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As far as the missing drywall at stairs go, select roof plan open DBX<options<uncheck use rooms ceiling finish, that should fix it

Do not use the HOLE IN ROOF option, get rid of the invisible wall at the pop out on left side, add a 3rd floor.... that should fix the gable issues.... I am always baffled when you are missing the drywall at ceiling at the stairs... I wish I could figure that out.

Sorry Moakster, I bet that was painful.... third trying to upload, at 82%.... we will see if it works this time.... for some reason this is long vid.... what a surprise....

This vid ain't happening until I say it is happening or until I do it again or until the computer gods shine their light on me.... sorry guys.... something is amiss..... I will let you know when it is up.

You must have CEILING PLANES and CEILING SURFACES turned off in your camera mode.

I retract that statement. I do not know what you are doing wrong, must be the wrong camera..... I took your plan, did nothing but change that particular ceiling DBX info and it worked for me.

You are using the wrong camera.... you are using a floor camera, I do not believe the floor camera shows ceilings. Learn the difference between the different cameras.

Now wasn't that simple, post the plan and you will have an answer in about 45 seconds. Select ceiling plane open DBX, uncheck USE ROOM CEILING FINISH, go to MATERIALS TAB, select material and all is well.

Thanks Richard, but if I am not mistaken, that is static and it is not changing...... as you add and delete pages in layout, that number does not change. You simply put that info on each page of layout. If you have 100 pages to layout, you would need to do that 100 times. I was thinking that you were explaining something that was "live" "smart" and "every changing".

Sorry guys, you are correct, it is still cooking, I will try again.

I am not sure what JC is talking about, but I think you are asking if you can have two or more plan files associated with one layout and if that is the question the answer is yes.

Nope, not clear. What should the LABEL MACRO (your term) say? Are you saying to individually edit each and every sheet number of the layout? If that is what you are saying, yes it is quite clear, but not auto. "edit page information"? What does that mean, I am a novice, edit it to say what? Do I edit sheet zero or do I edit every sheet in layout?

I hate to set up the door and window schedules. I use the SAM and everything works out fine. Get a layout and plan that works for you and then save as template and work off of that or start using the SAM.

I agree with this, just not sure what this has to do with the question.

Patience Grasshopper, patience, it should be up in about 30 minutes or so......

Here is the latest shower vid. http://youtu.be/Rnv98flSLmE Worthwhile watching. if this 4th attempt does not work I think I am going to play golf and forget about this stuff.

The obvious path to the solution.

Moaksters solution is my solution

This is very unclear

Very confusing, I must REMAKE my shower vid. Many many ways to skin a cat, I think I have the best way to skin this cat...... but I am open to other methods.

I completelly disagree. I do not use wall material region and never have issues with glass shower walls. I must do a vid.

Another example of needing wrap around text. Nice job P. And JC.

Interesting, min remains frozen and does not change size.

Yes, PREFERENCES<APPEARANCE<MINIMUM DISPLAY SIZE<DIMENSIONS change it to "4", it is probably set at "12"

Whoa whoa whoa, you know more than me, but I am confused and somebody else may be. What I typically do is have a layout open (with all the plan files, pdf's etc. that are a part of the plan), and then I do a FILE<BACKUP ENTIRE PLAN check the BACKUP PLAN FILES AND ALL REFERENCED FILES..... hit OKAY, and then I go through the machinations of creating a brand new folder to put this stuff in. When CA is done doing it's magic, in that newly created folder there is a LAYOUT FILE. So when Doug says the plan does not include layout files, I believe that statement may be a bit confusing.