Alaskan_Son

That's the type of garage I would venture to guess is used as a shed. Or maybe to park the Fiat that rarely gets driven.

That's pretty misleading information Lew... I7 processors can vary substantially in clock speed. And whether your computer has overclocking options or not can make that difference even more substantial. My I5 processor for example can overclock to at least 3.2GHz whereas the slowest I7 processor may max out at 1.8 GHz. They DO have multiple I7-XXXX names as well. Simply having an I7 processor doesn't mean its faster.

I don't think you have anywhere near enough for a functional single car garage. I wouldn't personally recommend building a single car garage with less than a 14ft wide usable area. which would require around 15ft. when accounting for walls. To give a little perspective, you can't even pull some vehicles into a 7ft. opening without folding the mirrors in, and your average person will likely find it rather challenging to pull in and out of an 8ft. wide garage door. Figuring an 8ft. opening, that would leave you with around an 18" wall on either side of the garage door which is likely a structural issue to contend with, and MAYBE 24" on each side of the vehicle to get in and out (and that's assuming the side walls are totally empty). In my opinion nobody would use a garage of that size to park in, and parking a fullsize pickup truck would be essentially impossible.

You're absolutely right David. For what it's worth, the reason I chose PDF24 is that after much research, it's the only free program I could find that was able to combine the ability to print PDF, add and delete pages, rearrange pages, and combine files that didn't also come with a lot of "baggage".

I used CutePDF for quite some time and it worked great. Recently switched to PDF24 though in order to add and delete pages and combine multiple files. It works really good. They're both free programs that as someone else suggested may come with some risk, however I haven't had any problems with either.

What I don't understand is why dimensioning elevations is so inconsistent. I can get dimensions (with or without point markers) to snap to one countertop but not another. Same goes with fixtures. Just 2 days ago I was drawing up plans for a wet bar and could get dimensions to snap to 3 sides of a TV but not the 4th. That same seemingly unpredictable behavior is the only part of dimensioning elevations it seems I can count on.

I'm curious to see what answers you get… I've been having the exact same issue. As you say it seems to be much worse in X6. Not sure if you're experiencing this or not, but i've been having problems dimensioning sections in general. No matter what my settings I can't get quite a few different things to locate. In particular… Custom countertops, fixtures, and appliances. And at least in one instance where I COULD locate the edge of a custom countertop, it would only snap to a spot like 20 or 30 feet up in the air. The dimension was correct but I had to pull the extension line way down to make the dimension look right. At any rate, dimensioning elevations is a major hassle.

What I did to solve my problem was take one of the doors FROM THE PLAN that had the correct materials and textures displayed and added that to my library. I then deleted the original and everything has been fine since then. That's how it worked for me anyhow.

Can you attach the plan??

Maybe I'll have to upgrade my card :-(

Anyone else getting the occasional error message when trying to create an orthgraphic camera view?? Results are inconsistent, and seem to only happen when I try to use the "all on" layer set). The view crashes and I get the attached message. I can create a new camera view and try it again and sometimes it works (more often than not it crashes though). Drivers are all up to date and I never had this problem at any time X3 through X5. Is my video card perhaps too outdated for X6?? Other than this particular issue it seems to work just fine.

That's pretty cool. Nice work Jon.

Oops. Maybe I meant "Install core content". Either way, I'm fairly certain I've done one or the other before for items missing from my core content.

Maybe try to "update library catalogs" to get that Exteriors folder back?? In the meantime... Untitled 2.zip

Check out this link, but to me it seems it wouldn't be worth the trouble. Might be easier to just manually enter the numbers... http://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01846/

I think maybe you are referring to CASING?? If so... "Colonial" is also used for multiple trim profiles, but CA-03 seems to represent one of the most common profiles to carry the moniker in my experience.

I think you need to give a little more information, attach a picture, or something. I for one do not know what you mean by "colonial window casement" and there is no "casement" tab in the window DBX.

You can use your tab key as well as your arrow keys, and the home and end keys to very quickly get what you want. To me it would make sense to have the top "tab" highlighted which is the case whenever I open a door dbx, however with a window the "window type" is highlighted. From there it only takes one hit of the tab key to get to the width, however one way or another it should be a little more consistent. With text I get the exact same inconsistent results as you. I would much prefer to just have the cursor activated at either the beginning or end of the text rather than have it all highlighted (in which case typing anything essentially deletes EVERYTHING), however, again...something consistent.

Awesome. Thank your Perry.

Seems like a pretty basic thing and maybe something I'm just overlooking, but... Am I correct that there is no way to send a text box directly to the library?? It seems the only way to get it there is to combine it with something else to form a CAD block. Seems like a silly extra step that shouldn't be required. Am I missing something??

Defaults>Dimensions>Temporary dimensions Your options are pretty limited though. I don't use those dimensions hardly ever. I just place my own dimensions and use those to make adjustments. That's just me though.

I would personally do exactly as you have it drawn up, OR use a highly customized double door.

Zip and attach a file and I'll give it a shot if you'd like.

Its under Defaults>Dimensions. See attached screen shot

You might want to watch some of the videos, check some of the articles under Help>Launch help, or read though one of the Chief Architect manuals to get a good handle on how to use dimensions. A couple quick tips though... -Double click on the dimension tool you're using to adjust the settings. Depending on which tool you're using, it will only locate certain objects, and snap to certain locations on those objects by default. -You can select the dimension itself (without selecting the wall) and change the location of one end or the other to a different layer or side of the wall by simply selecting the little box associated with the end of the arrow and dragging it to where you want it. Hope that helps.