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I've got a cheat sheet file I started for all the things I forget before I need then again.

Oh that's the trick. Even unchecked the Casing need to be ZERO. Thanks for your time.

Yes those are unchecked. File attached. Pass through in the kitchen 46th Ave Townhouse.plan

What controls how close to the end of the wall you may place a door or window? Some times I can turn off the casing & nudge the door closer & the turn the casing back on. But I want a Pass through pushed to the end of a wall & have no return on the main wall. i.e. pushed all the way to the T Now that I thing about it I only want a drywall opening in the wall, not a pass through with trim. I am going to set a counter top in the opening. I did this before but have forgotten how I did it.

Now why is that not the default setting for plan rotations? Rotating the layout makes my neck hurt.

Working on a plan & decided it did not fit well on the layout sheet. So i use the plan rotation tool to rotate the plan, sweet. BUT now CA still thinks the plan is in the original rotation. When i add text it is rotated to the original rotation. When I added Front & back elevation they are orientated to the original rotation. Did I do something wrong or is this a half baked function?

Wow, that turned out great.

Thanks for the video David. Good find Larry lot's of methods. So i guess it depends on how elaborate the porch structure is.

Oh, that looks promising. Thanks

Trying to create a screen room on the back of this house. Problems are the curved house wall won't let me tie in at the corner. The screen room is more that one floor tall. Tried to use railing but that is fighting me. I saw a Scott video months ago about screen room or deck but can't find it now. I guess I could use invisible wall / room divider to create the room (-4 floor & 193 ceiling height) Looks like the doors will stay out. Then use p solids for all the columns & rails. 3D molding is a PITA for me to work with but I can see how to make the horizontal elements with it. What is the easy way to deal with this? River House.plan

Talking about the other end, see my picture.

SO YOU HAVE TO BUILD YOUR OWN ARROW AND SECTION LINE?

trying to add a section symbol to a section view. I seem to remember seeing it in the catalog but can't find it again.

Curt, Strange that my end to end will not work but the manual dim will. That plan is not the one I was working on floor trusses and I was not the originator of the roof truss question. Just jumped in there & hijacked the thread. PS that's strange. I changed the dim arrow type & now working, changed it back to original & it's working too. Now I can't repeat the failure in this plan.

I posted the plan file here if that helps. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5980-wall-junction-problem/#entry52498

I change anno sets to 1/2" which are much smaller. When I drag I can see the arrows & text for dim and plenty of room. When I release, the dim dispersal. No more time today so I'll check back tonight. Thanks

Oh I thought you replaced the default molding style with a manual one from the library. Funny how the mind leaps to conclusions. Maybe part of my dyslexia problem. I guess I muddled around till I caught up with you.

Ah, that did not work for me but I converted to a pline & pulled it back into place. Then deleted it. All is well for the moment. Thanks for the idea Perry.

There are lines there to dim to. The larger dimensions work fine but the 16" dim fails.

I use the End TO End dimension on my elevation view elevation lines. When I try to do the 16" gap for floor trusses the dimension disappears as soon as I release the house button. It's as if the dim is too small to fit & some setting is removing the dimension. Your thoughts?

I have a curved wall intersecting a straight wall both CMU wall AND a railing wall that will be a screen porch wall. I rebuilt the intersection several times but will not clean up. The last try I used s short straight section of CMU wall to connect to the curved wall. Looks OK until you do a orthographic overview & see the interior molding shooting out the side of the wall. River House.plan

Good video's Larry. Raining here too so I took a nap. The Stacked Framing is typical here. Some use a Rim board usually 1-1/4" thick but most use a truss that ends with two 2x vertical legs & the outer leg is short by 5.5" . This allows for 2x6 for lateral bracing.

Typically I like to place the roof trusses on the exterior wall. Then deck the roof trusses & then build the parapet wall.

Which parapet wall method bet work for framing in CA?

Larry with the roof selected you need to use the break tool in the right click menu or the lower left menu, not the one in the upper ribbon menu.