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OK you did something different in the settings because my plan is still hazy.

Hard for me to see what all has been done not knowing all the functions or where to find them. I see you turned all the light back on & casting shadows. Floor & dark furniture set reflective to very low setting. Trying my Ray Trace now. Doesn't look like you changed any of those settings. PS Wow, using your drawing version ray trace on pass 3 at 4 min 30 sec and much better image. Off to try my drawing with changes to lighting & reflective materials.

The photo looks great. I'll check out the plan tomorrow. Thanks

Thanks for the info. Is that a yellow jacket?

Rich, nice detail. Difficult to see what connectors are needed without more of the structure. Uplift, if present must be transferred to the column (post) and to the floor system (foundation). Note that the floor must be solid concrete or you need to create a bearing pad & uplift resistance. Not knowing how old this Farm House is the structure can vary quite a bit. See attached for some connector ideas to consider. Just exploring the options.

So are you changing the material in the Catalog or just the Plan File?

Thanks for the tips, the lights were easy enough to turn off but the room is a bit dark. I was able to find the floor material. I assume that because I broke the main area into Entry, Living, Dining & kitchen using Room Divider Walls I will need to adjust each one of the Materials separately? Plan attached. McGucken-8.zip

Can you turn all lights off with one setting or switch?

At the risk of sounding really ignorant, how does one do that? This is my 4th or 5th attempt at Ray-trace so I can't find half of these settings.

Raytrace 10 passes in about 30 min & the other 10 hours with different floor color.. What makes the haze washed out look?

So for that to work, set only the CMU as main layer and set Auto Exterior dimension to Main Layer? And when you draw a new wall it ignores the stucco layer for snapping? PS I see a "Dimension to this line: in the wall dialog that controls the dimension snap to. Can't find what makes the drywall line visible in some drawings & not in others.

Scott, I did use the EDIT WALL LAYER INTERSECTIONS tool, but could not get your results. Also made the CMU the only main layer, no joy. BTW the wall was stock CA definition. They had all the Main Layer checks. Alan that may be a solution but I have a problem with an actual stucco layer. I do not want any dimensions to the stucco, only to the CMU. We never measure to stucco surface on exterior walls. Thanks for your time.

OK I have a 3rd Floor that is not full length of the condo. So the partition wall is 2x6 exterior frame and the lower CMU wall is a Parapet wall. The CMU full height wall needs to frame through the 6" wood wall & stop. See attached. I did try the new wall tool. Thanks for any help. Wall Test.plan

Well it was a pain having to pull down the box every time you wanted to show them.

Give that man a cigar. It was the Font. Thanks Tommy. Trying IMPACT for room names.

Perry, The Text has the checks already & yes opened the dialog & closed it but did bot uncheck them. Tommy I'll try another style but I just sent to tech support to see what they have to say. Thanks

OK, bad spelling & fat fingered typing are a bad combination.

They are checked Perry. Thanks for the suggestion but no joy.

Hum, I didn't find that setting. I'll look again.

Joe, Nothing under stair. I added the curved walls after the stair was built. Had a hard tile trying to align them. My desire was to have another set of eyes look at the stair & see if it could fit better in the space & still fulfill the requirements listed. If I rotate the stair away from the walkway under the stair I did not have enough headroom going up the stair & vice verse. As it stands now it is un workable for code requirements. So I was just leaning on the community for conformation or another solution. This is not a CA problem but a stair problem. Thanks Alan

Why is the Plain Text Box clipping dangling charters? This is not the room label. Ariel Black 10"

My limited experience is that UNDO works on each operation I preformed but only if it changed geometry. Point is you are flying blind due to the fact the program is not telling you what operation it is undoing. Hate to keep comparing this to Autocad but it is my Gold Standard. Autocad undo will tell you what each command it is undoing. Like PAN, MOVE, LINE, etc. You can even set an Undo Mark when you know you want to undo from this point onward. Do your changes then UNDO back to that Mark.

Maybe someone has a better idea. This is a new house & the floor height is not changeable per the contractor. (But if that is the only solution I will go back to him) The problem is I need 7' clear headroom as you walk under the stair. I need 7' headroom as you walk up the stair. I need 10" tread depth at the 12" walk line. AND I need to preserve the Lenin Closet Door in the Powder Room. (This may need to be amended to be a open shelf Linen because I don't think the door can be saved.) Note that the stair is 39" wide in the Plan but it will be 42" wide when built. CA does not recognize the balusters as the inside of the walk path to get the actual walk line. So I had to fool CA by using a 39" width. Anyone have any tricks up their sleeve? 6227 Bayshore.plan

Quite annoying, I have 4 or 5 commands to undo as I was trying to move the stair & needed to adjust dimensions. Point is I am in a section view & need to UNDO 4 or 5 times to undo the stair rotation which took place in the plan view. Hell i don't remember if it was 4 or 5 undoes that are needed. Why doesn't the UNDO report the command or operation it is Undoing!? Why doesn't it undo a change in the view I am in so i can follow along the path that took me here? How can a mature software like CA not address these items. OK Rant over.

Thanks again guys. Looking very good now. Rods added & angled line was the roof plane bleeding through. Had to pull the roof plane back so it did not touch the exterior wall. Shown below in Vector View which makes line errors pop. The front has some slabs that I could not join but I am moving on to another project.