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Looks like I have some investigating to do. I do like how migration was easy and I cannot remember if X15 offered that. It's been a minute. Skipping from 15 to 17.

This is how I roll. And I also upload the client's folder to google drive routinely to keep the latest and greatest.

Newbie to X17 here and already wondering the same thing about files. This will take some getting used too.

Sure did Ken, I plan on shipping Monday.

I auto frame it and then clean it up which includes me manual framing some areas. Framing is actually my favorite part of plans. Yes, those are 2x6's and other areas are tapered just not the porch for some reason.

Yeah, for some reason this happens every now and then. I usually turn it off but really would like to have a solution. Below is how I framed it.

Nah, I wish it were that easy but it is 9' like the rest of the home. Thanks

How do you guys taper joists when the program doesn't do it? See below and thanks!

On each house I do, I cut a back clipped cross section of an exterior wall and detail it out from that view. Because footers, insulation, sheathing, studs, facade, pitch marks etc are very common on my homes, I have callouts saved in my library, plop them in and modify whatever text I need to. Little things like this and pre saved general notes really speed up designing plans.

Thanks tundra! I will look into this now.

Hey Guys, Is there a tutorial on building a stem wall foundation and also having a mono slab on other parts of the home? I haven't fully mastered this over the years yet. I check the spaces of the home I need raised to "walls with footings" and the right wing of the house as "mono slab" because all those spaces are on grade. It never fails that this creates a huge issues. The garage can be marked as mono but it wants to build a stem wall. So then I have to go label it as bonus room and it builds as mono. I just cannot wrap my head around these type of fdns. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. See below as an example..........

Thanks guys, I did the "top inside corner" method and it looks great.

Hey guys, I asked this a while back but cannot find the thread. How can we shape windows like below in red without having to mull two windows. I need one window with that shape.

Thanks guys, I will give both a try!

How do you guys fix this since I have never had luck drawing a wall and it letting me break it into the shape I need. If I do a pline solid and make it drywall material it won't show siding on the exterior. Is there a proper way to do this?

Nope, no second floor. It's weird cause all the rooms match in heights and stuff. There are 3 good trays and 1 bad one. Makes no sense.

Yes sir, already done a few of those to no prevail. It seemed to happen when I reframed the ceiling joists for it. I particularly don't use CA generated tray framing and do my own so I am investigating that.

Hey guys, any tips on why this is happening and the tray won't generate? It worked yesterday lol.

Thanks man, It's always something so simple.

Hey guys, I can't get these eaves to box. Would this be because of un-joined roof planes somewhere or the wall offsets? (example below)

Thanks guys, I will give these all a try.

So, I have reading up and experimenting with 3d molding polylines instead of building exterior trim (circled below) manually with 3d solids. When you draw the outline of the home exterior, make it a 3d molding polyline and attach the molding it does not cut in way of door bottoms. CA says add break lines and pull the line down to door bottoms. I did that and it offsets to the inside of home. Any tips or what I am doing wrong? It would be a much faster way of doing trim. We have a frieze board option on roof settings but nothing for house bottoms.

Thanks guys!

Just to make this look more complete do we have any brackets in the library that work to hold the rod? I don't see anything.

worked great guys!