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This is my first commercial building and so far so good! Thank you for your help! 1) The part I'm stuck on now is the windows and doors. I need to mulled them together somehow. I have tried but have not had any luck. 2) Also I need to get rid of the circled post at the corner as per the picture so I can put in a round column. Can anyone help me? I attached the plan file and if it helps anyone else please use it in whatever way you please. Tiltup.plan

Thanks guys, I will let you know how it turns out. That is a good start.

Hey Guys and Gals, I have not had the pleasure of drawing a concrete tilt-up building before and I would like to draw one for a conceptual design for a friend of mine. I was wondering if someone can help me get started? Its 20 feet high to the top of the wall but the roof sits down a few feet below inside so we have parapet walls. I put a 1/2 inch per foot pitch roof and set my ridge board top height at 18 feet but my wall drop down to below the roof. How do I make it so the wall stay at the 20 foot height?

This is the devise I was thinking of buying. I did a new thread because I wanted current information. Room planner has recently upgraded and you know how electronic devises keep changing. Cant keep up!

Tommy, Do you have anymore on line workshops coming up in the near future?

I'm starting to use room planner but I think It would really help if I purchased a Blue tooth measure devise. Any suggestions on what to buy?

Thank You!!!

Never mind. I found it under mill work. I missed it the first time I looked

Any body no where I can find additional liburary content for window shutters? I need a two panel shutter.

Thats exactly what I'm looking for! Thank You Jon!!!

I use drop box for floor plans, elevations and I will put a few 3d views but It would be nice to use the Tablet to be live. Not that important though.

I am experimenting with "Room Planner". Thought I would give it a try. I drew a plan and imported it into CA and that worked great! My question is; Can I draw a plan in CA and put it in room planner so I can show a client out in the field on my tablet? Or if not is there another way that I can view a plan from my tablet?

I have noticed since I installed windows 10 that I have been having problems with some files getting corrupted. For Example; Excel, Word and CA file3 changing to a MP3 file and then it is corrupt and there is no going back. They will not open no mater what I do even if I change the extension. Anyone else have this problem?

Yes I know you did but that is when it didn't work the first time i tried it so I was just responding to Jerry. Every response in this thread was very helpful because now I have a larger understanding of how casing, lintel and sill work together. So thank you very very much!

Thank You Jerry! That worked. Not sure why it didn't work the first time I did it but I tried it on a different window and it worked fine. A suggestion for CA would be to put that same setting to be accessed from the lintel DB maybe if it can be done.

i would like the lintel to extend two inches past the window frame like the drawing in the first post. But the problem is the bottom of the lintel overlaps the shutter and window frame just as the picture in my first post.Also I went in and made sure my casing overlap was set to zero. Allthough I dont think the casing settings have anything to do with the lintel.

The lintel needs to not over lap the window frame at the top (like the sill). Anything else that is done is counter productive and a waist of valuble time for this paticular issue. I would rather just leave it the way that it is. It really doesnt matter that much. This is one those CA things that you just have to live with until it is fixed. The correct way in my opinion is to be able to be more flexible in the casing dialog box so you can choose to have casing only on the top and bottom or fix it in the lintel dialog box. Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it.

Thank you Joe. Seems like I can never have it all! Very appreciative as always for your help

Outside casing only works if your using casing. I'm using lintel for the top trim and sill for the bottom. I don't want casing on the sides.

I put the window shutters in and a lintel and sill for the trim above and below the window. The problem is the lintel trim interfere with the shutters as per the attached picture. Anyone know how to fix this issue?

Everything seems to show up and is working the way it should on my system. I put in a few can lines and put them on cad 10 and cad two and it seems to be fine.

Thank You Jon! I did it before but its been so long I forgot.

Does anyone know where you enter in the window manufacturer into the window schedule?

I agree with this. It is really easy to do and it will automatically frame accordingly for you floor framing when you do the sections. I have done it a few times with roll in showers.

Toby, Do you use that material from the noble company to do your shower pans? I haven't found a product on the market I trust yet because I have torn out a lot of badly installed showers. I always insist to hot mop and concrete float the pan and the walls. So I was just curious because this seems like one of the best systems that I have seen so far but it also looks like its more time consuming and more expensive than concrete. Not sure?