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This is project management mode...no access to the filenmae

You don't have to change the wall type to change the thickness. You could create wall breaks, open up that section of wall and type in a thickness. If the wall jut out is wider that a few inches and then comes back, I will often draw a another wall for the jut out and change its properties to "no room definition", just for the jut out. You could also draw the wall to follow the jut outs, as I assume you only care about the inside dimensions... if you have no room of interest on the other side

anyone seen this error: I can export the CA project after I got this error, just cant make a copy...and no, the check knowledgebase does not have anything I took a chance and saved and closed the plan file and layout and it can now make a copy ...never had a problem before making a copy of a plan file while it was open

well, since you are talking about walls flipping...watch out for this one as well, where the wall gets its default material changed when I created an alcove similar to a chimney https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/37172-siding-is-backwards-on-wall/ It was acknowledged as a bug at the time

If you are not already, you need to calculate the ceiling heights using elevations. There is a topic on the forum somewhere

I've been looking for apps that tell you once you are done scanning if the scan is successful (cubicasa does this). I typically draw the plans onsite with CA. I find its worth the couple hours to ensure it is correct. But I also scan using cubicasa as it is only $10 and you get the floor plan the next day. I will also use cubicasa for floors that are not actually being renoed, as no one cares if the dimensions are out by a few inches. But I do ensure the outside walls are correct, so that I can do correct elevations. Polycam supposedly does the floor plan as soon as you are done scanning, but I have not been able to get it to work on my phone. What I would really like is as soon as I am done scanning, I get the floor plan, and the 3D model (so I can see other things like furnaces, hot water tanks, etc). Today I take a video. If you find something that works, please do post it. For me, I can draw over a floor plan provided by these apps and pay myself $100/hr, vs paying 20c/sq ft for a CA file. i.e. for a 2000 sq ft house, I can draw onsite in CA in max 3 hours, vs paying $400. The largest variable for me is roof lines and split levels, and I dont know if you actually get proper roof lines with canvas?

its a terrain feature, which I assume even thought it is represented as a pline, means if I break it, it will no longer move up and down with terrain changes

well I realized another option is to make that terrain feature really tall, downside is, I cant cut it off at the PL line because it is now a large pline: but maybe thats ok. so final problem: The above is vector view, and I print plot lines. But plot lines does not seem to print the dashes "well", in that the dashes are not consistent as soon as the line curves (pdf screenshot is below): Is there a trick to this? or is it just a vector and plot lines limitation? I tried live view, but had to change the line weight to 18 to show up, but it then shows as tiny dashes:

I assume then if you want to lower or raise grade, then you are lowering or raising your manual grade lines, as I assume your topo lines are static from a 3rd party survey(i.e. the topo lines are an initial reference only)? Or are you using a 3D topo program, getting the grade to where you want it, then importing those lines back into CA to then manually adjust your manual grade line?

hmmmm How do you do that? Are you manually drawing grade lines or are you using CA's terrain? If the latter are you then doing a CAD detail from view and then copying and moving?

The jurisdiction here has been moving to measuring building height from any point where the building meets grade, in order to determine if the height complies to bylaw. This is a bit flawed because roof peaks are in the middle not at grade...but this seems to be the trend du jour More and more revit drawings that I have seen now show a max bylaw height envelope which mirrors grade. I was playing around with terrain features: and thought maybe add in another terrain feature with it x feet above the terrain. It worked okay: but because it is not a line, but 3d, I put it at 0.1" or 0" thick, but the dashed line does not turn out great because it is drawing two of them, one for the top and one for bottom of the 3d terrain features. How are others accomplishing this? CAD detail from view and then offsetting it? I tried a fence with just a top rail,but max height seems to be 200 in+ 120" vertical offset for the top rail equals 320", where for residential here it is between 33 and 36 '....short by about 8 feet

after fiddling with terrain on elevations, and on my last job actually had to draw a line in because it looked like this: I finally decided once and for all to implement a terrain feature that is really slim, in my template plan, to allow control of the grade showing in layout without having to move the camera and fiddle around I have four of these elevation features, one for each elevation. This is the downside, it means a separate layer set for each elevation, but because I have these elevation already in my template layout, its not that big of a deal, as I changed them there as well: Layer sets in plan: then in my template layout I have, for example, for my left elevation layout box: and the layerset has for the above: Note the "terrain perimeter" is off. That is on purpose in order to not show the terrain, but to show the terrain feature slice instead. The terrain feature on the plan is shown below (4 of them, one for each elevation) Each is assigned a different layer (I used "Terrain Featureslice bottom PL", ..top to PL, etc. I named them PL erroneously as I copied these from another plan where I had to provide grade at PL) The thickness(which is actually how deep the terrain feature is below the top of the terrain) is that large of a number so the bottom of this feature is well below the bottom of a basement. You can then move them to wherever you would like on the plan for the grade to show on the elevation. The elevation on layout using the layer "terrain perimeter" (normal method): The elevation on layout using the terrain feature and the terrain perimeter layer turned off A much cleaner look.

I'm not understanding, IF you are using project management mode, you have projects and have no access to the project files unless you export or backup. if you are not using project management mode, you save files to directories. Are you using project management mode?

i've always used layout boxes with update on demand for renders to avoid the whole create an image from a render over and over and over again The painful part is printing, because CA then renders it again for printing

@Renerabbittsells a template plan. You could ask him if his has what you need. I will also add that the use of saved plan views which use default sets, makes things a lot more consistent