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You need a graphics card that supports realtime ray tracing. IF you have that, then yes you will get rendering like X13, except better now

Lidar on the phone is only good for ~15 ft, so exteriors do not work that I have tried I do similar workflow, but I use a photogrammery app as a back up. Which lidar app is your preference? I'm currently doing elevations from photos, and attempting to measure eave heights from ground, and then discerning a heel height and peak height. It works for "simple houses" but not those with upper roof lines which are back from the front facade. Have you found any better technique?

you might want to post the plan

I'm always looking for a good exterior scan option. But FARO seems like a pretty penny. I've tried a bunch of photogrammery apps, but none worked that well. Do you know of other options other than FARO

you can paste screenshots directly into the comment. I cannot see your pngs. But there are two ways to have parralel walls which are right next to each other. Make the inside wall "no room definition" in its properties, or ii) make a wall that has both walls in in it. Check the help or this forum for "furred wall"

@DBCooper says it is then manual. I assume then if I change a wall, I need to go do it again? If so, to avoid the rinse repeat over and over again, I'll leave it on floor 0. if it is automatic then yes floor 1 sounds like the better option

Thats what I would do, split it up across pages, by sending it twice to layout, on different pages, and cropping the layout box differently on the pages to reflect the portions of the block plan

I've seen this posted on the forum in the past, but I do not remember the answer (other than of course create your own). you may wish to search the forum on this one for a predone one, or scale a predone one

I lose the bottom tool bar when the window changes size. A double click on the CA window title bar brings it back to properly fill the screen. This typically happens when my computer resumes from sleep mode///for some unknown reason

yes. each version of CA is a seperate instance, but you should double check with CA sales

I use floor 0 as well for this exact reason, If I am lazy I will copy the CAD line to floor 1 for certain terrain features, but I also have a saved plan view that references terrain items (from floor 0) to show on floor 1

the other way to narrow down the offending wall is to just draw a new wall bisecting the room, and then click on either side to see if you can select a room. rinse, repeat.

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

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