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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 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?

did you book a free demo? I looked on their website and there are images of the 2d point cloud, but they all look wavy. I would expect if there was 2mm accuracy, the walls would be straighter.. It will be interesting to see how you make out. $99US per month is a bit pricey. I prefer per scan pricing. It would be also interesting to see how good their room "Stitching is". This is where I can always tell the accuracy of these things. If all the walls are a bunch of different thicknesses, then it is probably not correct. bit of a weird website. if you click user guides, there looks to be a bunch of bitmaps under "Academy" I could not find an actual user guide

you could check the CA log file. I think you can see where it is located under preferences. It almost sounds like you are being starved for resources if it works for awhile. Other far out possibilities:virus scanning constantly running against the CA data directory where CA is constantly writing files, but that is a way out there guess. You could also disable the Nvidea card to see if that is related but better question is when did it start to do this and what happened just before that

I also evaluated iguide as they can generale elevations and could generate door and window sizes (with a grain of salt). They had a pretty good price package and the camera price was reasonable(~2k) when on sale. The only issue is in order to get an elevation one needs to be perpendicular to the building face. Here, where the houses are 4ft to the PL or less most of the time, it would not work for side elevations. If I have to build the CA model to get side elevations, I might as well build it to get front and rear elevations. But it was very tempting.

you can use schedules to sum up the room areas and it is dynamic If you want to exclude certain types of rooms, then you need to add a new item in the object information panel, and add in a macro to include or exclude the room. There is at least one post on the topic from last year or maybe the year before AlaskanSon and Renerabbit both have it predone and sell it, I beleive, if you wanted to contact one of them to purchase

one way...create symbols out of two of the houses, and then place them on the third plan file. Or create a plan file with no house and put all three symbols in it

rene's first one is one I tend to see from some of the bigger outfits:

i see more and more where it is on the right, but it is readable without having to tilt your head (shift Joey's text 90 degrees). Its more readbale, but the text also tends to be wrapped more which ironically makes it less readable

are you referring to changing their location in layout, or just renumbering/naming?

It was for in house work (and I still do them but I do them for concepts not for actual UROWs, roads, curb cuts, grades, drainage, etc), and the others were for appeals against developments (community service, gratis). I would suggest you try for 2 houses and use that as your estimate ...and put in all the caveat about what you are not going to do? Trees? There ae lots of posts on how to export the symbol (it gets saved to your library)...might even be a video. I never remember the exact steps, and then I go back to searching here

If you already have the houses, then I would convert them to symbols and plot them. I have done this a few times, its not a lot of work if the land is flat. If the land is not flat, it is a headache. And if you want to show roads, curbs, curb cuts etc, it then becomes a lot of work You test it out on one house first to make sure you get what you want for the render, as you have to choose what to export. The tricky part I have found is trying to show only what you want for the symbol 2d...but that is probably a limitation of my knowledge You can also plot them in google earth if you are looking for a high shot, but there are some limitations and how good they are, as you cannot for instance remove trees in google earth

Might need a little more information. It looks like you already have the subdivision plan. Is your scope to just put the footprints of every house on the existing subdivision plan. It it was me and I had to do them all, I would ask whomever created that plan, for the dxf or dwg file to ensure absolute accuracy they also may be available from the development authority

did you call support?