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I do the same as Scott, just resize to a small door, the chg hinge size via the toolbar. And I have been seeing a lot of these doors being requested lately. 70's coming back?

Or in Canada (eh!).. no shadows for 3 months anyways.

I would think not.. We are 93 million miles a way from the sun, so I don't think a mile or two will make any difference. The latitude and longitude and the date you want to reflect the shadow is all I think you really need. and maybe any obstruction, like another building, trees, mountains, etc...

I don't know if I am understanding the question.. You should be able to center you text with any object or line. Make sure your text alignment is how you want it, rotate it in the direction you want the text to show.. then center with the lines of the border box.. And all main title block geometry should be done on sheet 0.. this will carry over to the rest of the layout sheets.

I also use Google street view to capture the neighborhood, if I can't get out to take an actual picture. But very interesting on the P-solid thing.. I mean a person could do this as a panoramic view per say, by doing this on a couple sides.. Imagine a solid showing the back of property, then a solid showing the sides and another for the front. All on a its own layer to turn off. But in a camera view, your not showing the same mountain view looking out each direction. I know getting way out there.. but interesting nether less.

So do you guys (and gals) use these backdrops for actual backdrops of a exterior house camera views, if not what do you use them for? Most are nice pictures, (used for framed art maybe?) but the camera angle just doesn't fit with locating a home on... for example, under Cities, is San Antonio.. how does that work? Most of them never made sense to me.

I had the same issue last year, CA and DB were both on my C drive. DB however was HUGE and was constantly freezing up.. so I deleted it of the C drive. Now I just manually download to DB. I work alone, so I don't have to worry about shared work or anything.

I hope I was understanding your dilemma Clarke. Could you build a wall type with the CMU/air space/brick, place the walls then on the interior side use a wall niche to delete the block? Anyways, I figured I'd help a ex 757-VA brother.. lived in Suffolk for many-many years. test.plan

Love the back drop David. 8 months out of the year probably snow covered or too cold to have outdoor pool. I did the same thing as David mentions, created a room then used divider walls and opened below. Square or rectangular pools are easier for a inside room.. you can do plines too.. just more a PITA.

awesome things to come for sure...

Why use the snap grid at all, when you can control everything with a dimension, down to thousandths of an inch? My day job we use Inventor and AutoCAD and I don't use snaps/grid there either (and we design/build everything from plant steel to mechanical parts with GT), and never had a an issue. So my curiosity to you all is asking why is it used, except for a good starting point?

keep in mind.. unless Home Depot sells as nominal dims... most are not.. Just like a 2X6 is not a 2x6.. I learned the CMU actual dim the hard way..

Thanks again Chop.. was so simple to create. All the issues corrected. In the future on old plans, things like this, need to see if a new version can fix items instead of using more duct tape.

Hi Mike, Was this what your trying to do? Lower the garage floor so you can drop the shed roof to clear second floor window? The issue was the second floor dropped too? I had a similar case, split level basically. See the attached cross section. I also attached your plan... I did not mess with your roof.. fig. you can do that. Hope I understood the issue and helped. Oh.. on the foundation dbx I checked room supplies floor for the room above. Lot 13 111819 mtl.plan

WOW... I was reusing the same plan for a builder for another house, and I had the ramp wall in that (did back X10 days). OK.. well, no more answers required.. Thanks Chop. And I was like "whose Jenna"? :-) How could I forget... we all look forward to her vids in the spring.

A little guidance here.. please. I have a ramp wall that I am capping at the stairs. I have a couple issues with this method... was wondering if there is a work around or setting to correct the items I mentioned below, or do I just need to finish using 3D Polylines. My first attachment I was wondering if there was a way I can delete the post at the wall? Just like we can do with railings. On my second attachment (2-pronged question here), I am assuming I have to manually model the stringer (red) or is there a setting I am missing? One creates at the wall.. but not the ramp. The second part (yellow) involves offsetting newels, banisters and the railing. Ramps put two railings in, and you either have to turn both off or leave one on. In this case I left the right on. This hangs the newel post over the "tread".. what I call the "wall cap". So I offset this in the newels/balusters dbx. The post moves, but not the railing or the balusters. How do I get these to move also? I will be out of office most of the day tomorrow, so hopefully when I return I can hear from all you experts :-) THANKS IN ADVANCE.

curious... whats a .rar file?

nothing ruins a great day of work than a major issue like that... sorry!

In most cases there are areas I want to show that divide, so I usually create a new layer, "Invisible wall to turn off".. and then as Chop mentions, turn off that in the model.

Told all my kids this as they entered adulthood... It is GREAT ADVICE. After all your going to be working for 50 plus years, do something you love.

Been a long day, thanks for the help both of you. I totally forgot about the arc centers toggle.

I'm guessing the radius and diameter dimension is still not an option on X10? Will it be there on X11? Shouldn't this have always been a standard thing in dimensioning? I can fudge a circle dim., but how many actual circles do we build? I need to dim many arcs.. Any shortcut ways to dim. a center of a arc? I can see the point when I pick the arc, but not in dim mode. Back to the drawing board and locate centers with cad lines is the only way I can think.

I did exactly that.. worked great.. I added legs to the bottom and thought, I need to make it a symbol, once I did, the fill disappeared. Thank..

Hi Mark.. I thought that too.. but when its check, the vanity becomes just a front, meaning no longer a box shape. A front and top. Attached is a checked and unchecked view

As far as the extra thick wall, what I did was to create a new wall type in the dbx, framed and drywall on both sides, with the gap you are needing. Might be a little PITA for the different areas you have, but this worked pretty well, and it framed like the builder wanted. Re: the 45's, you just have to keep playing with it. You might have to put in 12" flat section then an angle piece... if that takes, throw a dim on the flat and just keep widdling it down till you know you can't anymore. At least that's what I just did. Just be thankful your not using a pony wall here, CHIEF's pony and railing walls don't work the greatest.