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Here is the plan where the ceiling joists for the DROPPED ceiling will not frame in 3d. The joists are there in plan, but not in 3d, this is weird. Take a look at the house on the right. clg jst wont frame.plan.zip

Here is a vid. Maybe you already figured it out. The mystery to me in this vid is why the ceiling framing for the FINISHED CEILING sometimes frames and sometimes not. Run into this before, had not notice the problem recently, but in this vid it resurfaces. Again my issue is trying to get the ceiling framing for a CEILING FINISH to frame. Another one of those elusive mysteries that we should not even have to discuss. http://youtu.be/dWrChSbf0U4 not a great vid by any means.

To fix the drywall, change the rafter depth for the roof plane to 5-1/2". To eliminate the framing, go up to level 2 and delete the wall. However, now you lose the ext wall finish. You must keep the wall to get the finish. If you insist on no framing, make a new wall type without the framing and without interior finish so you will still get exterior finish. I leave those walls there because out in the field they will build a square frame with ply on it for shear transfer.... to the framing is really kind of good to have there.

I did one more option, put the steel studs @ 1000 feet o.c., put in blocking, changed blocking to c channel, copied the blocking as needed up and down wall, not a good option, best option is probably the symbol option.

I just build a metal framed wall, I put the sill plate on its own layer, did a framing overview, turned off all layers except the one the sill plate is on, and made a symbol out of that...... you probably have already done that....... I am just rambling.....

Sorry, sorry sorry, I am slow on the uptake....... I got the problem now..... I suppose you can turn that c channel into a symbol and then rotate it....... probably the same result as using the framing member as is......... I think that is the solution..... turn that general framing member into a symbol, rotate it, and use it over and over again. What you really want is a METAL SILL PLATE, I do not think that is an option, therefore the symbol solution may be best.

I assume you posted this before I posted #4, #4 will require you to manually locate each c channel.

Oh...... I thought the answer was too easy...... try this.... draw a GENERAL FRAMING MEMBER off to the side, change it to a c channel........ FRAMING SPEC<GENERAL<TYPE<C-CHANNEL

Have you tried to use the material STEEL STUD @ 16" OC instead of FIR STUD @ 16" O? This should give you c channel studs and top plate and bottom plate.

Notice it? I thought is was always there, I even have a hot key for it, use it all the time.

Or how about invisible deck rail wall and the a railing at perimeter dreamt inc a second room that is open below and floor 8" lower. Or we could wait for Glenn to share his secret.

If I had to guess, an offset railing wall, I think you can do that, and millworker symbols for newels with origin relocated.

Larry, try selecting the entry room, open dvx and then close dvx, that fixed it for me, weird.

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I was recently chastised by the Great Glenn Woodward for not posting pictures, and justifiably so, thanks Glenn for setting me straight.

Uncheck the default dimension properties, change the text size for the dimension to .0003", now put your own text block over..... this eliminates the need for a FILLED text block.

Here is a vid Mark. Nothing new. I built the bay manually. I guess I just live with building manually and ending up with a SQUARE vs ANGLED OPENING. Sorry, best I can do, maybe somebody else can make it work..... maybe CA can make it work for you.... what a concept. http://youtu.be/7yFSBeL7Hlw

Okay, I just wasted 15 minutes trying to help. I am no help. Why these bay windows have been so hard to deal with, I cannot explain. Plain silly. Hey CA, you program these windows, have you ever tried to use what you programed? For the last 8 years bay windows have been difficult. Please fix this so us nit wits can work with them. Mark, try the manual build, unfortunately I think something has changed and that is difficult now. Good luck Bud.

So I am in my office today, client comes by and wants to make a few changes. Move that wall over 6" move this roof here, change 5 windows and 4 doors, enlarge the kitchen, oh yeah, keep your door and window schedule up to date, oh can you also give me an updated floor plan, how about a model I can use on the client viewer, "yeah yeah yeah, okay, I will do this for you"....... oops, another client just texted me and they want some more renderings of the remodel I am working on, I already sent them 38 renderings yesterday what more can he want....... after 1.5 hours I wrap up with the guy in the office, bill him $1.50, send him on his way, open up second project, shoot another 14 renderings of the second floor..... email the new renderings to them........ another 120 seconds out of my miserable life, ........ now I am off to enjoy all I can eat sushi, just don't tell Lynn...... hey..... it's June..... football season is just around the corner. Thanks again CA, could not do it without you.

Great question, I am assuming the pic you posted was your pic with your scroll bar. I do not have the scroll bar as you have it, it is a mac thing, the scroll bar shows up when I move the mouse to that area. In fact, if I place cursor in top right window pane, no scroll bar, BUT if I start using my scroll button to scroll, the scroll bar shows up. If I stop scrolling, the scroll bar disappears.

I am the two minute man, just ask you know who....... a two minute ray trace is my limit..... I call them the "crappy ray traces" because somebody else called them crappy..... but they work for me...... they get the idea across..... I am into quantity, not quality.... .... so out comes X6 with it's quick shadows and I noticed that the render quality was almost as good as my "crappy ray trace" quality. Do I spend two minutes on a ray trace or do I spit out these renders at 8 second clip? The 8 second render works for me. And then I was getting ticked off because I had to go up and select the EXPORT button in the menu.... is there a hot key for this? Of course there is, I quickly programed a hot key to export the jpeg image and cut off another 2 seconds. Now I am down to 6 seconds per exported render. The other day I was doing a kitchen remodel for a long time client, I threw some fuu fuu stuff in, took 16 different renders in about 3 minutes and sent them off along with the plans to him. Next day I was measuring a job with him and he thanked me for the "ray traces". I said they weren't ray traces, they were renders. He said they were awesome. He then asked if Lynn and I wanted to join he and his wife to see the play, "Book of Mormon". I said sure, how much are the tickets. $400.00/ticket on Craig's list, it's sold out. I said, "Holy Moly!", okay, we are in, he then offered to pay for them, I said not necessary, he insisted....... he explained that I was that important to him. Well, we all know it's not me who is important, it's what I can do with CA. So I want to thank CA for how they have changed my business and how they have added value to my services. In the 7-1/2 years I have been using CA I marvel at how far this program has come. So you guys at CA...... Thank You, keep up the good work, I truly appreciate all you do.

Two points for G., somebody please give me a few negative points, richly deserved.

I think The Great Glenn Woodward hit on it, it is the scrollable list option or the tiled to fit window option. When I select the tiled to fit window option, I get what I expect, I must of changed it at some point, thanks G.

Okay guys, my bad, here is a couple of pictures of my library browser. At one time the images in the top right window were much smaller so I could see multiple items. In fact they were so small my bad eyes could barely discern what they were. Now they are so big...... So what controls the size of items in the top right window of library browser.

dSorry G., I deserve that, my bad, I will post a pic in the AM, again I am sorry.