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So then you have several plan sets for one job? Not sure I get that because what about when you need it as a whole and what about when you make a change? how does it change on the other sets?

Removing garage so I can view house without it being in the way: Ok, I found that if I shut off the ceiling surfaces that it went away. So I put all the walls and roof on its own layer and shut off the ceiling surfaces and now I don't see the garage except for the slab and footing and that's ok. If there is another easier way to do this though I would be open to hearing other ideas.

The garage is in the way of me getting a good 3D view of the house. Is there am easy way of removing the gage so I can get the view without deleting it? I tried to put all the garage commponants on a garage layer but I got hung up with the room layer.

I am very thank full for all that participate and give donated time to CA users. Also I know that the teachers generally benefit as much if not more than the people they are teaching. Its a blessing all the way around. Joe, I have no issue with you getting compensated for your work. If I'm understanding you correctly this is something that is saving someone the time to go thru all the work of learning and building something that will benefit them in making the program more efficient for them. So this would be an out of the box working item that all they have to do is use it and not have to set it up. Some are not too good with coding and depend on others to build it for them. This is not the same idea as helping others to do the work themselves. I understand completely and may even be a buyer once I have an understanding of macros and how they can help me. I have not gotten to macros yet but I will be soon. Thank You Joe

So I'm not going crazy after all! You guys confirmed that they (code enforcers) keep changing the rules and make them up as they go along. Day by day and minute by minute. Depends on who you talk to and what kind of day their having and/or what instructions their following. Cal code, city code, local code, street gang code........

I usually have 4 to 5 additions going at a time and every inspector does different. The inspectors aren't totally current yet in every city.

The building still has to be 5 ft. but they sometimes will make us stucco under the eaves depending on the city and whose doing the inspections. The inspectors so far hasn't enforced it. Same thing with those damn humidistat exhaust fans. What a crock man! Sorry you guys are me getting started. I think some of these codes are stupid.

The Local City Explained It This Way: The set backs in CA is because of fire. 10' in between structures which would be 5' on either side of the property line. Its figured to the framing because stucco is not flammable. So if it was wood siding than the set back is to the siding.

I'm glad you confirmed that Perry. I thought maybe I was loosing my mind! Well actually I think I am loosing my mind, I have to write everything don't or I will forget walking from one room to the other.

The living space drawing in this photo is correct in my understanding. Figures square footage to the center of a shared wall. The one with the garage makes no since at all. Go Figure!!!??? BTW: I figure to the outside framing, not the stucco for SF. That's what the plan checkers have always told me anyway. It came up one time when we had to have a 10 foot set back and they were ok with figuring to the framing. I could have been doing it wrong all this time but I never heard of going to the outside stucco.

I have a layer set up called "Square Feet" and I do polylines around the areas I'm calculating square footage. Its extra work but quick and easy and I don't have to worry about being off on square footage.

The garage is 20x20=400 SF It will be a correction with the plan checker if the number isn't right on the plan so I have to put it in manually.

I didn't see this post. Glad everything worked out!

Let me if you loose your info after you restart or whatever you have to do. I'll be curious about that because I lost mine today?

I guess the second screen wouldn't help because it wont allow you to get out of the box.

That's a new one on me. I would be afraid of losing info also. I got locked out today and lost a lot of info and had to start over. If your hooked to a second screen you may be able to drag over to start the second screen and possibly it my split up your program enough to hit save. Long Shot!

I have something messed up. I added interior and exterior wall layer sets that I copied from the "Walls, Normal" layer set and then I set the interior and exterior wall to my defaults. It works fine that way but when I build the second floor it picks up the "Walls, Normal" again. What's up with that? This is frustrating! I put the plan in one of my past post if anyone wants to check out what I'm dealing with?

To different problems going on here but I think they may be related. I changed the wall on the first floor to the center and the SF is still off. It only does it when it is a garage on one side but it should still come out the same. 400 SF each side.

Ok I have something weird going on here. Second Floor: When I check standard area nothing comes up on the plan but when I check all the area boxes the standard come with it. I have been messing with my defaults to build a new template so I may just be something I screwed up but not sure. Help??? Marquez Origional Plan.plan

I dint get it? It adds up right if I change the garage to living space. It should total 800 SF either way

How come the square footage for the garage is wrong?

I think I figured it out but I set everything up late last night and my computer locked on me after all the work and lost everything. The automatic save didn't even work. My bad for not saving as I go I guess. Thank You for your response

I added a new annotation set call floor annotation set and tried to link it to the floor plan but when I switch to another plan and come back to floor plan it goes back to the 1/4" annotation set. Why doesn't it just stay the way I set it up with the newly assigned floor annotation set?

Glad You Got It Working!

I noticed that in the Arrow Defaults there is a 1/20" scale. Does anyone know if there is a reason for this? I dont see text or anything else with that scale. Am I missing something that I should know?