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We use point markers and dimesion them to the slab edge. We add a label for the fixture and room name

Well the webinar did it's thing. Thanks CA for creating another great version of this product!

Not sure this is how @Renerabbitt did it but it inspired me to create something in a wall type and this was the end result, for a quick 3D rendering it works great. Gables would take a little of clean up but it's quick and simple, create two layers of siding and make the outer one the depth of the siding you want. Set it to have framing and set up the width and spacing you want. Then set your top and bottom plates if you want them and voila... Windows and doors will create issues as the framing will be automatic around them but you can delete and edit as needed I guess.

Wow, I hope this is not the case. I love this idea of a managed resource one location for everything. Just hoping we will be able to eventually do a "save as" location when setting up a new project eventually. That way you described is way too tedious.

I'm going to be in the webinar later today so hopefully this question will be answered but I'm wondering how we are supposed to share projects in a cloud file management scenario? Usually we save our files to the cloud in a shared folder and then we each access them from there when we need to work on it. When setting up a new project there is not "Save As" or "Choose Location" only the default saving folder in preferences. If this is how it is going to be it kills my entire workflow set up I've established with my staff for the past 10 years. Using MS Teams we create a team for each project and have a folders in the files for all of our relevant project information. Then we all have access to this folder from our individual computers through shortcut links. This seems to want to force a central location into one folder (which could be in the cloud I understand) but doesn't seem like we can move them to where they need to be or am I mistaken? Anyone wish to enlighten me I would be grateful

Yeah that's cool for sure! We use a team to review out layout sets for each other and rather than putting it in the plan file itself we find it easier to add notes to the layout sheets and delete them as they are addressed. However, having an annotation set makes it easier than having to copy paste to keep the red text, etc. Just an efficiency thing. Just think if we have annotation sets in Layout we should have arrows associated the same as in plan files... seems like common sense to me really.

Create a "Redlines" annotation set for revision clouds and text that can be easily set for making notes to give to my staff.

They are not... they are in the defaults and in order to change it for your annotation set you have to change it in the defaults and then "save your active defaults" to a new set. And you can't overwrite your current set so you have to make a new one with a different name, delete the old one and then rename the new set back to the old name. This is how it looks in the plan file... Here's where you have to change it in layout file

Why in God's green earth is this a thing at all? Why is it not under "Markers" like in the plan file? Chief devs, what's the deal?

I may have answered my own question, in doing some testing I found that Auto Framing was on by unchecking all auto framing it did help quite a bit which would make sense if it has to rebuild the framing everytime you nudge a wall in the slightest movement. Still seems slow for typical operation however but it has improved.

My staff and I have noticed significant slow down in performance lately. We mostly all use the same computers except for one and we all experience the same issues. Usually once a plan gets over a certain size and / or we begin populating it with cabinets and other fixtures it can take 3-7 seconds to refresh with every move. CA support says it's my fills in my wall types but we have tested this by removing all fills with no impact. The only thing I can think is maybe there are some library objects I have created lately that might be slowing it down however these are not anything created outside of what CA already has provided in their library and mostly still basic. I would love to hear some feedback if anyone has experienced this and what you did to resolve the lag if you were able.

Nevermind... just found this exact example in the Ruby Script Tutorial height = room.ceiling_elevation - room.floor_elevation nf = NumberFormatter.new nf.unit = "'-\"" # Hyphenated feet and inches nf.use_fractions = true nf.apply(height)

I'm using the script below to make ceiling height indicators in the framing plan and the current output is 9 FT-1 1/8 IN using this code... nf = NumberFormatter.new nf.unit = 'ft-in' nf.use_fractions = true nf.denominator = 8 nf.show_unit = true nf.apply(room.ceiling_elevation) I want it to output 9'-1 1/8" instead. Is it possible to do this without extensive coding?

I might not be getting the whole layout I'm still fairly new to this software, but I could be missing the who point as well. I was working trying the get the manufacturer data from this door handle and have the custom filed show that data so I can then show it in a schedule

Just trying to see what I'm doing wrong I'm made a custom field on a door that is trying to get a macro to work so it gets the data I have on the door handle components and show the model number I have in the manufacture row.