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Thanks for the insight and tips!

In addition, you used to be able to quickly turn off a room label by simply selecting it and hitting the delete key. This feature has gone away... Bummer.

You're welcome Larry. The X18 room label changes have been discussed on the forum. I think the room labels were given more features, hence the UI change. One feature that was taken away was the ability to easily pull a leader from the label text. I found that pretty useful in X17 and previous.

Larry, Select the room label and then the icon circled below:

Autodesk has a free DWG viewer that allows you to view Acad files: https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg-trueview/overview

Possible workaround: I did a pass-through window with shutters in a room divider wall then set the wall as a furred wall. Lastly, I moved the wall up against the interior face of the exterior wall. Seems to work. X18 Plan attached. Jim INTERIOR WINDOW SHUTTER TEST.plan

Very nice and good job! If you're willing, post more photos. They would be great to see. Jim

Joe, I just tried your idea and reversed the walls so that the exterior wall layer was to inside of porch room. Did not seem to make a difference unfortunately, i.e. did not force deck plpanks to build to inside. My guess is Chief has it so that deck planking builds to the exterior room boundary rather than exterior layer of a wall. Thanks, Jim

Well, I think I figured out a workaround. Not sure if this will lead to issues down the road... A Deck Room is an exterior type room and I believe I read somewhere it is designed to generate deck boards to the exterior edge of the deck walls that are not adjacent to interior rooms. So, I created an adjacent Open Below room next to the Deck room to get rid of the exterior space and it seems to work. The interior deck boards now stop at interior wall surface.

Sorry Michael - not sure if I understand the question.

Hi Gary, Thanks for looking at this. Seemed promising, but it still generated a border plank within the walls. Jim

Is it possible to have a deck room's planking stop at the inside of a wall instead of running to the exterior of the wall / floor platform (e.g. w/ a deck offset value)? I have an existing enclosed screened porch and I thought I'd tried to show the flooring with true deck boards. I know deck rooms are supposed to be exterior, but was wondering if this can be finessed as a deck room type w/o resorting to manually adjusting deck board widths, etc. Thanks again, Jim

Switched over to X18 and noticed I often get the blue spinny Windows "circle of lag" when I try to drag and drop a Library Browser item into my plan. Don't remember this in X17. Any fix for this? I think this was brought up in a previous thread, but couldn't find it. Thanks again, Jim

I think so. Tech Support followed up with me today. They weren't able to replicate the problem and neither could I. If it pops up again, I'll send it in for review. Thanks, Jim

Good idea -- I'll look into that for the long term. Just curious about possible loss of this copy/paste ability. I might report to Chief so they can review. Seems to work with text objects, but not notes.