JiAngelo

Third way is to reference the garage plan in the house plan. You can drag and rotate the reference plan to get it where you want it located, then set the z-axis so the garage doors are at ground level. Drawing the drive pad location in the house plan helps with alignment.

In the Window DBX last line under "Sash" allows you to inset the windows. Your picture looks nice.

16" wall, windows set back 1'. I added (2) 2' square windows between the arched units, 0 separation, no framing and mulled them together. I colored the glass in the 2 square windows stucco and added the 4" columns 10"x10". Here's another view with the 3 arched windows as passthroughs. After I changed all units to pass-throughs, I added a wall 1" behind the one above with arched windows 4" smaller that the arched passthroughs and cased them. Pretty close. Hope this helps.

Very nice.

Draw a horizontal cad line connected to the window, connect the story pole to the cad line, then raise the cad line 1/4" - would be my trick of last resort. A marker works too.

Yes. Create a text macro called "heightadu" for example. Under Value define "d=(height + 24)" (no quotes) and set Context to "Owner Object" Next, open your marker dbx and under Text select user macro heightadu or simply type %heightadu% in the text line. These markers should now add 24" to every height reported (i.e. report 0 for -24 and if you copy the marker +10' on the z-axis it will say 120 for 96, etc.... This works for elevation views, not plan views. And if you prefer the height to be reported in decimal feet, in the macro add a second line "z=d.to_ft.round(2)" Hope this helps..

Most likely you have 2 electrical connections attached to the switch. CA automatically labels that a 3-way.

That's his actual title, Gene.

Use a regular 3D view and turn off roof planes, gutters, ridge caps, and ceiling planes.

We've used this Deer Valley sink in the past. Home Depot. <<link. Stock photo.

Thanks for the responses. I created the paint layer 1/8" thick on both sides of my interior walls and interior side of the exterior walls, using SW 7524. In my test plan I created (4) interior rooms that are 10x10 each with various windows and doors. The (4) rooms x 40lf perimeter x 9ft wall height = 1440 and the program calculates 1147.51, so Chief is subtracting the windows and doors.. But when I changed the color in each room to a different SW color, the material list remains counting only SW7524, the material list ignores the presence of SW6185 & SW9136, for example. When I open the wall specification dbx, Materials shows the correct interior color under "Materials" But the Components is still reporting the default SW7524. It occurs to me I was having this same trouble using siding layer on exterior walls, coloring it a different type of siding changes the view in 3D but didn't update the material lists correctly. I had to create duplicate wall types that had different default siding colors or styles - This wasn't that big of a deal, we generally only have two or three siding materials on a home, but on interior walls, we are coloring two sides of the same wall in different colors as it spans across multiple rooms. My problem today is I have a client that wants to use 9 colors throughout their home and my painters want a calculation by color of the amount of area they are painting to determine pricing. I also noticed the Room Specification DBX has the same problem. Materials shows the walls correct color. But the Components shows nothing regarding the walls, only the Drywall, and it shows the ceiling, which has Drywall named Color-White. Also the base molding = 40ft means it doesn't subtract for the (2) doors in this room. . I've attached the test plan file, in X16 format. PaintColors.plan

Is there a way to determine the wall areas of each room, less doors and windows, and to create a schedule that shows the total wall areas of each paint color? The material list doesn't show the paint colors. The room finish schedule shows the paint, but not the net wall surface area.

Whomever is giving you these DWG files is doing you no favors. Apparently it was created in AECCLAND130 or Civil3D. I had to download a Civil Object Enabler 2026 from Autodesk, add it to my TrueView 2026, in order to be able to even see the objects in TrueView. Below is what they looked like before installing COE2026. I used DWG Convert within TrueView to export as Autocad 2018, Autocad 2013, and Autocad 2010. Each allowed me to load the file, but all showed the Civil3D information as Blocks. In fact, this is how the import looked when selecting all. Notice the bounding box extending left and down. (red circles) I zoomed out and scrolled to the opposite end of the bounding box and found this. (red circles are bounding box lines.) NOTICE THE COORDINATES OF THIS BLOCK. And if you explode it you will see this. I deleted it, then hit zoom all, and select all. I then zoomed in on the lower left point and circled below you will find how far it was from the opposite corner.. You need to ask whomever created the DWG, to recreate it exploding all objects as plain autocad entities. They cannot have your elevation points existing inside a block of point_name, point_id, and point_elevation, along with the point itself because CA can't look inside a block to retrieve the information. Hope this helps. 1862801569_410LUNETADRIVE (1).dwg

That invisible wall is 10' tall which means the 8' porch roof is stopping automatically at the wall, butting against it, not through it. Follow @CharlesVolz Option #2 above and extend the roofline to the other side of that wall is the quickest and easiest solution. You can wait and do it last if you still need autoroof turned on to finish up other design details.

After you crop, updating the layout box should refresh the elevation view to the correct resolution. Check if your terrain is too wide to the right. The sent layout view will encompass all of it. At random times I'll have a radius drive meeting the road improperly, or two opposing roof planes intersecting improperly, causing a curb or facia to extend off to some distant point. I sometimes can't see it until the 3d view is rotated just right and it flickers into view.