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that is weird, I thought they auto adjusted for your own time zone. Are you sure you are not living in Hawaii? Stick your head outside and see if you see blue skies and 78 degree temp., if you do, you are probably in Hawaii, if you see snow..... you are probably where you think you are and that would be New York.

That might be part of the problem....... but...... if the base lines were the same, if the fascia heights were the same and the pitch was different and the soffit overhang was different.... maybe it would work.... just throwing out ideas.... you guys know better than I.

I do not do many if any frieze boards.... but I am assuming if you have different pitches, you are adjusting the overhang/soffit height to accommodate the freieze boards..... just asking out of ignorance on my part.

Thanks Larry for giving this a try. I think you have now experienced what I have experienced....... many many times........... and that is......... We do a FRAMING OVERVIEW and we want three options.... 1. to see the finished floor material 2. to take off the finished floor material and see only the plywood below 3. to take off the finished floor material and the plywood sheathing and see only the floor joists As you have experienced, we can do this SOMETIMES by turning off the ROOMS LAYER, or the FLOOR SURFACES LAYER....... sometimes it works and sometimes it does not work...... I don't get it...... this is the kind of stuff I wish we could get with CA one on one and discuss. I am sure I have sent this in, but I think these reports went into the abyss. Would be nice to get some acknowledgement that they recognize the issue and they are working on it. But quite frankly, this is not a deal breaker, just a pretty neat feature that when it works it is kind of cool.

Nice job Moakster.

Here is the vid. Great question and great vid, thanks for the question Mickey Too. http://youtu.be/Wu13tkKrHkg

The problem with your model is you have a sill plate between top of stem wall and bottom of slab....there should not a sill there.... and the second problem is a 1" slab vs. 4" thick slab........ I can do this quite easily with the exception of eliminating the sill plate on top of the conc stem wall

As I think about it, your suggestion is much better (will work better around windows)..... I must start thinking about using this tool.

No, a molding PLINE

Got it, thanks Alan. So how does someone find the sink in the USER CATALOG if there are 1000 items in the catalog. It seems that the imported symbol should have the same name as the CALIBZ FILE.

Yeah, just did it on a recent job. Cantilever out headers and put some temp glass in there... I do not think the glass was "structural".

I can not say the same and I am on a MAC, but I have had very very few crashes. I had one just yesterday, but other than that, I do not remember the last crash.

Thanks Michael, but I can not find it in my library once imported. Where do you think it should be located?

Yes, of course, it was just weird not seeing them.

.... so I have this returning client..... good size remodel from the past..... did plans in 2009..... YEAH, 6 YEARS AGO!!!!........ they want to fill in some vaulted space at second floor..... I open plans from the past......... WHERE IS MY ANNO SETS????? WOW, talking about going back to the archaic times...... geeezzzz..... thankfully this should be a down and dirty job...... wow, have things changed (for the better) in the last 6 years. BTW, 2009, what version would that be? v.11 pr X2? Yikes, this might be painful.

I should do a vid on this to explore the advantages and disadvantages of using the sub fascia and fascia as shadow boards. I don't remember why, but I am almost to the point where I would almost zero out the fascia boards and rely on the shadow boards for fascia..... there is a reason.... I just have to remember why...

This was not very intuitive for me. Instead of the offsets being measured from the fascia, they are actually measured from the defined eave overhang. Never had a problem before, I suppose I was attacking is from a different perspective this time which confused me. Thanks again, Kevin.

That was it, thanks Moakster.

I disagree, they do not occupy the same space. Put a different material on each shadow board and change the 24" shadow board to 8" hi, you will then see the difference. I also have an offset for the shadow boards, did you notice the offset? Since there is an offset, they should not be occupying the same space.

Please open the plan. I have two shadow boards on the roof eaves. See if you can manipulate each shadow board separately. It seems as if I can do a horizontal offset for shadow board 1, and then when I try shadow board 2 horizontal offset, it is shadow board 1 moving and not shadow board 2. Try offsetting each shadow board away from the wall and towards the wall. At one time I could do this in X6, and now I can not do this in x7 . BBB SHADOWBOARDS 1.plan.zip

That is a key point...... if you guys were to use more generic terms, 95% of workarounds will be eliminated. We should be careful of what we wish for.

These suggestions are great... I guess..... but if you asked 10 power users we would probably have 10 different answers. Why we all do not get together and discuss in which direction to go, and come up with a consensus is a mystery to me. Oh I know, it would take up too much time. So let's do it wrong again and then discuss what we did wrong after we make the changes. How many times have you guys received an email from a client regarding a change, you make the change and they say, "no, this is what I wanted", and you have to change it again. Whereas if we had spent 5 minutes discussing the change verbally, it would of been a one and done.

I can snap to the middle wall. I do not know why. Post a small plan and I will see if I can snap to your middle of wall on my computer.

The West Coast, Carmel, Pebble Beach, Golf...... what could be better...... Alan, if I did not have so many trips planned this year, I would be up there in a heart beat, thanks for the offer. I must pass this year. Ask you wife if she can get a pass for next year, I will be there.

Nice! Good option. BTW, did you recently move to Seattle or am I confused again.