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I'm guessing you mean to put a custom slope on it, rather than letting the program do it automatically? If so, first open the wall and uncheck Retaining, making it just a normal wall. Then in an elevation view you can pull one corner down and force it to whatever shape you need. Then draw a Terrain Break line inside it. No, Elevation regions are either completely flat inside, or otherwise uniform height around the perimeter. You'd just draw two Elevation Lines at different heights.

^^ exactly this - avoid yankin your walls around in camera views and you'll save yourself a lot of headaches. Generally speaking, the program knows how to do walls better than we do.

Better yet: Edit, Reset to Defaults, All Floors, and check both Wall top and Bottom heights.

There's two sets of arrows

The Door/Drawer panel basically sets the defaults for all Doors or Drawer objects. On the Front/Sides/Back panel there's an Appliance Door Drawer edit button that allows specific panels to be edited apart from the rest.

I still have X14 installed and I can attest that this certainly seems to be the case. It does the same thing even aligning the temp wall and playing with the gable bump out. However, destroying the bump out while keeping that front edge, it works fine This doesn't seem like something I'd let the auto roofs do -- fix it manually.

Yeah it feels like there's some adjusting they still need to do - though in this example, if you search color - white, it will find things that have the word color and the word white. pretty sure hyphens and such are just ignored. However if you search "color - white" it will find only items with that exact wording. You should have exactly one hit. However "color white" will find 0, because with the quotes it's looking for an exact match, hyphen and all. This one I'm not sure of--unless you're talking about anything outside of the User Catalog, in which case you just can't. But you never have been able to so I'm not entirely sure the complaint there. The Folders panel hasn't really changed that much as far as I can tell, right-click an item in Core, Bonus or Manuf, Copy to User Catalog. Once there, do whatever you want with it. Edit, rename, move to new folders, etc.

Oh I get what you mean, just means you don't need the 0" drywall AND the air gap, just the air gap + covering, right right. Your method definitely taught me that Wall Coverings are not 0" thick though, which is curious. I suppose I get why but it seems like it shouldn't be necessary. I doubt Wall Coverings have been updated in a long time, though. I personally never use the things, so this was a bit of an eye opener as far as creative uses for the things. I hadn't noticed any other anomalies, though I can't say I run it through a whole course yet. The obvious limiter is -- well what if you need a legit ponywall, too?? SOL. Wall Covering time!

Well I was pretty sure the selection line thickness was just the weight of the selected object's Layer, though I just stumped myself because while that seems to be the case for a lot of objects, cabinets, dimensions, doors, etc, it's not the case for Walls. That kind of isn't too shocking though given that Walls have like 6 layers that control them - but none of those layers seem to change how thick the Selection around the wall is! Well, after some Trial and Error, it turns out it's the CAD, Default layer! Bonus discovery: turns out that's what controls the selection marquee's line weight, too!!

I'm not sure I understand how that would help - isn't that sort of the key trick here, setting the drywall to be 1/2" opening? Either way I'm not arguing against it, some people might not care - not every solution is perfect for everyone. FWIW though some of the concerns about the ponywall method that you mentioned in the video aren't really concerns at all - Framing should be fine since both wall types use the same framing specs, and while there are potentially some break lines in Vector views, they only tend to appear at odd angles and when zoomed out enough. Even in cross sections there's only a bit of weirdness where the external layers connect Ultimately though, it would be awesome if Moldings had an option to recess into the surface material so none of this was necessary!

A clever solution as always. I would add to that though a small c-channel nested into the base to be certain there's no chance of wall materials showing through. The biggest issue with this is that Cross Sections will show that inside wall line, as well as that wall covering line 1/16 off the wall. Not ideal, but manageable in a few ways.

Pretty sure that's just a series of 3D Solids/Slabs. *Edit: JYNX!!

It is correct in that the symbol attaches flush to the roof and maintains its correct sizing. Super simple to place and resize. It is not correct in Plan, however, as you pointed out. But that's the CAD Block's fault, not the symbol. Edit CAD Block is a great tool I'm not a fan of she skylight cutting away my roof either, but since it does it automatically for you the Skylight tool can be super handy to math the projected size for you so you know what size to make the CAD Block

I've not seen an option like this - would post it to Suggestions.

There really isn't a way to do this, just don't jump into working on your basement if you're not at or near 100% on the main floor footprint. Keeping Auto Foundation on is only really good for monopours, IMO. Once you start doing your own thing, it'll get turned off and then making sure your foundation walls align with the first floor walls becomes a manual chore. Though using the Reference Display and Align w/ Above/Below tools make it fairly easy.

This specifically happens if you have two of the exact same note schedules set to include the same Notes. What DB is talking about is something like this first schedule starts numbering at 2 the second one stars numbering at 1 But since those note's Type is "General", and the schedules are both including General notes, the notes exist in both, with different numbers. Setting the both to start at 1, you'll get the original bottom line: you have two Schedules pulling info from the same set of notes. Notes get their numbers from the schedule, thus, two numbers. Delete a schedule, or set one to pull different Note Types and create different types of notes.

Might be wrong but I don't think there is an option or preference for that -- I've only ever seen it simplify. Draw a straight line and it'll show N90E, rather than N90 0' 0"E.

Strange. I don't think there's any reason that should happen. Each Note is a separate thing with its own text. The only way I know to change two notes at once is to either select them together and open them both, or by using Open Row Objects from the schedule.

I'm pretty sure Box windows have always been like that. Dormers too. Not a fan. I just draw them manually.

This ^ absolutely. It's probably a good idea to turn off layers for auto stuffs first, too - dimensions, roofs, etc.

There used to be a special hard-coded "NKBA Dimension" tool but it was removed a version or so ago. I don't do a lot of NKBA stuff myself, but if I recall correctly the Kitchen and Bath defaults are set to operate like the old NKBA dimension defaults did -- its just that you can customize it, where we couldn't do much of anything to the old NKBA Default. Be sure to use the Kitchen and Bath Plan View so you'll be using those defaults, selecting your kitchen there's a "Auto Room Dimension" button in the bottom toolbar, similarly when you create a Wall Elevation while in that Kitchen and Bath Plan View your defaults will stay on the Kitchen and Bath set, so the Auto Elevation should give good NKBA-ish dimensions, too.

They can also be found in the Edit menu under Snap Settings - much easier than going into Preferences. To add to this though, having On Object snaps off can mess you up at times. If you toggle this often, set a hotkey:

This is the only concern I have since it's not a GeForce, the RTX A's are the newer Quadro cards. It may work fine, just GeForce are more geared for 3D/gaming where quadro are more for Workstations. Support has always steered away from Quadro cards. Maybe that distinction is/has blurred to where it doesn't matter anymore, but one thing to consider is that a lot more GeForce cards are used than Quadro, so they tend to get driver updates more often.

Probably 'cause no one can agree on what to call them!! Weird hill to die on, there are multiple terms for the same thing so what's the point in arguing especially when we all know what we're talking about!

Huh?! Yeah I thought about setting the whole wall partition - problem is that's an entire wall type setting so it's a little more involved, but it should work too, I'd think.