Alaskan_Son

Ya, I think this should probably be considered a bug and fixed. You should report this to tech support as I don't believe it should work that way. You can fix the problem by placing a very small gap between your copies though...looks more realistic to me like that anyway, and if you go that route you can also add a grout line.

If it was an upgrade to X8 that triggered your issue then I suspect you need to turn shadows off. Shadows are turned on by default in X8 and can really slow things down. The setting was also relocated from preferences to camera defaults.

Alan, Your problem is that the material you're using for your floor structure (Pine 1) is not a Framing material. There are a few ways you could change this, but here's one... Open your Floor Structure Definition dbx, select that Pine 1 layer, click Select Material, click Plan Materials, click Edit, and then change the Material Type from "Area" to "Framing". Then probably set your Floor Structure type to "Lumber" (although that is not necessary to get your trusses working).

For something like that you can also just use the Delete Surface tool.

Here's one way but it requires either creating a Save As version of the plan and/or temporarily changing your material definitions in the main plan. 1. Switch to your 3D framing set and turn on the Walls, Normal and Windows layers. You may also want to turn off the casing layers. 2. Use the Adjust Material Definition tool to change your walls' interior and exterior layers by: A. Changing the Material Type to "Gap" (this is for Vector Views). B. Clicking on Properties, switching the Material Class to "General Material" and setting the transparency to 100% (this is for other render views). There are other more complex ways too, but I think that would be the easiest for a few quick renderings.

It just seemed pretty clear to me that Lew wasn't understanding that he was using the wrong "center line" which is why I stressed the importance of using the lines that show up in the correct orientation (perpendicular to the side you're trying to center on).

Lew, layout pages are probably the single most difficult place to use the center objects tool. You just have to very slowly move your mouse across down at the bottom or top until you get a VERTICAL marker. Do the same thing on the side until you get a HORIZONTAL marker. When trying to center on a layout page those particular markers only show up when you're in just the right spot it seems.

You can actually drag those colors to whichever box you want. Just left click, drag, and release.

Take a look at this thread... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10009-how-to-make-groove-in-wall/?hl=grooves#entry87465 I personally would usually use p-solids for this type of thing, but a material region set to cut layer of parent object works as well. It just requires you take some time to set up the proper wall definition (possibly using 2 walls sandwiched together) and the material region's layer simply gets turned off (it becomes the joints). Take a look at that thread though for some more detailed answers.

I'm a big fan of creating the proper sized openings, placing and properly sizing the freestanding appliance and then properly positioning it in the cabinet. It's a lot more accurate and far less likely to result in a sizing mistake. When an appliance is inserted as a face item it can too easily be sized incorrectly to start with or resized by mistake. I personally place almost all my appliances manually.

You can't move the origin but what you can do is move everything in relation to the origin. I think edit area all floors and point-to-point move is probably your best bet.

Larry, if its not an allowed file type, zip it first.

There are several easy ways but start out by switching to the point marker tool, holding down the Shift key and marquis selecting all of them. Now either... A. Change the marker radii to zero B. Assign the Invisible line style to the object or layer(s) C. Turn the layer(s) off

You'll probably need to attach the plan. It sounds to me like you are selecting more than just line work.

This is just a guess without seeing the plan but you probably need to check "By Layer" next to the color setting when you group select. When you group select I'm betting that box is filled in (no change).

Select those edges and click the "Convert Curve To Polyline" tool. Give the curve a higher number of segments to keep it from looking too choppy. And make sure you have fascia checked as has already been mentioned. This was done in X8 but X7 works the same way...

That situation looks a little more complicated and it would help to see the plan, but check these 2 videos out to see if you can glean any good info. from them (they're both really short). It's a little different situation but you might be able to use similar techniques... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syvgoRxbGDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ewC5n4dv00 ...specifically, I'm thinking the zero width main layer setting might help; otherwise, the next thing I would try doing would be to draw those layers as individual single layer walls that are just all sandwiched together. There are a lot of possibilities but I'd probably start out there. Again, if you attach the plan you'll probably get a better answer.

Also...you may want to toggle shadows off. If I remember correctly, they are on by default. Depending on your system this may solve the problem entirely.

In X8 there are quite a few ways we can do that. You have less options in X7 but here are a couple that come to mind... -Using a dimension with the invisible line type is one good solution. -Using room dividers set to no room definition, placed on your CAD layer, and including a very simple macro in the wall label is another. This way you can move the label wherever you want.

Since you haven't received any responses I'll take a quick stab at it. Without seeing the plan file it's impossible to tell but here are my 3 best guesses... You didn't actually import a DWG file, you imported a picture or a PDF and under Preferences you have "Display In Color Whenever Possible" checked. OR You sent to layout as "Current Screen As Image", you sent to layout while color was toggled ON in PLAN, under Preferences you have "Display In Color Whenever Possible" checked, and you tried to toggle color off AFTER you sent it. OR You simply need to toggle the color off in layout as well. Plan and layout have their own independent color toggles. If none of those fix the problem and it truly IS some kind of bug, either: A. Change the line color for all that line work to black. B. If you need to retain the line colors for some reason, use the Match Properties tool to group select one line color at a time, put them onto unique layers, set the line color for those objects to be controlled by layer, and assign different colors to those layers in the appropriate layer set(s) (all those layers set to black for the layer set you're sending to layout).

Just convert your CAD work to molding polylines and don't actually assign a molding.Bonus Tips: If desired you can even include arrows on those lines/polylines as long as you assign them BEFORE converting to a molding polyline. AND you can either display line length or add a custom macro to the label for that line or polyline to display its length in order to make a "dimension line" that can be included in an architectural block.

Amen. Here's that thread although there have been others... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10288-layer-sets-should-change-only-with-a-save-button/?hl=%2Blayer+%2Bcontrol#entry89703

This is done via the Windows, Labels layer text style setting. Here's a quick video I made the other night whilst I was in a video making binge...

A few...You can't simply use CAD work (those have to be built with 3D objects), you lose some iinstancing capabilities, and you can't select an insertion point...which brings us to your placement issue... The block will place/snap the insertion point wherever you click during the paste process. By default, the insertion point is the center of the CAD Block, but you can put that insertion point anywhere you want, even outside the block. Should solve your problem if I understand it correctly.

Try this...