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TY Scott, not what I wanted to hear but not a total surprise. Wish CA automation worked better.

and how to get the ends of the beams to project past the post? I use a railing, set to diplay as posts to beam above, but the terminal post is always flush with the end of the beam, a condition I rarely, if ever want to see or build.

okay, thanks guys, I'll complain and suggest...

Any tips for handling and manipulating materials regions? I find it difficult to get the "corners" right - see the orange lines in the attached thumbnail.

Okay, thanks so much for the time guys, gives me great directions to pursue. Thanks again

I wish I could just tell a cabinet that it was a blind corner, I don't want to hold the adjacent cabinet away some random distance, nor do I want to add a filler. It would be nice if the little perspective or elevation view showed the blind corner correctly. I'd like to be able to drop a stock farmhouse sink in a sink base, and likewise have it display correctly. (TY Joe for the Ikea sink, but I need a single basin). I almost never want my cabinets to use different material - kicks, frames, doors and so on should be the same - I'll reserve shelves and interiors, but on the whole, I wish all the materials changed at once, unless otherwise instructed. I struggle with countertops at farmhouse sinks. I wish I could put a toekick on a wall cabinet, often use them for shallow bases and have to label them all by hand, build toekicks, blah blah blah. I wish I had a back of the island tool, like a custom countertop perhaps? Or a wall region? I wish I had a better way to build chefs tables - I use millwork legs, p-solids fore the skirts. I wish countertops didnt have radiused corners, often confuse issues and makes resizing difficult. I wish modifications in compnonents were persistent, just cuz i change the cabient size by an inch doesn't mean I don't want the pullout tray I specced. Maybe let me insert a macro in the comments reflecting some aspect of the cabient spec in fact. So, any suggestion or beset\better practices would be very welcome.

Thanks Perry, clever.

Ty Perry, that vide reminds me - another small issue is verbose annotation and the lack of ability to wrap text...... How are you using macros in conjunction with notes?

Id love to see the short video

Joe, ty, I knew that, sheepish grin. Perry, ty, not sure I completely follow, but if I commit time to building a keynote library, I'll explore macros...

How are you guys addressing the need for multiple instances of the same note? I'd use a callout, BUT....CA renumbers my notes as I copy and paste to annotate plan, so it would end up being incorrect and causing confusion.

My slabs always merge, unless I build one with a different floor elevation than the other, a practice I encourage my field guys to avoid LOL.

I think CA schedules have some shortcomings - labeling being one of them. I suppose some of the same suggestions made for keynotes could apply to cabinets, doors and windows. It would be nice to edit the item from the schedule and it would be nice to have a less ephemeral way to add comments.

How about those new slabs abutting existing Perry, do you have a technique you can share?

In theory that should be due to to printer settings as a PDF ought to be a definitive standard. Can you imagine if colors started changing during printing lol. We used to support a rich 36" laser, an hp 42" Inkjet, an hp 13x19 inkjet sheet fed and a savin 11x17 sheetfed laser, all of which would produce correct output. I

I strictly do residential additions and remodels.I find that a CAD block of the existing plan, superposed, locked and sent to the back works really, really well for remodeling. As I move walls the dashed demolition lines are exposed. I do have to change the wall line type, ore delete and build a new wall, but it keeps my demo plan in front of me as I do my design work. You can apply the same process to elevations if desired. I also assign existing framing to a layer so as to be able to control the display on my framing diagrams. Existing roof planes can also be put on a seperate layer.

Sydney, short of converting the schedule to text, I don't think so. Perhaps a keyed note would work better? No reason you couldn't grab another unused schedule and create a keyed notes just for the windows if needed. Se ethe recent thread on keyed notes for a video on how to do this or just use a textbox and callouts.

That would be my first guess also. I print more halfscales than full and find them to be graphically consistent.

TY guys, not sure what the issue was, is working fine now after rotating, sliding, blah blah blah. Thanks again.

Years ago, at least 10, we used to export from CA and open wireframes in AutoCAD with no real difficulty. Since we were only using AC for 2d ConDocs we never relaly developed a start to finish path, so can't comment past the initial import. I'd guess that the older the version of AutoCAD you export as the better lol, i think AutoCAD is quite good at opening old version *.dwg files. As I recollect, for CD we would export only the layers for that view - leaving layer management primarily in CA, so would export 2d footprint, foundation, framing, floor plans and so on.

I can't get the callout to display in elevation, any suggestions?

I'd agree, it seems to be pretty universal. The search for diagrams was informative.

I agree, and i was disappointed that the new graphic object in the door schedule doesn't offer a plan view of the door swing. Wouldn't it be great to generate a schedule that door orderers could use? And that door buyers could also use, to back check the accuracy of the door order? I don't care if the door guy has to absorb the cost of reordering a door - my crew are still shut down, my client is still perturbed and my progress draw is still delayed.... A picture is absolutely worth a thousand words....

Perhaps move this to a new thread?

Just what I needed, thanks so much Hate having brain freezes....