Alaskan_Son

Hey Johnny, in case you already read it, I deleted my last post because the more I messed around with your plan the more uncertain I became. I think I found the issue you were having with the glass railings. They all display in plan and their "From Floor" settings are all the same, HOWEVER, if you change the setting to absolute, they ARE NOT the same. If you make the absolute settings match, they all behave just fine. Problem is that they're getting their "from floor" numbers from somewhere else. I think it has something to do with your terrain... I don't deal with modified terrain very often and so I'm not very familiar with all the little idiosyncrasies however I do know that your terrain is displaying in plan view instead of that terrace room which seems odd. I also know that if you start deleting the terrain, those glass railings start to move. For some reason, they're getting their "from floor" numbers from the terrain.

Here's a quick video. Probably not much help unless you catch something I'm doing differently. It all seems to work for me though.

Never mind, I found it, and that works for me as well. Not sure what to tell ya.

I can select and adjust elevations for those glass panels just fine. Haven't been able to locate the moulding polyline in question yet though. Can you describe where in the plan it is?

Can you attach the plan? I wouldn't mind taking a look. I could only reproduce the problem on my end by toggling Connect CAD Segments off.

Yes. I realize that. I guess my point was that the bumping and pushing settings you mentioned make no difference with regard to using Point To Point Move or Transform/Replicate. Toggling bumping/pushing off however DOES offer an alternative solution to the bounding box issue.

I only ever get the preview when I click on on item or use the arrow keys to scroll through the list.

Do you have Connect CAD Segments toggled off?

You are correct, and your solution was a good one, however point to point and transform/replicate work no matter what your bumping/pushing settings are and if bumping and pushing is toggled off entirely, bounding box becomes irrelevant.

You're more than welcome. Glad I could help : )

And can you post your computer and video card specs?

What rendering mode are you using?

I personally haven't switched to X8 yet for producing plans (only been messing around to get a feel for it) so I haven't run into the issue you speak of. I do however know that at least a couple other users have submit tickets for the problem you've mentioned. Hopefully they'll have it fixed here with the next release.

Also, do you have anything in your trash folder? And what do you see if you go into you Chief Architect Premier X6 Data folder and open the folder labeled Database Libraries (while you're in that folder DO NOT click on anything inside)?

That sounds very odd. What happens if you click on Library>Update Library Catalogs?

Actually, if you have bumping and pushing toggled off, the bounding box shouldn't restrict movement anyway.

Nice catch Eric. Not sure if you realize why your solution works or not, but... Problem is that the wall on the lower left was drawn at a slight off angle. Open that wall and simply change the angle to 180 degrees and you're good to go. No need to delete it or drag the other wall over.

Second...to actually change the bounding box dimensions, Open Symbol (as opposed to Open Object), navigate to the Sizing tab and change the bounding box dimensions there.

First...don't let go of the control key till after releasing you mouse button.

Yeah, definitely post over on the other forum, but for whatever its worth, that roof seems buggy to me. I actually couldn't figure out how to fix it using auto build. Auto roofs are building that roof all wrong for some reason. Only way I could make it work was to do some of the roof manually.

The line you're seeing is a "Ceiling Break Line". Its on the Ceiling Break Lines Layer.

Forget nationwide, even job to job and person to person can vary astronomically. A proficient designer working for a super easy client might be able to model a 10,000 square foot box of a house inside a day. Same proficient designer could pretty easily take a month or 2 modelling a 10,000 square foot castle for a very difficult client. On the flipside of that, a less experienced and less than proficient designer could take a couple weeks or more modelling the 10,000 square foot box of as house and end up ruining a perfectly good client.

I agree with Scott as well, go straight to X8. Learning an old version of the program could really prove to be pretty counterproductive should you choose to upgrade (the program has changed drastically along the way), and due to "advances" in computer and software technology, older software versions are slowly becoming obsolete and unusable on newer systems.

At the risk of stating the obvious... If absolute perfection isn't necessary, have you considered just finding similar furniture and modifying the size and material settings instead of drawing everything from scratch?

Just one man's opinion, but I think they've done the right thing. They've set it up to work more like wall and room definitions where multiple layers can be assigned. I think it makes for better organization and stability under the structure tab where they have it now.