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Give Chief Architect a call, they can help.

I could be wrong but I thought every job I do in San Diego the FAR controls. The city of San Diego does not care about COVERAGE for private homes unless on a steep hillside.

I am going to guess, you have ref sets on and that line is on a ref set. Turn off ref sets and see if it goes away.

Thanks Glenn, easy peasy... and you are correct, once rotated I do need to relocate all text blocks in the vertical direction.....

This was not a workshop that I got a lot out of. It is not Mark's fault, it's just that I do not need this stuff for what I do. My motivation for hosting this was to help others that need this for their business. Mark has spent a lot of time working on this. It is my hope that with Mark's help, The 20/20 clientele will move over to CA. The more clients CA has, the more money they will have which means more resources CA will have to hire more software engineers which means a better product for me. It's all about me, me, me. I hope CA continues to work closely with Mark and any other user who feels trapped into using 20/20 but would prefer to move to a better program like CA.

Joe, the votes are a waste of time. It varies between jurisdictions. For example, decks and balconies are rarely included unless...... blah blah blah. You are wasting your time trying to work this out. This is one of the reasons that we users must be able to determine which spaces to include in the FAR and the COVERAGE. This is also one of the reasons I asked for PLINE LABELS. With PLINE LABELS I was assuming that CA would help us out in determining the area analysis tabulations. I am so fed up with trying to get CA to listen to what I/WE need, this may be my last post on this topic. The Alaskan Son has been the only person so far that gets this. Using Alaskan Sons method, I can get what I need. I absolutely love what Michael did for me. It cost me a small fortune to get him to write the code, but it has been worth every cent. This crap that CA give us (THE LIVING AREA) is useless to me. Let me give you an example. I am working on a project and I will need to graphical show the City how I came up with the area for the FAR. How do you do it? How does CA do it? You guys can't do it. But I can do it by using the PLINE, dimensioning it, an then turning on the PLINE LABEL which will give the area of the PLINE auto. Let me state this again. We need to be able to graphically show the area and to be able to dimension the area. And god forbid..... and it happens on every job of mine.... any changes to the area should be auto updated. I understand that you think by giving a space a certain label, it will be included in the necessary area.... but how do you explain that to a plans examiner?

Glenn, if you have time, I would love to do a skype with you in regards to this. Thanks.

BTW, I do not know how I did this..... I flipped the plan vertically.... and this is what is interesting..... see pic, the section cut lines are pointing down to bottom of page, but the original before flip plan , the section cuts were pointing up. How did I do this? I do not know.

I am going to flip a plan. I believe Glenn believes in the T/R method or the REFLECT ABOUT method. I think both methods work. IOW DO NOT ROTATE PLAN Here is the question. The text gets flipped. How do I select all text a flip about each one in lieu of flipping all around the "body" See pic

I have latest version... if it is possible on a mac, maybe a mac user will help out..........

Hey P. why do you have a yellow banner at the top of the dbx and I do not? What makes you so special? I want a yellow banner.

Thanks to Mark McA, we appreciate your time.

It seems to work ok for me.

Solver is one of the best. You got lucky that he took the time to help.

I just sent out invites, if you did not get one, please let me know..... we start on the hour, thank you

Good call..... however there are many more and better methods to handle this... i.e. use black wall framing members.......

Just a reminder that I will send out invites for MARK'S WORKSHOP at 10:45 am PST, or 1:45 pm EST tomorrow (Friday Feb., 17th) I respect everybody's time, so we will start promptly on the hour. If you want to attend and your name is not listed in POST #1, send me an email and I will put you on the list. If you want to attend please email me.

Painting the slab black might be the solution. No point in building the framing because the wall definition does not include framing. This is a perfect example that if the plan is not posted, I will not try to guess what the issue is. I would of never guessed that Rashid built his walls without framing. Come on guys, post plans please. Picture attached is Michael's suggestion of a black slab..... not a bad solution......

Why don't you post a plan so we can study? You know the rules by now. If I were to guess, the solid black was..... errrr I don't know what........ and then when you go below header, you are looking at a SILL PLATE.... but a great question that we can all learn from if you would post a small plan with your method. NOTE..... you have the STUDS turned off or you have not built wall framing. Crap, why am I guessing at this nonsense.... come on Rashid, post a plan so this thread is only 4 posts long.

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Create another floor at that level. I bet you you have an attic at that level now. You can not create a floor on the attic level.

do you have auto roof framing on?

What timing, I was wondering the same thing. The top pic is what I have now, the other one is what I can upgrade to. From what I have gathered, the MAC PRO is not a big advantage. I think the processor speed is important. Yours is 2-2.26 ghz, mine is a 3.5 ghz, I can upgrade to a 4.0 ghz if I buy the latest. However if I upgrade, I go from a NVIDIA CARD to a AMD RADEON........ this is all Greek to me, but I thought the NVIDIA CARD plays better with CA. But I do not know. Maybe somebody else will give us some guidance.

Again, the chopster has the answer. And if you are lucky, the topo lines you import from the surveyor are "smart" topo line and there is an elevation associated with it..... IOW, you will not need to define the contour elevation, it will be auto. I did a vid on this several years ago you might be able to find.

The Chopster has the answer for you. I use this method all of the time.