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Placing a line drawing for the plan view of an existing house in CAD Detail I wish to add note call outs & note schedule. It seems that the Note Call Out will not work in CAD details. Is that correct? So I need to create a separate PLAN file to work with this situation?

Will do

What happened is that I added a foundation wall without excluding it from the wall schedule. The wide footing caused all the rows to expand. When I realized that I deleted the 3 foundation walls but the schedule did not resize. The "Use Plan View Scale" was checked & I unchecked & rechecked but no change in the schedule. Only when I deleted & recreated the schedule did it size correctly. As Robert pointed out you must recreate the schedule to get it to resize correctly. So when you remove an item that is expanding the rows the schedule failed to recognize that. It should resize on it own. Is that a bug?

My typical procedure is to rearrange the sch so all windows on each floor are grouped together & numbers follow a counter clockwise order. I hate when the schedule is resorted! so the ctrl-x will kill my sort for windows & doors.

Oh, I'll try that next time. Fortunately only 2 columns had to be removed to restore my intended schedule. So if you had a window schedule would that cause a re-sort of the window order? Trying to plot this file for a deadline & I dare not mess with anything else, just now.

My solution was to delete the schedule & recreate it. Does anyone know a more elegant solution?

I think I see what caused the sch to expand. Adding a foundation wall with a wide footing, but I deleted the foundation walls but the schedule will not shrink.

So my wall schedule was fine & printed several times. It is in the plan file. But this morning it expanded on me & I can't find the setting to compact the table.

Well I'll be xxxx. Thanks for looking at this.

See plan attached, look in the cad detail Untitled 6.plan

OK here is something weird. If I select from upper right down and left to bounding box is correct. Any other direction the bounding box is as shown in the attached picture.

In a CAD detail I select some polylines & the bounding box is off center. I circled the center of the box but my rectangle 1/3 smaller. Why is that?

Will do.

I created a solid for a sloped floor truss on a balcony for framing in a section view. In plan view the arrow keys move does not respect the plan view X/Y axis. If I rotate the solid in plan view the arrow move rotates with the solid. The Transform Replicate tool moved the solid relative to the plan view X/Y axis. Is this the way the arrow move is supposed to work? Totally confusing!

Thanks for that advice. I do believe a picture is worth a thousand words. And keeps the wall schedule uncluttered.

This house I'm working on requires wall schedule, something I seldom do, but do you put the drainage plane and wire lath in the wall definition? If so are those items in the Chief Library?

Thank again, I learn something every day !

Thanks Joe. I think I see the issue. Changing the plan defaults did not update the doors in plan. When I update them the name changes. Still exploring .

In my door schedule for casings it list "STOCK" and not the casing name. Where is that "STOCK" coming from? Because I want the casing name.

So in one view the columns show up but in the opposite view they disappear. Vector view elevations.

Ok I was able to drag the truss envelope to restore normal shape. Something funky going on. the framing member has a large notch. And the wall plate on the wall where the truss bears is lower than the side wall framing. Something I'm missing, I unchecked soffit & flat under soffit.

That's more like it but is that a tapered roof truss?

Yes, that is what I got.

We have covered balconies where the roof extends out several feet beyond the balcony room below. One roof has no room below but does have a balcony 2 floors below. How do you construct a roof plane with a ceiling and a 16" deep roof truss? Ok the roof truss start at 16" deep but slope 1/4" per foot to the gutter edge. I keep getting a funky truss.

The referenced details are the reason I don't just renumber the set. The project come over from Rivet & I did not want to chase down all the details. Seems you always miss one. One of those projects where the client said I just want to make a few changes. Which I did in Autocad. Then the client & owner wanted to have separate plan for each house and make a few more changes. Oh and while your at it lets change the floor truss heights. I have now re-drawn the house in Chief for corrected elevations & floor plans.