stevenyhof

Even in some situations, even 1" away does not help.

That was most of it. But I still have the issue of once I move the wall against another wall it takes on the materials of the wall I place it against. I have run into that before. If I move it 1" away, it goes back to drywall. I have drawn like 15 plans already without an issue of this - so makes me think I changed something. I have a fur wall that I put against my concrete wall. It is set to Furred Wall. I've not had this issue with any walls in my basements - so this is new. I will keep pocking around.

I think I found it. I went to my Foundation default and found the Interior Wall Surface was set to Concrete but was not set as Default. Once I checked the Default option my walls work as they should with drywall. When I went through everything on my template, I must have missed this default. Thank you, Glenn!

I do have some of my interior walls in my library in the Foundation folder, but they are interior walls - not Foundation. And even those walls change if placed in the space - not even against another wall. So it must be something to do with what Glenn is suggesting. I will try some tests on different levels and see what happens.

You are correct. I just have them set up using the same materials as my defaults so everything looks congruent.

I will check that. Like I say, it was working for many plans and now this just started. But that does not mean I changed something because I am always fine tuning my template.

Has anyone run into this before? This is now the second plan where this has happened. I did go through my library and make sure things were set up as defaults. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qVTH6gugwTKaiwnmg6aKkczmyCNVFGW-/view?usp=sharing

I just made one - that will work. Would still be nice to know what I am missing...

Hello, Hoping one of you guru's out there can help me. I added the roof returns to a number of gables and it all worked perfectly - a week or so ago. Now I am completing the plans and see the my front porch gable roof return is missing on the right side. I removed it and tried again, but no go. I tried on the porch wall and the attic wall - both add the return to the left side but not the right. I even mirrored/copied the roof from the left to the right and that did not work. I know it is something I may have done - because that has proven over and over, but cannot find any issues. Thoughts? I wish they would increase the size a file can be... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSLeZLDIRSsZWin7R1bfHL-OOxYNFiQZ/view?usp=sharing Thank you, Steve

Yes, I am now paying more attention to this for sure. Thank you

Not in there. My template is in another folder I set up, but it is not there either. I opened up my template and that is blank.

Nothing in my template folder - it typically saves to the same folder as my .plan file.

Now I am seeing the layout file in the Archives. I wonder why my other previous work was not there.

I guess I would like to ask what the Save button does - or Ctrl+S ??? I use Ctrl+S all the time. If I am in the layout, does Ctrl+S do anything?

As soon as I placed my first elevation into the layout, the name changed from untitled to the clients name and shows up in the Browser. Seems to me that it should be saved.

I guess it is not my day. So I was working on the next job and putting things together on the layout. I have all my elevations, and my floor plan in place. I was working on a cross section and just completed it. I saved it into the Browser with Save Active View, and it went in there, and took a break. When I came back, I was messing with my printer and accidentally hit the power button to the whole system. After I rebooted I went back into the job and my section was gone and in fact there is no layout. I checked the Archives and there was an older copy - no layout exists. So, now I am a bit gun shy. I had my autosave set to 5 minutes, but how often does the archives save a backup? And, does the system save the layout in the same place or somewhere else? Again, I am starting over and putting things back into a new layout.

So I redrew my sections - saved them before I moved them to layout. They all show up in the Browser. I saved the plan, closed it and opened it - all still there Hope that doesn't happen again.

Section - It saves in the Cross Sections as Cross Sections 1, etc. next to my elevations

It was there

This time I'm using "Save Active View" on my sections. But they were all there. I did just find out that hitting Cntr+S does not save the section into the Project Browser.

I put them together and on the layout - so did not need to go into the Project Browser to open them. I added my section lines, added my details to the sections, and placed them into the layout. I save often and I updated a few times when I made some updates to the sections. Now the section lines are gone, the sections are still in the layout - with no notation. And the sections do not exist in the Project Browser.

So I just completed a plan - spent about 3 hours putting my notes and things on 5 sections. The client wanted a few changes so I opened the plan and see that I have no sections. I looked at my archives - nope! - I have is saving every 2 minutes. Is there hope are does this happen and I just have to get to work again?

Agree completely!

I'm now seeing that making up more names is better. I have used Brite for my trim and on the plan I'm working on I named the wall color Brite. So now when I change the walls, it is also changing all my trim. But I get it! And I like it Thank you

Very nice! And I am assuming that you have more than one wall type in the plan - yes? Well, you would - there is exterior and interior walls - Thank you