Chopsaw

Ok great. It looks like an interesting design. Have fun with it and welcome to the Forum.

Ok images are great. It looks like the Railing wall definition is causing issues. You will need an exterior layer in the railing wall definition. Just a little quirk to get used to. Maybe try an Interior Railing wall for the top of the pony wall. The default configuration for the Deck Railing/Fence wall is more of a freestanding exterior application.

Set it to your framing layer and press F12 or go to 3D View Defaults and turn on "Auto Rebuild Walls /Floors/Ceilings.

Also nothing to hold your second story in position unfortunately, but I have seen them built that way. Wish I had not though.

Sounds like your wall definition's "Build Platform to Exterior of Layer" setting is set to an exterior layer rather than your framing as it is typically done.

Post a test plan file and someone will figure it out. Maybe something we have not thought of until we see the situation.

Sorry I just read your OP again and you are using the default but I just had a go in X10 and it works the same as X12 for me. When the cad detail is created the dimensions return to their default. So you could try resetting the default and the cad detail dimensions should follow that.

Here is the bad news Bill, It actually still works that way in X12 if you set the Text Position manually. However if you set the default to be "Above Dimension Line" it seems to carry through to the cad detail that way. Try that in X10 and see if it works for you.

You ca do that manually with polyline subtraction and then use the convert curve to polyline to choose the number of sides / Angle increment. But yes that would be great to be able to use those tools directly on the roof plane.

Ok thanks guys that seems to work ok for a tight radius. However if you want to avoid the extra roof plane lines you can use polyline subtraction and then convert curve to polyline with as many sides as you like which allows a much smoother curve than the minimum 6.0° segment angle of auto roof. This is much more significant with larger radiuses.

Mark, that sounds great in theory but have you done it successfully? Not sure chief will automatically do a curved overhang even over a curved wall. I have not tried your exact scenario but think chief would build many straight sectioned roof planes if it was to work at all. Fortunately it can be done manually.

Place a break in the main roof and join with the "Join Roof Planes" tool, then once it looks good manually rebuild the roof that remains under the other.

You will need to create the rotated page layout but it can be done in the same layout file if you are just talking about the "Title Block". Just open the Layout Page Specification DBX and mark it as "Use as Page Template" and then it becomes another page 0 type template. Then the layout page need to be marked as using that template. If you are actually rotating the sheet you can do that to as long as they are printed separately.

May need a few more details as it is not entirely clear what is moving and what you have rotated. Usually best to leave the structure where it is and rotate the survey plot lines to suit, then the north arrow needs to also be rotated so the survey angles are still correct.

Sorry, yes it is a backwards setting. Deselect "Show all Layers" in ALDO options.

Yes it should highlight the layer of the selected item and show associated layers. Not sure there is a setting to turn that functionality off ?

Yes the status bar displays the layer but much more useful is the Active Layer Display Options panel ( ALDO ).

Did the builder say it was for zapping viruses or irises. Wondering what the building department might say when they see that ?

Check task manager to see if it really is locked up. Possibly the file was last open on your desktop and the DBX is remembering a position on an external monitor that will not show on your laptop ? It has to be something really goofy like that. My forum feed went totally black the other day... Strange things do happen.

Alan I think what you have highlighted is the ceiling paint area. What you want is internal_area or standard_area. It looks like you are using Joe's object properties macro ? Either he has rounded those values off or your room is an exact dimension that just works out to a round number ( 14'-10" x 23'-10" ) but i did not check the math.

Larry Hawes the @HumbleChief has a yard sale in every plan file of his that I have ever seen.

Your welcome, and enjoy your yard sale.. You must have learned that one from Larry.

Looks like the only thing you forgot was to keep "Auto Rebuild Roofs" turned on. And a warning to put the side wall back to "Default Wall Top Height" and you should be good.

I might be wrong but I thought the Offset was based on 0,0 and not the substrate it is applied to. So without knowing exactly where the tub is in the plan file the posted offset numbers are irrelevant. Try a cad detail of the elevation view if you want to try and measure and make sense of the adjustment you are making. In theory you should be able to get it on the first try that way. And since you made the material life sized Eric's video method should be the simplest solution this time.

Pretty sure that if you press "Done" without taking any other action all the listed materials will be replace with defaults. Then you can replace the ones you don't like as you work your way through the plan file.