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Uh yea, speaking for myself, I don't know REVIT, I don't know VW, I don't know SU, I don't know my wife's birthday, but I know a bit about CA because that is all I know and that is how I make my money. I made a conscious decision to stay focused with one program. I did the start to finish video several years ago. It was an excersize to determine how quickly I could do the plans. It is somewhere out there. I get it, until you have done many homes, you do not know the process. And the more homes you do, the more you tweak the process to become quicker. It is definitely an organized process to draw the plans. And yes, I know CA is not perfect, I have said a few nasty words while dealing with their program. For some of us lame brains, CA is all we can handle, and to help improve it, we take the pilgrimage out to headquarters every other year......... believe me, it's not the golf or the fine dining or the cruise on the lake that gets me out there, it is the opportunity to interact with Doug, Dan, Brian, Scott and the rest.......... errrr , 18 holes of golf or 3 hours with ? Really an easy decision.

I do not believe this, but you knew I would disagree. There is no way you can be very fast with CA because you are asking a lot of elementary questions. It's not a knock on you, just an observation. So, if you are interested in knowing if CA is a waste of your time, or whether you should be using a different program, how do you make the determination? Let me ask you this, if a competent CA user were to go against a competent..... pick your program....... user..... and if the CA user was quicker with more info, which program would you choose? You would choose CA. So here is the challenge if you are interested. Find your best user of some other program that competes with CA, and I will go up against him in a challenge to provide a set of CD's of an existing 2 story, 2800 sf. home on a sloped lot with a pool. Nothing over the top, but your average tract house. Give us both 8 hours, and let's see who does a better job. I bet that I could produce a set of plans that was almost permit ready. Not perfect, but darn close. Hey Johnny, are you coming to the UGM. You bailed on me when I was in Washington, we were supposed to get together for a drink. Anyway, why don't you come out to the UGM, you have some great input and I think the CA folks would appreciate any input you may have.

Do as Racklamore suggests, learn to use drop box, one of the greatest inventions since Al Gore invented the internet.

Out of habit, I do a COMMAND S and then a COMMAND W. So yes, I use a hot key to save and I do not rely on the CA warning message asking do I want to save. I am pro-active saving.

Some of the best, thank you.

You can't give yourself rep points, but I gave you one.

Rob, seriously, I want to tackle this when I have time....... there are some great lessons to be learned here. You are doing some neat stuff that is a bit out of the box.

Nice job Shane.

My brother Rob...... thanks for posting the plan. There are many things in your plan that I would do differently. If I have time in the next day, I will do a vid on what I would do. Not meant to be criticism, but consecutive criticism. I think I learn the most when I expose my methods to the masses and someone points me in the right direction.... thank you Glenn Woodward. Anyway, these kinds of plans are great to critique because you are doing some tricky things with many different methods of achieving your goal and by sharing ideas we can all learn something. Thank You Rob.

That is the problem, if checked for no room def, why do you expect to get a room def.

room divider wall should define rooms.

Yep,, that is the way to do it

I had same issue at 4:00 All's well now

I get the idea of being able to show existing and new in same plan. You can do that in REVIT. But the question is, how much more time does it take a REVIT user to make this worthwhile? I don't know. My typical project takes from 20-60 hours. For me I do not miss this ability and if it adds a lot of time to producing plans I am not interested. Not knocking what you are requesting, just questioning the importance and are there bigger fish to fry.

Good solution Richard,

I reported issue to headquarters, I will let you know if I hear anything.

I wish I knew what you were talking about. Anyway, I think post #12 answers the question.

No, in fact what I did was I put one of the cameras on the NIP layer, and then instead of selecting another camera to put on NIP layer, I used layer eye dropper. I don't think that was the problem. Wait, let me open it now and see if all is well...... nope there are several cameras that ARE STILL NOT ON CORRECT LAYER...... let me select camera and put on a layer without using layer eyedropper..... Okay, I just figured it out..... I can use layer eyedropper to put camera on a specific layer..... but it does not stick. If I want to put a camera on a specific layer, I have to open the camera and put it on specific layer. IOW, layer eye dropper does not work for cameras....... or I should say layer eyedropper works temporarily until I close and reopen.... layer eyedropper does not stick.....

No, you guys have it right. Do not change.

Graehme, one layer is CAMERA SECTIONS and one layer is CAMERAS SECTION NIP (not in plan). It has nothing to do with if the camera is open or not. It is like a blob of mercury, I can not narrow down the cause.... it keeps eluding me like all the women that eluded me for the first 35 years of my miserable life.

I know, don't you hate it when us nit wits don't post the plan, sorry Joe, my bad, bbb cameras jumping 1.plan.zip

Here is the proof, Let's combine screen shots so you can see them side by side. Keep in mind, I made a change..... moving a couple of cameras to a different layer, they show up on different layer and they show up green, but if I close and reopen plan.... some of the cameras reverted back to their original layer, the blue layer. Here is the proof, note that the green cameras should of stayed green........

Okay, here is the proof. I just closed plan file and layout file, reopened them, and now take a look at where the cameras are. Seriously, there is a camera that is behaving and then there are a couple that are not behaving.

This is not the only time things did not stick. It seems like a year or two folks were complaining about this and I sort of ignored them. But now it is happening to me and I am seriously concerned.

Take a look at the picture. Note the blue cameras and the green camera. I swear, 3 hours ago I put those green cameras on that layer. Well, I just got finished doing it again. again I had to put the cameras on green layer. What I am saying is it appears that sometimes things don't stay where I put them. I did put those camera on the layer that makes them green, a few hours later I find myself having to do it again. I will see if it sticks this time. I will post again if I find those cameras did not stick to the layer I assigned them too.