madcowscarnival

Mark, thank you for taking a look at it. I thought I might be asking a bit much of the auto-build. I threw some manual planes in and got what I intended.

This is the image he forwarded with it.

You might open the dialog on those inside walls and select "furred wall". That way you can drag it right against your foundation wall, and it doesn't create any room between the 2x6 and foundation.

Hey all. I might be finishing up this plan for a guy who's kin started it in some alternate smartdraw software and he can't go further than a layout (and it's goofy dimensioning). I thought I'd take a crack at setting up a full auto-build roof on a more complex roof line that I've auto-built before. But I've run into a couple of issues making CA create a shed-type roof (like gull wings), with a gable/rake wall end (front and rear), then having the porch roof return into that wall. Then, out of some sort of spite, it auto-built the left-rear roofs with a 3' soffit, but the rest is fine. It may simply be I'm asking too much from auto-build, manual it won't be an issue at all. If anyone feels so inclined to take a look, I appreciate it. Unfortunately, I can only open X11, but any advice is great. Thanks. Untitled 2.plan

Thank you folks. I'll let him make the call, its nice to have a couple modern viable solutions. Then again, I grew up in an old victorian with a retrofit water closet under the stairs, it was convenient to be able to rest my noggin on the ceiling in the facility...

Thank you for that idea. Hadn't even considered it.

I cheated and just "shrank" a wall sink, but don't know if a real world product exists.

Stairs leading to a mezzanine, I'll be able to cantilever out floor joists above for a short section of flat ceiling. Have ~7'10 at 10.5" from leading edge of toilet.

Does anyone have a narrow wall sink that would be used in a 1/2 bath below stairs? There's ~40inches available width, offset toilet and door, trying to place a sink on the other wall but it's pretty skinny. The Owner doesn't care, he just wants and extra half-bath (already two full).

So are you all set with the core libraries on X6? I didn't follow with the backups and iDrive stuff. I do have my core library from X6.

OP, I just tried to load my libraries for X6 on my current machine; they are downloadable content and I was unable to fetch them (likely source files from CA no longer available). I'll check my home office computer tonight; fingers crossed I have the libraries downloaded there. I'll post back.

Hey folks, thanks for the replies, my notifications weren't enabled. CV, I like that solution, just a couple clean dimensions to "their" wall. Something the trades are probably more used to anyway (taking wall dims from the main layout). Glad to know I wasn't just missing something simple with those blocks. Also didn't think about various wall finishes, especially since what I draw is very basic with a lot of "builder to field coordinate with Owner".

OP, a Quonset hut is a manufactured product, pre-made materials will be delivered and it will be assembled rather than built. You'll really need to get in touch with whatever manufacturer is used to supply the hut shell and find out the cost to get a certified copy of their engineered documents. Usually these manufacturers will have certification across a huge swath of States, maybe need a local engineer just for the foundation. Something to check with the manufacturer before any order: make sure it has or can design to standards that meet IBC risk category II; most ag-accessory buildings are Risk I with associated "less stringent" requirements. Risk Category II is "normal" and associated with living spaces. Then (depending on jurisdiction), all you really need is a floor layout, insulation, and egress requirements. Most likely an engineer not part of the manufacturer's original design will not want to retroactively design that type of system without stratospheric costs associated with recalculating/modeling the whole thing.

I don't regularly dimension plumbing infrastructure, but have a client asking for dims to help him with plumbing layout on a slab. Using point-point dims, the "standard shower" will grab a center of the whole block, but doesn't recognize the drain location (slightly offset from the drain). The toilet picks up a center that's roughly the center of the bowl, rather than the plumbing rough-in location. Is it possible to somehow manually set where you want the dimension line to "snap" to on a plumbing (or other) block? I tried to "explode" (I'm more used to CAD terms) it, but that button doesn't appear when the block is highlighted. I also tried to "place point" but for the life of me I can't make it appear at my crosshairs when I'm visually placing it at a (say) drain (it shifts slightly down and right, sometimes up and left, its like trying to pick up an orby). Plus, I would like to have the dimension point "built-in" to the block when used. Hopefully it's something simple. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks all.