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Are we no longer able to control the callout size from the schedule? Using this method my callouts are too small. The snip shows the note block I curerntly use, I just copy paste callouts and renumber them as I go. In the plant schedule setup the callout is teeeeeeny and I cant remember how to change it?

In my experience, its just as much supplier as it is region, so I refuse to discuss or describe doors other than graphically. I'd draw a little picture of the door that illustrates your handing scheme. If you accept the CA default (which conforms to the this Bay Area carpenter was trained BTW) then life will be simple. I was trained, both in the JAT in Ohio as well as in the field in the Bay Area to discuss doors "butt to butt", which sort of dates me lol, butt hinges and 7-11 hinging, sort of a thing of the past.

I keep all my data in the Cloud, with a local synced folder in each device. It does sometimes take 5 or 10 minutes for folders to catch up with one another, so a file or folder modified on one device may not be available to other devices for a few minutes, but it is very reliable and robust. I currently use a paid version of Google Drive, but used the free version until I ran out of room and also used Dropbox with great success.

I'm conflicted, but, I'd rather see specialty library users pay for specialty libraries. Why would I want to pay more for stuff I don't want or need when the stuff I do want and need isn't being improved? FWIW, I just paid my SSA without wondering why, now, I'm wondering why and next year will examine the benefit much more closely. I don't remember the cost analysis of SSA vs upgrading every 2 or 3 years but I only use SSA support a couple times a year and that takes a conscious effort.

TY Robert. It is indeed very easy to fix, but it does sort of put a damper on the design development process, having the building looking bizarre as you try various roof configurations elsewhere. It's nice to be able to do things in the order they occur. I am still hoping this is so simple and straight forward a condition that it is easily solved by one of the gurus or by tech support. Any input on how to automate the bay window roof generation to develop proper overhangs would be great also. I'm able to get the gable I want but cant control the overhangs.

TY Eric, I am trying to get past having to do that. This is such a simple and common condition that I'm sure CA can do it and I really ought to know how

Unfortunately that end of the house is an existing gable. I'd like to put an addition on the rear, with a 9' clng height (exisitng is 8' plate height) and a california overly from the new to the existing. Heres how it looks with the addition drawn with 8' plates (I just set it in the room structure, auto build did the roof.) The Bay windows, I just plan to pull the overhangs out manually, then break and return the eaves? I don't know of a way to get them to work automatically? But the roof configuration at the bays is fine, just the overhang needs to extend. And thanks all for your consideration and time.

Perfect, I learned something useful, thanks so much

I am having trouble modeling this (seemingly) simple and common roof. Any thoughts or help will be greatly appreciated Solotky-N.plan

LamontBros, nice tip, i need to use the project browser more perhaps At the same time, there are several refinements the layout tool might enjoy. My standard has always been that every sheet in a plan set is date stamped the same as every other sheet in that issue, regardless of whether it's been changed. It seems complicated to try and keep an index of which issue date is current for which sheet? OTOH, revision at the Building Department are often assembled at the counter, inserting only the modified sheets, soooo We live in an imperfect world Still would be nice to have a global revision history edit capability. I just made a mistake and had to delete an entry from 20 pages.

Well there's the answer right there, thanks Just knowing it's me\plan\settings specific is a huge help. I'll shoot it over to CA tech support, thanks again.

Well, I have ceiling off, ceiling structure checked or unchecked, either a manual ceiling plane or no ceiling plane, walls set to balloon through or not, openings set to have a header or not. Odd that I can just slide windows up and down in the entire gable wall.

OK, Now I found my first post - windows above the plate - sorry guys, just ignore this I guess?

I need to update my signature block, I'm having this issue (still) in x7 and have tried the various solutions you use for x6, just find they are cumbersome and unreliable. I may send it to CA since u r not having this issue in x7.

Sorry if this is a duplicate, thought I posted yesterday but can find my post.... Anyone got any tips to place traplites or other high windows? I always struggle getting windows to display above the plate line of a room with a vaulted ceiling. I balloon frame walls thru to roof, add ceiling planes at roof pitch, tried removing headers from opening, manually adjusting headers, the list goes on and on....

