Ridge_Runner

Steve, could you not turn your photo into a cropped image and then add that to a PS? There was thread about doing that some time back. It was a very intricate door in that thread as I remember. Won't help with all the framing but might get you by with the visuals.

I've done several over the last few years. Like Chris, I usually do the pole barn structure with infill framing for the walls. I would question the builder if he is using metal girts; that is not the way to go in my opinion. You don't need them if you have infill framing. One watch out if you do the 2-story. If your pole barn trusses have the brace coming down from the bottom truss cord to the inside of the post at the truss-post junction, you will have to be creative how you hide that on the 2nd floor. They seem to never fall inside a wall line or a closet. In addition, the head clearance on the 2nd floor is really low at the exterior wall when you are only using a 16' side wall - been there, done that. You may have to lower your windows just to fit them in under the ceiling.

Same here. I never saw the need to drag out text boxes. Obviously, some do.

What software version are you using? What steps did you make to "delete" the floor surface? If you were using the "delete surface tool" in a 3D view, the floor wasn't actually deleted; it was only removed for that view and will show if you refresh the view or close the camera and reopen. Attaching the plan will get you a faster answer.

Does zero jamb width not do it? Or are you using the 1.5" trimmer as the jamb width?

At $321 a month it better be good!

I agree to some extent. What I wasn't prepared for was the "fact" that when I came out of the corporate world (worked there for over 22 years) there wasn't anyone else to blame for my missed schedules, missed budget, bad design - you know the list! And now, instead of one or two people to report to, I have an endless group (clients) who all think I work only on their plan. Sorry, OP, for getting off topic.

Need more information. Are you going to build a machine, buy one, just replace the graphics card? What budget do you have in mind - $200, $400, $1,000, or more? You can search this forum; lots of info on graphics card choices and opinions. Graham and others have done considerable testing in this area and posted their results and recommendations.

Same here...

It may be a video card issue. Don't know what hardware you are running on but at least make sure you have current drivers for the video card.

@raltd9245I placed the grab bars in an X11 file. Hope you can use it. raltd9245-ADA grab bars.plan

3D warehouse has several. Watch the poly count though; some symbols look really good but CA takes a hit if you use too many.

Looks good, Adam.

I've always been able to click "yes" and go to the folder and access the files. Not sure why it doesn't work for you. Probably should contact Tech Support; they may have a suggestion.

You may be more OCD than me! Nice job on the condocs. I was fortunate on the plan I attached. The client was going to use a pre-engineered barn kit with all of the framing members and timber hardware included. I mainly did the overall design by creating and using their components. I created one internal "bent" framed timber truss line from poly solids. I also created all of the timber connectors from poly solids and added them to the truss line. Blocked those to make a "component" of sorts. I then multi-copied that block as needed; that got the main structure. By searching the forum, there are some good discussions on how to arrive at the roof purlins by modifying the roof framing parameters and using the lookouts as the purlins. Get one, move and edit its length to suit, multi-copy to get one side, mirror copy to the other and you have the roof framing structure. Can be done almost as quick as I can type this. You could also create these with PS in elevation and get them that way. Same way with the wall girts. Side note: were you in the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles?

Mike, having done several of these structures, I'm afraid CA is going to frustrate you on this type of framing. In CA's defense, they could never develop a framing system that would satisfy even the majority of framers. You guys just do it "your way" and move on. I also don't think CA will give you a "cut list" or "cut details" you would be pleased with. Looking at your progress so far on the attached views, I would say you are a probably a perfectionist and maybe a little OCD. Please don't take that as an insult or that I am being critical; I am the same way and spend too much time trying to make the model and the framing Perfect. Others, no doubt, may chime in and give you some constructive help; I hope they do. But with these designs, I just resign myself to going the route you are already travelling. I will certainly watch this thread so I can maybe learn something new. I think I may have to raise my rates for these structures! Last one I did was a catering/party structure with a one bedroom apartment upstairs in the rear for the owner when they were onsite. Had commercial restrooms and kitchen facilities...

As they say, "Pick your poison....."

It's not just with the PDF's. If you are interested, you can search the forum for older posts about the file bloat CA's own PDF print engine does to layout files even without embedded PDFs. I have done extensive tests on my own systems and CA's PDF output file is several times larger than other print-to-PDF programs. I finally arrived at Bullzip for my layout print engine. Not as clean as CA's (the PDF pages have light "tiling" in the center that CA's doesn't) but produces much more manageable file sizes, which I need for file sharing.

No, you don't have to go to the trouble of saving CAD views of the elevations. The as-built symbol will show just fine. With it on its own layer, you can changed the line weight to something thinner, or a grayscale, etc. so the new construction will stand out better.

Bob, I do an as-built "shell" of the existing house and save it as a symbol. I then import it into the new plan on it's own layer and lock it. I then position it as necessary in relation to the new construction. All of the elevations will show correctly and you don't have to fiddle with things changing on the existing structure.

Draw it as a CAD box in section view, size it, rotate it, and then convert it to a polyline solid, adjusting the thickness (length in your case) before you close the dialog box (dbx). You will have to position it in plan view to the correct location.

I still enjoy using this software after 22 years or so. But, sometimes it is a love-hate relationship, especially when it doesn't think like I think.

This "sequence" is important as CA just doesn't like picking all of them at one time and trying to mull them together.

I agree, until I asked if they would eventually want an upper floor over it, which she said "that was the plan."

Chris' pic shows my greatest pet peeve with polyline solids - the texture orientation never displays correctly without converting the elements to faces and jumping thru those hoops.