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Glenn, study this, the glass needs a PATTERN, a COLOR does not work, In this particular plan i did not have a problem with the fill on the door if the opening indicators were turned on..... I do not understand why in the picture I previously posted I had issues with a fill on the door and on this plan I did not. BBB GLENN SHADING FOLDEER.zip

Glenn, I am not sure if you remember, but we did this exercise many years ago. There was always the issue with a fill showing on the door (as in my picture above) if the opening indicators are on. I never used this because it slowed my computer down, however now I do not see a significant degredation of speed.

I do not think so, the glass material needs a pattern, not a change in color.... please correct me if I am wrong.

I do not think sun shadows are easy.... yet.... but the shaded glass is easy if you add a pattern to the glass material. We did this exercise many years ago..... note the door on the left.... see the fill? Why is it there? I don't know, I think it is a bug.

You are absolutely correct..... however, if you have a fill in the room, this will not work. I generally work with a fill in my rooms (solid white fill), maybe I may have to rethink my use of rooms fills. Why do I use room fill? It goes back to my usage of ref sets...... again, I must pick my poison...... .... however if my room fill has 50% transparency, it might work.... however this might defeat the purpose of using a room fill........ oh my head is swimming.......

Great question. I never noticed this. This is not good, this should be fixed. You might want to send it in to tech and make this a feature request. I think the fill for the floor material region should be on the same level as the fill for a room. If you have a fill in a bathroom, the toilet covers the fill, the fill does not cover the toilet, this is good, however for a floor material region, the fill covers the toilet, not good.

Have you tried this? I tried it and it did not work.

Why am I so stupid? If I adjust the inset I see no difference. I suppose that is why I requested a small plan so I could study it. If it is too much trouble to post a small plan, no worries......

ahhhh, so you have consciously chosen colors that print good in grey scale.... not too light and not too dark........ so the next question is does a red with 10% transparencey print the same as a red with 95% transparency? I am setting up a workshop for next Saturday, maybe you have time to join us Perry.

Yes, I get that, but when I used them in my plan, the 3D look was not good. If you disagree and you think they look good, would you mind posting a small plan so I can see how they look. If you watched the video, maybe you noticed the issue I was talking about. Here is a question....... does the symbol out of the library look better than the window/louver that I was working with?

Got it, I could not get SYMBOL VENTS from library to look good, hence the request for the SPECIAL WINDOW TYPE: vent. Nuts, you know what I am talking about, I think we are on the same page.

Yea, I would hope the workshop would be less than one hour. I have always wondered how some of the folks use the colored wall fills. And now with the TRANSPARENCY option for fills, I am wondering if some brainiac out there has come up with some neat ideas. I saw one of Perry's vids and he seemed to be using more color... for a swimming pool in particular. I think in the near future, we will be using color more and more, it's just a bit cost prohibited at this time for me. I will set up a workshop, and with any luck, it will be a short one.

Okay Larry, I have it figured out....... two schedules, one for windows and one for LOUVERS. We will never use louver WINDOW again but we will always us louver VENTS, so we can use the louver designation to give us an up to date and accurate total of louvered vent area. You are correct, I cannot use VENTS for my crawl space ventilation schedule, but I can use LOUVERS..... I think this should work for most applications. The idea of having an additional designation for WINDOW SPECIFICATION<GENERAL<VENT is something I should suggest in suggestions.

Dog gone you Larry, I thought I had it figured out..... you are correct, hmmmmmm....... Richard's vent from library does not work at floor joist bay, not good, but Richards vent from library gives the area total of vents...... I must work on this some more.....

That makes a lot of sense...... many of the homes I deal with are existing and back in the day there was no insulation in the crawl space. We are in SOCAL, heck, often times we deal with homes that have jalousie window.... as in not dual glazed and definitely not sealed. Good comment Greg.

..... vents are typically between floor joist bays. Whether new or remodeling, the vents are typically between floor joist bays.

The Richard Morrison crawl space vent video. Good vid, thanks Richard for the question. http://youtu.be/elBwFURshxw

I generally print 24x36 size prints. These prints cost me (or my client) less than a dollar per sheet. I think if I printed in color, these same sheets might cost me a about 6.00/sheet. That is 6 times as much. Would anybody be willing to share how much it cost them per sheet for 24x36 paper in black and white vs color. I do not print in house, everything is printed through my print shop. I am thinking about doing a workshop on printing. Would anybody else be interested in sharing their printing methods?

You and me brother are sometimes as dumb as rocks. I have been struggling with this for 10 years. I was thinking about it and I have now figured out how to do it. I will post a vid soon. Thank you Thank you Thank you for the question. It is now solved for me.

I got it, very clever Yusuf.

I don't get it. When DJP applauds the method, what is he applauding? Why does the railing follow the stairs? Why does the railing jump up to the second level? Where are the 4x4 posts that should be attached to the side of the deck. If there are 4x4 posts, how do you control the spacing? FYI, I have never built a deck railing as shown. Let's question the methods instead of applauding a method that I think does not solve the initial modeling challenge. Yusuf, it is always helpful if you explain how you were able to do what you did. What were the initial settings? And Yusuf, check your audio, maybe it is just me, but I swear I could not make out a word you said.

I am not sure I understand this either. If I am to add on, I CAN NOT MATCH the existing structure..... seems nutty to me. The average Joe driving down the street probably does not care if he can distinguish between original and new, but I am sure the owner of the house wants the materials to be consistent. After all, we are not dealing with the Great Pyramids of Giza, we are dealing with a house that is sometimes no older than 40 years.....

Good question, I bet if the line style was white or no color, the text would show but dimension lines don't

I bet the layer it is on.

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