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This is so funny, back in the day, mid ''70's, somehow we fit all of our houses on 18x24 paper. I do not know how we did it. Maybe smaller houses? I move from Houston to San Diego and 24x36 was the norm. It is a mystery to me why, I suppose because we had to not only put the plan on a single page, but now we also had to put the entire code book on each sheet. Now once in a while I have to use 30x42 and sometimes 36x48 size paper, what a pain in the arse. Match lines , smaller scale, or bigger paper? Match lines? Ugh......... who likes to flip between pages to understand the entire floor layout? Smaller scale? I would never go to anything smaller than 3/16" scale, but the problem is everybody will pull out the 1/4" scale, leads to confusion. Bigger paper? Nobody likes to roll out a set of plans on anything bigger than 24x36. The larger size plans never fits on a desk or the back of a pick-ups tail gate. Pic your poison....... maybe we should all have iPads to review the plans on.

Boys, Boys, let's play nice. You both have very valid points. Graham, please do not get too upset with Michael, I have met him, he ain't a bad guy, just maybe a bit grumpier than I. Case closed.

Do you have a pic of a plan you can share?

I gave him 2, he should be in the positive.

Thanks DG, that is what I thought, I was just misunderstanding what I was looking at in his vid.

I get that, but it is not emitting light. I do not think it is working like I was hoping. Bottom line, the LIGHTING MATERIAL does to emit light.... and I think I knew that, I was just hoping that DM came up with something new.

No, I did not flip light because I think it was the molding that was given a LIGHTING material. He did not use a light source for the molding. I might of been looking at it incorrectly. That is why I was asking.

The Great David Michael of ChiefTutor did a rope lighting video for us. I love to watch that guy work, he is so fluid with very little waste of motion. Back to the point. When I first watched the vid, I loved the way he added a LIGHTING material to the molding. It looked like it was casting light on the ceiling, great, but when I tried it, I could not get the molding to CAST LIGHT on the ceiling above. What do you guys think was going on. Was the light that I thought was being cast on the ceiling actually the molding? Comment, notice he used a 3d molding pline, not a 2d molding pline, why? Does it make a difference? Here is a link to his vid. http://www.chieftutor.com/CUSTOMERS/RopeLight/RopeLight.html

I downloaded file, opened file, opened YOUR camera, and this is what I get. It looks good to me, I am on X7.

Mick solution will work but not necessary. Put in a triple casement window and you can DICTATE THE SIDE COMPONENT SIZE under GENERAL TAB

Mark's custom countertop with my cad line. But maybe I am wrong.

Nice job Roberto.

A solution but there are much better solutions.

Thanks Mark for the clarification. I had not thought of your solution, it might be a very good solution. And in regards to the base cabs not showing (and because of the way I do a few things, this is not a new issue), I generally draw a box the size of the base cabs, put on base cab layer and bring to front. Not perfect....... I agree, pick your poison.

I could not get that to work

Apologize for my ignorance, but doesn't that hide the base cabinets?

All of these comments reinforce my notion that we need to be able to use PLINES to describe different areas. I think it's is too complicated and cumbersome to expect that CA will give us the tools for all of the different variables that have been defined in previous posts. Conclusion: we need boxes with labels, and within these labels there is an area calculation, and we should then be able to take this area calculation and put this value in any number of formulas.

Yea, post plan, but I have had same issues, so I concur, it ain't perfect.

Yes, I too was having problems with fully manipulating the symbol. I was trying to minimize the "cord" that supports the light itself to 1/4" long. I think I got it down to roughly 6"long..... over 5" from my goal. Sorry I was of no more help.

done

Joe, I give up. If you could do a quick vid to explain what to do, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I am done. This is something that CA should fix. This is not rocket science, if I am using TJI's, the call out should be TJI's and not conventional lumber.

I can't even find "Text Macro Management". Hey CA, fix this please so us nit wits can operate this program, thanks.

Okay, I open this latest one the same way I opened the previous ones. Are you telling me I have to open up this latest one differently than I opened the previous two that you posted? I did not use "Text Macro Management". for the previous two.

The answer is no, it does not work for me, the attached pic is what I get after I DOWNLOAD and then try to open

Curt, I take your approach. If I was a framer, I want those dimensions. Why not supply the dimensions? We designed it, our dimensions should work, let's share that info with the framer.