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Flipping the house to a new location may eliminate some of the electrical component problems I was having. I'll give that a try.

One issue with my method is that the inserted electrical is disabled (dumb objects) and hard to edit in te future.

Ken, The reverse command did work on this little one-story house just fine. I should have tried it. I did have problems in the past. Thanks

OK, I figured out a method that worked on my little one-story house. Draw a center (mirror line) & change it to an electrical layer Turn all layers off except electrical & CAD, Electrical & Text, Electrical etc. Use the CAD detail from view to make a copy of your electrical only. Go back to your plan & delete all electrical. All on Layer set, Use Edit ALL & Mirror tool to flip the house. Back to CAD Detail, Select All, Ctrl X Back to plan and Ctrl Alt V All my electrical staid in place. I'm happy as a clam.

No I don't use it.

generator Be sure to hit ENTER

When I mirror a house & draw a reference line front to back and place it usually midpoint so I can mirror the house. Using Edit ALL and Mirror tools and most items do OK but the electrical is a mess. Is there any trick to making this work better?

Checking with tech support I got this: I did raise the roof plane 1" & rebuild trusses fixed these trusses.

I'll report it now & see what they have to say. Although they got a little pissy when I reported the "Match Properties" behavior.

Does anyone know what causes the truss bottom chord to not trim? The sub fascias 5.5" & fascia is 7.5"

So that may be the best approach is to have a separate text style for FILL ON. I use transparent on text and dimensions until there is a problem seeing it clearly.

It only appears when moving the Dim, Is it from the Text & not part of the Dimension object. Is it turned On/Off in the text styles? And therefore a plan wide setting changing all text AND dimensions using that style? .

You know the MASK is already there on dimensions. Just select the dimension to move it & the MASK activates, and when you deselect it the MASK disappears.

Oh, that means a separate style for all styles you want to mask. Then put them on a layer to match the other style. My dimension style option is dimmed out. I'll look into it more in the morning.

Well I'll take any kind of Mask and Box they can give us. Can't believe they don't have that feature after all these years of development.

Sorry, that is an Autocad term. Like Rich Text has a border and Fill option, the dimension text should also have a border and fill option.

Off topic sort of, but why is there no Text Mask for dimensions?

Thanks, Glen, I'll try this in the morning. 11:37 here on the other side of the world. Met some very nice folks from your side when we went to Canada on vacation. Here is a look at the building View in Chief Architect’s 3D Viewer.

Good suggestion, point markers may be of use to me too. These particular columns justify to the exterior face of the wall and not to a center point. The marker could be still used on the outer face of the column I suppose. In Autocad you can edit the block in place, no explode & re-block. Then all blocks in the drawing are updated. Quite simple. No jumping floor to floor looking for the blocks.

Thanks for the replies. One thing is I do not want it to move in the plan except where I modify it. If the column is 12x8x120 tall and I move the north side 2" to make it 12x10, I would like the south side not move at all. Can that be done with the Insertion Point fixed on the middle of the south side? That way if I wanted it 14x10 I would move the east & west side 1" each & the north side 2". The south side would remain in its original place.

OK back working on 7 story building and I have a few questions about dealing with columns. I used psolids for the structural concrete columns. The one I am dealing with was 12x8 & now is 12"x10" and have 3 on the outside wall each floor on floors 2-5. They are on Layer 'Columns Plan View'. When I pick select one I see the layer at the bottom of the CA window. When I marque select one I see 'CAD Layer; CAD, Default' so I assume CA is not smart enough to detect a single object & display its layer. (more of an observation) It also gives me the option to Make Arch Block which is kind of what I was after. I actually want a Block so I can populate all the identical columns and change the size later in all locations at once. Say I want them all to be 12x12, I would remake the block and they all would change. Perhaps I chose the wrong object type for this process. This is just one of a series of columns I want to make identical for the purpose of being able to change them as a group. Some guidance would be appreciated. Sorry for the rambling. Thanks

Worked perfectly. Thanks Eric

I have 2 railing walls that are different type & height. They need to intersect but NOT JOIN. How can I keep them from trying to connect automatically? Also, I can't fix the rail cap at the other wall connection

That's good info. I have reused plans for other lots but can't imagine anything that could not be replaced. i.e. not that critical.

Thanks for the input. I told her to try HD to test the waters. If all goes well then upgrade.