerset to use for a vector view so I can get the lines for windows and doors to show up. I sent that as a vector view and overlay that on the watercolor.

Sometimes I will just connect the walls and then break them and move them apart. I also draw a lot of cad lines for temp alignments and centering.

"Maybe this is the better question: When you are drawing a plan can you save the settings, layer, defaults, annosets....in the plan as a template without it saving the drawing that you are creating? Dose that make better sense?" Yes that makes better sense. No you can't. Sorry and it would be great if we could.

There are things that are exportable: layersets, anno sets, hotkeys. If your plans are being done in sequence you can use the SAM method (SAVE AS Method) which is to start you new plan by cleaning out your latest plan which already has those settings and defaults you built on your last project.

Select those lines and bring them to the "back group" in Linetype so you don't have dashed lines reading in front of the solid lines as in your image.

What kind of windows would the mulled unit be? I think you could fake that look if you don't need it reflected in the schedule. You can do a lot with the window dbx.

When you are moving things you can use a numerical input. Start to move something and then hit the Tab key. A box will pop up where you can specify the distance of your move. If you have moved orthogonally it will be clear which number to adjust. I mention this becuase if you have a snap setting of 1/4", you are going to have to zoom in quite far each time you want to move at those increments in order to get the desired result. I think the numerical input would be faster.

Yes, you thinks correct. I had always thought the Patterns 3d Views layer would control that but it is done in the materials pattern tab of the dbx.

A graphic tour of what was said above.

One solution: you could add another floor added to your building. Then draw some walls for the small secondary roof and make your roof planes and then adjust their height down to the proper position. The small projection to the front for the mini window dormer should be an easy grab of the roof eave to drag it out for the extension. You can do the same thing without adding the floor. If so, just delete the walls after you create the roof planes or make them invisible walls.

Thanks Joe. Those are great. Here is my small addition. We have a lot of dogs in Carmel so I grabbed the one image of some celebrity walking her dog. It is perhaps the farthest thing from copyright free but my hope is that the monkey owns it. The earth tone man should be quite recognizable and the silhouette man I created for elevations. People plan file.zip

You need to create specific layersets for each of the layout boxes that will need different layers displayed.

“Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Thanks Rob. I make simple CAD line blocks when I run into this. Now I can electrify those islands like a mad man (or a monkey with a camera taking a selfie) .