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Unfortunately most of the doors were already placed as 42" door & I had to manually change to 48" & force to single. Only 68 of the doors were affected. It would be nice to have access to that variable. Thanks folks.

That is what I was doing but is there no way to set the max single door width so Chief does that calc for me??

Working on a commercial clinic & need 48" doors to be single, not double. Where is that default setting for double doors at? Thanks

My pleasure. Enjoy...

It appears that you can not turn off a layer within a block from outside or inside the block.

The "Match Properties" tool need some upgrades! First on my list would be a SELECT button so the user can select objects to filter from, not the entire visible objects. Second would be all or most of the object properties. Like arrow heads, this is a PITA for me too! Also the default text height of the object so you could select all of the Rtext with 5" default text height.

Create a 2nd floor.

Thanks for chiming in. The link is very useful! The wall is interior to a balcony with about 20' of flat roof tributary load. The balcony is open with a roof. We are in a 150MPH impact zone here in Tampa. (Exposure B possible D) 12x8 window = 96 sf x 45 psf = 4320# / 2 = 2160# / 12' = 180 plf load on header/wall Roof trusses 16" oc w/ H10A clips w/ 285# (f2) capacity. 285 x 0.75 = 213.75 # capacity So the load is transferred into the roof diaphragm. That was my thinking, Headers are shown in red. I'm looking at the steel flitch headers now. Thanks again.

Good advice, I'll take another look.

That is what I'm doing. Used the wall editor to edit the top plate. Still working on it.

Cleaver solution. Thanks Gene

Thanks for that tip Rene, but global spell check is way overkill for me. So many slang terms & abbreviations make it tedious. I suppose after using the Learn word feature that would calm down. I'll keep pushing for a "real time spelling check"

Asked & answered I think.

The load requires 2 ea 12" LVL for the header & due to the door height it puts the bearing above the top plate. Can this be auto framed?

OK I deleted the schedule & used the tool while selecting a note to create a new schedule & it works as expected.

I created a note & schedule like I normally do. Then to add a new note as before I copied the existing note & edit the text in the note dbx. This would create a new note before BUT now it alters the previous note to match & does not create a new note. Did the procedure change or have I got a setting off?

Now I wonder why you need 2 layouts to be checked to get the spell checker to work? Obviously I was asleep when that was covered in class. My point is that I want the spelling checked in real time when i can correct it immediately.

The spelling tool does not work for me in layout labels. Can you show me an example? I want spelling help on any field that can go into a schedule & any LABEL field. Here is a layout label with no spelling correction.

I must be missing a setting, why are the windows not clear? Oops, it was the window glass material!

If you have created layer sets for Floor Plan, Electrical, Framing etc. You can change the layer set in the layout view. The auto layer create when sending to layout is turned off to stop the creating of so many duplicate layer sets. Use this method if you don't want to use the "Saved Plan Views".

Has anyone found a program that will work in DBX fields & Layout label fields to check spelling? I'm working in Windows 10 Thanks

We can't help much without the plan file. You do know that the wall DBX is used to control the roof that is over it? Multi pitch roof plane are tricky.

BTW, used your first method, and rotated the cricket -22.5 deg and that worked as well.

That is the solution I came to in my original post although you did a better job figuring out the angle needed. I wanted a higher pitch in that cricket to better deflect the water. Although that may not be necessary. Thanks for your time & knowledge. Much appreciated.

Thanks for clearing that up, my mistake.