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I never use the icon, 0,8 to copy and then 0,4 for sticky mode, I'm with P. I use it all the time.

That reminds me of a quote from Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, who at one time said, "Terry Bradshaw could not spell "C-A-T" if we spotted him the "C-A". Love you P.

What a genius you are...... I have this argument with P. all the time, I say Joe is smart and P. says no....... hey P., do you believe me know, Joe is smart?

Lew, I don't care about the average chief user, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. If the average chief user does not have the time to learn the system, I don't care. There are some of us here who are pushing the limits and pushing CA. CA will never be ahead of us. BTW, I am not sure what the problem is, the retaining wall works for the average chief user. But us nit wits in here who live with stuff 24/7 are always looking for better and faster ways of doing things. So funny, you are worried about the average chief user, I wonder what the heck the average chief user did 4 years ago when this program was no where near what it is today. I pity the CA folks....... well not really...... but I was thinking today about how I am constantly tweaking the system to be more efficient...... and it is easy..... on the next job I adjust....... and those knuckleheads at headquarters are probably going through the same thoughts..... "if only we would of programmed it this way back in 2005"....... but it is not so easy for them to change the system..... they have to work with what was done back in 2005...... unless they want to "get under the hood" which is what they seem to do every 4 or 5 years.

Nice job Joe. Really nice job. I think the only problem is if the note is a long note, if I am not mistaken, the schedule does not allow for WRAP AROUND/MULTIPLE LINES. Is this correct? This is a great solution with the only limitation of a long note.

Not a workaround, just an option.

I agree with Glenn. The method Glenn is talking about is to use a NORMAL WALL and a TERRAIN BREAK in lieu of a RETAINING WALL. I have done many vids on this method. What Glenn failed to out line is you will find yourself editing both the top and bottom of the REGULAR WALL. This is not bad, just maybe a bit tedious for this particular plan. The advantage is you can control the top and bottom of the wall whereas if it was a RETAINING WALL, the top of wall will follow the top of grade (high side), and the bottom of wall will follow the bottom of grade (low side). I almost exclusively use the TERRAIN BREAK/WALL method.

To get the retaining wall I put elevation lines on up side slope, for railing wall it is a 48" hi terrain curb.

Or change the studs to concrete with color.

Put in your retaining wall, then you must put terrain elevation lines in on each side of wall,

That my friend is a very clever use of the road..... a road under the road........ learn something new everyday...... somebody will probably help you with this...... if not, I will think about it and maybe help tomorrow in the AM, must go home now and take the grandson to the pool...... it's over 90 degrees out here today......

Sounds as if you have as many struggles as we do out here in the land of fruits and nuts.

Tommy, I don't know if you were of aware of the fact that I was drawing house plans in Houston from '73-'79 before I moved to San Diego. Back then I drew the plans, printed them for the builder and it was built. I never had to look at the plans again, there was no plan check or engineering that was required. If I had a 385' beam span supporting 4 floors, I would call out "FLITCH BEAM" and somehow it got built. A set of plans would consist of a 8-1/2x11 site plan attached to a set of plans typically drawn on 18x24 paper at 1/4" scale. There would be (4) elevations, a floor plan, a section or two (I think we did sections), and a foundation plan. There were no framing plans, the framing direction of floor joists or ceiling joists were noted on the plans. Oh, and then we had one TYPICAL SECTION PAGE that somehow had enough information for the builder to build the house. Is this the way it still is or do you guys need to go through zoning and planning and engineering and do always get "PLAN CHECK COMMENTS" back from the City of Houston Building Dept?

So the image does not have the correct aspect ratio from the get go, and you are simply trying to readjust the aspect ratio so it is correct...... yeah..... I get this.

I agree with this to a point. If the symbol is limited to (3) bays, you should be able to put in (3) stretch zones and the width should resize perfectly (is it stretch zones or stretch planes?..... I think stretch planes in this situation). The problem would be if you wanted more that 3 bays, then I would think the best solution would be to have (3) different symbols, one with 1 bay, one with 2 bays and one with 3 bays....... then depending on the configuration, you can mix and max until you get the correct number of bays, and they should all be susceptible to adjusting the width.

I understand this, a right click in the corner resizes AND NOT CONCENTRICALLY, is there a purpose for resizing an image NOT CONCENTRICALLY. I am trying to figure out for what purpose I would want to resize an image without it being concentric.

Rich, for a very large fee, I can smooth out some of the rough edges.

Joe, it has always worked for me whether I am on a PC or a MAC.

W e shall see in the next few months

Hey Barton, I am the King of the "crappy ray trace", 3 minutes max., heck no I don't have photons on. But good call, I think you are saying having photons on precipitates the "bleeding"........ I buy that...... I never have photons on so I probably never get the bleeding light.

I agree with Glenn...... another method to show metric dimensions in lieu of imperial units is to use the SECONDARY DIMENSION FORMAT that is set to use metric units. Working on a plan for an American man married to a French women, he understood imperial, she understood metric, therefore a need for both to be shown. I had both the PRIMARY and SECONDARY dimensions displayed. Do not know what I would of done if I was still hand drawing.

I used to have a local "computer guy" build my computers, I now use a computer guy up in Cupertino to build all of my computers.

Yeah right, JC knows about as much about sketchup as I know about golf.

That is the million dollar question. Which one do you choose and why?

Barton, we never go off topic, please stay on topic. 100 years old? Yeah, a parachute jump is on my bucket list, I hope I do not have to wait until I 100.