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I use the working layer set as more of a "most layers on" or fiddling around. Otherwise you run into the dimensions and text shown on all layout problem. I'd like to know how one could use the working plan view for both a site plan and a floor plan. My guess is people who use working plan view only use it for floor plans and then for a site plan they have their layout set to use a layerset instead of an spv

the sales/marketing people I deal with want blue sky and sun. basketballmans has too much exposure where the sun washes out (and why the odd shadow into the street?), but rene, they would think yours is too grey. But I'm in Alberta which has the most sun in all of Canada, so maybe they are biased. grey sky here =depressing

Sooo in pondering this some more I'm guessing softplan tested out some ai engine and through trial and error found a command sequence that does not alter the architecture. I'm guessing they are working on some more wrappers. For instance the next improvement they may give is an option to make it brighter but behind the scenes it will execute certain commands they will have tested because, to basketballmans point you also have to tell it what not to do. If they gave people direct access to the ai engine they would be flooded with calls that it altered the building. Or maybe they are trying to find tune ai to do that testing for them

are those the real houses beside it...as in you gave it an address?

have drawers gone out of fashion

I suppose you could ask them to put in a room area schedule which is a paired down version of the room finish schedule without the rooms names and totalized by floor. But really, I think they might just be wiser to put a video out on it like I did. It took 41 seconds to do. As for "which" rooms go into a schedule, jurisdictions have different rules, so I doubt there would ever be a hardcoded method which only chose certain room types. I suppose they could make a specific to form to let you pick by room type. But really you can already do that in the schedule and just have it in your template

hmm, I'm not sure I would call that "built in". It looks like it snapshots the current screen to an image file, uploads it to the cloud, AI runs on it, then it shows it back to you, where you can then download it. And it doesn't look like you can alter the AI image. Is this any different than capturing an image in CA, uploading it to an AI engine, getting it back and then putting it on your layout. seems like the same thing, no? At least with an independent AI engine I can tell it to make it brighter, or change colours or pick the one I want. If it was truly "built in", I could run it on my camera, see different options, pick one, then tell it to make it brighter, change colours, and that is all saved in my model. This perhaps is softplan's step one before doing a truly built in and fully functional AI assistant for images.

the current plan view looks like: If you make them longer in plan view, they show as longer: If you make them longer in truss detail, it does not look to make them longer in plan view. what are you looking to see in plan view?

how would the truss look any different in plan view from before and after you modified it? I'm not understanding something...

plan view or elevation view?

..and probably need to look at the terrain videos

here it is even simpler for the past 25 years. main floor, second floor, foundation optional if there is a reno in the basement, then "finished area" which is usually total less utility room. So i have for my template 2 different ones to pick from plus parcel coverage if needed

but that is not the only way. you could change the room type for any room you do not want to include, and not use that as the actual room name, and then exclude it from the schedule, or in the room specification ->include in schedule you could set the rooms you dont want to include to a different category, and then not include in the schedule. for instance go into the room and change the include in schedule from rooms to 3D solid. The schedule I just created will then exclude that room, or just exclude from the schedule altogether. or create a new category called "unconditioned" and create a new schedule with only rooms that have that category. Lots of different options The only other thing you need to do if you want multiple totals is create individual schedules and then stack them on top of each other 18.02.2026_17.46.30_REC.mp4

here is a simple example: ...but the trick is what to do when you want to exclude certain rooms. If you have two rooms of the same type of room, but you only want to exclude one, that is where it gets tricky. CA has a field on each room as to whether or not it is include or excluded in the living area. You can use this flag in a macro and set this property in a custom field in the object information panel, and then use this in the schedule, but there is some work to it. my macro has: stdArea=standard_area include=include_in_living_area if (include == true) stdArea.to_f else 0 end this effectively creates a new field to be used in the schedule instead of the std area i show in the video 18.02.2026_17.28.54_REC.mp4

@Doug_N Did you try polycam?