cjanderson66

I recently saw a video a user posted that he made a change to one object that made that change to all the objects but I can't seem to find that video again. My client now wants to see all the windows on the project changed to black windows the way I originally had them at the beginning of the design. Instead of opening each window at a time, is there a way to make the change all at once? I know this is a simple answer but I am struggling to find it and I sure wish I would have saved that video. This was not something from the eyedropper is was in the side panel like the project browser. Hoping someone can help me on this one. Thanks all.

Gene, I don't do this a lot either but if I remember correctly all you have to do is go to your defaults, floors and Rooms, floor level, floor 0 and edit the rough ceiling height. This will change the entire floor hieight for the whole level and not just room by room. Chris

Thanks Michael, I knew it was simple as that. Delete and trim,,,

I have designed a very large deck and the client wanted to take 2' off in one direction and another 3' in the other. I have custom framed the deck framing per the engineer and don't want to change the framing. The problem is that I need to rebuild the deck in order to not show the decking from overhanging the framing. Is there a way to just rebuild the decking and not the framing of the deck itself. as you can from the rendering shown below you can see that the decking overhangs the decking. Everytime I rebuild it it changes the framing per CA.

CAD Detail from View is available in all line-based views, including plan view and any 3D view using the Vector View Rendering Technique. See Rendered and Vector Views. The funny thing Robert is that I looked that up and when I saw in all line based views, I stopped. I didn't even think about the fact I was in Technical View. Thanks again for your help.

Damn your GOOD Robert. I knew it had to be something simple. Thanks

It was there it was just hidden from the drop down menu

Here you go Rob... As you can see it does not give me the opportunity to make a CAD detail from view.

I have created a section view and added text to it. Why is it that once I have done this that it will not let me create a CAD detail from View?

I have come across this situation a couple of times but can't seem to figure it out. I have drawn a site plan based upon a survey and then had to rotate the plan to make it so that the walls will be parallel X,Y to my screen. When doing so it seems that now my X,Y&Z have been rotated as well. How can I rotate my X,Y axis so that it matches my plan view?

Mike, The B&B is the standard white board & batten texture but what I did was change the material color to white and then on texture tab in material color checked the blend with texture to make it stand out a bit more.

Your absolutely correct Stephen and here is a great example of a project that I am currently working on where the engineer designed it with trusses.

Don't get me wrong Perry, most of the projects I do are High end remodels and are stick framed but for a new home trusses are the only way to go. The unfortunate thing is a lot of home owners who are doing custom homes think trusses are only for track homes so the yare willing to pay for the good stuff.

Unfortunately Perry, here in California, as you know the cost of stick framing is becoming overwhelmingly expensive. The cost of lumber has gone up dramatically and the cost of a good framer is crazy expensive, let alone engineers are over designing which brings the cost up even more. This is primarily why we are starting to use trusses in more applications as it brings the load to the exterior of the walls and we are not having to bring the loads downward where more interior beams and footings are required. I have been a proclaimed advocate for stick framing for many years and could put any framer to shame when asked how do I frame it, but I have to say that it is becoming much more economical on the industry of code enforcement in the state of California, especially when home building prices are in the range of $600/s.f.

I am just trying to get an accurate representation when it comes to the cross sections. The city has a building height requirement and I originally used 2X10's but now that the engineer has specified trusses, I will need to change my cross sections to represent and like I said, I have several areas where there are attic areas for the furnace, storage, vaulted areas and it has become complicated. I know that the truss company will do it as designed but it should show properly in my cross sections and elevations.

I have been a stick framer primarily in all my designs but the engineer would like to use trusses. The design I currently have was designed using stick framing and I need to change the roof to trusses. Since I have never done trusses in Chief I went to watch a video but it was for X9. It appears that is has changed since then and I now need to know how do I create trusses for my roof plan? Will I have to draw each plane with a truss or does it do it automatically? This is a fairly complex roof that has stop and start trusses along with attic trusses. Is anyone familiar with using trusses as I am in need of your expertise. Thanks,

I have a client that is requesting a (4) panel sliding Nana wall that will slide into a wall. Has anyone created one? This would be with a 4" exterior wall with a (4) panel slide by into a 10" wall with another 4" interior wall. Trying to figure out the best way to create one.

I would but this file is huge. Here is the issue I am having. I did what you suggested and converted the house into a symbol after I reverse the plan. Now the house is a symbol and I can't get it back to an actual plan. Is there a way to explode the symbol so it is back to my plan with walls, roof etc. Man this is frustrating sometimes.

Well to add to the confusion!!! My client just called and now she wants to move the whole house forward by 5' and flip or reverse the design all together. I'm with you @joey_martin, still Old School, print plan and elevation and roll up around a good ole canary sketch paper. But, this time is has got me puzzled and leads me to @Kbird1for the reversing a plan and @Renerabbittmaking a symbol out of the plan. I have gotten that far but the problem with a symbol I am having with the plan is I cannot move the plan to a specific location without exploding it first. Not that that is a problem because then I just have to move each floor to that x,y location.... Make sense? Or is there another way

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have never used the Terrain as a symbol but I get the idea or jist of it. Although I am a bit hesitant because of all the additional stuff on my plans that I have, i.e. trees, contours, setbacks elev. heights, etc...

So my client has decided that she would like to see the house moved forward by 8' to show the neighbors how the proposed design would look at the current house setback. Now the new home has a CC&R setback of 40' to the city setback of 25'. My dilemma is that how do I move the entire house on the plan but still save the current configuration in the existing layout? Do I have to a save as and create a whole new layout as well, which is what I am assuming? I just have a horrible feeling that she is going to also want to flip the entire house as well. Man some clients can just turn a nice set of hair grey!!!!