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its almost like an 80s video game. odd thing is the elevation looks to change to a "live view" ..in the elvation (not the layout). Screen Recording 2026-08-03 225420.mp4 I have not updated or touched any driver in the past few weeks

i do one of two things, what perry does, if it is intrusive, or just show the original on a separate layout page, and then the proposed on different layout pages, without referencing each other (2 separate files) If you actually want to show a bunch of walls removed on the proposed plans, watch the CA video on reference plans. This question probably gets asked twice a year so there should also be forum entries on it

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yes, that is the CA app. The CA app measures the walls and creates the floor plan using lidar. You do not need a third party tool. But, my advice is to take control measurements with a laser, and any area of interest with a laser. The lidar essentially creates a floor plan as you move from wall to wall. This inherently needs to reconcile when things do not add up. i.e. when it gets back to where you started and it is out by a few inches, it does something. That "something" is not necessarily what you would do, and it does not tell you how it is making adjustments, which is why you would need control measurements to adjust once you have completed the scan. in other words, it is not a raw scanning tool of wall surfaces. it scans and has smarts to it by creating walls, corners at 90 degs, etc...in CA's format for the user to use in CA

yes as long as the iphone or ipad supports lidar (mostly the pro version). see CA's post on this

hmmm, it looks to show the active layer set: Screen Recording 2026-07-25 164259.mp4 section: section:

The agent needs to be able to argue back so less changes are actually needed

Doesn't ca already have a cad to walls function. One could get ai to change the image to cad and then import into ca? The feature to highlight and change objects in the render is quite nice. Not sure about the auto generate a floor plan. What happens if you don't like it. Can you sit there and keep generating until there is one you like. It would be nice if it actually did the hard stuff like elevations and roofs

layer_set on the wall properties?

see below. There is no break in the foundation wall nor the main floor wall. I know I can pull it down...but should I have to? On the residential template, it only exhibits the same behaviour in the corner. shown below as well. I also noticed it shows as bottom plate & sill plate in my plan in the structure panel, but the residential template only shows 1. both have sill plates checked on the foundation walls stock template: 179 Maple Court Cr SE.zip any ideas

interesting, nothing to do with uplift, only lateral support for the foundation walls. And that section has been around since at least 2006 next time I drive by a house being framed I will take a look.

9.15 has the max height and backfill, and states that an anchor bolt to the "floor system" is required for exterior grade > 4ft above slab. But his "ladder cap" can't be seriously considered as the anchored sill plate(and by code can't be one as there is a required nailing pattern into the sill plate), which means then every house in alberta with > 4ft of exterior backfill, needs a normal 2X4/6 sill plate with anchor bolts?

and do you know where this convention for the "ladder cap"/ OSB sill plate came from? I don't see it anywhere in the code, and the code requires a minimum nailing into a sill plate, so it cannot even be considered a real sill plate

hmm, I thought the AB edition, which explicitly has the ladder, precluded a requirement for anchor bolts unless in high wind. or is everywhere high wind these days? 1) Except as required by Sentence 9.23.6.3.(1), building frames shall be anchored to the foundation unless a structural analysis that considers wind and earthquake loads and lateral earth pressures shows that anchorage is not required. 2) Except as provided in Sentences (3) to (6), anchorage shall be provided by a) embedding the ends of the first floor joists in concrete, b) fastening the sill plate to the foundation with not less than 12.7 mm diam anchor bolts spaced not more than 2.4 m o.c., or c) embedding in concrete two 38 mm by 89 mm sill plates, placed on edge and separated by blocking spaced 1.2 m o.c. 3) For buildings with 2 or more floors supported by frame walls that are in areas where the seismic spectral acceleration, Sa(0.2), is not greater than 0.70 or the 1-in-50 hourly wind pressure (HWP) is equal to or greater than 0.80 kPa but not greater than

I just specify the ladder in the details like above, and I ignore it everywhere else. BTW it is typically specified as pressure treated, same with sill plate(although I've never understood the purpose of a sill plate if you have a ladder, maybe to avoid a sill sealer or PT bottom plate on the knee wall side, although in your case there is a sill sealer). If I had to I would do the same with the insulated rim board(shown in details only) and specify the width of the rimboard per the spec above The sill plate is part of the basement (many arguments on this one) It is specified as part of the wall but doesnt look like you can get it below 1". others may chime in here