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Hey...look at me...I finally figured out what the quot button was for. Re the book. Yes, it's time I bit th bullet and began reading the manual. I am ready even though I have a bad metallic taste in my mouth with the $2750 CA price tag. I'm hoping I can at least recoup that much.

Is the manual available in book form?

Unless you're using primatives, everything begins with lines...I think.

But how is the polylilne solid made without first using lines?

Hi Tommy, I'm confused. I started with lines. Not solids. I had to draw some straight lines connected with an arc. To get a solid they had to be converted. Do you mean start with a box and boolean it with a cylinder?

Here is how I just did it. No need for paid for SketchUp. 1. Use the draw tools, draw your object's outline 2. Select it 3. Right click and click on Convert Polyline 4. Pick radio button for Convert Polyline Solid 5. Set height Thanks!

Thanks. My SketchUp trial expired and at the price of CA cannot afford to buy it. You can see here the tool is also in CA but they neglected to say where it can be found. I would love it if CA had a tool search text entry box like other software.

Spent a full day yesterday trying to find a software to create simple shapes and extrude them 3DSMAX can't seem to do it due to it's massive variety of line types and inability to close shapes. Other softwares, the same. Finally came back to CA and found I could draw in it easily but now I cannot find the extrude button. Looks like third base with a normal arrow popping out of the top. Thanks for help finding.

Sorry, I got it!

I cannot seem to use the dropper to change this soffit material. I think it is prob in the menu where you modify all the roof materials. Would that be a correct assumption? Thanks!

Thanks all!

Is there an easy way to add a given amt of height to all ceilings on a single floor at once (as measured from the finished floor)?

Huge thank you to Steve for the awesome video (love the bluegrass big music), Glen for showing me the basics via Skype for two hours from Australia, RennerRabbot for his excellent advise and everyone else who commented. I have learned quite a lot today and greatly appreciate eveyone’s generosity!

I just waved. Is that you?

Thanks Glen, That would be great but I only have Teamviewer. I will try to download it. Thanks!

Going out of my mind! Can someone help please? This nano-crap is impossible to overcome. I get rid of one by separating two planes,and another one (not even close to where I am working) pops up. If I bring the gold plane too close to the copper one, the red fascia disappears. Am I too close? Not close enough? Going to get a drink! half save me now1.plan

Great tip using those 45s. I just figure out how to align the edge of the plane to it. Clean!

Thanks for all the assistance!

Renerabbitt I noticed you broke up larger planes into smaller planes. I thought one pitch must be one plane. You must be saying that for a 40' x 20' plane, you could just as well break them into 4- 10'x20' planes?

Hmmm. I don't remeber ever drawing baselines. I simply place the plan on the outside surface of the wall and pull them inward.

Renerabbitt Thanks much for fixing the half. I will try to understand all that you've pointed out. How did you create the 45 degree reference lines? Did you use dimensions and delete them after the lines were created?

Thanks! I can see being able to lock both the pitch and ridge height at the same time without any geometric issues. Then decreasing the fascia height would simply move overhang out away from the wall. I wish I could see why that is problematic?

Just increased the line weights so I can better understand what I'm looking at in the plane view. Helpful. But does a thicker line mask lines that I should be paying attention to?

Thanks. I do have a basic understanding layers and have watched scores of videos. I have the manual but I have never seen a methodology written out that indicates how to not have numbers change by subsequent edits. Is there a chapter I missed? I feel I need a sequential methodology rather than descriptions of menus and terminology. I would like to set pitches once and forget. Then change the fascia height and forget that. Then finally set the ridge height...that plane is finished! Setting one should never change others without warning messages.