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Wasn't that a commercial? Next question..... Which commercial? Progressive insurance or the two guys who sing..... Another insurance commercial.... Nuts..... I can hear it, just can't remember the company, obviously not a good commercial.

Mac to PC to Mac and back to PC and back to Mac and back to PC and back to Mac........ I sure wish they would fix the PRINT TO PDF on the Mac.

I did not see posted plan. Oooohhhhh. I hate crashes, such a waste of time. I don't do photon mapping, but, I think you said you turned it off. My first thought was maybe you had some LIGHTS IN YOUR PLAN AND THEY WERE TURNED ON. When I do RT's I stay away from the RESOURCE HOGGING settings and I usually get what I need.

I do not want to steal Tommy's thunder but..... I cut to CAD, group select, paste in place in plan ON IT'S OWN LAYER, confirm line style, line wt is per layer, and I am done. I do not need to block it and I do not need to send it to back....... cannot explain why I do not have to do that but I don't...... might have to do with the fact the the line weight is less than that of the 3D WALLS. For the newbies, I would recommend attending Tommy's seminar, there is usually something good you will learn.

I ain't sure what that is, but it sure sounds convenient. Is that where you can sit in your LAZY-BOY and just imagine the vacation, you know, when a commercial comes on during ANIMAL PLANET, you can quickly switch over to your TELEPORTATION VACATION?

This is why it is so important for a question to be very specific. The more we know about the program, the more options we have. Larry will have to pipe in on what he was really asking. I am getting to the point where I am tired of trying to guess what the OP wants. Heck fire, if we want, we can visually eliminate all materials on a roof plane. Eliminate the shingle and the ply... just give it an OPENING NO MATERIAL designation, but I am assuming Larry knows that. But then I am with you Perry, I am at no brainer status too, just ask the plan checkers around this area...... I ain't even going there.

No he did not, I assumed that is what he was asking for. If it was not a temporary condition, of course there are many options to get what he wants, including what Rich had suggested. I guess I thought that what Rich suggested was a no brainer and everybody knew of that option.

I think the idea was to temporarily turn off the shingles without changing the material to expose the ply. Similar to being able to selectively turn off a floor finish and then the floor ply to show the floor joists.

CA has not always been the best when dealing with customers. Overall I think the support is good. It just so happens that I am not sure if some of the personnel who handles the phone lines are very good with dealing with clients. Some of the staff needs to take a lesson in listening to their customers while being able to subtlety telling their clients to pack sand without their customers knowing it. I should probably take the same class. Ahhhh, the art of the salesman, there is a reason why good sales people make good money. On a positive note, CA personnel are always available, something that many companies do not offer these days. It is hard to form a negative feeling about a companies personnel when you can't even speak to them.

Post 40, I did a vid,

Interesting question. No. But if you do an OVERVIEW, you can use the surface delete tool to eliminate the shingles and see only the ply. I do not think there is a layer where as you can turn off shingles and see the ply. Turn off roof layer and you lose the shingles, ply and roof framing.

Play around with the FLOOR SURFACES layer and the ROOMS layer, you should be able to figure it out from there.

I think it was Allen brown that supplied the volute.

Nice job P., throw that into your plans and the "enhanced" elevation is a non starter.

Looks good P. Yeah Joe, the artistic look will take more time, that ain't for me, what P. just showed is good enough for me. If I want something really nice, I will include a 3D view which is a thousand times better than any 2D representation and it takes less time. I get what you are trying to do, you are thinking as a hand drafter would think, I am past that, there are some things I am willing to give up on working with the computer.

So the question is why do I like my method more than the psolid or symbol method: 1. It reads better in vector view (you get an extra line in vector view with the other method) 2. In a section cut you get the double line which is the drywall (you do not get the double line for drywall with the other method) 3. You get some representation of framing, i.e. double top plates (you get no framing with the other method) 4. You can define the size of the arch in plan view (you have to manipulate the size of the arch in elevation view with the other method) 5. You can define the height and width of flat soffit above the posts (I don't know how you do this with the other method) 6. If you want to change the width, height or type of arch... a few seconds with the method I outlined in video (with the other method..... several minutes) Advantages of the other method over the method I defined...... can not think of one.

Yep, that is what I do, and to be clearer, the line weights are controlled by layers in the layer set and NOT BY EDGE LINE DEFAULTS AND PATTERN LINE DEFAULTS..... that may be what JC is missing.

I do not use Joe's method, here is mine, I assume they both work to some degree, I like my method more. http://youtu.be/b-0_Z0M0rhQ

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I was wondering if someone would say this. I agree that the line at edge of opening goes past edge of opening about an inch, however, there are not the perpendicular lines that are in the OP's original post. Would you agree with this KT?

I don't know what the poop was all about. Labels controlled by layer. Here is a vid that demonstrates that. Maybe I am missing something, but bottom line I was able to control the door label size by the layer which is what Perry was saying from day 1. Ron, if I missed something, please let me know, I always am interested in what I do not know. http://youtu.be/WW-ncqZoHL0

It looks like TJ doesn't it? These homes are in Point Loma, this home sold for 640,000 back in 2008, albiet at the top of the market. But I bet they will still sell for that much. Another explanation is if you look closely, you will definitely see some distortions. Adam, I do not know if you can access Apple Maps from a PC...... it is an Apple App.

Holy Kamoly, thanks Kirk, this is awesome!

Wow, just found out there is a 30' elevation change from the front of my lot to the rear..... but I really could not be sure because I could not zoom in far enough to locate elevation point locations accurately. Do you think there is a way to zoom in very close to a particular site?

Get the f out of here. If I could figure out how to use this thing..... thanks Kirk...... don't have time to play with it much now, but it looks kind of neat. I am not sure how accurate it is for a specific site, but it looks like I can get some general elevations. I tried zooming in to my particular parcel, and it seems as if there is a limit to how far I can zoom in. I could not zoom in too far. I am sure there is even more stuff that I don't know about, must look into this further, thanks again.