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Yep, my issue also

Will somebody please shoot me in the head. Working on a more complicated project ....... the walk out basement scenario.... blah blah blah........ why can't I select a button and the anno/layer/ref sets are there? Why do I have to &%&^$&^^% muddle my way through this crap every time. why why why...... just plain stupid..... no wait.... I am stupid, there are probably other stupid people out there, please CA, try to figure this out....... try to figure out how we can do a one click and get the correct anno/layer/ref set for a particular view that we already have in layout. Seriously, am I the only person that gets frustrated with this nonsense? I have been drawing plans for over 40 years, and never never never when I was drawing a foundation plan would I want to see dimensions or notes from the framing plan..... (most of the time) Do you guys get this? One click should activate a predetermined anno/layer/ref set combo. We are draftsman, we are not the brightest guys on the planet, Have you guys seen Perry spell? Have you guys seen any of my vids? We are not the brightest guys in the U.S., we are not the smartest guys in California. In fact we are not the brightest guys in Southern California. Please help us out..... and let this be a warning to you..... if this does not get fixed soon, I will show up at the next UGM in August and there will be heck to pay........ and after the heck has been payed, I will be playing The CDL resort course with my Buddy Bruce. Maybe this time I will be able to get my tee shot on the green for the Island Hole. Such an easy hole but somehow I miss that stupid green every time. Hey, if any of you CA guys want to join us for a round of golf, let me know, I would love to play a round with you guys. We plan on being in your neck of the woods from Thursday to Thursday, we will be playing courses in CDL and Spokane. Just venting.

The two walls need different materials. You need a stucco NEW material and a stucco EXISTING material. Each material should have a unique pattern.

I would like to think that CA listens very closely to what you have to say. I find it interesting that you are using CA more and more for production purposes yet you recognize that there are other apps that eventually may be as easy to use as CA in the near future and you may abandon CA and move to another program. Please CA, listen to JPC, if you can satisfy JPC, I would venture to guess that your product will appeal to the users who need both production as well as the design/presentation.

I put in two widows, one at first floor and one at second floor, one of the windows will not be checked to be included in window legend. I do not think the ref set method works well.

I am not sure if CA is listening to what we are saying. I get it, there is no bug, but for some of us, we do not think the anno/layer/ref sets work as well as they could/should. To sum it up, I would like to be able to select an anno set that triggers the layer set and the ref set to display, and whether I toggle up through the levels or down through the floor levels, the display remains the same (unlike the behavior I demonstrated in the vid). I understand I can open a view from layout and the anno/layer/ref sets are correct. But I would rather work without the layout file open....... why?........ because having the layout open tends to slow down my computer. What frustrates me is I do not hear CA say, "we get the request, it makes sense, we will work on it". I do not think I am requesting anything special or unwarranted. This is the way 99% of us work.

Mon Cherie, not sure if this issue, I am not sure this is my issue, but it is an issue for me,

Post your plan, you will have 38 folks prove your wrong, it will work with SEPARATE TRIEM AND MATERIALS...... CHECKED

If I am not mistaken.... back in the day you did not have the option to have different materials on each side of door. I would guess the only reason we have the ability to do it now is because the doors have 2 pieces. An exterior piece and an interior piece. IOW, back in the day I think the door was one solid so there was no way you could have different materials on each side. I remember when I built custom doors, my doors where made of two pieces, an exterior piece and an exterior piece, hence I could define two different materials. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Interesting, I am noticing this behavior too. I am chalking it up to user error.... for now. I will keep an eye out for this behavior and let you know.

The older we get, the more we realize we are idiots. Eric (who is one of the best answerer's on this forum) has a good solution. But I am not sure if it is the best. There was somebody on this forum who spoke of possibly using pony walls for a situation like this. So, if you know what a pony wall is,(one type of wall on top of another wall where you can define the top of bottom wall (or bottom of top wall). Imagine using a pony wall in your situation, the top wall is a drywall wall (which is what you have now), and the bottom wall is "essentially a wall made of a material called OPENING NO MATERIAL" If you use the pony wall method, you can define top of wall via a dbx, and, and, and,, I think you might get a better "finish" under the wall. Eric, would you agree?

You are correct, it is a really elementary question..... .....unfortunately this ability did not come with the program. ....... Check out CHOPSAWS threads. Joe and Michael did a great job solving this issue.

