HumbleChief

Hey Barry. Couple things. Second floor, floor heights vary between '0' and 1/8"; choose one, it will allow your first floor ceiling heights to be adjusted if needed.. Also your ceilings are gone because there's nothing spec'd for a ceiling in the couple rooms I checked. Just check the default box (ceiling finish) to get your 5/8" drywall back for the ceilings in those rooms. Different floor heights on the third floor as well. Set them all to default (match properties? or one at a time )and work your way DOWN to the basement setting all floor heights the same, if that's what you intend, then you'll at least have chance of getting your floor heights right. The match properties tool has that cool new marquee select tool that you can apply properties to all rooms at once by marquee selecting them - VERY nice.

Barry, I've been fighting that structure dbx for 20 years and can offer absolutely no help. Post the plan and there should be plenty of help and I'd love to see what can be done. Good luck

Just sayin'. This is a GREAT release and there's all kinds of small improvements all over the place. REALLY nice job you guys!

Yeah I think you're right, but what if I wanted to find that CAD detail and delete the usage of that layer? How would one find that 'default' location? And why would it be called a 'default' location if it's used in a CAD detail in some plan somewhere? Curious...

Thanks Kirk. Where is the default setting where the object is most likely used? THAT"S the question, I don't know where to find the layer in which default? Is it in defaults? Where exactly? My default plan? Default layout? The layers are named ANNO and it's just a layer name, has nothing to do with an ANNO set, just a layer name with the word ANNO. Made those layers a hundred years ago when ANNO sets first came out but they are just layer names. Substitute any other name, just a layer name.

Hi Ben, Hope you are well, After 20 years of creating layers there are a lot of layers that cannot be deleted for various reasons I assume. I would like the ability to delete those old and no longer needed layers and understand where they might be found in 'defaults' in order to do so.

Here's another - and use and field any way you choose in the schedule dbx.

Here's one way.

Place the macro in the 'label' field of the fixture, "object specific" not the label field of the schedule...USE OBJECT INFORMATION TO CREATE ANY CUSTOM FIELD YOU WANT BY RE-NAMING ANY FIELD IN THE SCHEDULE DBX, MOVE UP MOVE DOWN ETC. CAPS SORRY

REALLY REALLY need a Layer management tool...

Thx...Did you know the 'o' key and the 'i' key will zoom in and out?

Yeah it does seem to behave that way - thanks Mike (Mick)

I'm just not seeing any way to set any kind of default for the Perspective Full Overview....there's no such dbx in the defaults. It seems to just pick a number from ...where? Here's what my default Full pers overview dbx looks like. No setting I can see for height or location...where does it come from??

Here's my X11 default location for the full perspective camera. Can that be set or changed somehow?

Hey Mick always appreciate your help but are you saying that if one sets the default height in the 'full camera' to 60" that the full perspective camera defaults to 329 9/16" from the floor? Not getting it so much...

I hadn't thought of this use for plan views but it should work a treat...

Curious as to how and set a default camera location?

Yeah there's a bunch of stuff way out there. Fill Window shows a lot of it...

Wasn't going to post this video as the help has been pretty complete but maybe it will help in the future...

There is something very weird as Mick noted about the default location of the perspective camera. Don't know why it defaults to so far away. Also use the 'Fill Window' icon to show all of the items in your plan and you will find elevation cameras and all sorts of stuff that's a LONG way away from your model. Either delete those stray elevation cameras or open and change their location to be closer to X:0 and Y:0. BTW it's always a good practice to have your model close to 0,0 before you draw anything..

Yes, DropBox, carbonite, whatever it takes. Lose one plan and it's all worth the time and cost...

This advice won't help now but I've had Carbonite as a secondary back up for years. It's about 55 a year and in all that time I've lost one file to corruption. It was SO SO worth it to have that backup. Simply restored and was back in business - saving starting from scratch... Like I said won't help but best of luck...

VERY nice bit of detective work Rob. Was puzzling it out here and got nuthin'...

Yes agreed and there's another part, if your details are saved in a separate plan file they must at some point be sent to layout. If 'send as current screen' they can be double clicked and returned to the detail page and the exact detail.