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"Please do not use this Suggestions forum to report bugs. You should always contact our Technical Support department directly if you think that you have found a bug in one of our products. There you have it, although I'm not sure how the, lets call them, deficiencies in the stair tool are classified. One man's defect is another man's enhancement better to error on the cautious side and log them through support I suppose

z moving...one of the first great tidbits I learned from @solver before he left the forum

Outside of the beta program, there are two methods, tech support and the suggestions forum. If tech support is the speedier way, then CA should publish this. I will ask the question to tech support, hopefully I get an answer.

After using it for a month, I find it is quicker, and clearer as it is all right there. But I also have my own _template project I created, so I just copy that for a new project. Where before I would have to go in and link the layout to the plan. Works nice to see as built and different plan options I logged the stair problems in the suggestions area, as requested by CA.

If you have the floor plans and built the model in CA, normally I will use the TNR to move the roof in the Z direction to match existing elevations, as normally plans do not have heel height. Or if possible, rebuild the roof with different heel heights until they match, but heel height is global for the plan, so if you have different heel heights, TNR will work instead

import the pdf into a CAD detail, (or on your plan) and scale the drawing using a known number on the pdf, or assume a floor level height 8' or 9' as the client tells you, and then scale using that. then use the CA measure tool to measure the height I do mostly reconstructions, the above works quite well for me or generate your own elevation and superimpose the PDF on top of it.

As someone who does most of my projects in a few hours, there was not a lot of feature changes, so far as I have played around, to improve my efficiency (except project management mode). The new project management mode is quite nice and is quicker for starting a project and using reference display sets. Showing Stairs on either level feature will be nice for garage suites and site plans as well as the walkthrough improvements, when I do them. I look forward to the webinars to see what I may have missed. There are always some good nuggets to pick up

You can drop a text box in the room with a macro. The macro is in the link above

a search for metric room area yields:

I tried that once, then the development authority told me to put them on the plans to get them approved

and if you want a dutch / reverse gable You can take dougs two roof planes above the entry door and move them using the transform replicate tool in the Z and Y directions. Then collapse the main lower roof to where it was,. and then draw a second floor wall below the gable roof planes, with the property roof cuts wall at bottom

that is handy, where today I just guess

Are you looking to put a gable there or a dormer? I dont think a dormer would fit. Post the .plan file

or use %width"W x %height%H then there is no debate

select the roof planes and go to transform replicate, move it in the z direction