Whats the best way to draw the upper windows in the gable of a room with a vaulted ceiling? I have the walls framed to balloon through but the windows bump into the plate or ceiling if I try and slide them.

I think it might be useful if CA could read vcards. Then I could just paste client info straight from my CRM. Of course if CA expanded their concept of project info to include a full design team, all that data could be imported the same way. FWIW, it would be nice if I had anoption to have the Layout see the same project info as the plan. I'm sure there are users who would not want this, but it seems easily regulated. Maybe the layout would inherit the info from the 1st plan sent to layout, or maybe it would just ask each time a new plan was sent.

M - Its not really "all the trouble", its just the lack of a need for any of the trouble. I guess it would make sense to need to frame an opening for every door and window symbol as well, glad we don't have to though. And light switches and wall receptacles. What was infuriating is being told that the roof overhang setting in the wall properties is working correctly. I really like being able to autobuild roofs, too bad my chimney room roof cant be auto built using the parametric controls. I'm glad that at least the gable and pitch tools work. Are you familiar with a system where bathtubs are mounted after sheetrock and metal fireplace inserts behind sheetrock? I love chief, I may be one of the longest term user s they have, having started with a beta of v2 on floppy, but the little annoyances are, well, a little annoying At the end of the day, as I said earlier, I'll review some of the links posted and learn some new ideas, but, I use CA in real time with clients, so being able to place things quickly and correctly, without a lot of tweaking, bumping, nudging zooming, snapping is helpful. IMHO, there are enough homes with wood chase chimneys and fireplace inserts that it might warrant a tool like the dormer tool.

and build a room around it and set the room ceiling height and roof pitch and then found that the wall properties roof overhang control doesn't work and then draw a pline solid for the chimney n then manually set the roof plane overhangs every time you rebuild the roof and then set the fascia and....... IDK why the FP places behind the sheetrock? Or why I need to draw an opening? Or why the roof overhangs aren't controlled by the roof overhangs setting in the wall properties dialogue. Its annoyed me for years, both the roof overhangs, which they tell is not a bug, it just doesn't work (LOL?) and the fireplace behind the sheetrock and the chimney (or lack thereof). I'll go back thru the thread and review some of the methods posted, at least I can learn a new way to take too long doing something that should be simpler

I'm so amazed I bothered to call tech support - who can shed no light. I bet if they got enough calls from subscribers they could at least fix some of the basic stuff. Why fireplace cans install behind the sheetrock is beyond me.

To generate really accurate materials lists in CA requires more skill than doing it manually, so I would just get a clipboard and do your takeoff. If you don't understand the structure well enough to do a materials takeoff, you likely wont understand it well enough to model it that accurately. If, by outdoor room, you mean a sunroom or enclosed porch, those are likely to require some structural elements that are not automated in CA. When I design sunrooms I use manufactured shear panels which will require pretty specific footing details. I can juke CA into acknowledging them and to letting me drag the header across in a portal configuration, but it may be more trouble than it's worth for a one off job.

I dont see any attachment?

Are the CA plans\plans folder, layouts\layout folder in the same folder as the graphics\graphics folder? I think you might have problems if you have the CA database local and the graphics on the server.

And while on the topic of cabient schedules - I know I'm not the first to ask to open an time dbx from the schedule - it can take a few clicks to get to an item (appliance garage bleow a staked corner upper) in plan, it's cumebersome boulding from plan to elevation to schedule, yadayadayada Another feature that would be nice would be a dbx option to have the item dbx display the schedule number (and ideally the ability to lock it) as well as or instead of the nomenclature.

So, a small epiphany - I may try generating cabinet plans (and elevations?) displaying nomenclature, sending to CAD view and THEN generating my schedule. I can insert the CAD as a block behind the active plan or elevation (on a locked layer, displayed in a grey lineweight?) - this way I get both nomenclature and callouts. FWIW, it may actually be a useful tool for keeping track of changes. Since I'll have the CAD saved as a block, I can refresh it with changes be sending to view and reblocking. I can also just send the blocks to layout if I want to.