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Convert to solid, great idea, thanks.

Go to YouTube and search. SAM VIDEOS BY DSH In you tube all of my vids should have VIDEOS BY DSH

Suppose I have a site plan all drawn in CAD. i send to layout, but I want the lines to be squiggly , how would you do it? Do I need a separate program? If it was 3D I could use the water color, but it is not 3D, any ideas?

I concur,

Hi Jeff, I will take you up on the lunch. Unfortunately I did not keep the vid. I did a search and it was not on YOUTUBE. I might of posted it on CHIEFTUTOR'S web site which has recently been erased and revamped so no point in looking there. I will redo a vid for my lunch. I will try to do it first thing in the AM. However I bet someone will beat me to the punch and do a great vid for you.

What would be really neat is if CA used the warehouse idea in lieu of the library. But not a big deal, we can work it out.

I am thinking of using the WAREHOUSE METHOD. Create a plan, call it TABLE WAREHOUSE PLAN, and put all of my tables in the plan so I can then do a quick floor overview and see all tables at one time. Same with cars, create a AUTOMOBILE SHOWROOM PLAN, put all my cars in there and when I need a car, do a quick overview and select the appropriate car. It is just so hard to keep track of all the different tables in all the different folders.... I have a feeling I am missing out on some good stuff CA is offering. Thanks for the feedback guys. You know what we should do is hire someone to create these warehouses....... hey, wait a minute...... how about if each one of us takes it upon ourselves to make a warehouse plan that we can share with others. It will then be that person's responsibility to keep the warehouse stocked with the newest items that CA provides. I will start a new thread, I will sign up to take care of a particular warehouse, anybody else interested, please sign up for the area you want to keep up to date. We can then share those WAREHOUSE PLANS with each other. At the end of the year, we can give a prize to the best WAREHOUSE MANAGER....... maybe an all expense paid trip to a golf course (travel costs not included).

What a problem to have... too many symbols I can't keep up with them. Whenever CA offers another bonus library, I dutifully download it. But I doubt i have used many of the symbols. There are so many tables in so many different folders, it would take me 15 minutes to find the right one. How do you guys keep track of them? BTW, somebody was looking for a vacuum canister..... it is now there in the last bonus library content.

Thanks Glenn

Glenn, I would be interested in learning how you do that. Do you have time to do a quick vid.

Graham, I messed with it a bit. Try opening the camera dvx and check SHOW SHADOWS. I have a 3d vector with shadows, I have a back clip cross section with no shadows (I did not turn SHOW SHADOWS on), and I have a BCCS camera with shadows on (however very dark, I did not spend time tweaking it.

Thank you Glenn, you confirmed what I was thinking. The diagrams you provided confused me more. I would of thought the left hand outswing would of been a right hand outswing and the right hand out swing would of been a left hand outswing ........ and put you left leg in and shake it all about and put your right arm in and swing it all all about. I can't figure it out, I am so glad everybody else can figure it out. I will avoid naming the swing direction and show a picture. i am not even going to try to figure out the nomenclature if I have a door going from a family room to a living room, or a door from a bedroom to an attached nursery, Alan Lehman is my idol, a picture is worth........

Yes, and once you open the 2nd instance, you can have 2 layouts open. Can anybody do this on a MAC?

I misspoke. Yes I want to open 2 instances of CA. On a MAC I cannot. I have opened 2 instances of CA when I was working on my PC back in the Ice Age, but now in the information age, using a MAC, I cannot open 2 instances of CA.

To open 2 layouts at one time, I believe we hold down control key, correct? I am on a mac, it does not seem to work, can anybody open two layouts on a mac, thanks

I think the point of this thread is to be able to describe how a door swings. In this post there have been some professionals who have described how a door swing should be described. I am not sure if the professionals agree on the proper nomenclature. I am still confused as to how a door swings. If I did understand, I wonder if anybody else would understand it how I understand it. The point is, it seems like whoever is ordering the door should look at the plans and take responsibility for the direction of door swing. This is one of the reasons I give a unique door label to each door. I let the door orderers figure out what door to order by referring to the plans. IOW, I believe in the the Alan Lehman Method, a picture is worth a thousand words. My 2 cents.

To further elaborate, you can have both the size of window and the schedule number in plan if you want. I like both.

I get your point Randy, you cannot do what you want...... a mull frame that is the depth of window frame and NOT the thickness of the wall.

I disagree. windows 112.plan

Do you need the structural mull? I guess you do, you probably know better than I.

Randy, I think Bill nailed it, set the min distance to zero, you have it set at 1".... hopefully you can live without that 1" separation. Give it a try.

I recognized this 10 years ago, it just took me awhile to realize that it was not my deficiency, but CA's deficiency. That being said, I do recognize it is very difficult to cover all situations, but there are a lot of very typical conditions that should be a lot easier to model.

Not necessarily Grasshoppa. Even though the population is 23,000,000, there are only 379 people living in California that can afford to buy a house in California, hence, not 23 million homes.

That house must be in SOCAL, is that so?

Yes, 2 floors, each 10' tall, the second floor is open to below.