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rustic wood catalog changes the texture, "adjust material def" works but needs a little work to blend it together.

Thanks Jim, I will check it out and post a pic!

Do we have anything in the library to reflect this look or similar. Applying stain as a color on the board and batten in CA still doesn't give it a look like below.

I keep what I can that CA generates and manually change/rotate where I feel the need.

I share your pain on this and interested to hear feedback.

When I stopped to really think about it, I realized I was working the software against itself. The highlighted portion is the second floor over the bottom. I had the entire rear porch at 9'. When I changed the portion of the rear porch below the second floor to 10' it seemed to save changes throughout. Man, talk about a headache.............we shall see.

Thanks Gene, good catch but no this is a seperate similar home. I am going to check into the 2nd floor defaults like you mention. That makes good sense. As far as attaching plan files, what's the easiest way? Link to a cloud server?

Howdy guys, question on different ceiling heights. In my default settings the first and second levels are set at 9'-0" ceilings. However in the middle wing of the home they want 10' ceilings. Not so much a problem on doing that. However, every time I reopen the file to continue working on the home the 10' section always goes back to 9' and I have had to select the spaces and manually change the settings back under the structure tab. It is getting old very fast. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Pic below, the second floor sits directly above the 10' section so you can imagine the floors sink down when the bottom floor ceiling reverts back to 9'. I don't want to keep changing it just to get by. I'd like to learn the correct way. Thanks.

Well after all the talking with the client we decided to make the ceilings 10’ which made my job a lot easier. Thanks everyone, I am sure I will need to come back to this thread sooner or later if this topic is brought up again with new jobs.

thanks, I was trying to avoid that because they wanna keep the 9' ceilings and then go up with the tray.

Hey guys, second floor of the home has either i-joists or webbed trusses. I am having requests for tray ceilings under the second floor. Is this possible and can you even cut into floor members to do this? I mean if I am using 16" i joists or trusses and the minimum tray depth is 12" that doesn't leave much structure.

Thanks guys, yes @mtldesignsframing is always built by the time i do story poles. I hear ya @tundra_dweller, I can do it manually but I also like to figure out issues so it is just one push of a button to dimension my elevations. I mean, in reality all I have been doing is gripping the highest header line and deleting it but it just seems like I am working against CA that way. I will try to pm the link @robdyck

Been having this happen a lot lately. Does anyone know why it is labeling two header heights.

When I did it your way, nothing changed soffit wise so I had to outsmart it. Nonetheless, I looks great now. Yes sir, Daphne. We didn't get s single drop of rain from Helene suprisingly.

You were right, I deleted that "5 1/2" purlins" under the surface dbx and made the structure 5 1/2" purlins. It brought the roof down 5 1/2" so I then I used the transform/replicate object and moved in up 5 1/2" in the z direction and boom, it's perfect. May not be the proper way or best way but it worked and I can move on.