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Been beat to death on this forum... can't believe CA hasn't revised this tool

To the OP.. try a search next time...might would have saved you some phone time with tech support

Depends on if you are designing structurally independent units or just 1 hour fire separation. As Eric said check with local authority but ultimately up to you and the client to decide what you are really building. Will the units be individually owned- or just rented by landlord. 1 story or 2- fire rated asemblies for walls only or full separations to roofs searching. Lots of good info from the APA and United Gypsum board association.

Thanks for all the efforts in trying to educated me- Can I ask one time - please just try and import the attached DWG into CA and tell me if you get a proper view. When I do it I get absolutely nothing. I sent this file to an AutoCAD user and he open it and shows floor plan. A1.11 SECOND FLOOR PLAN.dwg

Thanks Mick- as you mentioned in #20 can I export the view and it's layers shown from Draftsight? How?

Makes sense- Thanks Eric

When I open in Draftsight I get the view I want but when I import into CA no walls? All layers selected during CA import. I have attached 2 files that I was sent from the original Architect- 1st one was in the main folder - 2nd was in a sub folder titled views. A1.10 FIRST FLOOR PLAN.DWG FIRST FLOOR PLAN.dwg

MIck- I have downloaded Draftsight and opened the view that I need- how do I go about exporting or saving that particular view so that I can import into CA?

Plan attached- LOT_122_CD_-_03-06-18.plan

You bet- always helpful around here

will do soon as I get back to it- no more work for a Sat

Tried checking and unchecking that dbx but no change- in X8

Probably missing a wall setting somewhere but my floor surface keeps bleeding through my foundation wall. Turn floor surface layer off- no bleed through. ( I realize it's just because it's not displayed.) Much thanks in advance

If Jared has not worked out an agreement with you I can look at it.

Alan- No worries - you have already offered a great deal of help getting me headed in the right direction. One last thing- if I am thinking correctly I should be able to open the layer state that is showing the view I want and use that as te basis for the layerset I want to create in CA- I would have to manual turn on all the required layers but it should give me what I need? Thanks again

OK we're on the right track- I have downloaded the Autodesk viewer and opened one of the files I want and it is displaying as desired. See attached screen shot. Now is it possible to export this view and only these layers so I can import in CA?

So in the files you attached - say the 2nd floor ceiling plan- are all of the layers that are called out displayed in the printed page? And are those the layers that I would need to display in CA? Ideally I would like to be able to open in a viewer- select the proper layer state as you call it and then export that view in DWG and import to CA with only the layers I need displayed

Alan- Do you have a viewer that you recommend- preferably something cheap and easy

You da man Alan- so that " layer state" is what AutoCAD calls a layerset? and not available for me to see in CA? Is it possible for you to export those views in DWG so that can import and see them as there are in the pdf view? or show me the layers that are on the layer state you mentioned so that I can create a layer set that is identical? (Maybe best - then in can duplicate in other plans I receive.) Thank you again for the help ...+1 for you

That is what I am looking for- how much sorting did it take to get there

Thanks Alan- I am trying to get the pdf files of the actual printed pages so I can see what is displayed on each- then I can try and weed out the layers that are not needed. If I can't seem to get it I will follow up with you to see if you can pare them down to what I need.

Have you tried just placing a door in railing wall and editing as a normal door

Might try a search on this forum. Creating symbol from P-line solids is pretty straight forward.

First things first- I have almost NO experience with AutoCAD or similar programs- NONE-ZERO. CA is the only design software I have ever used.... Ok... now to the point I have been doing some drafting for a HVAC contactor - creating gas piping and ducting isometrics- has gone pretty well. He has had the project architect send me DWG files of the layout pages to use as the template or background and until now I have been able to import them as clean plan views successfully. The latest files he sent over are quite cluttered with layers that I am having difficulty cleaning up. I was hoping that someone with an AutoCAD background could take a look at the files attached and guide me in how to get the clean views I need to work with. Or perhaps tell me how to properly ask for the files to be sent to me so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel to get them. (After the first attempt at importing into CA I did call and ask him to just send each layout view as it appears on the page- the attached files are what I got.) Much thanks as always for any insight. A1.10 FIRST FLOOR PLAN.DWG A1.11 SECOND FLOOR PLAN.DWG A1.20 REFLECTED CEILING PLAN - FIRST FLOOR.DWG A1.21 REFLECTED CEILING PLAN - SECOND FLOOR.DWG

Looks great to me Robert