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Thanks Mick. Will do! Kevin

Ryan - thanks for your input. Balcony is not working now either as the floor platform on the deck (or porch) is comprised of 2 x 8 floor joists. The main house has 2 x 10 floor joists. When you lower the porch by 2", the siding should line up due to the 2" difference in framing members. What actually occurs is shown in the attached illustration. There has got to be an easier way... I have attached the file in the above post, if you have time to take a look. Kevin

Thanks Mick. You read my mind. While you were typing, I was zipping this file. Kevin CHF_Haurand Addition_06-26-20.zip

Thanks Ryan. You're right. I guess I can just place my pier/footings manually which I intend to tweak anyway. Speaking of double or triple beams, do you actually draw those out individually? I am using a triple 2 x 10 beam and just drew it as a single member 4.5" thick with a custom label. I was curious how others do this. Kevin

Mick - are you saying untick "generate between platforms" and try the above method again? Kevin

Mick - I take that back. It does sorta' work, but my rim joist is poking through the siding. Thoughts on this?

Ryan - thanks. Changing to balcony works, but I lose my pier footings.

Thanks Mick. It's not my intention to monopolize your day, but glad you're around. That said, I used your steps above and it didn't work. When I unticked "railing", the siding went to the correct place and when I ticked it again, it jumped back up. Ideas?

Mick - you are correct. It did work. I had to set my interior/exterior materials to default. Must have gotten painted at one point. I'm getting there... I have a new issue (see attached). The siding needs to come down to meet the siding on the existing part of the house. The floor platform in the existing part of the house is comprised of 2 x 10's. The floor platform of the deck is using 2 x 8's. The deck is lowered 2", so that the siding will align. Do I need to fill this in manually? Or could there be a "tick" for this somewhere? I tried looking into the sill without any luck. I know this framing isn't conventional, but it's exactly what the builders wants as per our phone call a few minutes ago. Thanks again for the help, Kevin

Steve and Mick - thanks for the replies. I'm not sure why the siding isn't showing up. I'll post the wall type if I continue to have issues. That said - I'm not sure they will be building the structure as shown by Steve. I imagine the posts will extend all the way down to the floor platform and the siding will be attached to both sides at the bottom. Any ideas on how to do this? I know I can define the entire wall as a railing and choose "solid" for the lower portion, but this does not give me options to include the wall layers (i.e. - siding, OSB, housewrap). Any ideas?

I'm designing a porch where the client wants the lower 3' to be siding on both the interior and exterior walls. The upper section will be screen. I am attempting to do this by using a pony wall (at least this is my first thought). The siding will not show up on the lower section. Also, I am concerned that using this method, it won't frame properly as the wall structure is to be 4 x 4 posts to beam with the siding applied to the bottom portion over 7/16" OSB and a wall cap. I'm sure I'm going about this the wrong way. Any advice on how to make this type of wall? Thanks, Kevin

Thanks Michael!

Thanks Mick. Yes, it wasn't so bad, but sure would be nice to have that purge function. Kevin

Mick - thanks for the reply. The problem is I don't have any "good" plans. I have been setting up my default sets this week for various scales. I did notice that it wouldn't delete a default that was assigned to a set, however, that didn't help much as when you select all it wouldn't delete anything if just one of the items was assigned to a set. It sure would be nice to have a purge function for unused defaults.

Is there a quick way to purge all defaults that aren't part of a default set? Thanks, Kevin

Thanks David. Yes, I've concluded this could save me a lot of time. I appreciate the input. Kevin

Wouldn't this require me to scale it again once exploded? Some of these symbols are fairly complex - would be a pain...

Correct. And their training video for as-builts shows precisely what I was doing: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/362/showing-an-as-built-mask-on-a-remodel-plan.html?playlist=100 What they don't cover is the mess you end up with using blocks.

Thanks Michael. I've spent the last few hours figuring about what you state above. That said, when I use the AS-Built file as a reference under my remodeled file, the fills are exploded. Attached is the as-built file shown in the plan view (just what I want) and then used as a reference in the remodeled file (problems).

The shower block is problematic as I had to scale it on only one axis. The bathtub is also an issue as it was not scaled proportionately. The issue occurs in the CAD detail after sending from plan view.

I am making a demo plan of an existing bathroom. I have drawn the as-built conditions and sent the plan to a CAD detail from view. I need all of my lines to be dashed and in a light gray color. I am unable to explode some of the blocks because scaling is different in X and Y. What is the best method to get around this? I have tried creating a new library symbol with the scaled symbol. I am unable to explode those too. I don't understand why it's not possible to explode a scaled symbol in CA. Maybe I am going about this entirely the wrong way and could use some tips. Thanks, Kevin

Rob - thanks for the tip. This seems a much better way to go about this. Kevin

Because that's what I thought I had to do to put it in my library for future use. Also, didn't realize I wouldn't be able to adjust the texture once a symbol. Still learning and appreciate all your help! Finally got the roof ridge sorted this morning! Kevin

That's what I thought. Doesn't work once the object becomes a symbol.

Great idea! That's what I'm going to do.