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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed

I'm moving through the interior of the house using the mouse-dolly camera. It appears that you are doing something totally different. I reduced my frame rate to one because it was going thru the house to fast. I guess I need to figure out the terminology also. I need lesson 101.

That happened to me before and I had to delete the roof and rebuild it and it was fine after but I'm not sure what caused it. Hopefully someone will post that knows how this happens.

Do you know what the compression is? Not sure what that is used for?

I just started using the walk through tool today. When I play it back it plays to fast. Anyway to slow it down? Also are there any good video anyone can suggest to learn how to do good walkthrough presentations?

Good idea! Thank you Joe

Then you turn both of them off. But that may be ok because I don't usually use the total living space anyway. Thank you that is a good idea

Yes, confused but getting closer. I guess actually seeing something in action might connect the dots.

Maybe Joe just had a "Brain Fart". He's very intelligent but still is allowed to make a mistake once and a while.

I will see how that good works. Thanks

You should be asking this question in the "question and answers" section. The response will be better.

Wow! That made me feel a little useful. Thanks

Sounds like you just need to change the scale. You can change it when you resend it or after you send it you can change it in the layout plan as per attached picture.

Are you talking about when you send it to layout or send it to print? Be more specific or send a picture or something.

Its not a big issue. Just curious to see if anyone knew something that I didn't. I delete it and as I'm working on the plan its pops up every so often and I have to remember to delete it again before it goes out to print.

Excel is one program that I use a lot of. I built an entire estimating program that I use for my business. I started building it with windows 3.0 about 25 years ago and have improved on it over the years. But I only figure out what I really need or want and I keep it as simple as I can. I find that all the estimating programs I have looked at in the past are way to intense and I wouldn't use 90% of the stuff they put in it. I have actually thought about marketing what I have built because of how simple (but not to simple) it is and you can adapt it to whatever type of construction you do but you have to put your own data into it to make it work. So it keeps you stream lined. My Point: I would like to make my estimating program so it will automatically generate a proposal off of it. I think that I may need to use macros to do it but not sure at this point. That's why I'm so interested in understanding macros.

Joe I know that you can also build macros in Microsoft excel. Can you tell me the difference between what a macro is and what excel uses to calculate sums? I use math only on a very basic level just enough to do what I need to get the job done but I find myself interested in learning more.

Some guys just have that gift to program. I am not a programmer so I rely on others to do that part for me and I don't mind paying for it. You find your niche (gift) and you stick with it. Joe, I could be wrong but I'm guessing that you shared with us that knowledge because you are trying to help us better understand macros. I have been researching ruby macros and trying to understand the concept and how it came about and with that information and what you just explained I understand what it is but I still get lost in the equation part of it. I was never good at HTML coding either. You did a very good job explaining it but I will most likely have to rely on other to do the custom stuff for me. Thank You

I don't understand why the automatic settings with CA puts a living area label with sq. ft. "0" for a detached garage when it doesn't have living space?

You saved me a lot of time! I went thru preferences earlier and I don't know why I didn't think of reset. I'm trying to develop a process of trouble shooting when I have theses issues. I guess that will come in time. I'm getting better thanks to the guys in this forum. Despite the teasing

When I opened the preferences to rest and I pick the one that said reset side windows instead. Seem to make more sense and it worked. I'm always afraid of resets because I don't want to screw up my custom tool bars. Still not sure if your suggestion of resting the size of dialog would have done it also? Thank You

I tried this before hand and it didn't do it.

OK, OK! I forgot to attached the picture. I would loose m head if it wasn't attached. The boxes are checked but my layer set is missing. Can anyone tell me the mystery of the missing layer set? I'm stumped