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Thanks guys, six years later working with CA and there is still so much I need to learn.

I am about pull my hair out on this deck framing issue. Every time I reopen the files where I have decks, the framing disappears. It gets old rebuilding it every time. What is up with that? That HVAC platform should have joists beneath and a couple 6X6's. Same with the front porch.

Good input guys, nothing is ever easy with custom requests.

Hey guys, does CA offer these type of railings? Or maybe I should ask how can it be done besides manual pline solids? The cable inside the "X" members I get.

Good info TeaTime!

I am not good with this tool, I can get some brick courses to look halfway decent but forget about it when it comes to arches. How do you guys get this to look symmetrical and follow the arch. Shown below is a polyline solid arch I made after trying to use a door lintel with a 5/8" thickness and it going nuts when I applied the brick course material. The lines should be perpendicular and not 90 deg. It's nearly impossible to make all lintels symmetrical when you mess with the adjust material def tool

It's not for wheelchair access but more of a rare request. I hear what you are saying though.

I built it in CA.....I can email it to ya if you like.

works pretty good but I couldn't get the bottom to follow the driveway for a nice tie in. That's why I like pline solids.

Is there a way to slice thru a 3d solid and keep the curvature like redlined below? I did it 3 years ago but cannot for the life of me remember how I did it with CA cad tools. Top level with porch and bottom level with grade/driveway. Oh the requests I get from clients.

oh ok, makes sense.

Hello fellow chiefer's. Is this normal? It is the second time I have caught this. Clearly there are two different types of cabinets shown but have the same numbers for the schedule. We have a regular base cabinet with door and upper drawer and one with three drawers. Confused?? each should have their own number and I updated/renumbered the schedule to see if they would change.

I just turned the terrain to asphalt material and poly lined the parking lines, parking bumps and handicap paintings. The keyword is poly lines. I have done a bank, coffee shop and bistro/cafe this way.

I got it to work by manually gripping the window and sizing accordingly and then match roof. The circled area has been an issue for years.

Already tried that as well as manipulating the height of the window size. Nothing works......

Guys, I am having a hard time shaping windows. I know how to "match roof shape" but it still does not make them triangular like shown below in red. I want to delete the middle window and have two perfectly symmetrical triangle windows. I think that would look better for this home.

Found one in sketchup and looks great.

Do we have wine racks with bottles already inserted? I am not about to fill an entire wall rack with wine bottles into my model and my client likes to see detail in his renderings. haha Every library item I downloaded doesn't seem to have what I need.

This could be true......I did have cars and plants/trees in the model. But even when I shut TM down and went back into CA that is where everything starting having the issues I mentioned above.

Downloaded TM and the launcher and my PC went nuts last night. Blinking, flashing, color distort etc. Per my PC specs below this should not have happened and all my drivers are up to date.

Thanks guys!

Guys, its late in the game for me but I finally am trying twin motion. Which plugin do you use for CA?

CA calculates the heated and cooled. So, that step is done. What I do for total under roof is turn on "room standard area" layer and add the remaining unheated places like porches and garages to the heated calc.

I have wanted this for years, total under roof and heated automated calcs. Every time a client makes a changes I have to remember and go thru and add or subtract the sq footages. Sometimes I forget and the client catches it every time.

Yep! everything turned on, that's what was confusing me as to why they weren't showing.