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check with @Renerabbitt. he is in socal I believe and sells templates

I would say the SPV allows one to stay more organized as it is a collection of defaults, layerset. It is one button instead for 2 or more everytime you want to change to a different default set. I have most of the SPVs for instance to put text and dimensions on their own layer, and then the layerset for that SPV matches it I still occasionally override the layout box to use a specific layerset if the one I want does not match the SPV. If you are setting up SPVs you need to also decide how far to go. I do not have an SPV for every scale, nor do I have one for every floor level. I do have default sets for every scale, so in theory if I want to use different size fonts, when I first start a project, I will change the defaults in the SPV to be the scale I want and then save that SPV. A lot of time I am lazy and just change the font size of the default set (which then changes everything made with it) I do not use the _working plan view. I have the following...but the Elevations one is new for this project. it is the same as the plot plan view but with a different layer set. Basically if I am going to spend time going back and forth between a layerset, I will typically create an SPV for it(because that is my navigation between layersets) If it is a new layerset with just one layer turned on/off to differentiate itself from another, then I will typically just set that in the layout box

hmmm not sure I understand, can you elaborate? i.e. are you doing this on top of the layout box?

the problem is the space between the letters and the underline beneath those letters (touching in my case), not that underlining can be set to underline a space in between words CA gives me this: I want something more like:

Typically I dimension the actual setbacks from PL to building, and let the Development authority check to see if it complies But, I've seen a few plans where all of the important information is displayed on the first page in a summary like below. So is there an easy way to get a dimension into a global variable in order to report it? Maybe make a symbol, with some arrows, and use its label to display its width and assign to a global variable? ...although the symbol wont move when I move the wall, so the dimension would not be dynamic, kind of defeating the purpose Ideally need something that acts like a dimension line Anything easier?

well found, what I could only describe as a classic work around and reminds me of the 90s typing ____ in places. The below is for font size 9" 1.don't underline the text 2. put a bunch of spaces underneath on the next line and underline those and reduce font size(in my case I set to 7). (and adjust number of spaces to match word above) 3. Set user specified line height for the above to be 35% (if you do not change the font size to be lower per above, it looks like you cannot specify lower numbers for this property. Mine kept going back to 35 even if I type 10 or 15). I.e. if you keep step 2. at 9" size, it looks like it can only get so close vertically to the text above it. looks much prettier...but still there must be a better way ...maybe it is a side effect of having my windows display at 150%...like the old text wrap issue form a couple years ago

i can get a little bit of clearance by picking another font, but it is still tiny

your screenshot looks pretty close to touching...at least with my glasses... on my computer The screenshot I posted was once I printed to PDF using the CA PDF driver does the PDF show like that as well on the Mac?

I looked in the forums for underline, and surprisingly only 2 pages of topics are returned. Anywho, the CA underlining always has the line directly under, and touching the text. Is there a way to have a gap?

I removed the scale from the title block a long time ago, and put it on the elevation or floor plan label. If there is no scale or I do not want people to scale, but people might be expecting a scale I will put NTS on the label. Then you never have to worry about keeping them in sync

Thanks, This worked although the markers(now CA elevation point markers) are tiny compared to the DXF viewer when I first took a look for them, so they could be overlooked...for future readers of this post. I then grabbed them all and increased the size. All good. Next related question. After seeing the very uneven terrain that CA concocted from them, I just want them as Xs or point markers as I will probably do what Joe mentioned and try and draw some contour lines. Other than CAD detail from view(which converts the point marker X to 2 lines), are there any other ways to convert the elevation marker back to an X or something else. I dont see anything usefull on the context menu...although replace from llbrary was promising until it filtered by terrain object

and for those of us who rarely every send to layout...is there a method?

create a polyline when the wall layers are on to get the brick. The default living area label is to outside of studs

In fiddling around I think I see the issue, the object wont always follow the terrain unless you open it up and close it...rather annoying

...having to open and close to trigger the macro...the problem that never dies although the updated schedules in X16 got rid of a lot of my macros that sometimes suffered that issue. ...maybe I should try a schedule to solve this problem....never know I'm going to try a couple more things, but may head his way. sometimes when I lay off the problem for a couple days I come up with a new idea