I think that is the answer.

I am doing a presentation but I was also asked to do a video for those folks that would be attending a different presentation than mine "gasp!!!" So I am assuming at one point CA just might make the vid available to the huddled masses. Glenn, you are correct, it is a bunch of 10 kilo stuff to put in a 5 kilo bag. I will skip the how to's and concentrate more on the process and thinking. If someone was interested they could find out the intricacies on this great forum. It is the overall methodology that I will present. For the users who have not fully developed their own systems, this should be great. There is a thousand ways to do this stuff, they all have their plusses and minuses. This will be a method that works for me.

Yes, I might be teaching one of the courses at the UGM, can you believe it? Unless Scott Harris gets mad at me and fires me for cause. This will be my bi yearly golf trip with my Buddy Bruce and we will playing golf in Idaho and Spokane for a week. Sometime between the 5th and 6th hole of the Resort course I will swing by CA headquarters and deliver one of the best seminars..... ever! But seriously, for the folks that might be attending, the seminar I will be giving will be something I wish I had access to 12 years ago. It's all about putting together a set of house plans/remodel plans. Perry, this will be nothing new to you, it's all about the SAM, anno sets, layer sets, ref sets, drawing as-builts, moving onto preliminary plans, changing layer sets for LAYER SET FILES for different clients, using the Perry Macro Method, using the Joe Carrick window macros, using the Alaskan Son area macros (I will not give out their macros, they must be paid for), and blah blah blah, ...... stuff you and I have learned over the past 12 years. I have been thinking of this, trying to figure out how I get get as much info as possible into 59 minutes. I asked Scott Harris for 60 minutes of class time and he seemed to thing I could fit everything into 59 minutes, we will see..... whatever the time I have will be awesome for our friends. A lot of good info in 59 minutes. Perry, you were probably like me, we went to the different seminars/meetings to pick up just one tip. If I picked up one tip, I was happy. I hope that the folks that leave the presentation will pick up at least a half dozen tips. I want them to feel that their trip to the UGM was invaluable........ it will be awesome.......... but quite frankly, I don't care if nobody learns nothing, I just want to play golf for 7 straight days in God's Country. This is going to be an awesome golf trip.

What a coincidence. College in Coeur d'alene and the company in the same city. a symbiotic relationship.... and some really good golf courses that I plan on visiting during the end of August which coincidently is when CA is holding their UGM......... is this serendipity or good planning by me... a little of both.

Hmmm, I did not realize that was there, thx

If you take a test at the UGA and pass, you are titled CERTIFIED. I took the test back in 2009 and failed. But they felt sorry for me so they passed me...... either that or they finally received that $100.00 bill I slipped to Scott Harris.

I concur, everything will soon be cloud based, WiFi will be everywhere and at the end of the season, the Padres will be in last place. It does not take a genius to understand these predictions.

I remember seeing where one side gets fixed and then the other side is screwed up. I bet if you posted your plan, at least the wall with the window, I bet someone if not myself will give it a try. I bet I could do it using thin walls defining a bay window with a raised floor....

Learn to use layer sets. Learn to put exterior walls on separate layers than interior walls. Learn to turn off the interior wall layer and leave the exterior wall layer on.

Yes, see pic, however I think there is more of a downside than an upside to using this but I forgot the reason.

I almost always agree with Glenn. However, in this case, I might might consider using the symbol method for each house. If I have a site and I have a house with a detached garage and maybe a detached studio building, I would build it in one plan. However, If I have separate houses , I think I would keep each house in it's own plan file, create a symbol for each house, and then put them in a NEW PLAN FILE that is strictly used for maybe a site plan and renderings. The reason I would go to the symbol method for multiple houses is because, often times the houses are not all parallel to each other and the distance between houses might change during the design process as well as the elevations of each house pad and yada yada yada. I do not like to use the symbol method, but in some cases it is the best solution.

Wrong, the building ignores the terrain. Plenty of videos on how to understand terrains. hee is a video on did on terrains a while back.... If you want more vids on terrain by me, go to you tube and type in TERRAIN VIDEOS BY DSH

I only need the brain cells for another 5 years and then I will retire and take up mindless pastimes like golf, Grandkids and traveling.