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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.

I think Perry nailed it. Try turning off that hot key, I bet you will not see the problem again.

I try to minimize text blocks. I am putting less and less text blocks on sections since this info is often shown elsewhere.... depends on what I need to emphasize. And if I use text blocks, they are usually "Perry's Macro Method".....

I know, but it is not live and there is the potential for error... if live no error. My goal is to do no CAD work and no TEXT blocks if I can help it.

See pic below, I know it is not what you want, it shows the pitch of the roof that is facing you, but this is what I am doing now until they give us the indicator that we are all familiar with. Here is my take, I have looked at many many plans done by architects and designers, and they do not always show the pitch on every section, so why should I? But anybody interested in a pitch can look at the elevations or the roof plan for an ACCURATE roof pitch that has no chance of being wrong.

Glenn, I thought this was really neat at first. Order the layers alphabetically and then hit the display window the result is all the layers are listed alphabetically and the unused layers are at bottom and they are alphabetical. But close the LDO and reopen, and it is no longer in alphabetical order. We should be able to have the used layers on top in alphabetical order and the unused layers in alphabetical order below. Minor glitch.

Incorrect, it also shows pitch in elevation, turn on layer. At one time I did the "typical" pitch indicator. I now rely on auto label in elev. view. Not typical but guaranteed to be accurate.

Yes Justin, I agree with you, not always required, but when there are special circumstances, even more so with remodels, the 3D framing is very valuable.

What is so interesting about this is I would bet there are not too many framers that have had more experience than I, (or more experience than Perry and Joe to name a few), at reading framing plans, and I would bet that those two guys would agree with me, that a 3D representation of the framing is to some degree helpful in understanding the project construction. Anybody that tells me that too much information is bad, is probably someone that I could and would replace.

Perfect, you can save time and avoid giving him a 3D view of framing. Interesting that he can not glean any info from a 3D representation.... what does that tell you? I have dealt with a lot of experienced framers and I have not had one framer tell me that a pic of what he is building is not helpful, not a one.

Perfect, so the M.L. is irrelevant. This is really good news since I can't use the M.L. at this time.

Wow, just the opposite. I do not think framers count studs from this. But instead framers, plumbing contractors, HVAC guys look at these 3D framing views to VERY QUICKLY understand how the framing is done and where they will put in their soffits and then they quickly determine the project will not be as complicated as they may assume. I have received feedback from several contractors that when their subs can visually understand how the project goes together, the subcontractor's price go down.' Unbelievable, so you are telling me that you are giving the subs a 3d visual of the project and they think it is a gimic. I would look for new subs. Why don't you simply verbally explain the project to them, maybe they do not need a 3D or even a 2D representation of the project. Wave your hands around explaining the project and get an estimate of the costs. Plain stupid. I have been in this business for over 40 years, I can read a set of plans, but I will tell you, I have never been able to glean as much information from a project as I can now with a 3D model. If somebody tells me that a 3D representation of a project is a gimmick, I would look for different set of people to work with.

I do like what Greg did, more detail. I must admit I am very ignorant when it comes to using Sketchup. I suppose if it was my world and all you guys lived in it, I wish I could do in CA what Greg did in SU. Unfortunately it is not my world.... nor is it your world... but my wife's world and I have learned to live in it, and it ain't half bad.

Now here is the question, is the molding on the outside edge or inside edge. Without thinking I would put it on inside edge, but if you think about it, the outside edge makes more sense because then you should be able to GET THE RETURNS....... same thinking as if building a mantel with the returns to face of fireplace wall.

3d molding? errrr 2d molding... similar to a fascia board