Joe_Carrick

What are you trying to connect to? If you're trying to connect to a wall - it's most likely that you are actually getting the "Exterior Room".

Create the railing as a stand-alone railing wall, "No Room Definition", "Follows Stairs". Then drag it into place on the Stairs. It should work - but I haven't tested it in X6.

Only by editing the Layout Lines.

Use a Library Panel

I would just show the Upper Wall - but select the Exterior Room and create a Room Molding Polyline. It will display as a single line (no fill) at the face of the Pony Wall. Not ideal, but it works for me.

There's a checkbox in the Defaults>Camera>3D Views for "Restrict Floor Camera to Room" - but I don't think it works.

Manual Dimensions in Elevations and Sections works pretty well - Basically like the Story Pole.

Michael, What object did you use for the Point Markers to get the attributes?

Alan, The problem with using the Edit Handles to delete is that there are often more than one such dimension extensions at a given location so you have to do it repeatedly. Otherwise it works.

There are also places to add text for the individual markers by selecting the "Segments" Tab

Alan, It may be possible to use macros to do this but the way Chief has implemented Ruby it's doubtful. There's no facility other than Global Ruby Variables to store user input. The problem is that there are no attributes attached to the individual markers from which to get the elevation data. The Story Pole allows modification of the text - and it will read a valid macro - but there's just nothing to get data from.

Copy to your user Library. You can change the Layer there. Then you just select from that Library location

For Plan, Elevation, Section and CAD Details, there is a Reference Grid and a Snap Grid that can be set in "Plan Defaults". The can be toggled on/off with Icons on the "Toggle Modes Toolbar".

There isn't any "Barn Door" in the Door dbx. You have to use a "Library Door" with the y-origin offset about -4". This will then show in 3D as "Surface Mounted" instead of as a "Pocket". I wasn't aware that reversing the wall layers would make such a door switch sides. It still doesn't solve the display problem in the Plan View - since it still displays as a "Pocket Door". Editing the Description in the Components Dialog can allow that to be changed in the Door Schedule.

I checked and I don't find this at all. Can you show where it's happening?

I will have to check this. I assume you're talking about the latest X8 update. If there now is the ability to change the swing direction for Pocket Doors it would be so that a "Barn Door Symbol" could be switched from one side of a wall to the other side. These Symbols have an offset y-origin. Switching the swing direction would make this work.

Import as a Doorway Symbol (advanced) In the Symbol dbx: Rotate 90 degrees about the z-axis Set y origin to 30" Opening Width as 12' Plan View Width as 12' Sizing Stretch Plane y=48 You won't be able to see it "Open", and it will be listed in the Door Schedule as "Doorway" bu you can edit the Comments in the Component dbx. Note, if you Import it as a Door instead, it will act like a Garage Door but you will need the y-origin to be about 22" to sit flush with the exterior wall surface. In addition, Chief will draw the dashed line in Plan as if it was a Standard Overhead Garage Door instead of a Roll up.

Ryan, I think if you adjust the size of the Symbols' "Bounding Box" you can get the Tub to fit to the framing. It's a little tricky and CA should probably have made those adjustments in their OOB Symbols.

I'm not sure, but I think the OP is asking how to model that condition, not how to eliminate it.

I've know for a long time that I could insert the Global Room Info Macros in a Rich Text Box to create my own Room Labels formatted any way that I wanted. What I didn't realize is that they can be added to the Label of any object and when that Label is contained in a Room, that data will be displayed. I'm not sure exactly how I might use that but maybe for Furniture so that the Room Name for example would be reflected in the Furniture Schedule, etc. Even when inserted in a Roof Plane's Label, the Room Data will become a part of that Label. The same is true for Floor Material Regions, Cabinets, Ceiling Planes, Plumbing Fixtures, etc.

Within X8, select Help > Check for Updates. I think there's only one download - it's not a full install, just the program.

I set my sheet size to Arch-D before printing to PDF and I select "To Scale". If you have your Layout set up that way it should work fine. It's not a bad idea to have a full 24x36 outline boundary in the Layout on Page 0. Your Border can be inside that.

I use both of those - but I typically have several other sets of data that I read from text files in the Project Folder: Project Info Builder Info Geologist Info Structural Engineer Info Surveyor Info T24 Consultant Info Those are all read and displayed by a series of custom macros. I asked CA a couple of years ago to add those like the Client and Designer Info - but so far I haven't seen any indication that they are interested in doing so.

I had a 3D View that had some People Images - but they didn't show even though I had the "Images" Layer displayed. I spent a lot of time trying to get them to display - even reloaded the Library but nothing worked. Finally after a couple hours lost - I found that somehow "Textures" had gotten toggled off. So if your Image Files are not showing up in a 3D View - make sure that "Textures" are ON!

Curt, I have most of my details in my Layout Template(s). If I don't want a particular detail in a project I delete it in the Layout. OTOH, if I find I need to make a change to a detail I have 2 choices: 1. Modify the Detail and Save it (all instances of the Detail will change in all Projects) 2. Copy the Detail to a new CAD Window and modify that (creates a new Detail) I do not copy the Details to the Project Plan. I like to keep my Project Plan as trim as possible. When I open a Detail from the Layout it opens the "Detail Plan" (CAD Detail Window). ie: the location "Sent to Layout" I'm only using those Detail Plans that I listed. A lot of the "Boiler Plate" notes and NTS Details are in CAD Details in the Layout. Plan Notes, Schedules and Job Specific Notes are in the Main Plan CAD Detail Windows - most of which is in my Plan Template and already sent to specific Layout Pages in my Layout Template. I like this because it gives me the flexibility to locate them on the Layout Pages independent of the Plan View(s). IOW, separate Layout Boxes that can be easily moved. Typically my Detail Plans have only about 10-30 Details each and about 1/2 of those are specials that are only used on a few projects. IMO, there are 3 main areas of setting up the Templates: 1. Annosets, Layer Sets, Annotation Styles (Text, Dimensions, Callouts, etc) 2. Defaults in the Plan Template(s) - including predefined Labels for just about everything (text, macros or a combination) 3. Views already sent to the Layout Template from: a. Project Plan Template b. Detail Plans If you have all those done ahead of time, ConDocs are almost automatic. When you change something in a Plan, it's already in the Layout and is automatically updated. My Templates are not static. I have a system driven by a macro that can create a new project from an existing project, copying and renaming on the fly with a complete Project Folder setup. Any existing Project can be a set of "Templates" for a new Project. I try to pick an existing similar Project for this purpose so that most Defaults and Details are what I need.