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I'm always looking for a good exterior scan option. But FARO seems like a pretty penny. I've tried a bunch of photogrammery apps, but none worked that well. Do you know of other options other than FARO

you can paste screenshots directly into the comment. I cannot see your pngs. But there are two ways to have parralel walls which are right next to each other. Make the inside wall "no room definition" in its properties, or ii) make a wall that has both walls in in it. Check the help or this forum for "furred wall"

@DBCooper says it is then manual. I assume then if I change a wall, I need to go do it again? If so, to avoid the rinse repeat over and over again, I'll leave it on floor 0. if it is automatic then yes floor 1 sounds like the better option

Thats what I would do, split it up across pages, by sending it twice to layout, on different pages, and cropping the layout box differently on the pages to reflect the portions of the block plan

I've seen this posted on the forum in the past, but I do not remember the answer (other than of course create your own). you may wish to search the forum on this one for a predone one, or scale a predone one

I lose the bottom tool bar when the window changes size. A double click on the CA window title bar brings it back to properly fill the screen. This typically happens when my computer resumes from sleep mode///for some unknown reason

yes. each version of CA is a seperate instance, but you should double check with CA sales

I use floor 0 as well for this exact reason, If I am lazy I will copy the CAD line to floor 1 for certain terrain features, but I also have a saved plan view that references terrain items (from floor 0) to show on floor 1

the other way to narrow down the offending wall is to just draw a new wall bisecting the room, and then click on either side to see if you can select a room. rinse, repeat.

I assume you have ceiling planes? you could pull them back to see if the wall builds.

You may not need the attic/turned into living space concept. the image posted appears to me to just be a second storey as the second storey walls look to be bearing on the first storey walls. if they want 16x24 on top of a 24x24 garage, I would just put a first storey roof over the back 8' and align the three walls to the garage walls at the front, and if they want a vaulted ceiling starting at 5' on the sides(maybe to meet height restrictions?), then draw in ceiling planes to give you the roof trusses. The front gable does not look like a real gable, it looks like an eave drawn to look like a gable. But if I were them, I would build 24x24 on top and if they want the back 8ft to be nothing then just make it storage. You can dress upt the roofs how you would like As you are in canada, beware the outside stairs, if conditioned, you will need to pipe heat in there, or you can put a door at the top and leave unconditioned. In alberta, the outside stairs are a "tall wall" and will require engineering. Also, not sure how your jurisdiction treats limiting distance. Here I have to draw an imaginary property line between the garage suite and the house and then calculate unprotected openings and ensure the aggregate is less than the table in the NBC

Good suggestion. I did add onto jkedmos suggestion last week where you could specify a floor region similar to a terrain region. Which after thinking about it that is probably the simplest way from the user perspective. The other way I've thought is to be able to lock the absolute elevation of the floor

btw, check multiple cross sections frequently I also look at the framing overwiew to see where top plates suddenly change to a different height

if you are using project manegment mode, click on the plan file, right click for the shortcut menu and then click make a copy

the text box with the macro must be placed in the room on the floor plan (and see Alaskan son's comment that it must be wrapped in %). or if using are using the TMM (text macro management) to run it, you must have previously selected the room on the floor plan view