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The remove portion of RAILING FOLLOW STAIR challenge.

I have provided pics of what I want to do plus the plan.  

The first person that accepts and solves the challenge wins absolutely nothing except for my appreciation.

Thank You.

BBBB remove portion of wall challenge.plan.zip

Thanks for sending that in.  I have requested it before.  I also talked to the Chief Muckety Mucks at the UGM about this....  specifically Brian.  

The more folks that request it the sooner it happens.

BTW,  the UGM was awesome this year,  the CA team was awesome,  and I learned a lot.  It was probably the best UGM I have attended.....  maybe because I learned a lot.

They said they had 144 folks attending which apparently is a record.  

I hope to return next year.

1 minute ago, ACVNarch said:

As of x14, it appears that the "Use Line for Framing" default is floor specific, but not view-specific. 

Compare 1st & 2nd floor of the Framing, Roof Plan View: 

 

 

FramingLines.plan 4.86 MB · 0 downloads

Thanks for bringing this up again.  I think it would be wonderful if it was VIEW SPECIFIC.

Example:

 in floor plan I would like to show ridge beams as double dash line and

in framing plan I would like to show the ridge beam as single dashed line.

X8?
 

when did x8 come out?

i started with 10 in 2005….  I think…….  Perry,  when did we start and what did we start with?  Wasn’t it 10 in 2005?
 

jeesh….  Has it been that long?

From what I know there are three methods to figure areas.  

1.  The CA way:  In my opinion the CA way is not good because it is very difficult to cross check the areas......  and very time consuming to define which rooms are what type of rooms.....  and then how do you do total areas for FAR,  COVERAGE,  etc?  I just don't get it.  

2.  The Joe Carrick way....  I do not fully understand it,  but Perry likes it and so does Joe....  I guess it works.

3.  The Alaskan Son way.  Very easy to double check/verify that the areas are correct. His method works great for me.....  he charged me,  I paid his fee,  well worth the money.

Update all views does not work for me... does it work for you?

It is very hit and miss for me.,...  even after I shut down CA and reopen.

Has anybody else experienced this?

1 minute ago, robdyck said:

Warning to those who change their display scale factor: Be prepared to redo every rich text box in every file that you open. It'll also affect rich text used in CAD blocks.

I don't know what the problem is with Chief and the size of rich text or standard text. This has to end at some point. 

New versions seem to be released with this little gift for their customers...different sized text boxes and text that won't hold it's size regardless of display scale factor.

There's no way I'm the only one who has to adjust existing text from previous plans or cad blocks now that I'm using X14. What does everyone else do? 

 

The long and short of it is...pick your poison!

 

yeah....  I know what you are saying....  I just fix it and move on.  Very frustrating.

On 6/9/2022 at 10:03 AM, Kbird1 said:

 

that's very generous of you ...only mildly?  and I have the 1/16th issue as well , along with the text boxes losing one border unless zoomed in.

 

I am not sure if this is related to an older plan brought forward perhaps or something else......  the blurriness is like the "Performance View" workaround in Layout  for Live Cameras, has now been applied to ALL cameras .... and Update while Idle seems to have no effect not that it should be needed Running a 3080/3080Ti.

 

* I thought it maybe related to running windows at 125% , but the blurriness is the same at 100%.

 

*** I see the Chief Team are here again , a downvote for this post ...wow ...

 

M.

  

 

 

I see the missing text block lines occasionally and sometimes the last letter will go to the next line like the old days (not good)....  I say this to confirm your observations....  I am too busy to look into the issue,  my bad

8 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

Even though garages don't typically have floor joists ......

Hi Larry,  I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

I was referring to the floor joists over the garage supporting the 2nd floor.

52 minutes ago, HumbleChief said:

The OP was asking how to change O.C. spacing for floor framing. Seems much easier and more flexible to change that data in the floor structure of the room. No bearing lines or bearing walls needed.  Just sayin'

hmmmm,  what would you do if you had an extra long span over the garage and needed to change the floor joists from 16" oc to 12" oc?

