Alaskan_Son

I commonly use actual walls with openings to model these situations. Its actually a more accurate way of modeling those in many cases anyway.

Edit>Preferences>Reset Message Boxes. This is the only thing I can think of that might cause this. There is a pop-up box you get when trying to place a cabinet door in the plan and if she clicked Remember My Choice and then No. She could end up in that scenario.

I think Chief might be trying to slowly phase that tool out. It was removed from the menu but you can still manually add it to your toolbar or assign a hotkey via Customize Toolbars or Customize Hotkeys.

Here's a really quick example plan for you Joe... Example.plan Just toggle back and forth between the "With Fills" and "WITHOUT Fills" Plan Views to see what I mean.

Use the Reference Display. Turn OFF the roof planes in your current view, set the reference floor to the same floor, and then use a reference layer set with only the roof planes turned on. As long as you have "Details" (Use Object Settings) UNchecked, the fill style will not display in the reference display.

I think you'll have to be A LOT more specific. Are you talking about a plan view fill, or a 3D view pattern? What type of object is the pattern or fill being used on? And what is your reasoning for needing it in one view and not another? Are we talking about using for an exported image or for use in layout? There are about 10 different solutions that come to mind depending on the specifics that involve using any combination of layers, layer sets, the Use Layer Color setting, using a more appropriate object, using Plot Line settings, using multiple views, or simply using Toggle Patterns amongst other things.

I've added it to at least one of my own fonts as a special character. It makes it super easy to insert into a line of text and change size based on text style, layer, scale, etc. Easier than placing a block for sure.

If you truly did Select All then you may have also selected something that was ineligible for copying and pasting. I don't know...just a thought.

I share files back and forth with a pretty large number of people and I have issues accessing files via Google Drive pretty regularly but I don't recall having ever had an issue with Dropbox.

Yes. Don't place fixtures in cabinets. I actually almost never place fixtures in cabinets anymore and instead place them manually. There are actually a lot of benefits to doing it this way.

I'm guessing Chief was just getting too many complaints about all the unwanted, excessive, and duplicate/triplicate dimensions showing up on the plan so they decided to help us by doing a little micromanaging (forcing us to use the tool in the edit toolbar instead). I think it was a good move.

It has actually been available in the Edit toolbar for a long time. Now its ONLY available in the Edit toolbar by default.

Thanks Richard. Chop actually mentioned that to me yesterday as well. Definitely good to know.

No. You aint. You can create as many new categories as you want...

Nothing imports those Revit symbols except Revit and nothing can convert them except Revit (and maybe 3DS Max but I’m not sure about that), and even then, I believe last I checked, the only useful Revit export is 3D DXF which isn’t the greatest file type for symbols...not the worst, but not the greatest. At the end of the day, your best bet is to find a Revit user and have them convert to 3D DXF and send those to you. You’ll have to assign all the materials after import, but it’s better than nothing.

Sorry, I spoke too quickly. The bar scale would be correct if scaled down per my suggestion and placed in layout by the corresponding layout box, BUT it would visually be way too small or way too big depending on the scale being used. You’re right, numbers would need to be changed. In that case though, so might the size of the bar scale as well as the relative sizes of the bars themselves (depending on the scale being used). I wasn’t thinking too clearly. I actually never use a graphic scale on my drawings. I typically only note the scale, so I probably shouldn’t have said anything. The answer seemed so easy though!!!

Way to own your mistake man!! Love it!!!!

How so? I’m away from my computer but as I recall, there is no scale reference included with the bar scale in question...only the bars themselves and 0-6 notations. Those bars should represent that exact say length no matter what scale they’re at. Should be no reason to change any numbers unless I’m totally missing something.

Ironically, the easy answer is to just scale the scale. Select the block, click Transform/Replictae, and then enter the appropriate scale (.25/12 or .5/12).

The bigger issue is the plan view where there seems to be no way to get the jamb to display for these mulled units.

Closest thing to what you've described is the Replace From Library tool in your Edit toolbar. Select the symbol you want to replace, click on the aforementioned tool, and then select the item you want to replace it WITH. It won't keep the "attributes" (as you say), but it gets you partway there.

The line around the floor is caused by the fact you specified a brick ledge depth on your exterior walls when you didn't really need one. You should EITHER have a brick ledge depth OR use the pony wall approach that you're using...not both.

Those line styles are controlled by your layer settings. You put the lower floor walls on a layer called "Walls, Exterior" that is set to use a gray color in your Camera View Layer Set. The walls on the upper floor on the other hand are on the "Walls, Normal" layer which is set to use black in the Camera View Layer Set. The walls on the foundation level are similarly on a layer set to use a black color in that layer set.

Good catch. Easy to reproduce too. Its not just fixed and non fixed doors. Its doors in general mulled to anything.

We don’t build anything that looks like that around here and I haven’t needed to draw that particular scenario for anyone else yet, but if that’s me, I’m probably just gonna draw a standard stemwall foundation with slab at the top. Only manual tweaking is with the fills on the elevation views to combine them and provide the little inside corner chamfer. Might also be tempted to just build that as 2 floors...one to provide the actual footers and then next for the monoslab with its stemwall footers.