bdammeyer

I have 2 minor issues when drawing stairs: 1. There always seems to be a stringer line that i have to use the linework tool in the layout to remove - even if i dont have a stringer. Not a big deal - just very annoying when you end up having to do it over and over again in multiple elevations with every refresh of the viewport. 2. There is always a gap between the back of the staircase and the front of a porch foundation. You cant move the stairs any closer to the foundation in plan. Does anybody have any easy ways to correct these 2 issues? Thanks!

Hello, I was told at a Chief training class a few years ago that you could open a 2nd instance of the program by hitting (CTRL+SHIFT) on windows machines. I believe the instructor said this was sort of a work around and "not officially supported by CA." The idea was that you could then have 2 layouts open at once in case you needed to copy notes, annotations, views etc... between layouts. I think i had that working at one point back on X7 but it doesn't seem to work for me now on X8. Any ideas on how to get 2 layouts open at once? (By the way - I know X8 is old and we need to upgrade) Thanks

thanks dshall. I finally figured it out. There was a small low slope roof intersecting the one i was having trouble with. I simply pulled that one back and re joined it and everything fixed itself.

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SEE ATTACHED: Why does this happen to my simple gable roof and how do i fix it? Thanks