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Nice!

Its hard to make out your picture. Is that a monkey on your back?

Interesting.... LOL

Thank you for the direction. I might be able to work with that after a little more tweaking.

I don't often have to do balconies over decks but when I do, I run into this problem of the post disappearing and the handrail post not working together. Is there a way to get this to work together or do I have to put in post and place the railing in between them? Cabin.plan

I'm offended!! LOL

We have a lot of time for re-runs right now!

Yes, you are young! "Sanford and Son" was a classic. It was one of my favorites Hope I didn't offend you I was just kidding around

Just coming up with this actor in his day reveals you must not be a young buck

Have to go out for a few hours so I will try symbols when I get back. Haven't worked with symbols in a while so I have to check the help.

I may have to manually put the rafters in and turn off the rafters layer Unless someone else has easier way another way.

I tried to run a roof from the top down and putting a negative pitch but it recognized the lower portion as the eaves

Anyone know how I can get a radius on both ends? Its not recognizing the top as rafter tails.

Thank you very much! This helps me a lot also. I'm getting a better understanding

Thank You! I had it all set up I just wasn't using it properly. You told me exactly what I needed to know.

Steve, I apologies for my lack of being able to explain what I need. I will go back to my seminar videos and see if I can find my answer there. I don't even know how to properly explain what I'm trying to do. Thank You

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the cameras and cross section view, layers and defaults. I make a new layer called "cross sections" because I want to separate it from the elevation camera views and it works real nice. The problem is that I want to be able to save the settings but if I change them for the framing sections at 3/8 or 1/2" scale then It messes up the camera views. Is there a way of saving and/or copying this call out so I don't have to set it up 2 or 3 times on every drawing I do? I'm afraid that if I set it as the default than it will mess up the camera views I use for elevations. Just having a hard time understanding it. Any help would be appreciated. I need to understand sections better because it seems like I spend a lot of time on them and they could be more be more automatic.

Seems like a waste of time and energy to me Larry. Sometimes I get hung up on these little things and it ends up being a monumental waste of time when I could have just built what I needed in a cad detail (for example) for something that I rarely even need or just except it just the way it is.

Yes, section is just for visualization only (doesn't have to be perfect). This note is all the city requires for me to give them along with a section (visualization only). Or at least before you start framing depending on what the city wants. Depends on the job and city

I like to put in a truss when I take my section cut. You just have to adjust your rafters and ceiling joist and take out the birds mouth cut and the truss will lay right over it.

Seems like a pretty unusual request. No idea how you would do that. Curious to see if anyone else replies with an answer.

Can you elaborate on how to do that? An example maybe.

Here is one example of what I was thinking but I don't know how I would make a line style like this to be automatic to where you can just select and drag. The most used by me would be a 2% and 5% Any ideas or thoughts?

Anyone want to share how they show direction of grade on site plan? I always use individual arrows with percentage of grade and just place them around the house as needed. Wondering what other ways I can display grade slope percentage. Most of my projects are 2 to 5 percent and I don't need to set terrain so I leave it flat. So the elevation data wont work. Your thought and suggestions would be appreciated

The reason I was having the problem was because I had one wall placed against the other so I didn't have the options for room definition. So I moved my wall out and made a room so I had the option and then it was fine. Thank you for your response.