Alaskan_Son

I've been asking for labels and various attributes for CAD based objects so we could do stuff like that for quite some time now. In the meantime, the best we have is Line Style>Show Length which DOES display the radius for arcs. It's just really limited what you can do with it is all.

Just opened an old X3 plan. No problems at all.

Pretty sure X12 will open an X5 plan just fine. I think the X8 thing only applies to the old PL1 files.

I also use the copy/paste hold position method for plan views, HOWEVER, this isn't a good solution for other view types and details. For those, I use lines (not temporary points). These can be copied and pasted from page to page, but whenever reasonably possible, its best to just pace them on page zero so you can use the same line as a reference on all pages. These lines can be left off the page and used for alignment and centering without the need to ever turn them off, or they can even be placed in the middle of the page and can be toggled on and off by placing them onto a unique layer.

...and have you made any additional progress?

Oldest one I currently have loaded is X7, but it worked the same in there as well... I agree.

If I'm understanding correctly, he wasn't trying to move it. He was trying to initially draw it. That is, he was trying to drag out a 3/4"x1/4" polyline.

It's not that such a small angle creates the problem, its that the problem only comes into existence at a specific combination of angles and it only takes a single degree to put it over that threshold. This is true of almost every software limitation. There's a specific threshold. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this same problem occurs with reflections in PBR's too. It can get really frustrating because you're essentially forced to position the camera where you don't actually want in in order to get acceptable shadows and reflections. Its one of the big areas where I see Ray Traces remaining irrefutably superior.

It’s always worked that way Joe.

You mention changing the floor/ceiling heights and changing the wall types, but did you check those other settings I mentioned? They were all major contributing factors in that plan.

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.