tommy1

For me it generally depends on the situation. If the dormer is part of the living space and is for some kind of room, I do the dormer manually for I will need to be accurate of the wall placement.

If the cross angle supports are separate from the vertical members then you should be able to select them in plan view and move them. These items are probably at the attic level or a floor up. Probably even be able to do a point to point move.

Without seeing a plan, It will be hard for anyone to give and accurate solution for a specific problem. Try turning off snaps and see if it will go where you want.

Exactly. And if you have a hard time removing the attic wall then make it invisible or turn off auto attic walls and delete it. P-solids would make it easy. Fairly easy carport. I've done this so many times for carports and porches.

To be honest, I'm sort of fed up with this whole situation. Every time the designers marked up revisions, either the builder or homeowner changed it. I've done my part and have been paid, but I'm not going to waste my time on things beyond my control. This job has been going on for over a year now. You would think that the homeowner would start getting frustrated with the builder and designers. I just drafted my part and did around 6 requested revisions. I'm about to walk away from the design process and when everyone gets their Sh** together, I'll get with the builder for construction plans. The only reason I haven't walked away from this job is because I've drawn plans for this builder for around 10 years.

That's what I think. I'm not a big fan of these designers. They do not work for/with me. I warned them and the builder. The designers told me, the builder and the homeowner that it wouldn't matter if I did it in CA. Go figure.

A little more info on what's happening. I drew the model in CA. The designer uses Archicad and she wants to make some revisions with elevations. She said that Archicad opens a lot of program files including CA. I sent her a zip file twice and she said that she couldn't unzip it. Don't understand that. Anyway, my gmail account will let me upload a .plan file so I'll try sending it to her unzipped. Not sure about my file size limit with gmail.

Does anyone know if you can open an X10 file in Archicad? Thank you,

Text and arrows?

Oh man, I'm glad it's not just me then. We have a lot of bay windows in houses that are around 15 to 20 years old that have windows joined together on 3 sides. Never can get it to work right in Chief so I just tell clients not much I can do about it.

Thank you.

I fixing to help a man who just got Home Designer Pro (rental) yesterday I believe. Does anyone know If I should open it with X10 or would X11 be okay. I'll be making revisions and sending it back to him. Don't know if a recent version of Pro is compatible with X11.

Yes I like it.

I would make a custom line style with the spacing you need. Will be a bit of trial and error until you get what you want. If you're going to send to layout at an engineering scale, you should probably check that too.

Are you using Version 10 or do you really mean X10?

I had this same situation a few months ago (X10). I'll go back and see what I did. Probably not the best approach but got it done. Sorry, mine is different from yours.

With so many changes in X11, I made all new anno sets and layer sets with the layers I want to use and am not having any problems with my views.

If you set up a specific anno set linked with a specific layer set with specific layers you won't have that problem.

I've always displayed my roofs above and usually reference walls below so I know for sure where I'm placing it. Then display roof below.Too many steps? Oh well.

Try as I mentioned.

You might just be able to display roof at attic level and use a floating dormer. I'll look at your plan later unless someone else does.

Auto dormers (not floating)) will require walls at the back of the dormer. Don't know what you're trying to do. If all else fails, try placing a blank floor above (don't move roof) and then place a floating dormer on new floor. (display roof on floor above) Didn't look at your plan.

Chad, once again, you can use a molding profile for the lintel as well. It is quite common here to have the lintel boxed out in wood...especially in older homes. I had one made but don't know what happened to it so I made another one in 15 to 30 seconds.

I will have to try this sometime today. I've only had one plan so far in X11 that required two dormers but I did them manually for I had to be real specific on the wall placement for the engineer. This looks like you have a 3 story house right? Sometimes the problem is plan specific so I'll try a 3 story house.

I briefly watched it. As mentioned, I don't have any problems with anything. I never need to tweak my profile unless a particular wall type calls for it. My profile works for all brick walls as long as there is a 5-1/2" brick ledge being used which is what's common here. If I were you, I would forget about using a 3D molding polyline for the brick sill until this gets fixed (if it ever does).