DougDM

Thanks Robert, Yeah I may just do that after this job is done. I failed to mention, Grid snapping is off. I know if I set my dims default to Decimal and precision to 3-4 places (which I only use for engineered drawings of high precision) It seems to help a bit. But this shouldn't happen regardless of settings, a snap point is a snap point, a pixel x by a pixel in size. Therefore an Intersection being an intersection, end to end. line end to point, whatever. My graphics card is a Nvidia RTX 4090 ti with up to date drivers, so I doubt it's that. I just spent an entire day fixing things I thought to be aligned properly only to find otherwise. Snaps not doing the their job. If I'm at fault, I'll take full responsibility and first to apologize for the rant.. However in searching the grand ole web, I'm not the only one having this issue. AutoCAD has refinement variables in place to fix this. I'm wondering if CA does as well and I just don't know of them. Anyway... Rob, I thank you for listening, Have yourself a great day.

X15, been using CA for about 20 yrs now and just noticed a point to point snapping issue. The issue, it doesn't work 90% of the time. I've been using AutoCAD since 1982 till recent and never had this problem. I decided to start using CA's cad from time to time a few years ago and never realized what was or is going on till now. Unless there is a setting I'm unaware of, I'm working on a job which requires a lot of line work, or lining up things with snaps (which I would typically use AutoCAD for) Anyway I needed to zoom in on a couple things and saw this (see attached). I started check the rest of my drawing and noticed missed snaps through out. A crazy number of missed snap points. I was wondering why things weren't lining up properly. Anyone else noticing this? I am absolutely using point to point, be it move, copy from >to, lines etc.and allowing the snap to highlight light before picking it's final destination point. When I zoom in, it missed, try again, missed again...and it's not just once. It's a ridiculous number of times. If I'm doing something wrong, but with 40 yrs using AutoCAD and 20 with AC, I highly doubt it.

Thanks Ryan, more or less what I’ve been doing, I’ve been playing with layer sets, one with normal walls and materials and normal roofing materials. Then a copy of the normal layer set with same walls and roof plans etc., just no material patterns for siding and roof planes. Works pretty good. still need to play with line weights. Anyway, thanks again. Best regards, Doug

JKE, interesting solution, but I don’t want to see any siding lines on asbuilt. The pattern tool does an okay job removing patterns, such as siding and roofing, I’ll toy with this when I have time, has possibilities

Chief X15. Remodeling question. So I set up my wall types, add material for siding and roofing. Do all the fun stuff drawing the as built. Looks great in full render view. Now I throw on this massive deck. When I send my Elevation views to layout, I don’t want to see the siding or roofing patterns of the asbuilt. Just simple outlines. All I want detailed is the massive deck we’re putting on the rear of the house. I don’t want it to look like we’re building the entire house. I know I can put a blank material in place of siding and roofing material. But I still want 3D renderings at the same time. I know I can send it as a cad detail and remove all that I don’t want but that kills the live connection back to the model. How are you guys / ladies handling this if at all. When I used to do this in AutoCAD I just didn’t include patters or just turned off the layer. Can’t turn off the pattern layers in CA or can we and after 20 yrs didn’t realize we could. I could also make two layer sets with different wall and roofing materials as needed. Any help with this is certainly appreciated. Thanks

Thanks guys, All done, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Life and work got in the way. Again, appreciate the ideas.

I have a request for a Dutch Door, 1st do we have any, I looked thought the Cats. but didn't find any. Any suggestions to make one would be appreciated. 2 doors stacked 1/2 height perhaps. Thanks

I hear you, when I have time, I’ll do it. Why it would be nice to have as an option.

Yes I know, thanks just the same. I was more or less seeing what the response would be before doing just that, I asked for valley rafter over framing some 10 years ago. Took till x15. Might have been longer.

Yeah there-is that, but doesn't add the grouping vertical line.that I now add after the fact, and sometimes it gets hidden if the text fill is in place..All which could be an on/off button with this menu or in arrow defaults.

Yes we can, however... this is a format typically found when doing engineer drawings, In my experience doing them for 12 years especially when using tolerances. But not really what I'm looking for. Automation with a grouping bracket so to speak, that grows with lines of text and auto centers the leader. I definitely think it's doable.

Unless I'm unaware of such a feature, wouldn't it be nice if we when inserting a leader with text and we have more than a single line of text, the leader a smart leader, would add a grouping line (don't know what else to call it) to the leader and would grow as lines of text increase. maybe a radio button to allow or not, and to take it a step further, straight or bezier leader. All in Favor, say " oh yeah what a time savor"

Nice touch Joe, I may steal the idea when I'm remodeling my daughter's house. Throw in my grand kids, playing PlayStation or Xbox. LOL.

VHampton, Pretty much what I do or how I present my elevations in my Construction docs. Nice touch with the color, I do that with my Photography, B&W with one object in color. Ole technique called "Selective Color" but I love it. Well done.

