jbaehmer

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

Shane:

 

there are two "camps" some say floor 0 holds foundation and basement

others say floor 0 for foundation only, floor1 for basement

 

My partner and I have been in first "camp"

and CA was in this "camp" when I started with 9.5

probably because back then there was a 10 floor limit

 

Lew

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.

I appreciate the suggestions.  I've been through these options and find them more frustrating than wasting paper.

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!

No JB, send cross section view to layout.

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.

Hello.  My name is Jared Baehmer.  I sent you a message.  Please contact me to discuss your project.  I would love to help.  My email is jared@cornerstonehomedesigns.com and my phone number is 253.777.2362. Thank you.

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. 

OMG

Yeah...ready to strangle him

That's an interesting scale.  It almost seems that the detail may have been created as 1-1/2" = 1'-0" and then either exported or imported as 1-1/2" = 1".  IAE, determining the ratio is the key to resolving the problem.

 

If the detail is in a CAD Detail Window you can simply change the scale instead of using Transform/Replicate to resize the detail.

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....

Rich is correct.  Looks like magic number is 2/3.  (its 50% larger than a 1:1 scale).  Easiest way to tell is by simply drawing a line at a known dimension (the larger the number the more accurate) in 2 directions (just to make sure the detail hasn't been distorted) and then doing the math.  In this case I measured:

 

1.  The 2x4 ledger at the eve in the vertical direction which was 5-1/4".  3-1/2 (3.50) divided by 5-1/4 (5.25) equals 2/3 (.667)

2.  The 2x6 top plate in the horizontal dimension which was 8-1/4".  5-1/2 (5.50) divided by 8-1/4 (8.25) also equals 2/3 (.667)

 

I like to use a normal line to check dimensions like that.  Draw the line, open the dbx and check the length.  Its usually a lot more accurate than any dimension defaults you might have set up. 

 

Once you figure the resize factor simply group select and resize as Rich suggested.  If your numbers suggested 2 different resize factors (the detail had been distorted for some reason...Simply group select, block it, open the CAD Block dbx and assign the appropriate size factors...one for the width and another for the height.  

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.

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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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Sorry,...should have explained better...I knew I could do that...but looking to where I don't need to do multiple steps.  Just draw the truss and be done.  I don't do auto framing.  It works...just trying to shave as much time as I can.  I do a number of plans like this so that time adds up quick.