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BTW, many of these houses were built using square nails that are slightly tapered. It's cool to find. I heard that the blacksmiths used to make them. Don't know for sure. These houses are very well built. Also, it's very hard to drive a nail into these shiplap walls with a hammer because wood gets very hard as it ages. I have shiplap walls on all my walls in my house and it's kind hard to drive a nail into them.

Decorationarts, They have 1x12 shiplap (thicker than 3/4") Yes. in the very old houses here, the old 1x12 ship lap is closer to 7/8" thick. How do they have ship lap in the interior? All of the houses here in the Historical district have shiplap on both sides on the interior and exterior walls. What is thicker then 3/4" ? Already answered. on both sides of the studs Already answered. Yes. How do they have shiplap in the inside? Should't be Lath and Plaster? No. The only areas that have lath and plaster are areas that have tile like in the bathrooms and some kitchens. Many rooms with wallpaper have a separate cloth backing. and below the ceiling joists (sometimes on top too). Would that be lath and plaster? No lath and plaster. Shiplap like I said. We have seen some houses with shiplap above the ceiling joists too. 1/4" drywall on the inside Yes. Again, lath and plaster? Drywall was later, this is 1890 I can't be specific about the years. These houses in the "Heights" were the first houses built in Houston when Houston became a city. and wood siding on the exterior. how thick the wood siding? Slightly over 3/4" but close enough. Cedar was thicker (in most cases). 2x4 rafters at 24" O.C. with 3/4 shiplap Yes as stated. Perry, we have to match the existing house as close as possible on the exterior. If you're making any additions or renovations in the Historical District, it has to go through the Houston Historical Society (District) review first. They want to maintain the old historical look. They could care less what you do to the interior. When submitting a plan to the Houston Historical Society (District), you have to submit a plan showing the existing house in 3D (or at least elevations) too. There are several different historical districts the greater downtown Houston area and some of them have slightly different rules. A couple of builders we do plans for are mainly doing work in the historical area. These plans take a lot longer to do due to the detailing. The Historical District has commented that some of our plans are the best they have seen. (Thanks Chief). We are very good at doing these kind of houses.

Eric, here in Houston, we do a lot of work in the historical district. Most of those houses have 2x4 walls and ceiling joists @ 24" O.C.. The 2x4s are a full 2x4 thick. They have 1x12 shiplap (thicker than 3/4") on both sides of the studs and below the ceiling joists (sometimes on top too). 1/4" drywall on the inside and wood siding on the exterior. 2x4 rafters at 24" O.C. with 3/4 shiplap.

There are several approaches depending on what you are doing for the fireplace and chimney. I don't have access to V10 anymore. I can't get the hardware lock to work with Windows 8. Would be happy to do an online meeting with you and look at your computer though.

BTW, it comes with Chief and is already in the library. Here it is explained better. Unblock it. Edit it. Re-block it. Looks like yours.

Look in the library for room call-outs. They have the look you want.

Perry, did you look at the link? Apparently no one uses it like I do but it is very helpful.

Well, I happen to agree with Doug. Back then, the macro wasn't working right which was confirmed by Doug. Now it works. Everyone can do it as they wish.

Doug Park has already commented that using the layout box label is not the correct way to do this. See post #17 from this link. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/236-x6-layout-question/?hl=%2Bscale+%2Bmacro Joey, when I do my meeting with you tomorrow, I'll show you a good way to do this. Fast and easy.

We see mistakes all the time in plans that are from Architects. Mistakes such as dimensions not adding up, roofs that don't work, elevations that don't match the plan, etc.. We don't really say anything to anyone except letting the homeowner know of some problems with the plans provided. We never say anything to the Architect for it's not our place to do that nor do we care. We just have to make it right. If we are just modeling the plan from the Architects plan for the homeowner and find that things are not right or don't work, then we just explain that to the homeowner. If dimensions don't add up right or elevations don't match the plans, we can simply tell the homeowner to look closer at the plans.

We have a free online meeting Monday, April 6, 2015 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (Central Time). If you would like to attend, then please send me an email using my email address shown in my signature. Feel free to call me if you need more information or questions. Sincerely,

Mark, a few years ago, I made some lip molded doors/drawers and paneled doors like we would actually make in the field using 3/8" lip mold. For the paneled doors, I used the panel molding that we used to make this type of door in the field in combination with 3/4" Birch or Oak plywood. The paneled doors have the 3/8" lip mold too. If you are interested in this library, let me know (and the version of CA you're using).

Todd, the only thing I would do is to unblock both cad blocks. Now draw a marquee around the cad block you want to join to the other (don't block it). Once selected and with you end snap turned on, do a point to point move. The snaps should work and you can place the selected cad object to the other one with snaps.

Todd, it kinda looks like the only reason you have this is to get a different room label. If so, then I would delete it and just place text for the different room name. Just a quick fix.

If you're drawing the roof manually and you want to quickly see where the roof intersect each other, use the "Roof laser tool". It's actually a setting you have in preferences so that you can place roof intersection points. I don't believe it's on by default.

I just started using X7 this week for a remodel. I really glad that I haven't run into any problems yet. I'll need a little time to get used to it for a while.

My 1st. rule is to save and name the plan before I do anything. In doing this, you won't have the problem you just encountered. An untitled plan will not be kept.

I always rotate the site plan. I never rotate the house or building unless there is no other choice.

I just sent you a reply.

If you would like some one on one help today for free, call or email me. I can show you via gotomeeting.

I always have to do this kind of stuff with stairs completely manual from newels to railing to get the look I need. Major pain. I won't bring up volutes. I try not to even do the railing until I know for sure how the client wants the stairs.

This is so correct. Just went through this with a girl that works with Louis. I was making changes in the drop box and she was not seeing them and was getting errors when she opened the layout. I had to go there and watch what she was doing and this is how I found the problem. She was changing the path on how she was accessing the plan and layout. Once I showed her that she can't do it that way, there was no longer any problems. She had created a shortcut to access the file. In doing this, she had changed the path of the plan and to the layout.

On a large layout, after I hit print, it may take anywhere from 1 minute to 2 minutes to bring up the box to name it and save it. Naming it and saving it goes fast. The smaller the layout, the faster it goes. This is the only thing using the program that takes any time to do. Like I mentioned, I didn't have this problem in X5 and previous versions.

Adam, if you're talking about printing to make a PDF, then I'm having that problem too when the layout is fairly large. It will make it though if you just wait and let it do it. I never had this problem in previous versions. I haven't tried it in X7 yet since I just downloaded it.

This sort of reminds me of the "Dealers" that Chief used to have years go.