winterdd

Am I in the right area guys? haha this one is getting me..... been a while since I came across something like this I am just not getting.

7 minutes ago, DRAWZILLA said:

check your text style setting in the correct layer those fixtures are on.

 

it all still looks right to me.

I have my labels set up like I want. Working plan is right but in electrical they are still uppercase and bigger font. I have messed with settings for a half hour and cannot figure it out. I can't stand minor things like this holding me up.

working plan view                                                                                                              electrical plan view

Thanks, I guess suppressing will be the way to go. This was a problem in AutoCad but they had a weird code you could type in the properties box to get it to double line.

Amateur question of the day here. How do we break up the text into double lines when this happens? It rarely happens so I have never investigated.

17 minutes ago, tundra_dweller said:

Try opening up the room spec for the living room and make sure "Build Foundation Below" is checked in the Structure > Floor settings, then rebuild the foundation with the add foundation button.

That was it, not sure why that was unchecked but glad it was an easy fix. Thanks!

Hey guys, I have attached a quick sample of what I am having issues with all of a sudden with monolithic slabs. It won't build with a brick ledge and nothing shows up on level 0. I went thru my settings on the "brick 4" wall and cannot see where anything is wrong.

mono issues.plan

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.

5 hours ago, Chief_QA said:

In any view that you would like to display other plans, just click on the floor number in the toolbar and it will open that dialog.

 

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.

On 2/14/2024 at 6:01 PM, Chief_QA said:

You can show multiple plans in one camera view using the reference display.  You can even position them as well.

 

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.

8 minutes ago, Gawdzira said:

Is this turned off? Bumping and Pushing

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...............

10 minutes ago, ericepv said:

There is a box to check for flush eaves, I believe it's in the structure tab. 

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.

21 minutes ago, robdyck said:

I would never. Never ever ever.

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.

1 hour ago, SNestor said:

Rob -

quick video on importing saved plan views;

Rob - Import Saved Plan Views - Watch Video

That is a very smart way, thanks Steve.

1 hour ago, GeneDavis said:

@winterdd, does "clean it up" mean finish it for them including con docs?  Is this a one-off custom or is it to be a stock build for them.  Are you in it for con docs also? 

it is everything you just mentioned.

34 minutes ago, SNestor said:

Import your saved plan views from your template into this plan...

could you claify that? Sounds interesting.

6 minutes ago, GeneDavis said:

The user must not understand how to use SPVs, and works from a template in which there are none.

 

Ask them.

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.