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Does the platform version need a slight slope to it? I assume it does but can just note it on the drawing.

I like both of your ways guys. Makes perfect sense.

Hey guys, is a widows walk nothing more than stopping roofing planes at a certain point and adding a zero pitch roof plane to close off the roof and then add railing walls above it to form a flat platformed space? I assume there are two types, a cupola type with windows and actual platform type. Client wants it just for looks and not be able to actually get up to the platform. The home is being built overlooking a bay. I guess the main question is how to get CA to recognize the space as a platform.

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. I had no clue this was a feature. Wow, lots more to learn on the program.

Is this done in a camera view? Can you let me know where to fins this? It sounds like what another program in the past calls external referencing.

You are awesome, that worked!

In previous versions before X15 I could slide cabinets and they would stop at drywall and snap to the corners. Now I have to stop and move point to point. Is this in the settings somewhere?

When all else fails, just auto build from scratch, manipulate the flared roof planes and the errors go away...............

Yeah I tired that and no luck. I am going to hit this at a different route and rebuild the roof from scratch and see where I went wrong.

Hey guys, I am doing a roof with flared eaves. How come my soffit is angled if I left the boxed eaves checked? I need it flat. Looks like the wall accounts for the flat soffit since it has a gap and all. Thanks....

How about just modeling all three structures in one main file then doing a "save as" three times for each structure with their own annotations and settings?

I like the idea's here. I can do one site plan but do a CAD detail of the garage plans to copy and paste on the main home file. Thanks guys. What sucks is the garages will match the home and give that grand look for the renderings if they were all in one file.

separate plan files?

How many of you include detached structures in one plan file. An example would be this Floridian Style home I am working. The home itself is custom and quite challenging but as you pull up the driveway there will be one 27X27 garage to the left and one 27x27 garage to the right. In the past I found that multiple foundations and roofs can sometimes go nuts if, say, the garages have mono slabs and the main home is stem walled and you auto-build them. This is the first 3 separate structure project I have worked.

That is a very smart way, thanks Steve.

it is everything you just mentioned.

could you claify that? Sounds interesting.

It appears they had AutoCad in mind when doing the design and set up extra layers to turn on and off between the groups. I get it, but boy is it easier with CA setup.

Guys, I was emailed a plan file from a local builder needing me to clean up their model and do renderings for them. My question is why would this be missing (circled below). Would someone have had to delete them. I believe this came from X15 because when I saved it no warning came up about a previous version. Just trying to see how to revise this and switch between the framing and electrical and such. The home is fully modeled.

All is good guys.

Perfect, thanks!

haha, i noticed this little freak last year. I thought CA was rated G.

Hey guys, can anyone direct me to the label settings that follow exactly how I enter them. I am a fan of lower case on these.

Worked pretty good Scott!

Guys, I am really having a hard time with my interior wall elevations with X15. I had my settings in previous versions that all I did was click auto dimension (NKBA). I rolled my legacy NKBA dimension settings into X15 but it is not perfect. How do we get the extension lines to actually extend closer to the opening/objects without manually pulling the grips? And why on earth is it dimension to the center height of the freezer? This is really slowing me down big time.