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1 hour ago, Jonathan3891 said:

so I've went through and created a default set for a few different scale's to test.

what you have done is exactly what I do, I also have a 3/16 scale

But what I do not do is have an SPV for each. If I need to change the default set, I will change it, then save the SPV associated with it. This means the same SPV in different plans will have different scales, which is fine with me.

I considered a new template for each per rene, but came to the conclusion that is too much work to maintain

I get RTRT on my 3080 finished in a couple seconds on X15 (capped at 50 samples, denoised). it runs at about 50 samples per second

on X16 with samples set at 500 and denoise on with my laptop 4090 (which is more like a 4080), it takes about 3 seconds

yes, i've done a few.

I've had no issues

I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but I added a solid, then changed its category, then did a material list from a polyline.

it is there:

did you figure out the second storey walls coming out issue?

There was a gentleman last year who had to manage many macros and users, and decided instead of putting them in the template files, and perhaps copying them between templates, to instead put them in their own .rb file in this directory. That way if he had to make an update, people would not need to update every plan that they were working on to get the newer macro results. he would just copy the new rb file to their directory

Downside is, if one opened an older file which at the time, had a different result from that macro which maybe has been changed three times since that older file was last opened, you would be unable to obtain the original result without having to go into the directory and revert to the macro file of the day that older file was printed.

So one has to assess, how often that downside would occur. or perhaps manage it another way, like creating a new macro if an update to a macro would have a material difference to older files, or worse would break because there is a new parameter that was not available at the time

Or I suppose if you were really really diligent you would incorporate some sort of versioning on the execution of that macro

edit->edit Area->Edit area (all floors)

select, and then rotate

although with two buildings, I would be inclined to make one a symbol and then put that in the other's plan.

I've never tried it, but there is also the reference plan, which can show both buildings side by side in 3D view

wall heights for flat ceilings are determined from the room specification ceiling height in the structure tab. If you are determining wall heights another way, you may have been pulling down or extending walls from 3d views...which for the vast majority of cases is not needed and should be avoided. You can reset walls' wall height by opening up the wall dialog and resettting the default height. if it is greyed out, it is already the default

if I remove the roof plane from the perspective view, prior to creating a symbol of the house, the roof disappears.

normally I would not care, but this is an odd roof and I do not actually need the roof correct, as I only need the back of the house correct, but I need to show the entire house in plan view

symbol shows like this in plan view:

i think this is now PAtterns->color->material color?

odd that it is in "patterns", no?

I'm trying to do this again, and same problem.

Is the only option to screen shot the plan and put it on layout?

there is a setting to turn off the merging of "colinear" walls. I think it is in preferences. A search of the doc or this forum for "colinear" should find it

questions need to be posted to Q&A forum

attached. click CAD->Points->Point Marker for those custom manual 

points

you can add whatever you want to a storey poll, similar to other dimension lines

why not add another storey if you are going to add stairs?

On 9/16/2021 at 6:26 AM, glennw said:

The molding cables are a completely separate entity than the railing wall.

Draw a molding polyline in plan the rough shape you want next to the railing wall - it is easy to drag into place later.

It should default to zero height - if your deck is zero, great. Otherwise you can change it's height so that it is referencing the deck height.

Add a molding as shown in my pic - I used a round handrail molding.

Copy and offset them vertically at the required spacing - mine are 100mm.

Drag the molding polyline so that it is located in the middle of the railing wall.

I always find it good practice to make the railing wall the same width as the actual railing wall.

This works well, with some back and forth to get correct heights. Attached is a video with a step by step, sorry no audio, for a railing on a pony wall.

I have to "undo" a few times to try and get it the distances right. The 0.5" for the railing is larger than reality, I picked it more to show up in the RTRT than any other reason

I did use a "molding line" vs a molding polyline as the polyline is initially drawn enclosed. Menus are X16.

One seems to have to use the cntrl key to place the molding line in the middle of the rail. 

ah I remembered there was some workaround and I just could not remember what it was. thanks for pointing it out

If I delete the wall and then redraw, it then looks normal

maybe  it was a victim of that wall being reversed earlier, and then I use the reverse tool to make the wall look correct and then this happens.

of course, its not repeatable: If I reverse the new wall I just drew, and then reverse again, it doesnt happen. ...maybe it was something else...

is there some setting to stop this? It does not do it at the other end of the railing. (its a pony wall underneath, but if I make it just a railing it does the same thing, just narrower)

I tried the edit intersections tool, no luck. I tried changing the one wall to be the through wall, no difference

not sure, this works for me on a regular basis. you could post your plan and layout

My settings:

probably want to post the plan . also search for "roof cuts wall" in the forum

One reason perhaps not to put schedules beside the floor plan, is it might impact the zoom to extents.

I have them on a cad detail page which is on a layout page already linked to it.

I do sometimes put a wall schedule below a plan but they are typically less than 5 rows

What is in your text style

1 hour ago, KristjanM said:

It seems that only measurement fields will total and there is no way to define a custom field as a number. Correct or not?

correct. One can hope it comes in X16