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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.

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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) .

Here are the export settings used.

I am not sure what your issue is. I don't know that error code. I did not have any problem with the export. See attached files. You can import these to CA to check what the data looks like if you do not have ACAD. But I will add this, learn to use Annotation sets and stop creating a new layerset for everything you are sending to layout. Project_Dunning_Export up 2.zip

Post your plan and I will try to export for you.

The reason that I make a new Anno set for "Rain Gutter Plan" is so that when I send the rain gutter plan to layout I know that my rain gutter notes are going to be on that drawing in layout and I will not have a stray arrow pointing to a downspout show up on my electrical plan or site plan or hvac plan or.... I use the Anno Sets and Layer sets like Larry. I am going to try and review the discussion regarding the layersets as king but for now, I believe in the anno sets as king. They were developed to be king based on very clear direction from the dominant users on the forum and from a construction documents stand point make perfect sense to me. To me, they are the individual sheets of Mylar.

Can of worms, meet Mr. Can Opener...(Not addressed to you Michael, or Lew). I highly agree with what Michael wrote above. When it comes to design I push the keyboard and mouse out of my way and grab a roll of trace paper and some pens. The computer is an awful tool for design (my opinion). I love the computer for production and presentation (mostly). Recently, I have had the best reception from clients when I grab my colored pencils and draw on top of an elevation. There is something primal that we respond to when something is hand drawn. It can have a lot more emotion. I am wandering off the topic. If you want to offer your input to the designer she/he can take that from any medium you offer. If you want to be able to manipulate the design work (via the cad program) and working on his file, you may have a hard time finding an architect open to that sort of potential mess. You are probably better off with a piece of trace paper and a scanner to share your ideas. You can even do this with a "go to meeting" type of interface and pointing with your mouse at their screen. I could go on but the oven is ready for the pizza (literally, I am cooking a pizza).

In real life or for CA? In real life, try farm supply. In CA, I made it with moldings.

@ Joe, how much training have you had in the software? I have not used Softplan so I don't have an opinion in that direction.

The image attachment feature has a second button you must hit to upload the photo. Designed to annoy. Best guess, go to your attic level and place the window.

1000 words. I built a curved roof in hopes that I could do a match roof to the window but that did not work. so I did it with a cad line measurement that is pretty close to get the arch height.

Copy and paste. There is no way to over ride the actual dimension, only append it. I always do this with cad line arrows or by placing text over the dim to mask it.

You can import .dwg into a chief file. For the layout I would import the .dwg into a plan file and then send that plan file to layout. This is not the best way to deal with the title block. If it was me, I would use that plan file info in layout to trace in layout to create the title block cad lines in the layout file.

Save them to your library.

Don't use floating dormers. Just cut the roof back and put in manual roof planes for the dormer. The dormer side walls will be attic walls. But that is just me possibly because I don't use the floating dormer.

I get frustrated by the lack of ability to resize the window seat using the dimension strings. I am very much used to adjusting wall positions using the dimensions. In order to position and size the window seat I end up placing some cad lines to snap and center to.

Are you working in X6? If so, try using the window box tool in the window menu. There are a few things I don't like about this new tool but for the most part it is working well.

Post your plan file if the layer is displayed and that did not fix it.

Try zooming in closer. If no, try turning off the extraneous layers and turning on the layer "Main Layer Only" for the walls. If no, draw a cad line 6" away from that corner and snap to that first, then snap to the wall location.

Those roof planes need to connect not just crash into each other very closely. Use the hot key "2" (default) to connect. in plan view select one of those roof planes on the adjoining edge and then hit the hot key, this will highlight the adjacent roof and then you can select the proper edge to connect.

The roof DBX gives you options for one to lock and one to change. You probably want to lock the pitch and change the fascia height to match the more dominant roof plane. It will make your plate height change on the sub dominant roof plane.