Alaskan_Son

You bet.

Probably one to send into tech support but looks like a video card issue to me.

Look like temporary points to me. CAD>Points>Delete Temporary Points

Good point Wendy. I suspect doing extra Save-As of various plan iterations is something most people do not fully appreciate or take advantage of. It cannot be overstated what a HUGE time saver it is. The moment you decide to head down a different road design-wise, do a Save-As to give the plan a new name. If I'm pretty sure I'm just messing around with options I'll name it something like Temp Plan. If I think it might be something that sticks or something I might want to go back to I'll name it 'Smith Res 2" and then "Smith Res 3" and so on. If you keep all those plans in one folder its super easy to clean them up at any time.

You betcha. Glad I could help

I might be misunderstanding something, but once you add it to the library you should be able to open it directly from the plan. On a side note, have you explored the possibilities of turning those items into symbols instead of blocking them? You could simply cut/paste in position to another plan, create symbol, and then cut, paste in position back into original plan. I don't know...just brainstorming.

On a side note, if you currently happen to have the elevation view open in the plan, the camera/callout will temporarily display in the layout no matter what you do but won't save or print that way.

Not sure I totally follow. You should be able to simply turn off the camera layer in that specific layer set (assuming your view sent to layout has a unique layer set). If you want other cameras to remain visible in that view, simply put the one camera on its own layer.

Neither of these are perfect options and I think there are better ways of doing it, but both are sort of possible... Using CAD>Lines>Create Line Style, you can use dashes (and/or dots) and text (specifically slashes and/or backslashes and capital letter I's set to a relatively tall height come to mind) to get the clothing on a rod look. It won't be random, but if you size and space everything right it can be made to work decently. For the wavy lines, the closet and quickest thing I can think of is to use either a spline, or a revision cloud (with whatever settings you like) converted to a plain polyline and edited as necessary.

Todd, Seeing as how I see nothing wrong with your workflow, I would suggest zipping a problematic layout and plan into a folder and attaching them so one of us can take a look. It may be something you're overlooking. Otherwise we could at least verify that it does or does not work for us.

Nothing wrong with your workflow that I can see.

Here's a quick example...I changed all sorts of lines without any problems at all...

I'm not sure this is totally accurate. With some rare, buggy exceptions, I can select every single line I've ever tried to select. Maybe it HAS changed...I don't know. I don't recall having ever had a problem selecting any lines in the past though either.

There are a lot of things coming into play here and there are pros and cons associated with any given method. Not anywhere near all encompassing, but a few things that I think are worth noting and looking into though... 1. Make sure the foundation wall in question is designated as a foundation wall in the wall dbx. 2. I have no problems creating a foundation wall that has both a footer and a "pony wall". 3. Build framing works for me no matter how the pony wall is configured. 4. The thing I have NOT found a way to do is put the framed section of a pony wall onto its own layer. It's defaulted to the same layer as the foundation walls and there seems to be no way to separate the 2. You can use the Delete Surface tool to get rid of all the upper wall geometry but that's just a workaround. Any changes to the model (including updating any related views sent to layout) and the surfaces will rebuild. This issue just needs to be fixed in my opinion. We really need the upper and lower portions of a pony wall assembly to be assignable to their own layers. 5. You can abandon the pony wall method, modify the foundation and footing in an elevation, draw a section of exterior wall, click on that wall and designate as "No Room Definition", place the wall directly on top of your foundation (aligning with the wall above), and then break/resize your new exterior wall polyline to fit between the foundation below and the wall above. Now you can put this wall on its own layer but it definitely takes a little more time to build and clean up. Just a few of my musing...stumbled across while trying to explore your problem. Someone else may be able to give you better advice. It's pretty rare that we draw up framing and foundation details and even more rare that we draw up daylight basements so most of the above is basically just stuff I figured out today messing around with your problem.

Did you watch the second video in Ross's post? The gentleman in the video talks about terrain very briefly but once he gets past that, I believe he addresses the issue you are trying to figure out. He's using an older version of the program, but the basics are still the same and work with or without the terrain.

Thanks Mickey. Its just a crappy video (a hommage to Scott's "crappy" ray traces) but hopefully it helped someone. I've only made a few but I've quickly realized that I learn a lot simply making one and often times what I learn or what someone else may learn watching them may have absolutely zero to do with the subject matter.

I think the reference to AutoCAD was due to the way you're creating your set of working drawings. It appears as if you are doing it all right inside of the plan file rather than using a layout file to create your plan set. If that's what works for you...go for it, but its highly unusual (I for one have never seen anyone else do it that way). The "standard" procedure is to send your plan and elevation views to layout (which become your working drawings). If you want to combine them all into one set of plans for printing, I personally wouldn't use a layout file to do that, I would just combine multiple layouts into one PDF.

Without a specific plan or picture to go off its hard to guess exactly what you're after but I would start in one of 2 places. First... Default Settings>Window>General>Options>Minimum Separation...change this to zero. Second...explore the possibility of building the window out of a single unit and use muntins.

Please bear in mind that there are a huge number of variables that come into play. People like Scott donate many many many hours to help people like you and I sort through their problems and it is extremely common for the OP to miscommunicate what exactly they are doing or to overlook any number of variables or settings that may come into play. In this example, Scott took 10 minutes of his time trying to solve your issue not realizing you were using cameras...something he would have known if you had attached the plan. Its just a good idea to get into the habit of attaching the plan (even a stripped down version with just enough information top show your problem). It takes a ton of the guesswork out and saves everyone a lot of time.

A quick video... http://screencast.com/t/PAsgE5rl

We already use Sketchup. I actually prefer Chief though for most things... Plus, natively created Chief symbols usually behave much better than those created in Sketchup.

It actually doesn't work for anything except a rectangular cross section.

Ya, that would work. It limits what can be done with boolean operations though which is what I am really after. It would be nice if we were either able to convert a moulding to a solid or a symbol to a solid. Ima gonna post a suggestion.

Ya, I guess I should have clarified. See my last post above. The functionality I'm after would require the ability to create a moulding path not just a straight line.

Here's a quick example... I created this ladder recently, and while I was able to build it with primitive solids, it would have been much quicker and easier if I were able to use mouldings to create the side rails.