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If each room is using the same material you will only need to adjust the one material for all rooms to change.

I think the real problem here is that you are detailing in Solid Works.

Here is how to change the properties of your floor material (or any material).

Thanks Johnny, good to know.

@ arcb, now that you have some good solutions for the digital world, I am with Sherry on this one. Are you really going to hinge that door on the glass panel with no vertical support?

I think he just did share it?

Possibly, with this condition, you will need to fake the lower wall with a poly line solid and keep the upper wall that can be a railing wall as I placed in your plan. I realize this is frustrating since you are transitioning from other software. I do not have time today but I could possibly do an online meeting with you late tonight after the sun goes down in California. I am headed out of my office now to suck some saw dust but if you can meet late (your time) maybe around 9 or 10 pm in Michigan we could solve this pretty quickly. Feel free to call me or email 831-747-4718 alan@lehmandesignstudio.com

The layer they are going to once blocked is probably locked in the view where you can't select it.

Here you go.

look about 10 threads down at a similar question regarding cable railing on stairs.

There is a frequent poster on the forum who wrote a book. I do not have the book but I have heard great things about it and his is very step by step through a project from what I understand.

Look in a perspective camera view of the stairs from floor 1. You will see the railing wall that shows with cable railing infill. If you click with your mouse in plan view at this location it will probably select the stairs first. Hit the tab key to get to the wall below (in selection order).

I adjusted the wall at the base of the stairs. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/essajznv3kmgtu9/AAB-CpnJixE_vk1dshQGQU3Ea?dl=0

You made the balusters into cables. You need to make a railing wall at the stairs to have cables on the stairs. This railing wall will sit on top of the stairs in order to get the "Follow Stairs" to work Path for the cables Then I adjusted my stair railing to only have a top rail because the top rail of the cable panel does not look correct cable rail example.zip

I don't see a way to do it in one step. Looks like 4 steps. 1. snap a polyline rectangle to the layout border 2. concentrically resize the polyline 3. grab one side (still in concentric move mode) and snap to the resized polyline guide 4. repeat the do that again for the next 11 pages

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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.