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It is probably a soffit. Turn roof soffit off to verify.... if so, change the SUBFASCIA depth. SUBFACIA controls location of soffit.

The only solution that I know of is to use Michaels (Alaskan Son) area macros or Joe Carrick's package. This by the way is required for EVERY SET OF PLANS I do. I need a breakdown of Garage Areas, Heated Areas, Porch areas, sidewalk area etc. I would of thought this capability would of been baked into CA but it is not. I suppose the benefit of this is the two aforementioned guys came up with two different methods to solve the same need.

I don't think you should ever manually adjust a wall height in elevation unless you. know what you are doing. That is what got you in trouble in the first place.

No, I do not use that glass house feature. You got me thinking about turning off the ref set, it would be a good feature, but until they give you this feature, simply toggle the ref set to ref the 3rd floor or the 18th floor. (a floor that does not have anything on it). Almost as simple as a toggle one/off button.

BTW, if you do want a ceiling in that living room, I think you will need to build if with a. CEILING PLANE in lieu of the room DBX. If you want to use the DBX, go to the ceiling structure and change the depth of the ceiling joists from 5-1/2" to 16" and then to 1" and you will see how it effects the siding finish on the gable end.

Larry, you must be missing something, the Multi Ref is about as good as it gets. I have used 3. ref sets for one layer set in certain plans. It really is where it should of been years ago. Thanks CA for this.

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Yep, not a good thing. Some folks buy into their neighborhoods for a certain level of quality of life and this bill could wreak havoc.

I missed the 200%.... I will look again... it only makes sense.

BTW, I think it is relatively easy to go from 24x36 to 12x18, but I do not think it I as easy to go from 12x18 to 24x36.

Nope, too much trouble. I have a TB of memory on computer. When I get close to being full I put older files on the drop box cloud. Files stay on the drop box cloud and I have only the icon on by hard drive for access should I ever need the file again.

You used a ROOM for your LANDING. I wonder what would happen if you used a LANDING. I am not sure it should make a difference.

Hourly mi amigo.

...... oops, I do not understand your argument, my layout has only one file, the latest and greatest, I do not keep all the files in the layout.....

This is the printing again in chronological order....

this is what I do.... and they are in chronological order.......

Yes I do, but I really like Rene's method. The only down side is the terrain intersected by building needs to be checked..... but very small downside

Hey Joe, this is. my method. (I can't slope the pool bottom. 1- Create Terrain 2- Create terrain feature for the pool deck (NOT A SIDEWALK), check clip overlapping terrain 3- Create terrain feature for the pool, make it -72" height and 72" thick My. picture shows those three elements. Now copy the pool and turn it into a molding for the coping. Maybe you already use this down and dirty method.

I suggest taking your last plan and deleting everything and go from there. In fact there maybe some special layer sets you would want to use again for your latest project.

Since you brought this up..... create a line.... can you give it a label? NO. Now hit the 3 key and give it a break.... you now have a poly line and you can give it a lable..... now.... hit button to SIMPLIFY POLYLINE, you now have a line (not a poly line), and you still have a label. Ain't that a pistol?

I use Michaels method. I am sure Joes works as well. I CANNOT IMAGINE NOT USING AN AUTO AREA TABULATION;METHOD.

I did not find CA performed any better than how it performed on an iMac. You might want to save the money.

But, if the land slopes, and the back terrain is higher than first level and the front of terrain is below the first level, you. will miss some of the terrain when using the cross section slider. I suppose the best for me might be to switch to putting the terrain on level zero. BTW...... I just love love love the latest ability to use multiple ref sets.... great addition to the program......... I kind of wish I could use different ref sets with 3D.

Yeah, if you leave a street or sidewalk behind, it will disappear when you carry out Glenn's cut and paste operation.

yep, thanks for that Glenn. Another option is the cross section slider. Do a floor over view of level 1 and then using slider get rid of walls at level 1........ that might be the best option for me. I probably do not use the cross section slider as much as I should. BTW, wouldn't you need to select the roads also and then cut and paste that down to level below?