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thanks eric, I always wonder which layer I am supposed to snap the roof to. This shows it nicely

I've also recently discovered the "layer painter", less cumbersome than opening up the dialog box and navigating to the layer and changing it, for after the fact "i forgot to change the layer" happenings. ...just need a font height painter and all my lack of planning will be solved

I had a similar thread about five months ago. Where a wall was building through the roof.for a truss heel. There appears to be a magic formula. It would only occur for a roof a certain distance from the top plate. If you search the forum for my name you should see it. I logged with support. If I remember correctly they said to delete the wall

thanks for trying, looks like you did same as i, drew a vertical line to snap to. I was actually fortunate on this one that I could just draw room dividers and set the stem wall height in the room(did not have to drag the wall up or down), only thing I had to edit was the vertical footing piece

Very clean looking, interesting way to do it and I like the way you get the vertical distance with the reference line. How are you getting the horizontal distances? I cannot get the dimension to snap. I had to draw vertical lines for each change below, and then fiddle with them to be exactly 6' and 8'

done nvdia driver version 27.21.14.6235 is the latest i am using

@robdyck I wasn't able to snap to TOF. Are you creating those markers manually and doing the math?

this started to happen for me on my 1650 last week (Nov 1) and now I have it with my 3080. I have it happening pretty much 10% of the time on one large plan I have

i think that just updates the view? I hit that all the time to update elevations as i have mine as on demand. In this case the shrunk rich text box is on the layout (not part of the plan/elevation). the open up , ok, close, worked, merci

the resolution looks to be the same on the other monitor, however, extending the desktop acorss both maybe changes it. Anyway as @Kbird1indicates, opening and closing the dbx worked what does mean? i zoom in and out and nothing changes

I've noticed when I open up previous files the rich text box shrunk. instead of I have no idea what event triggered this. My only thought is it was around the time that I removed my second monitor, but really that should have nothing to do with it) anyone seen this before?

My mother in law's laptop was dying, so I sold her my 17" 16GB i7 GTX 1660 Ti I bought in the spring ($1100USD at the time). I just bought a i7 11800H with 32 GB ram c/w GTX 3080 with 8GB, this week for $2000US. to goto the i9(or the AMD Ryzen had really good reviews) was at least another $1k I wasn't ready to spend. (it seems to go from 16GB to 32GB is the big $ jump, then i7 top i9 is another $1k) ..at least up here Ortho overview takes about 3 seconds (I thought it would be faster).. elevations about 2.5s. dbx are noticeably faster. floor camera PBR takes about 4 seconds, kind of cool to just zoom in and see it. I never used it before, not sure if I will now, on the fence..will need to see how it looks like to get to a decent pdf size (if that is impacted) recording of walkthroughs are a lot less choppy and quicker and just moving between plans, views just a lot quicker. double clicking on a layout plan to get to actual plan is about 0.5s

nice tidbit, thanks

just saw it today for the first time

never thought of that, that will be useful for decks less than about 30" above grade.

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I'm having problems just getting 2 posts to show up on a covered porch. I can live with 2 plus two at the house. But whenever I add the stairs CA creates 2 new posts at the stairs or just 1 if I move the stairs to the corner perfectly). I fiddled with the spacing but to no avail. images with and without stairs are below. Is there a way to just get two posts on the corners, through the railing wall configuration without having to draw posts? I had a heck of a time just getting those four. It seems like all three railing walls have to have post to ceiling in order to get the two corner posts (but then by setting the two little walls to post to ceiling, I get the posts next to the house). I've had this problem before and chose to put in posts manually, which is NEW PLAN 20x72.plannot ideal. I watched the CA video, but it shows the posts beside the stairs, and the actual video has no stairs https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1509/adding-a-deck-with-a-roof-and-ceiling.html?playlist=94 Thanks!

Yes, but there is more, the City here has a zero lot line policy which changes some of the criteria. So I'm looking to semi automate it.. I was thinking of putting all the windows in a hash or array based on schedule number and then constantly run through it to keep the total current. I saw some of your posts Joe which look to indicate this method as well. I was hoping for something less brute force. And I'm not sure if the macro would fire when a window is deleted, in order to remove the window from the hash.

if you have space at the bottom of the stairs and enough headroom(or make the headroom), you could: change the top winder to a landing. bring the bottom stairs straight out

ok, I've got the ones I want into a custom schedule by doing the above(I do not need a custom field, just a custom schedule category) and the schedule has the total area of the windows as a "total". But how can I get that total into a global variable so I can use in a macro? Looking at the schedule's object properties, it does not look like there is anything there.

I have some time, so I am back to trying to compute window areas for a user specified collection of windows. I can add a custom field to the window and mark the ones I want with something in this custom field. But I do not see a way to "query" them from a schedule or window collection(if one exists). I thought about getting them from the walls, but it does not look like I can get them from the walls (or I do not know how. I looked around and found drywall area, but no window area) I read a few posts, but I do not see anyone actually indicating the method to get it (other than the draw polyline around the windows method. And I cooked up a method where you can click on the window and execute a ruby command which adds the area to a running total (but that, and the polyline method) only works until you add or change the windows, then you have to do it again)) Thanks

draw it from the upper level. I got it to show on my upper level, I think that is how i did it. only problem is the piles showed on the fist level (instead of the foundation level

I tried the living area poly line and it works well If I combine with the room polyline, it also changes the deck into single lines and gives me the nice delineation between the deck and exterior wall. Not ideal as it is not live. But if I changed my workflow to have the survey image on the plan (instead of on a CAD detail), then at least I will not be copying the polyline over and redimensioning to property lines everytime the building changes. And it has the added benefit that I would be highly likely to catch it being wrong if I forgot to update the polyline in the event of a wall move I have some much better(3) options now. Thanks all

yes I was beggining to think how I would do it for cantilevers and split levels. I changed the plan to add a bump out on the main floor and created a footprint for it, but I cannot copy and paste it onto the other (second floor) footprint. It will only paste as a picture. I suppose I could convert to polyline, but then I lose the eave line for my bump out.roof. ..back to polylines, reference sets, or CAD for the complicated ones. For my work, most of it is simple, so i think I will use the footprint tool as much as I can, its looks are closr to the survey plan.

@Dermot That works well as well, but seems to have some limitations. If I do not put on the overhang layer, it does not distinguish between a deck and the exterior wall (normally there would be a vertical line there. 2. The footprint is using the outside layer, not the framing layer, which, as described above it probably is more accurate, but complicates the correlation of the site plan to the floor plan dimensions. with the overhang on below you can see the dashed line for the framing layer, which ironically, would be better as I could dimension from either...but it does not look like I can snap to the overhang dashed line either at the wall or at the fascia So to answer your question, I think 2 more things would be needed 1. foottprint the exterior walls so I can see a delineation between the deck and walls. (maybe there is a way to get this to work today somehow?) 2. be able to snap to the overhang . Without this I would assume I would have to keep moving a CAD marker 3. per my other thread yesterday, make the overhang include the fascia board but I do like this look better, so I think it is what I will use Thanks!