SHCanada2

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  1. What are you having issues with?

     

    I make the stairwell a room (ensiure the floor level is where you want it to be and ceiling just above grade), add the stairs, make the stair material all concrete, set overhang to 0.

     

    and i ignore that proper concrete steps have a sloping riser

     

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    i draw a railing on the floor above to match

     

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    make a terrain hole if you have to

     

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  2. i have the basement on level 0. I also have the basement walls in my template on level 0. I manually align the walls to the main floor, rather than use the auto build foundation. unless of course I am doing nothing in the basement, then I will delete the foundation and turn on auto foundation

  3. After doing a very time consuming property mostly due to the many rooflines, I went looking again for scanning apps that could help.

     

    iGuide now does elevations. I had a session today with one of their people. iGuide has their own camera similar to matteport. the iGuide one is currently on sale for $1800 USD. https://store.goiguide.com/. It also works outside.

     

    The interesting thing is the price and time it takes to scan. It is 8 sec per scan. A 2000 sq ft house could then be done in under 30 min plus the exterior. The price for a 2000sq ft house, floor plans and elevations in DWG is $225 CAD (~150USD). No subscription. You also get the visual tour included, so then one does not have to take their own video

    https://goiguide.com/pricing

     

    Seems pretty good. I think one would still have to take laser measurements for crucial areas 

     

    Has anyone tried iGuide? I'm curious to know how good their elevations are in real life where there is only 8ft between houses with bushes and sheds.

     

    They did tell me they have humans doing the elevations and floor plans, and they show both the point cloud(below) and the elevation in the pdf package they give you. It also gives you a (inaccurate) listing of windows and doors. i.e. doors were listed at 6'7, 6'8, 6'9. I don't think i really care except for the door widths as I typically dont specify height for doors. Window guys always come and measure the windows themselves so that does not have to be accurate.

     

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  4. 3 hours ago, Ange822 said:

    That worked!

    I'm curious, do you dimension the man door and overhead door foundation cutout(buck as known here)? 

    Overhead doors here will get a 16'4 or larger cutout for a 16' door.

     

    From what I have seen on plans, these do not ever get dimensioned, or at least not that I have seen

     

  5. I normally put the beam on the main floor.

     

    I would normally try a railing for this using post to beam option and ensure it encloses a room. And ensure the room is a deck or porch..looks like deck in your case

     

    I would put in a set of stairs which would break the railing.

     

    It looks like you are close except the beam and stairs?

     

    I'm not sure what that random 2' of siding is on the post,

     

    I've seen a couple videos on building "covered porches" including one by snestor which, if you havent watched them, might be worthwhile

     

     

     

  6. potato potahto I think. For my plans I will sometimes need to add layers or layer sets that are one offs, and would be clutter for every plan. If I add a new layer I think will be useful, I will add it back to the template, same with default sets. And to be honest sometimes I am lazy working with current plans where I will draw dimensions using one set and then decide they are to big or small, and then I just change the text height, which means the dim set is no longer what it was intended to be. If I used my latest plan as the next template, I would either have to revert that or live with the inconsistency, which may bite me later.

     

    I try and keep notes for stuff I want to update on my template.

     

    But my template also has 4 walls on the main floor, and a basement, and two terrain regions, and .... stuff that I want to be there for the next plan. IF you use the current plan which may for instance have to have had 6 terrain regions, then you would have to delete them for a flat lot plan, or set them all to the same elevation.

     

    Its work either way

     

     

  7. i run into this all the time. I use center object like db says, in both directions.  I start with one cabinet for the first top row, then the next cabinet on the lower row, move the this unit it bumps up to the one above, then center it on the one above. then add another cabinet to top row, move it unit it bumps to  the first cabinet, then center on the the first cabinet.

    rinse repeat

     

    or you can probably use the multiple copy tool once you have the first two set

  8. I adjusted the floor structure in this basement to be lower, and then the door no longer is at the floor. I tired deleting the door and readding, but it does not move.

     

    I suppose I could change to absolute elevation and force it, but that seems like a workaround. Anyone seen this before?

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