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  1. gravattedesign
    SNestor and JKEdmo- Thank you both for the quick response and your suggestions. JKE: I have watch most, if not all, of the stair tutorials and not found a solution/work around for the condition I described. The challenge of trimming the bottom of a stair wall to follow the stringers doesn't appear to be an option other than manually breaking the wall at the bottom, pulling a handle up and "eyeballing" the slope of the stringers. SNestor: I follow what you mean... remove the CA wall of the enclosed stair from the equation with a 3D solid. I can see that this would remove some conflict with railing and Guardrails at the second floor open stair run. The Basement Stair is less complicated with this approach...with exception in defining the "Stairwell opening" to that side of the partial wall bottom where a 3D solid is used and doesn't have room defining properties...I'll experiment and report back. Again, my gratitude gentlemen
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    I have an As-Built condition to model with 3 levels of stairs from a basement up to a third floor. Basement stairs and Third floor stairs have walls on one side that follow the bottom of the stair and are framed to the floor above. The middle stair, first to second floor has a unique railing condition that becomes a guardrail at the second floor and returns to a partial wall section of the 3rd floor stairs. The challenges are: 1. How to have a wall follow the stringers of the stairs 2.Working with Stairwell opening, an offset Guardrail and then an upper stair wall all in the same plane. Link to Plan file:26-0227-Cardinal Drive-AS Built https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ngiW0zi6yUoquYokP48v3BSRt5AAy78L/view?usp=sharing Thank you for any Feed back.
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    SHCanada2, There isn't an option in X16 to delete the old files in the Project browser by right click menu. I also sort mine in a similar way... Attached is a screen shot of the "right Click Menu". I expect that these older files are somehow referenced in the LAYOUT file, which is when they are getting loaded/opened in the Project Browser. When the most recent plan file is opened the older plans are not loaded into the browser, which is a recent change. I have scrubbed the Layout File and do not see any references/sheet imports of these older files. Its a mystery still. Again , I appreciate your comments. Peace
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    SHCanada2- Thank you for the response. My posted image shows that the referenced (unused plans = Intial-Jessee & REV3-Jessee) show up in the Reference Plan List and the Project Browser. These plans are old versions of the project. My goal here is to clean up the Project Browser with only the most recent Plan files for the project. Best regards,
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    I have several earlier versions of plan files showing up in the Referenced Plan File of my latest revision. Is there a way to remove these older referenced plan files so they don't load and show up in the Project Browser? I am guessing that the more reference files loaded per CA session could affect performance. I have opened each referenced file to purge referenced plans with no success. Thank you for any insight.
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    Gentlemen, Success! On both your recommendations. The "Preferences/General/Folders/User Library folder" was pointing to the installed default path. I found my previous User_Library.calib file in a custom folder that was established in X15. Double clicked on the *.calib file and all content was restored to X16 Library. I then changed the preferences/User Library Folder path to search my custom folder. Last part of process was included to aid in the exact method of recovery for anyone else that finds this helpful. Thank you again.
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    Pitman and DBCooper.. Thank you for the responses. I'll give both recommendations try and report back. Best regards,
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    My User Catalogue suddenly was lost during a work session. X16 pro version. The content was migrated from X15 when X16 was installed. I do not have a screen shot of the error that occurred but there was a fail error that popped up, then the content was gone. Is there a way to reconnect a User Catalogue in the library browser? I opened X15 and the User catalogue is gone/disconnected there as well. Thank you for any help. Windows 10/64bit/CA-X16Pro Steve
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    Yes!! Thank you Chrisb222..I did at some point change the System Default Layer "Text, Notes" to "Text, Notes, Foundation" instead of copying the System layer and renaming the copy. Wow, excellent catch and thank you for understanding the question so clearly. Best Regards Chris.
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    Tea Time, Thank you for responding. The pic I uploaded is the Active plan view edit window /"Notes" edit / Line Style/Layer. The Plot Plan Notes Default layer (with default box checked) is set to "Text, Notes, Foundation"...where is it getting this default, when the default box is checked? I hope that is a clearer explanation. Best regards,
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    I recently noticed that the default layer for my Plot Plan Notes is not correct when the default box is checked. Where is the setting for changing the default layer for the default check box? Thank you for helping sort this out. Steve G.
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    When selecting a railing along a covered porch and attempting to "Set as Default", It tries to set the Railing wall type as a "Glass Wall" Default. What setting am I missing here? CA X14 PRO Thank you for any assistance. Steve G.
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    DB and para-cad, Thank you gentlemen for the advice. That does the trick with moving all the template sheet CAD to it's own layer and then Turning off the Layout Box and Label layers. Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest. Peace
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    Assistance please. How can I set imported drawings from the PLAN FILE to have NO BOX BORDER and NO LABEL when sent to Layout?? I have to turn these off with every import to layout. Settings in layout doesnt help since the Template Sheet border in LAYOUT, 0 sheet, uses LAYOUT BOX BORDERS layer for default border line work for that sheet. Thanks for any help or insight for best practices. PIC attached of a recently imported Elevation (top Left) that illustrates the box border and Label
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    Gene: Yes- a lot of text styles due to cleaning out CHIEF defaults and defining my own. Work in progress...Thanks for the advice. Regarding your suggestion: 1. Text size should match the scale of the drawing output to Layout... Correct? (E.G. 1/4" text style for 1/4" drawing scale). Been doing this for a while with CAD and that's the formula 2 I have corrected the scale of the layout box to match the scale of the Schedule text style- No change 3. I have checked that my schedule properties: Line Style= Correct layer; Text Style=Use layer for properties; Labels= Use Callout for label + Callout size= Calculate from text with these properties verified, even in the CAD detail Schedule the Label Numbers are larger than the text...This is where the snafu is happening, I believe OR What are the Label Callouts doing to the Text Style to enlarge the text to fill the Callout shape when it is the same as the text body of the note as defined by the the layer text style My Goal: to have Note text at 3/32" and Label Callouts at 1/8" printed across all scales. I believe I understand how to do this in text style setup. . I appreciate your time and response. Peace