jbaehmer

I would be interested as I am "pro" FDN/Bsmt on level 0. Don't get why FDN/Bsmt on level 1 for everything. I do understand in specific circumstances, but not everything. Let's do it.

Hello jtcapa - I am out of the Tacoma area. feel free to contact me with any assistance you need. 253.777.2362 or jared@cornerstonehomedesigns.com

I have always been in the first "camp" where basement is on floor 0. There have been occasions where I have seen that putting the basement on floor 1 was warranted. This was were I saw a plan file with two structures (House w/ BSMT and garage) and the garage was lower in elevation compared to the house.

Post a plan so we can check it out for you.

For me...It depends on what the text is for. I have text that I could be changing on a semi-regular basis are rich text. There are others things such as my general note sheets that I use standard text. I would say I am about 50/50 on what is RT and regular text. It sort of comes down to how you want things to look since there are pro's and con's to both types.

So it sounds like you are wanting to have two different paper sizes within a single layout file. That is a no right now. I have plans were I am printing both 8.5x11 and full size pages, so I have two separate layout files for that instead of switching back and forth on a layout paper size. mention it on the suggestion page....it has been suggested before many times in the past, but worth bringing up again.

You probably don't know how to preview a print. Here is the print DBX where you can see it. If this frustrates you....sorry, nothing else I can do.

I will throw in a third man's thought.....as Nike says.....Just do it!

Sorry. Mis-understood question. In reading the thread further, I see what you are wanting and I think this would be good to have this.

I was able to get it to say when in the camera dbx checked the "saved" box.

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I agree with Michael - I have had a similar situation and did exactly what he said.

How I had the plans was that auto wall framing is turned on for all the walls and the specific walls that I would not want to "auto-frame" I would, as Michael suggested, check "Retain Wall Framing". If I had a wall that was checked to retain the framing and now decided to have it auto frame, I would simply uncheck the box and it would auto frame. I used this concept it in my pony walls in the FDN supporting the first-floor joists.

you should be able to turn off the layer "Rooms, Interior Dimensions" if I am thinking of what you are looking for correctly.

I would say it doesn't happen often where both floor are exactly the same, but I don't believe there is an option to have it do interior walls with that tool. It would be a good suggestions. Right now, just copy the interior walls and "paste in place" on the new floor and you are golden.

you need to create an "open to below" room above the stairway on the 2nd floor.

I know her in WA, I could do prescriptive when I don't need a stamp, but other than that, I have my engineer do that. The price for engineering widely varies from location to location. Also, I believe AIBD certification is just that you took their course and meet their levels of proficiency. Like Lew, I highly doubt they are a cert you can go with to "stamp" plans.

Same here. That is all I do. I know a good amount of it from just experience, but I need to get my engineer to review what I have done and stamp it. Just like Perry, I put building designer / drafter and making it clear contractually that you are not an engineer or architect. I have a website that I am working on that should be launched in a couple weeks and it will have similar verbiage on it.

There are an "exchange with Next page" and "exchange with previous page" icons so you can move things. This is the only way I am aware of. I don't believe you are able to "click and drag" in the project browser.

Yeah...ready to strangle him

I asked him why that scale and he said that all he was doing was resizing it to fit in a area of his plan. I opened a few others and they were not 2/3. He was drawing the details, blocking them together and scaling the size down with a handle on the CAD block, so there wasn't any rhyme or reason to scale them down. Fun times....

Thank guys! The explanation was exactly what I was looking for. will give it a shot on the other details. Hopefully he stayed consistent with his resizing.

I got a detail from someone and it isn't drawn to a 1:1 scale. I can't tell how much they sized it up or down. Is there a quick simple way to get this detail to a 1:1 scale? The Wall studs and top plates are 2x6 studs. Untitled 2.plan

Personally, I feel the only reason to keep older versions of CA on a computer is if you have to switch plans between other users and they only have the older versions as newer CA files are not backwards compatible. I just keep the latest version and delete the older ones. a few others may have different theories as to why they keep it so hear them out and decide for yourself. If anything I would get a separate SSD and keep all your chief plan and layout files there and not on your C drive. Leave the C drive for programs only as much as possible. My 2 cents.

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