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Your garage floor height is too high. I have not opened you plan file but the site photos show a garage slab down about 18+ inches below the floor line. Your CA image shows them matching. That is where you need to start.

Wait a minute...if you send an elevation to layout with make copy of active layerset you will not need to send it again after changes? Is that what you are saying Perry?

Yes, this is a constant PIA. The open and O.K. on the layer display is the proverbial hammer on the thumb.

Are you working with the layout window displayed? I wonder if this could be a multiple window open thing?

I would create a polyline solid in elevation and shape it accordingly. For something like this I tend to use guide lines to help me maintain consistent spacing and shaping. Since it looks like the curves start at the post edges I would create a polyine box at the post and repeat copy it with the correct spacing. Once I have those lines in place I would use them for snapping the breaks in the polyline solid and then make the edges into curves. By drawing a line for the top of the arc across the whole unit you can then shape the arcs to meet at the tangent point of your top guide line. Or, create a curve as your guide line and repeat copy that. The curved lines like to snap to other curves.

I build ones like that (nothing) all the time. Unfortunately my clients are often unsatisfied with the result.

One thing to keep in mind with the method Perry descibes (which is the right way to do it), make sure you know how you will show the walls in your plan view. If you show your walls as "Main Layer Only", do your view to CAD the same. If you show layers on your floor plan view make sure to include them in the cad. this way the various lines will overlap properly. Then, once you paste your cad detail block into the plan view, choose Line Style -> Drawing Group -> Back Group so the dashed lines fall to the background except where you have removed a wall. Edit, that may be 2 or 3 things to keep in mind but I am not good with math.

As Mike said, here are some pictures to illustrate: Pic one shows the layers I have set up for the various sheet sizes. I turn off the 8x11 or 11x17 layers for the full size sheet. I can leave the full size sheet info on all the time since if I am setting the sheet size smaller that info is out of print range. If I want to set up a drawing for 8.5x11 I just change the sheet size in File-> Print-> Drawing Sheet Set UP

Could you be a little more specific about what is troubling you?

If you have copied your entire library to the second computer than moving files on a thumb drive is pretty seamless. The problems occure when the library is missing textures or images. I move files constantly between 3 computers with the same library. When I need to share a file with someone drafting for me I do a Backup Entire Plan and zip the directory for sharing.

Thanks Jim, I did not have the locate wall side set to Automatic and that did the trick.

On the temporary dimension string shown (version X6 latest update) the temp dimension is grabbing the outside of the wall for the window location. I am hoping there is a setting to make it grab the inside of the wall. Say it is so?

You could do this in Chief and then composite in Photoshop. I see 5 layers to render and then crop and overlay in Pshop.

You can also modify what the selection color is for items selected. I use a brigher color so I can clearly identify the selected object.

I have not seen these gray boxes before. Fully describe these "gray boxes". Could you give us pixel ratios. Perhaps compare them to a bread box? Oh wait, you could probably post an image to describe them... Is it different in Ortho or Perspective? Reboot the computer and see if it changes? Maybe there is a memory drain going on. Is it only in overview or also in a perspective camera view? What rendering technique or all rendering techniques?

I have seen this problem occur and I believe it is from copying the doors and windows.

Your success at printing may have come from that fact that your rebooted your computer. There may be something going on with one of the programs you are running which is building up a memory loss and you need to periodically reboot to clear it. Just a theory but often when you run into something that does not make sense, rebooting is the answer.

You do realize it is not April 1st yet?

I can print your file but what would be most helpful is a screen shot something like attached.

Show us a screen capture of the dbx before you get this message.

Driver- Printer, Tomato- Tamatoe. Let's call the whole thing off...

1.What pdf driver? 2.Did you look in your settngs of your pdf driver to see if it is set to grayscale? 3. Are you printing from Layout or Plan?

I am working on a project where the client really does want to park in his garage which (exterior dims) will be 10'6 x 20'. I know what you are thinking, why on earth would you sacrafice all that square footage to make the garage 6" wider than the code minimum? In order to make it possible for him to exit the car we will have a mechanically operated sliding door at the drivers side of the garage.

Here is my list culled down to what I actually use (and possibly remember). hot key list culled alan lehman v1.pdf

Larry, It comes down to what you need to show and how you want to show it. With the CA Cross section tool you get everything. For me, I want everything and then I want to make the important stuff read stronger. If I cut a section and there is a closet door in the back ground, I want to show that but with a very faint line weight. The object that I actually cut through reads very strong and (hopefully) I have made my cut somewhere that shows the critical information (heights dimensioned, a connection spot to then have a detail call out, etc.). The back clipped cross section is helpful to me if I want to create a CAD detail from a section but a building section I want to cull things out differently.