Chopsaw

Not really unless you are happy with fuzzy drawings. Usually the best way to share drawing files is to upload to your cloud account and share the link. Sometimes you can e-mail when it is a smaller project which is nice.

"Global" text macros, such as "room.area.internal", are not parsed by Ruby. They are simply replaced with text. Thank you for the clarification. This particular situation although confusing has a ruby equivalent. Are you working towards providing other "ruby equivalents" or a way that other global text macro's as you call them can integrate with ruby and be parsed ?

It works the way you requested. Are you doing it a different way ?

Curious if that runs at 2.2 GHz while ray tracing or if chief will actually make it spool up to 5.0 GHz ?

A little late to the party but that is a perfect little gem for a layered 3D PDF. I just wish they were easier to make or even if chief would allow us to create and embed them.

Hopefully this will be a whole lot easier in X13 but changing the default for windows only seems to apply to newly placed windows, so you would need to open all your existing windows and use a Number Formatter for the height value. ie. Top @ %fi(height)% Here is Eric's explanation:

Check how the corner intersection of the walls that define the room under the balcony are joined. Or post the plan file and one of the experts will take a look for you.

You may need to look into creating your own custom hatch pattern or maybe one of the material guru's will know a trick. Is "Pattern from Texture" a possibility ?

Are you able to use the Scale: setting ?

For the window you can draw the sill profile and put it into your library as a molding and then apply it to the window. For the door I think you just need to use a p-solid.

They really don't like being there do they. Try placing them on level 1 and then move them to their absolute position and it should work the way you want it to but you still have some floor framing to deal with somehow.

Yes it is all a bit odd to me as well but if you frequently design with a porch attached to a "Seasonal" room as we also do here for lots of situations, you could define a Porch 2 or Porch - Interior that would be set up in you custom room types using a interior room function and all the proper structure and details. Actually we do more decks than porches but the same problems occur with that.

Plan Defaults :

I think the Key is how the room is associated with it's "Function" that is set in Defaults. I guess the flag is how a door reacts to the way the room is defined. It is not just in Florida you have these issues so don't feel left out or alone. I ran into an unexpected related issue on my last project where a window would generate a sill but a pass through would not where a passthrough in a different wall of the same room would generate a sill. I sent that one in but when you run into an issue that makes no sense let chief know about it and eventually if enough people do that it will get fixed. So I guess your flag is if sills generate the way you are expecting them to. I have not made an official list but Balcony, Court, Deck, Garage, and Porch behave as "Exterior Rooms" but I would need to check as I have not taken the time to make duplicates of them all to add to my Rooms list but that could certainly be done if you regularly have issues with connected rooms. If you have situations where walls will absolutely not connect with the available tools then CA needs to hear about that as well.

Yours will look much better but here is the concept.

Try drawing a wall and changing it to No Room Definition and then place it in position and you should be able to edit it in elevation view to fill the space.

If you want both of your Sliding Glass Doors to have sills you need to somehow have a transition between an interior room type and an exterior room type. Define the open Porch as interior and it should work fine for you unless the enclosed Porch is heated then it could be interior causing your double door to not have a sill. It is not really all that clear in the documentation that I have been able to find so it is easy to get tripped up on.

Is there a Disto option for decimal equivalents ? Which setting are you using ?

Set the default for the floor with the most walls and auto frame. Then turn off auto frame and change the default and manually reframe the walls that need the alternate bottom plate count. Or do it the other way and auto frame the lesser number of walls first and then set them to retain their framing condition. Maybe some day there will be a setting for that.

You would need to use 3D trees or some of the CAD trees that can be placed separately in plan and elevation with plot lines in layout. Or you could switch your camera to Technical Illustration and switch your layout view to live if you want to leave the trees as they are.

Looks like maybe you are using plot lines with shadows and tree images ?

Unfortunately yes it does become available to all members if you do that. You are welcome to send it to me privately by uploading it to your cloud account and sending me a private message with the download link.

That is really odd. Perhaps it has something to do with the material list corruption problem. If you wanted to post the plan file there are four of us that would be interested in helping you out with quite a few years of combined experience.

This is almost always a result of having two schedules. Check your cad details or they could even be stacked on top of each other. I have heard there is a hack that will give you a total but not sure how it works. Short of that you would need to recreate your schedule from scratch with macros. Or manually total them and add it in to the end of your schedule with text.