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When you create a section view what controls the fill for the Floor. The 2nd floor fills brown for wood but the concrete floor on the first floor does not have concrete on every floor. What is used to set this floor fill area?

I mean the Core Catalog. So when you open up a New Drawing there is a template assigned to CA & the default walls are defined in that assigned template file. All walls available at the start up come from the default template? and not the Core Catalog?

I have a house with block wall on first floor & frame wall on 2nd floor. I want to dimension to the exterior block surface on the first floor which works. But on the second floor I want to dimension to the plywood exterior & not the stucco skin of the frame wall. In my design the exterior of the block wall & the exterior skin of the frame wall are the same so the stucco is flush. I do not want to dimension to the surface as that may change to 1/2" siding on the 2nd floor. Ok, I answered my own question. Moving the sheeting down into the main Layer group & dimension to the Wall Dimension layer solved the problem. All i had to do is Align all exterior wall with Wall Below to finish the process. One question remains. Do i need to go to my template file and change all exterior frame wall definitions so the sheeting is in the Main Layer Group. The walls in the Main catalog can not be changed, correct?

Oh me too. Thanks Graham, I missed that. I had to be told twice how to do it before it sunk in. Actually it usually takes more time than that. Thanks again. I am still struggling with all these methods.

Glenn my hero. That worked great. Thanks so much.

I don't care about shadows at this time, just color on, pictures showing and a full view of the wall. Perry could not get the light to work here but I am quite new to this stuff & too many setting to fool with. Glenn, What? I'll have to revisit the manual tonight but have no idea what a transparent mask is. Off to play some tennis. later Guys

Thanks fellas for your time. Yes the intent was for interior views. I used the Back clipping section tool to get a full view without jumping through hoops to back the camera up. The view created (vector view is default) was good except that when sent to layout the color was lost & the art work diapered. So when I click "Standard View" & send to layout I get the color & the pictures but the view is dark.

Thanks Perry I'll give it a try. Kevin the camera could not capture the entire view I wanted. Although I say in a VID the other day how to temp make walls invisible so you can back the camera up. May try that too. Although the light source may be the trick I was missing.

Thanks for the feedback Graham.

Oh, not what I wanted the hear. Export the view & import a picture. PITA for any modifications that take place during the development process. It is hard enough to keep track of which sections need to be regenerated.

Wanting a section view with color & pictures to show up I created a section view & then hit Final View w/ Shadows. (only option I saw) This created the view I wanted & sent to layout, but the view is a little dark. How does one control the lighting on this view?

Yes Joe see attached

Reading the manual & experimenting I was able to load pictures directly to the Catalog. Yea! One bug I found is that the 2D block you assign to the new picture does not stick. You have to go back a second time & switch to your preferred block for 2D plan viewing.

Looks like placing the pictures is best done in plan view? I now see where in the DBX that you can swap out the 2D block.

Yes the background shows through perfectly. Thanks Greg, I have started using paint.net and it works the same but I did not realize I needed to use png file for transparent backgrounds. Thanks again.

I don't care for the 2D block shown in the plan view for images, can I change that?

I suppose the images are ok to post as they are all over the net. That is where I got them.

So there is no solid material involved The picture is placed on the wall surface & is a stand alone object?

Thanks Glenn. That worked. So p-solid works as well as any item in the tool box. I was able to make a rectangle shape with 1/4" thickness and radius the corners. The applied the art work. I needed to rotate this one 45 deg & see that the material had to also be rotated. So much for the simple ones. Off to create the more complex ones tomorrow. Thanks for the replies.

Well looks like I can block a p-solid but it needs to be two of them? Why? I can copy in place & select both & block & add to the catalog. Did not want two. Any other way?

OK looks like the p-solid can not be made into a block and saved to the catalog. Converting to a shape and can still not save to catalog. Exploding the shape is a messy wrong turn. Off to do some more.

I need to install some art work on vertical surfaces like walls & counters & on p-solids. The are work is not rectangular so I need to modify the shape to fit the art work & no frame. I will make the front to back thickness no more than 1/2" maybe even 1/4". One or two of them will need to be groups of circles. I plan ob creating the cluster of objects & then block them. Considering material regions , p-solids & counter tops. I know other can be used like soffits etc. I just want to do this once and use an object that is easy to manipulate in section view while placing on walls, cabinet backs & tall p-solid columns. Anyone have a favorite material & method? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Perry.

Oh good one Joe. Yes I want a button, In ACAD I select all the text objects then enter TCASE for a dialog pop up & then choose the radio button for the case I want. OK & it's done. So you can do the entire drawing if you want. Worst case I would want a right click option within the text dialog to correct the text case.

Is there no tool to change the text case? I type with my head down & often for get to toggle CAP LOCKS on & off at the appropriate time. Almost every editor I use has some Case tool,where is CA's. Upper, Lower, Sentence, Invert Case