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I assume you have ceiling planes? you could pull them back to see if the wall builds.

You may not need the attic/turned into living space concept. the image posted appears to me to just be a second storey as the second storey walls look to be bearing on the first storey walls. if they want 16x24 on top of a 24x24 garage, I would just put a first storey roof over the back 8' and align the three walls to the garage walls at the front, and if they want a vaulted ceiling starting at 5' on the sides(maybe to meet height restrictions?), then draw in ceiling planes to give you the roof trusses. The front gable does not look like a real gable, it looks like an eave drawn to look like a gable. But if I were them, I would build 24x24 on top and if they want the back 8ft to be nothing then just make it storage. You can dress upt the roofs how you would like As you are in canada, beware the outside stairs, if conditioned, you will need to pipe heat in there, or you can put a door at the top and leave unconditioned. In alberta, the outside stairs are a "tall wall" and will require engineering. Also, not sure how your jurisdiction treats limiting distance. Here I have to draw an imaginary property line between the garage suite and the house and then calculate unprotected openings and ensure the aggregate is less than the table in the NBC

Good suggestion. I did add onto jkedmos suggestion last week where you could specify a floor region similar to a terrain region. Which after thinking about it that is probably the simplest way from the user perspective. The other way I've thought is to be able to lock the absolute elevation of the floor

btw, check multiple cross sections frequently I also look at the framing overwiew to see where top plates suddenly change to a different height

if you are using project manegment mode, click on the plan file, right click for the shortcut menu and then click make a copy

the text box with the macro must be placed in the room on the floor plan (and see Alaskan son's comment that it must be wrapped in %). or if using are using the TMM (text macro management) to run it, you must have previously selected the room on the floor plan view

I'm not sure I fully understand the question, but one reason for a new plan under the same project, is to create different options. Typically I will do the current as built condition, save that, and then make copies of that for different floor plan options. I do not see why one would want to create a brand new plan for an existing project

I like how you did the shading to still show through some of the satellite image for the parcels. Normally I just show the lot outline...which is not as pretty and less readable than yours: learn something new every day..

I would probably start at the lowest level and move up. I find CA is very finicky and if your rooms above and below where the elevations change. do not match, CA will start changing other storey room heights. I constantly check this with a cross section. I just did a split level and thought I was all good and then realized CA changed the basement height from 8ft to 6 ft. Sometimes I have had to create fake invisible walls to make a room that matches the other level ( I think the last time I did this was a bonus room in the garage). basically anytime the floor structure is not uniform, you have to do something to compensate for that, as CA will not adjust the floor thickness, but it will adjust room heights. And then you can go around in circles adjusting room heights on different levels only to realize when you change one level, CA will change the other. The other thing I do to make my life easier is to not enclose all rooms on the floor, until all of the heights are sorted out for each level. And once I have that, I save that off as a version. Because inevitably I'll be going about making rooms, and then notice the heights are off. I use the action history a lot to go back and try and figure out what changed the heigths

I'm not sure I understand. If you draw it on your plan view, you can send it to layout at whatever scale you would like. I do something similar to this: Trace a Terrain Lot Image to Create a Site Plan or Terrain Perimeter - Video | Chief Architect and then I put different things on 2 different layers if I have two different scales in layout. One layout box(typically 1:500 or 1:1000) is set to one layerset, and the other layout box (typically 1:100) is set to the other layerset. The result on layout is:

that looks like the left wall is not set to hip, and the front wall is not set to gable. you might need to post the plan

I would draw to scale in 2D using CA CAD tools. I've drawn quarter sections (160 acre) plot plans before, just by having them overlay on the floor plan. I then send them to layout at different scales, so it can also be seen zoomed in a particular parcels/region

...might be related...

you might want to post a screenshot of where you want things to be and not to be.

My house, which I have been in less than 2 years) has almost exactly this except the right gable is moved out about 4 feet, creating somewhere for the snow/rain to go. But the last guy looks like he put in a ton of kick out flashing and flashing 20" up the inside wall under the eave to try and "manage" this When the snow melts, it then freezes where the 4 foot trough is, and then leaks. And in heavy rain it leaks (fortunately for me I have a recessed door there, so it just leaks on the patio) ..next step to "manage", put up heat coil on roof...and build another little cricket under the eave at the bottom. I've also considered build a roof on top of the roof so the gable goes directly across to the other gable.... So words to the wise, move the left gable back or the right gable back...or take the chance you end up like me

thanks, yes I use that setting for the plan view, and given the plan dimensions are used all the time, I'll have to keep adjusting for the storey pole or is it the story pole as you guys put it. Maybe it is a story for the storeys

Thats what I do, although I store them in my library. but have a default one on my template plan's CAD details Then for complex plans I go into the CAD detail, say for roof eave, and then replace it with one from my library, if I have it, or I just change the CAD detail. It already shows on my template layout, as my callout is linked and I have it there in my template layout For simpler projects where I have just two details on layout, I just copy from my library and put it on the layout. In this case my callout is not linked

I have the same problem. auto puts them at 24, manual puts them at like 6 or something, then I have to go in and adjust each. I just havent spent the time to look through the dimension defaults to see if/where they are set. Did you already look through there and didnt find anything?

you are correct, I will say ...not straight forwardly done...there are a bunch of ways to do it, none of them as straightforward as the OP requested

so you cant save it, or you cant make a copy, or both? I had this happen again, but it is just that it cannot make a copy. I can still save

you cannot. You can copy the macro from the plan and recreate in layout(per Joe), if the underlying logic and data are available in the layout (not many data are). Or do as john indicates, assuming, the macro displays to a text box or schedule, or something that can be seen. For instance, I have a macro that calculates the total living areas of all floors. It shows in a rich text box in my plan, off to the side. I then have just this little text box showing in my layout on the first page, as I have cropped the first floor plan sent to layout to just show this text box

do you mean a 3d solid? the width, depth, height are not necessarily the same, depending on shape

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