Alaskan_Son

I think they should probably remain separate. There are a lot of situations where a CAD block represents more than one library item, and where a CAD block may be stored in more than one library location (under more than one name for ease of access).

To answer your first question, CAD blocks have 2 names. The name you give the library item (the name in the library browser) and the name you give the actual CAD block (the name in the CAD Block Specification dbx). The latter is the one which also displays in CAD Block Management.

Weird...Just tried doing it through the ACTIVE Layer Display Options dbx and here's what I found... You can't delete the layers unless first changing your layer set or closing the display. I think the list just needs to reset. If you do that you can delete the layers just fine. If you just changed layer sets instead of closing and re-opening the display you'll have to de-select the layer before re-selecting and deleting it.

Worked for me. How are you deleting your layers? I was doing it through the Layer Display Options dbx.

As it turns out, this is not exactly true either. With Connect CAD Segments DEactivated (unchecked), you can can do the following... 1. Select a disconnected line segment FIRST and then Control or Shift select a polyline segment (even part of a connected polyline) and just the one segment is group selected. OR 2. Control or Shift select a connected polyline and while still holding Control or Shift, click on one or more of the line segments. Each line segment you click on (after the initial polyline selection) will be disconnected from the polyline and will be added or subtracted from your group selection as well. This could really pretty easily serve as a functional replacement for our previous Edit Object Parts tool with a little getting used to.

You know...I've never even opened up the CAD to walls dbx before. Just did for the first time. Looks like it was designed to work with imported DWG drawings. Interesting. Still imagine it would be faster and more accurate to just redraw but who knows. I'd be interested to hear how you guys use it.

I'm curious...do you guys actually use the CAD to walls feature very often? And if so, under what circumstances? I've never once used it or found a reason to use it.

You kinda went back and forth between layers and layersets in your post. Are they layers or layersets that you cannot delete? And can you possibly attach the plan so one of us can check to see if we have the same problem?

This isn't exactly true. I didn't go over it in the video, however in the following post I mentioned that you can still select multiple line segments with the Disconnect Edges tool active. Try playing around with it to get a feel for it, but... If you select a single segment of a polyline and then click on one of the end nodes, the segment or polyline on that end will be combined and added to your selection. OR, you can click on the center node and the segment or polyline on BOTH sides are combined and added to your selection. In a long disconnected string you can use the same techniques to add multiple segments one at a time, although after playing with it for a little while, the latter behavior seems a little finicky and somewhat dependent on what side of the polyline you start from. At the end of the day, it seems like the one functionality we have lost is being able to select 2 or more UNCONNECTED lines out of any given CAD detail without first disconnecting the segments from their polylines. Not sure yet whether or not this is actually a problem as the only time I THINK I do this is for trimming purposes in which case selecting an entire polyline along with my segment may never actually be an issue. I guess we'll see.

Easiest thing to do for your towel hook would be to: 1. Place the hook in a blank plan 2. Create a 3D camera view of the hook 3. Tools>Symbol>Convert to Symbol 4. Symbol Category...Hardware...Check Add To Library and Show Advanced Options 5. Under Options tab check Treat As Lock 6. Name it whatever you want 6. Decide what size door you will be using and how far your knob will be offset from the edge of the door (3" by default) 7. Divide the width of your door in half and subtract the knob offset. For example, a 30" door divided by 2 would be 15". 15" minus the default 3" offset would be 12". 8. Open your new piece of hardware and on the 3D tab, set the origin offset for the X position to be 12" (or whatever number you figured above...assuming you want it centered on the door). 9. Open your actual bathroom door and on the hardware tab, Interior Lock (or Exterior Lock), click "Library" and select the piece of hardware you previously modified. Set the height to whatever you want.

Thank you Charles and you're welcome. Glad I was able to help : )

Phewwff!! That's a load off

Definitely a matter of personal workflow techniques. The fact that lines were automatically connected by default was a longtime annoyance to me. A major deal? Certainly not, but an annoyance nonetheless. I'm glad we have the option to draw them disconnected now.

I didn't go over it in the video, but even with Disconnect Edges active, you can click on the end of the line nearest a connecting segment, the second segment will be added to your selection, and the 2 lines will be joined. You can continue this process to select and add additional lines. In my opinion, I think the new toolset is an improvement over what it was before...it will just take a little getting used to.

Okay, here's a quick crappy video. Sorry it took so long, I actually recorded an entire video and realized my mic was off and had to record it all over again. Hopefully I didn't miss anything the second time around. Anyway, at around 7 minutes, it's not quite as quick as usual, but don't worry...it's still crappy.

Posting video shortly over here on another thread... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/8220-x8-edit-polyline-parts/

That's what the other tool is for...Disconnect Edges. I'm gonna make a crappy video here shortly.

Are you using X7 or X8? You should really put it in your signature. It helps to know what product people are using. If you're using X7, what you're looking for is Edit Object Parts (Shift+F8). If you're using X8, its a little more complicated. I think I'm gonna make a video here shortly.

Just my opinion, but I wouldn't personally recommend putting the Disconnect Edges tool where the Edit Object Parts tool used to be. Its not really the same thing and unlike the other edit tools over there its not really an edit function that you toggle on and off, its actually a tool. It would be a little deceptive to put it over there and might cause confusion. I think Chief was right to place it elsewhere.

Not exactly all or nothing. Actually, if you go into your casing settings, turn the casing on, set it all to zero and then turn it back off, you can get the window to within 4" (the limit seems to be whatever the casing is set to plus 4". You can also resize the window after dragging it tight by making it smaller and get it to within 1-3/4". Then you can resize the window again (through the dbx) to get anywhere from 1-3/4" to 4". Once the spacing is set you can drag the window by the edit handle opposite the wall connection and resize it to what you want. Can't seem to get the window anywhere between 0" and 1-3/4" though. Very very funky.

Just read through the help file as Eric suggested and discovered there is another tool...CAD>Lines>Disconnect Edges that disconnects any line segments you select while the tool is active. Unlike Edit Object Parts, however, it only remains active for as long as you are using it to edit line work. Its sort of like a cross between Edit Object Parts and Select Objects (but specifically for line work) . I went ahead and added it to my toolbar. The new setup might take a bit of getting used to but I'm thinking I may actually prefer it over the way it was before. Just feels like it might be a bit more versatile and stable.

As far as I can tell, the Edit Object Parts function is gone. Connect CAD Segments seems to be more of a drawing tool and not an editing tool. In other words, with Connect CAD Segments active, all CAD that you draw is connected. Even if you deactivate the feature later, anything you drew while it was active remains connected unless you use the Disconnect Selected Edge tool. Conversely, anything you draw with the feature deactivated remains disconnected. It seems like it may be a general shift in the program's overall CAD functionality.

Your problem is that you're using a railing wall. I would probably do one of 2 things... 1. As someone else mentioned above, use normal walls and simply select the walls in elevation and drag them down. 2. Use a pony wall with a shorter normal wall on the bottom and a zero thickness wall on top using "Opening (no material)"

In addition to the advice above, you can also just use the simple zero thickness room divider...

I too usually just use wall material regions and then adjust the pattern and texture setting appropriately. Often times it requires several wall material regions and multiple copies of the same material with different settings for each, but its not too difficult to draw up pretty accurate tile layouts that way...