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Michael, I agree, something is lacking. I have an idea. Strip your plan down, post the plan, and have a contest with all of your friends here to see who can produce the best RayTrace with your project. Offer a $10.00 prize for the best rendering. I bet you would get a lot of entries and we can all learn from it. Hey, just call me the "Idea King". See you Saturday at the workshop. Oh, at least throw in a trophy along with the $10.00...... I will pay for the trophy, (you have been more than generous with me).

Lew, can you think of a reason not to do it? Do you think Alaska would be having the problems he is having it he had done it ?

This is your answer. You need to have a second floor. You cannot have a second floor on an attic level. Let me be clearer, and I have said this on multiple occasions. To simplify building your model, always have one extra level than what is needed. I.E., if your house is one story, have two levels, if your house is a two story, have 3 levels. If your house if a 3 story, have 4 levels. I know, not required, but if you followed this dictum, you would not be having the problem you are now having.

Michael, you should post some pix of your renderings to get some specific feedback.

Perry turned me onto this and I am forever grateful. Pretty cool stuff. Thanks again P.

Great question, select door. open DBX<OPTIONS<IN CURVED WALL, check the CURVED DOOR option, done.

Yep, that is what I would suggest.

Appreciate the confirmation, I was beginning to think it was a MAC shortcoming. Apparently it is a shortcoming for both the MAC and the PC.

I do not think so. Try it again. If you can please let me know, because as of now, I can only have one layer/anno set for each plan.

I have mentioned this many times. Printing a PDF on a PC generates a 8 meg file while the same PDF on a MAC generates an 80 meg file. Very difficult to email an 80 meg file.

This is very true, however you can utilize ONLY one layer/anno set at a time. A big plus would be if I could have the first floor plan open in two different windows with one view utilizing the FLOOR PLAN LAYER SET whilst the other view was using the FRAMING PLAN LAYER SET. The way it is set up now, and the only way it is really useful is if I have a SECOND FLOOR VIEW open and a FIRST FLOOR VIEW open side by side. I suppose this can be useful, but I never use it. But I do find myself wanting the option of having two floor plan views open side by side, one utilizing the FLOOR PLAN LAYER SET and the other view utilizing the FRAMING LAYER SET, along with the appropriate ANNO SETS for each view.

Thanks, it only took me 30 minutes to go through this frickin process of printing something on the PC, plain flat out stupid that I have to go through this exercise every time I want to print something.

I forgot how to do this. Too much time on a mac. If the program freezes, how do I abort program? Is it CNTR/OPT/?....... I hate switches back and forth between the mac and pc to do printing...... wastes more of my time

I still do not understand the issue.

Video here. Worked good to me. No bug per KBird. Good vid but nothing new. http://youtu.be/PJOayjkjgps

Video here, Glenn solution of course is the best..... if you have X6, otherwise there is another method for those using older versions of CA. http://youtu.be/SObDUevFctI Not a bad vid.

I think TB understands this as do I, totally separate issue.

I love these kinds of things, if nobody else looks at it and if I have time in the am, I will take a look. These darn garages and there sills ain't too cool...... but I will take a look if time permits.

Not at office.

If that is an auto foundation, I have not a clue how you got the stud wall, sill plate and concrete wall all out of some kind of alignment.

Your pic looks like you got what you wanted. That being said, please don't get me going on sill plates etc., Tell me what is wrong with pic.

My apologies Larry, that is exactly what I am saying...... you are correct. But of course, once you have the same number of layers, what controls which layer overlaps the other? It is the THROUGH WALL AT START. Thanks Larry for helping me reinforce the point.

If I had to guess, none of the responses answered the question. I do not think the OP is a regular user, but for the rest of the users, I think he is referring to what is seen at a corner where a brick veneer wall meets a stucco veneer wall. IOW, how does one control whether the brick overlaps the stucco, or whether the stucco overlaps the brick. I believe there are several ways to control this. One is whether one uses the THROUGH WALL AT START option. I think that helps in a many instances. However, I did a vid on this, and I think another option has to do with specifically designing walls types in such a way the the number of WALL LAYERS on the exterior face of the wall type are the same. I will say that again, I think having an equal number of wall layers on the exterior face of exterior walls has some advantages..... of course I could be wrong since I did not reverify this. EDIT: I just verified this, having an equal number of layers at the each exterior face of a wall IS VERY IMPORTANT when deciding whether the brick overlaps the stucco or whether the stucco overlaps the brick.

Yes, that is what I have now. But I do not save MY STUFF to his folder. I have a separate folder where I save his stuff. But you have me rethinking my process. If I send him a link to MY/HIS FOLDER, which has only his stuff in it (no other clients info), he can access all of his files, but he cannot alter them. That is essentially the goal. Now I must reconcile the fact that he will have access to ALL of the info in MY/HIS FOLDER. May be doable, I just have to consider if I ever put anything in his folder, which is also MY FOLDER with all his stuff in it, do I have a problem with him viewing any of the info....... maybe not. Thanks for your thoughts Robert. Not completely a solution I was hoping for, but might not be a problem.

Oooh, I get it, hey thanks Robert, I will give it a try. But now that I think of it, that would mean I would have to send him a new link for each project I send him. I do many jobs for him during the year. As of now, I simply put a NEW CLIENT folder in HIS DROP BOX, no need to share a new folder. No perfect solution...... I am trying not to think as much.......