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I probably should have clarified, but I forgot. There’s an important distinction. Its always horizontal and vertical relative to the image.

I don't even know where to start, but here's where YOU can start... -Inspect the ceiling heights. They're not consistent. -Inspect the Joist Direction Arrows. There are a whole bunch of these that may be giving some specific instructions that you may not actually be wanting. -Check walls that are set as Bearing Walls. There are some of these that may be giving some specific instructions to the joists that you may not be wanting. -Check the walls that are set to Hang Floor Platform Above On Wall. There are some of these that are affecting how the joists build as well -Look for Bearing Lines. There are also some of these that may be adversely affecting how your joists build. All these issues are similar to the last issue I inspected for you. It's not a problem with the program. It's really just a bunch of faulty settings.

Here's the method I would recommend... Draw a CAD line depicting your desired reference line. Now rotate that CAD line so it's perfectly parendicular. Now select the image and do the Pt. to Pt. Resize using your CAD line.

It has always worked on vertical and horizontal only. It continues to work the same.

You can deal with unwanted attic walls in a number of ways without turning off the functionary including but not limited to: -Changing the attic walls to invisible walls -Turning the layer off -Using a more suitable wall type for the wall below (and thereby changing the automatically generated attic wall) -Changing the attic wall itself to a more suitable wall type

yes. me too. i'll have what he's having.

Mick was showing how to turn the function off because somebody asked. I could be wrong (I hope I'm not) but I don't think he was actually "suggesting" anything. I certainly would not suggest people turn that setting off. It's going to cause a lot more problems than it solves. I would suggest even the most advanced users typically leave that setting toggled on...less advanced users, even more so. If you have unwanted attic walls its almost never a problem with the walls themselves, rather, it's usually a problem with the user prematurely modifying them, or simply not understanding what the walls are doing or how to control their display. In short, I recommend you leave them turned on and just learn to work with them as they were intended.

This is perfect Kevin. Thank you. I was looking for some commentary info. online but couldn’t find any. I’ll need to just pick up or download a copy. Thanks again

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A couple other little tips: 1. You can always build walls out of multiple walls sandwiched together (not overlapping but sandwiched). You can have a framing layer only wall and a drywall only wall that wraps around all those goofy problem corners. 2. Don’t be afraid to simply use CAD masks were necessary. You can just match the wall fill and use the invisible line style where necessary. It’s really easy to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to force a unique scenario to model perfectly when in reality it doesn’t really matter for anything except one or 2 views. Spend two hours making the model perfect or spend three minutes and get the job done?

To be clear, we have no problem with that one. I checked with my colleague to verify though and the inspector WAS adamant that this one needed to be tempered as well... ...and again, he specifically cited the toilet itself as the source of the hazard. I guess it looks like a little whirlpool bath to him

This job was actually outside of city limits. It was a private inspector and he didn't actually end up writing the items up. He just basically gave a warning. He was pretty insistent though. Like I said, he was actually claiming that the consider the toilet itself a body of water just like a tub, shower, hot tub, or pool. Anyway, it's not so much that I was worried about how to deal with it, I was mostly just curious if anyone else has ever run into the issue. Doesn't look to me like anything has changed in the code and this is the first time I've heard mention of it in all my years. Just making sure I wasn't missing anything.

To be honest, I wasn’t actually there, and there are 2 toilets in the house that could be considered. One of them is within 60” of the shower and the other is not. It’s actually in a totally separate room. I believe it’s the one in the separate room that was the real question.

A client and colleague of mine recently had a meeting with an inspector at one of our jobs who asserted that we needed to be using tempered glass above/behind toilets. Anyone else run into this? Don’t believe I’ve ever heard of this being requested or required before. The IRC is a little cryptic and unclear to a certain extent with its wet room requirements and what constitutes being in the same room (a separate toilet room or toilet alcove for example) and I’d be curious what your experiences and opinions are. In this particular instance though, the inspector was actually calling the toilet itself a body of water. It does make me wonder why he didn’t also call out the window above the kitchen sink.

Looks to me like you know to go into Preferences and set Color Off to Grayscale instead of Black and White.

Seriously, who keeps doing this??! You’re being rude and totally unhelpful. Example...In X12, even if you draw polyline solids in the same view but edit in another view, they get automatically converted to a solid and lose the ability to use polyline boolean operations like you would normally expect. You end up having to use SOLID boolean operations which means the object have to actually be touching and will be affected in 3D instead of only the usual 2D extrusion shape. Also, if someone was to try and help, and then repost the modified plan in X12, it would be a useless waste of everyone’s time if the OP was using X10. Please consider taking the attitude down a couple notches and recognize that Eric and others continue to request current version information for very legitimate and helpful reasons.

You actually both Create AND Set Note Defaults. This is true of all Multiple Saved Defaults. You can’t set your Active Defaults to your Foundation Note Default if you don’t first create that default.

Thanks for the clarification Dermot. I do understand the distinction. Just spoke a little too quickly with my answer. I jus deleted it so as not to confuse matters.

A note default uses a note type much like a wall default uses a wall type.

Sorry, I should’ve clarified… It’s the joist direction arrow that was causing the thickness that did not add up. Without the joist direction arrow change you would still get 2 framing layers but they would have been the expected thickness.

That's really up to you whether you report it or not but I say not. It's actually the joist direction arrow that's causing the problem but I think it's working as designed. By default, that arrow is initially created using the uppermost (3/4") framing layer. When the Depth was changed in the Joist Direction Specification dialog, it automatically adjusted the thickness of the upper joists to suit. It may be behaving unexpectedly, but it was some faulty settings that really caused the problem in the first place. Had you actually wanted a 3/4" thick furring layer, it would have worked just fine had the joist direction arrow not been changed.

It uses the layer set that is set for your Full Camera Defaults.

Your floor structure has 2 layers that are both defined as framing material. Change the subfloor to a non framing material.

For the double wall, the lower wall should have drywall on one side only.

...or you can label them manually with text boxes.