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Hum, yes the windows header height default was changed & it did not raise the windows so I manually raised the windows to the new default height. I thought the balcony defaults were correct. When I changed the room type from unassigned to balcony I had to manually change the floor elevation -4" but the floor under it remained at the full truss height. It did not assume the 20" floor thickness the default had assigned to it.

The customer set the floor heights and I did a rough 1st draft. See the attached plan. So today he said he got the flood elevation wrong & wants the first floor ceiling at 8' I have in the past just changed the default floor 1 to 8' and most everything followed that change. When I tried it today the balconies refused & some windows went wacky. Is there a better way to change the floor height? Vincent.zip

Why not export to CAD & let then deal with a CAD file?

Another option that may work for you is to drag the new wall over adjoining walls & it will update.

Use your Ortho Floor View & move down to Floor 0 (foundation) Also, you may see some z-fighting in the view you posted.

I changed the foundation wall to solid railing 3.5" tall & removed the Wall Cap. But the cut out around the man door is not correct.

One thing to keep in mind is that some folks use the material report to get foundation concrete volume. Some solutions may not play well with the report.

I guess my old habits are holding me back. Once a layout file is set up & populated with views, I often return to a project by opening a layout file. I then move to the plan view sheet & open a view to work on. Needing to jump from floor to floor & from electrical to framing I forget to NOT save the plan view. Then end up with layout sheets with wrong views. Two times I have tried to develop projects using Saved plan View but old habits dye hard.

If the engineer is having you do drawings then the engineer's fee should be lower. That's the way I work. You should charge more if the customer gets to pick the engineer. You never know what you will get.

Thanks for sharing your investigative work Mark.

Thanks so much for the tips. This is my first Style Pallet. It looks like a very powerful tool. I guess the easiest way to set these up is to open past plans & add the cabinets form them. Your suggested changes need to be made to the cabinets in the plan & then replace the pallet objects? If you replace the base Cabinet for example you need to go back to properties in the pallet & tweak settings? Perhaps I will have time this afternoon to experiment. BTW I will go back and adjust the drawer seperations as that was not my intent. Thanks again.

The door & Drawer Symbol did the trick. Industrial Cabinets ACADuser.calibz

Sorry for the late reply. I'll try the door symbol route.

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I think the use of NOTE may be the answer. Although my system slows down when I use notes. Simply use the note number for the circuit number. with a different description for each circuit. You would need 2 tables 1st table remove the N from the Label prefix in the table descriptions Circuit 01 Circuit 02 2nd table change the Table Label prefix from N to E- Description Fan Master bedroom area

This is a problem using a prescriptive method. They say this is code minimum but in a prescriptive table, they must cover worst-case (CYA) conditions. If you have a long enough wall segment that is designed as a "shearwall segment" it will prevent the racking at the garage opening & the additional king posts are not needed. You are better off asking the Engineer of record to design the portal frame and or shearwalls. The engineer overrides the prescriptive code table requirement.

Residential Stair FBCR 2017 R311.7.1 Width. Stairways shall be not less than 36 inches (914 mm) in clear width at all points above the permitted handrail height and below the required headroom height. Handrails shall not project more than 4-1/2 inches (114 mm) on either side of the stairway and the clear width of the stairway at and below the handrail height, including treads and landings, shall be not less than 31-1/2 inches (787 mm) where a handrail is installed on one side and 27 inches (698 mm) where handrails are provided on both sides. R311.7.3 Vertical rise. A flight of stairs shall not have a vertical rise larger than 147 inches (12'-3") (3734 mm) between floor levels or landings. R311.7.5.1 Risers. The riser height shall be not more than 7-3/4 inches (196 mm). The riser shall be measured vertically between leading edges of the adjacent treads. The greatest riser height within any flight of stairs shall not exceed the smallest by more than 3/8 inch (9.5 mm). Risers shall be vertical or sloped from the underside of the nosing of the tread above at an angle not more than 30 degrees (0.51 rad) from the vertical. Open risers are permitted provided that the openings located more than 30 inches (762 mm), as measured vertically, to the floor or grade below do not permit the passage of a 4-inch-diameter (102 mm) sphere. R311.7.5.2 Treads. The tread depth shall be not less than 10 inches (254 mm). The tread depth shall be measured horizontally between the vertical planes of the foremost projection of adjacent treads and at a right angle to the tread’s leading edge. The greatest tread depth within any flight of stairs shall not exceed the smallest by more than 3/8 inch (9.5 mm). Commercial Buildings: FBC 2017 1011.2 Width and capacity. The required capacity of stairways shall be determined as specified in Section 1005.1, but the minimum width shall be not less than 44 inches (1118 mm). See Section 1009 for accessible means of egress stairways. Exceptions: 1. Stairways serving an occupant load of less than 50 shall have a width of not less than 36 inches (914 mm). 1011.5.2 Riser height and tread depth. Stair riser heights shall be 7 inches (178 mm) maximum and 4 inches (102 mm) minimum. 1011.8 Vertical rise. A flight of stairs shall not have a vertical rise greater than 12 feet (3658 mm) between floor levels or landings. Commercial & Residential Headroom. The headroom in stairways shall be not less than 6 feet 8 inches (2032 mm) measured vertically from the sloped line adjoining the tread nosing or from the floor surface of the landing or platform on that portion of the stairway.

OK those blocks do have a "Layout Page Table" in them.

I was able to reproduce the error & narrowed it down to two (so far) blocks with text. I will add it to my bug report.

No schedules in my library items but the first occurrence was when I use the copy material eyedropper in one plan, switch to another plan & tried to paste the material. Then in the same session in the library, I was selecting my folders. I'll see if I can reproduce the error.

This is a Beach house I did but did not get too detailed on the stair.

I too have experienced problems with the catalog. Chief is up to date & windows 10 just did an update. I was able to "send the report" & continue working. Opened a support query at Chief.

Thanks but at 71 my future is winding down.

I think I would use closed polylines to show the roof plane in plan view. You may use an upper & lower roof plane but that is not worth the trouble IMO.

Why is that tool not available in section views? Also the match properties tool.