Yeah thanks, I''m aware of all our options. I don't typically use JPEGS for con docs, I keep everything live so to speak, just in case of changes. which we all know happens all to often. This was just a simple project to give my niece some ideas, the opposite wall and shower area is where things are mostly happening so to speak. The photo's I used are actually ones I took of her and my grand kids at her wedding and some everyday pics I took. Just something on the walls. A DIY project she has going on up in Minn.. If it were local to me in NJ, pretty sure I'd be doing the job. Thankfully it's not. 45 yrs as a GC,/ New Home & Cabinet builder, enough is enough. Been doing CAD since 1982 when AutoCAD came out till present. CA for I think about 20 yrs. Another few years and it'll be time to retire. HAH!..where have I heard that before. Been saying that for a few years. In our blood, we love what we do. If this were for my con docs & permits, I typically use either Technical views or Hand drawn lines all set to zero for elevations. Building depts.don't care or really need pretty pictures as much as my clients and / or my subs contractors do. Even renderings, I'll just use a Standard rendering and post process in Photoshop. Twin Motions if I really need to go to a more extreme. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Again I appreciate you help and input. Thank you. Doug

Just a Vector View. This was a simple project for my niece. One reason I didn't use Standard view is that there wasn't enough contrast between the wall color and trim, they seemed to meld together with less definition.

Thank you, Thank you to all that replied, I used Susan's post as a guild and read everyone's. All had something to add. Sincerely, Doug

Thank you Susan, Worked just fine, I should have thought about it a bit more than I did. So, I took it one step further being I wanted them to show in both Wall Elevations and 3D views. After placing frames, while in wall elevation view I imported the JPEG's, sized and placed in frame, saved in plan.opened the JPEGs and copied files path, Then in User library, >right click New, Material> Texture, paste path into Source...Stretch to Fit. To Photos folder etc.,. etc..material painter to frame. Viola, now I have it in Elevation views and 3d views. BTW, prior to doing the above, I copied all the photos from original location to the job folder along with plans/layout etc. so they travel with plan file when I the move the job folder off C drive to a flash drive enabling me to open on other computer should I need. Re linking them may be needed but I'll have them should I need. Again thank you. Doug

Is there a way to put a picture in a frame and have it show in 3D views? I made some custom picture frames using solids, polylines to solids, molding polylines etc.,etc. I made them in wall Elevation camera views. I want to insert personal JPGS into picture frames. Tried it but didn't seem to work, The pictures imported correctly and I was able to size them to fit pictures as long as I was in that particular view. Made a Photo layer, placed them on that layer. However, If I change to a perspective view or full camera view with layer Photos on, pictures don't appear. I tried moving them using X,Y,Z coords to no avail. I realize it's a 2D object with no depth, probably why they don't show up in 3D,,,so what's the trick / workaround, I'm thinking using a Material Region or the like, as if I we're putting up wall paper. Thanks for any input

X15 I just did a Door schedule and what a mess it was. (I don't typically use them but make my own via Excel ) With every room named, it took me 2 hours to fix it. Under Room Name, see attached... it would give the (Bath/Living or Closet/Bedroom) I imagine cause bath is off Living room, Closet opens into Bedroom.... I can deal with that, but if there was two closets in one bedroom, one would read closet/ bedroom and the other would read bedroom/ closet. With no way to actually edit Text in a CA generated schedule without converting schedule to text. The problem converting to text you lose the door tags in floor plan. I had to make two schedules, convert one to text and edit it and sent that to plan, the original was kept in the same cad detail so as not to lose the tags. All could have been so easy if we could edit the text within the schedule without converting to text. If I'm doing something wrong, please enlighten me. Cause having to edit the entire schedule, including the order of which it was generated, was complete BS. BTW, Same with window schedule with a twist, I had a dining room and living room separated by an invisible wall, (different floor finishes) I had a window placed about a foot into Living room (living room side of invisible wall) yet in the schedule it kept saying under Room name it was in the dining room. Both room were named accordingly. I had to convert the schedule to text and edit. Again the tags in plan view changed back to window size. Thankfully job is out the door, But if I have to go thru this ^%$^^ every time I need to use a Window/Door schedule..."yishe" I hate to think what a complicated schedule will look like. Thanks for any advice...

Am I imagining we have an option to select Window Aprons from library & returns Pre X15? I know we can check to have or not to have but I'm pretty sure we had control over the profile of apron. Attached is a Niche where I have no option to selected the apron to match casing. Even the actual window aprons don't match the casing. Nor can I change it, I could swear we used to be able to. Or was I doing it manually with 3d moldings and I'm losing it. Hummmm

Hey Gene, made a back-up of plan and did exactly what you mention. How I got the base Cad drawing I show with a couple modifications. Then I said to myself why not just treat is like a second floor (as Ryan suggests) seems to have worked. Hopefully I'll post a section and 3D framing when able. Thank you for all responses. Doug

Hi Gene, thanks for the additional points. Doug

Thanks Ryan, confirmed my thoughts exactly...now off to do it, appreciate your response. If I have time I'll post a 3D framing pic. Thanks once again. Doug