HumbleChief

Thanks Tea, Never seen the tool, never used the tool, and it might come in handy but I can see, at least on my machine today, that whenever I select this particular item from the library (haven't seen it with any others) that the 'replace from library' tool is indeed selected by default. I then turn it off and select the symbol again and the 'replace from library' is toggled back on again. Not a genuine problem but doesn't seem to be consistent between library items.

Took a quick look at your plan but need more info to help. Like where's the parking lot? And does it need to slope -8 feet? or inches to -146 feet? or inches? (I can see its inches..).The only way I can make sense of terrains is with elevation regions and terrain breaks. Have you tried them?

Cool, thanks, and now see the tool in the tool bar, and also see that it's probably a tool I'll never use. Wonder why this symbol from the library comes with this tool attached? Thank You again.

Meant to say the symbol at the cursor...seems to be connected with the symbol somehow?

Kinda dumb question but what does the symbol at the cursor shown in the vid mean? thanks

Thanks DB...

Is there a way to set up custom tool bars per plan view?

Thanks for al the ideas. I don't time track very often as my jobs don't usually lend themselves, so I have no real strategy, just confusion trying to meld the Layout and Plan times into some cohesive conclusion. I like all the suggestions and think I'll try to start with a new Layout per client and open template plans from there, saving the template plan file to the client folder and use the Layout to open the plan file and track time with the Layout file. Thank you again.

I'm curious as to how you all use (or if you use) the time tracker and how to combine Layout time spent with plan file time spent. My questions centers around how to discern those time values when many time the Plan file and the Layout file are open at the same time, both accruing time, but the cumulative times of those 2 files can be much greater than time actually spent on the project? Hope that makes a little sense. Thank You

Thanks very much! Did it manually but only because I never thought of your great suggestion Gene!!

Is there a way to auto frame this condition? Instead of rafters butting into the ridge?

THANK YOU for the replies. I moved the story pole and its reach to the other side and it seemed to pick up everything

I have 2 buildings and the story pole seems to want to pull the correct data from one larger existing home (that will not be changed and is not part of the submittal) and not so great off the separate smaller building that is in the submittal scope of work. I'd like to pull the story pole info off the smaller building but it's not cooperating. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ievtup48zv0zv6qkgi5r0/STORY-POLE-PLAN.plan?rlkey=xk4cpkl3lvu4079tr45czggux&dl=0

Weird. My template plan seems to separate them fine

I've got some text stacked in my story pole dims and can't figure out how to make them more readable. Thanks

X16 will probably follow the path of most other upgrades and include some amazing features that will help improve work flow and others that no one has ever 'suggested' or wanted (too many for me personally to list) but may prove to be useful. As usual hope is high and expectations low...

AWESOME!! Never knew that!!

...without having the chaos that having 2 schedules creates? Never have figured this out. Is there a way to create a second 'Note Schedule' for the second floor without duplicating numbered notes within that new schedule?

Awesome Steve!! Probably should have tried the same. Thank You

Seems like I've done this a hundred times in the past but on this plan I can't seem to get rafters to show unless the roof reaches a certain length. Any help greatly appreciated. Plan file https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5rxr1nvymtsg2k7qds6aw/RAFTERS.plan?rlkey=ht3eiapqqjmia8wpez5n3wy05&dl=0

Thanks V

Got it figured out. Was a bit tricky with 2 stories and a deck and thank you for your help.

Thanks Ethan it does indeed look easy but brain's just not grasping the technique. I'll try again.

Dam, it looks so simple and appears to be so Sorry I thought the pic illustrated he condition and can't seem to figure out how to execute same. It's a second story deck with stairs that drop down the outside wall. Just can't grasp the method needed.

Been struggling (getting used to it) again with this crazy house I'm trying to design from old plans and can't figure out how to draw the stair condition in the attached pic. Thank You