18 hours ago, HumbleChief said:

Glenn would you use bearing lines/bearing walls versus 'rooms'? Rooms seem much more flexible with more joist choices/materials etc.?

I use bearing lines/bearing walls.

59 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Where do you see this?

 

Hi Rene,  I don’t see it but after I signed up for the advanced I level,  Carrie from CA emailed me and offered to switch me to advanced II level.
 

I said “sure,  sounds great”.

and then I started thinking about it and I have a funny feeling the class for me will be held down in the dank dark bowels of  CA headquarters.

will you join me down there?

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Yep,  been out there for 4 or 5 UGM's and every single trip it was beautiful....  I am glad you guys do not put this on in the winter.  Aug/Sept is the perfect time to visit.

I just heard you added an ADVANCE LEVEL II,  I am looking forward to the classes.

See you guys in September.

I just noticed the same thing....  I am on X14......  

Hi Glenn,  I notified via email you responded to this post,  thank you,  what is interesting is I do not see your response here....  maybe you deleted the post.

Thanks for confirming the behavior.

Hey Guys (and Gals)

Why is floor blocking shown as double line and beams and joists are shown as single line (single line framing selected)....  is this normal?

I had never noticed this.  

If double line display is selected,  all framing members shown as double line,  if single line is selected all framing shown as single line except joist blocking which is still shown as double line.

Any comments?   BTW, I think I like this....  I think

22 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Okay had a few minutes to look at this and it seems to work okay with the right settings for me........  ( in X14 at least )

 

ie the Addition set at -7" as mentioned in the OP ( was at 1.75")  and the Pour/Framing group set to 2  ( mentioned above ) in the Addition Room DBX also.

 

 

 

 

Nice job Mick.

On 5/27/2022 at 11:17 AM, joey_martin said:

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2) simply grab that segment of foundation wall in 3D and drag it up to snap into place at the correct elevation.

I thought if you did this you would lose the auto sill Plate.

5 hours ago, glennw said:

.......

I have also gotta ask because I don't do any walkout basements - is there any particular reason why you put a full liveable floor on level 0 and don't have a seperate Foundation on level 0 and the first liveable floor on level 1?

 

 

Something I have always believed in.  Walkout basements on level 1 and the foundation on level zero.  If you do not need to use level zero,  no problem,   you can still get your model finished using all levels except for level zero.

Joey advocates for the walk out basement on level zero,  it seems to work for him,  but that being said,  nobody has given me a reason why putting walkout basement on level 1 does not work.

47 minutes ago, javatom said:

Maybe your section view is displaying 2 floors that that are 4" different in floor height.  The auto fill might be showing both floor slabs combined.  Just a guess though.

Never mind,  I opened back up and all is well.  You may have been correct......  thanks 

That does not explain why the other sections that go thru the same slab are 4" thick.

I will send it to headquarters.

This is really weird.....  AUTO FILL at sections,  see pic

6 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

I have seen this happen IF I don't close the Layout and and reopen it.

 

It seems Chief doesn't see the the Save As Plan as a new plan until after the Save As Plan and Layout are closed,

on Re-opening the Layout it will Reference the Original Plan again.

 

M. 

Yep,  I always try to remember to close layout and then reopened to make sure it STICKS!

I started getting lazy not closing the layout,  shortly after that  the dirty words were thrown towards CA.

Always close layout and reopen to make sure it sticks.  I do not believe that has changed in X14

If I had to guess,  the evil Rich Windsor concocted that story.  
 

2 minutes ago, SNestor said:

 

The "pour group" is only relative to the material list. The material list will segregate the materials for each "group". It doesn't change the outcome of the foundation construction. I probably should have mentioned that in the video...oops!  

Thank Steve,  however,  remember when we were talking about the slab to raised foundation model....  you did discover that there may be an advantage to calling out a second pour......  but now I forgot how that work.....  that also tied into the width of the stem wall which "The Rabbit" pointed out.

I did not mean to muddle the thread.....  to circle back the advantage to calling out a second pour was for the materials list