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Oh yeah, I know who, he looks like Jim from Taxi.

Last week playing golf, they through a single in with us, his name is Yngva Opaker, in fact he is joining us again tomorrow, Vendel, care to guess which country he is from?

Make the roads overlap and then hit the MERGE POLYLINES. ......bottom left corner. Do we really allow The Dutch on this web site? There was an earlier post where I was trying to figure out the difference between Holland and The Netherlands. A reminder..... Script Welcome to the Great nation of Holland: where the tulips grow, the windmills turn, the breakfast is chocolatey, the people industrious, and the sea tries to drown it all. Except, this country isn't Holland. It's time for: The Difference Between Holland, the Netherlands (and a whole lot more) The correct name for this tulip growing, windmill building, hagelslag eating, container ship moving, ocean conquering nation is the Netherlands. But confusion is understandable -- the general region been renamed a lot over a thousand including as: The Dutch Republic The United States of Belgium and The Kingdom of Holland But it's not just history that makes this country's name confusing because the Netherlands is divided into twelve provinces: Groningen Drenthe Overijssel Gelderland Limburg Brabant Zeeland (Which, by the way, is the Zeeland that makes this Zeeland, new) Friesland (With adorable little hearts on its flag) Flevoland Utrecht, and here's the confusion: Noord (North) Holland and Zuid (South) Holland These provinces make calling the Netherlands 'Holland' like calling the United States 'Dakota'. Though unlike the Dakotas, which are mostly empty, save for the occasional Jackalope, the two Hollands are the most populated provinces and have some of the biggest attractions like, Amsterdam and Keukenhof. Even the government's travel website for the country is Holland.com -- officially because it sounds friendlier, but unofficially it's probably what people are actually searching for.

Alan strikes again...... LOL.

It just seems if you put CAD on appropriate layer, that layer now auto assigns the FOUR attributes. Method two requires the user to assign the FOUR attributes separately. More clicks. Not a big deal to me, if you guys want method two, hopefully CA will give it to you.

Glenn, I really don't understand why this is important. Would you mind explaining how and why this would be beneficial...... I don't get it and maybe the CA folks don't get it...... but I am always intertested in learning, thx.

Yep, that is the best thing to do, export the drawing to ACAD. There are no problems with ACAD. I remember back in the day when I first started with CA, I did the architectural plans in CA and then I did the structural plans by hand. I have been drawing plans by hand since 1973, so I was very comfortable with drawing by hand. What a logistical nightmare that was. One day I said to my said to myself ..... "you nit wit, bite the bullet and suffer with CA's method" It was not easy in the beginning, but I struggled through it and now it is not so bad. CA ain't perfect, don't get me wrong..... I have used some very colorful words to describe the knuckleheads at CA, but I do recognize that what they are doing is very difficult... very difficult. And they do a pretty good job of eventually improving the program. For me it boils down to this...... is there a better program out there for what I do? I don't think so. I never used ACAD, but my son became quite efficient with it, he now uses REVIT, just the other day he told me he would NEVER go back to ACAD. So here is a guy who uses REVIT which is not as usable as CA for what I do, and he would never go back to ACAD. So you guys who kvetch and moan, go ahead and use what you are most comfortable with, but I bet in a couple of years ACAD will be long gone and then where will you be? Here is a scenario that cracks me up. There is a rather large remodeling company I am familiar with.... they sell the remodel to their client with CA and then have the working drawings drawn in ACAD. Smart move guys..... when was the last time you did a project that after the job was sold there were no more changes either precipitated by the client or by the engineer or by the energy calcs or by the direction the wind was blowing? Can you imagine that you are halfway through the ACAD plans, there is a change to the plans, and now you have to update the CA plans for an accurate rendering and then you have to update the ACAD plans? Does this make sense? For you guys who kvetch and moan, ask yourself if the power users are getting by with CA's stupid, idiotic, arcane, short sighted ways. I bet you would find that 90% of the power users make do....... because the alternative method is even worse. Nuts, I wonder if the Chargers will make it to the playoffs. They must win out against SF and KC, if they can't do that, they do not belong in the playoffs. At least my Cowboys will get in after they throttled the Eagles...... how did you like that game DG? Cowboys over Eagles, yeah Buddy.

Check out the Eric the solvers room divider videos.

Ask and you will receive The Lanai Vid http://youtu.be/IS8RIO2WfHs not bad.....

Right click on the view in layout, LAYOUT BOX LAYERS, and then select the layer you want to use.

Although Eric's method is relatively clever, this is not the way to do it...... too limiting. The best way to do this would be to put a 6' high opening on bottom and separate arches on top. Take a look at the pic, my method is on far right, Eric's is on far left, the old stand my method is in the middle. In fact using Eric's method, the plan view is incorrect...... I know there is a few options to this..... but I do not think this is the best method. Eventually I hope to do a vid on the usage of the ROOM DIVIDER WALL when I figure out some of the uses......

The big advantage of this is you can DEFINE THE WIDTH OF THE WALL THAT SITS ON COLUMN, i.e. the distance between the springs of arches. Yeah, a pretty neat option.

Lew did not answer the question.

Yes there is. The long answer is in the SAM VIDEOS. You are relatively new, I would recommend you watch the MRLS, THE SAM and the ANNO SET VIDEOS @ chief tutor.com at this location..... http://www.chieftutor.com/scotthall/ I strongly believe these are some very good videos that will give you a good foundation to put together a set of plans. I have also done some follow up videos on these subjects on the old forum, (use key words "VIDEOS BY DSH" and on YOUTUBE.

This my friend is very clever. I probably do not use the room divider wall enough..... especially in conjunction with a pony wall.... very very nice...... I must think of more uses of the room divider wall. BTW what Eric did not mention is the arch opening can only be as tall as the opening..... IOW, the arch opening cannot extend into the divider wall.

I use the cabinet label to call out the sink, not perfect, but that is what I do.

i think you will find that the majority of power users have one template for the plan and layout.

Have you thought of having one template plan, open and save that, copy a base, upper and full cab type from a cabinet "warehouse" plan into your new plan and SETTING THAT PARTICULAR STYLE CABINET as the default cabinet style with one fell swoop via the SET AS DEFAULT TOOL?

I don't think so.

Yes, and you can add the framing to support drywall in finish ceiling

And I might consider using ceiling finish to get the soffit.

I bet he could but his method is quicker.

No

Wow, how did you figure that out?

I put nothing in layout except maybe revision clouds. All notes details etc are sent to layout from plan files.