builtright3

This is not a lot of information you are giving us but if you want the outside surface of the wall this is what you are looking for. You want to set the default for whatever plan you are in. IE, floor plan, electrical plan, roof plan...

Changed the default and it worked great. Thank You Sir!

If I move the post (railing wall) away from the wall it clears up

You can select this part to change the wall color

I found this video. Not sure if it is what you need. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1196258430403407

I'm having issues with railing walls and the way they effect other walls that they connect to. Does anyone understand these behaviors? In this case I want the post to be next to the existing wall but I want to connect or snap to it. I have to move them apart to make the siding come out right with color.

Thank you, its still confusing to me. I just deleted the exterior wall and put in the interior wall to resolve it. I thought there might be a simple fix.

When I select an exterior wall and I change it to an interior wall, it seems like it still has some exterior wall properties. It adds the drywall on both sides but when I place a door in it, it places an exterior door instead of an interior door. Does anyone know why it does this?

That did it, Thank You!

Hello, Not sure why my block is running vertical instead of horizontal. Can anyone help me please?

Thats intresting. I will have to exsperiment with that setting in relation to view and printing. Thank You

Happy 40th!

Even though I use color in my drawings, I like to be able to print black and white and have everything looking sharp. Most young people these days depend on color instead of line weights these days. I drew by hand when I started 44 years ago in high school, and I learned about line weights to separate wall lines from dimension lines and so on. It’s just something I can’t let go of.

If you print black and white on the printer the color grey does not show up. If you use black and set the transparency black will show up as grey.

This is perfect for me, becasue when I need to run something over a wall such as an arrow you can see it clearly. With black walls you cant see anything. Personally I like this look a lot.

Ok, I did not know that you could do that with the black. I have been working with grey and it would not show on the black and white print. I like this much better than everything else I tried. It prints out beautifully and looks very clean. Thank You! I couldnt figure it out becasue it was too easy

Thank you Joey for your response. I color my walls also but the problem is I need them to show up for black and white copy's. You gave me an idea; Im thinking to get the best of both worlds I can do the backround color with angle hatching so the hatching will show up in black and white print.

Yes, you’re right. I don’t think that there will ever be a perfect science to it.

Thank you! This is confirming axacty what I was thinking. Why have a saved template at all? If anything you can use the last job that best fits what you are trying to do and prepare it just as you are suggesting. However, I do understand the concept of the template and will probably try to keep a template up to date using the same process, but will not call it a template I call it "NEW PROJECT". Deleting all floors seams to be the safest way to prepare for the next job. I will typically block my kitchen and bathroom designs and add them to the libuary so I can just pick one that best fits my new plan and alter it. The libuary is my favorite tool, I put everything in it that I can for reuse. This would be a good thread to keep going becasue there are so many differents ways you can build your tempates, boiler plates, new project... Whatever you wan to call it.

Thank You guy's

I did check out the tech file. I was confused by some of it. I dont always do well with written instruction but I always try. One on one help or video's are much easier for me.

Thanks guys for the insight. I also just changed my signature to read x17 instead of x16

Hello my freinds, I spent that last 3 days building my layout and plan template off of one of my current jobs. I cant find any instruction that gives me enough inforamiton to prepare the the current job for a new clean template. Im concerned that I will delete too much and I dont what to messup what I have built. Can anyone help me with this or point me to a video or somthing that will help me though the process? Any help would be appreciated.

I just used angle hatching for now. Seems to work fine at 1" or 3/4 when I print black and white.

Wall Types I was trying to come up with a wall type for my new walls that will show when I print in black and white. I thought maybe dots would work but when I print, it doesn’t show the dots. I don’t like solid black walls. I prefer gray but it doesnt show up when print in black and white. I have to print in color or grey scale Any Ideas, Anyone?