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what have you tried? Without the brick, what you describe is a standard attached garage build here (except our stem walls are 48" into the ground) The elevation of the slab vs the footing is set up in the room structure

I do a lot of basement developments and sometimes I will need the main floor plan, and second floor just because the City sometimes asks. For the basement I will just use a laser measure and draw in CA onsite to make sure everything lines up. It takes about 60 minutes I'm looking for something that will be ok accurate for "the rest of the house" for a floor plan and does not charge by the sq foot. I saw polycam has a monthly fee. Has anyone used a monthly subscription service, or God forbid someone who just sells the software to do a scan and provide a floor plan. I dont need bells or whistles, just the floor plan. I can do my own video. Anyone used something with Android? I'm willing to pay $1000 for HW if I can get the per plan fee down to about $50 or less. But the 0.20 cent per square foot that I saw for a couple software packages is too expensive, I might as well just laser measure it myself and pay myself $150 / hr

@Renerabbitt interesting, that looks like it might be persistent. Or does one have to click on the CAD detail to fire the macros, and if 2 plan files are open does it still work ( the whole global variables problem)

you could also...if your db is not being used for any other purpose other than CA notes, put each note in a CA text macro in your template plan, and then just call whichever macro from your notes. ...or put them in a ruby module which loads..and call whichever. but probably only an option if you do not use the db for any other purpose

i was going to mention the same. I find that if the walls are vertical it looks better. The leftmost wall in the pic I find distracting as it slopes inward. You can also get a better PDF image by sending the camera to a 24x36 layout and CA save to PDF to 24x36. larger image at same dots per inch equals better looking image

did you try a materials list?

I'd do solids and moulding polyline for the top. I might try material region first to see how the gap between the blocks would look. your exterior wall soffit in the front, can be modelled as a room

more importantly, that ladder does not look to comply to the 4:1 safety rule. Safety second is my motto

use an existing and click the save as button beside the plan view drop down

change the room to a balcony and build all framing

No, a couple of have asked for it to be able to be a usable global variable ... for similar to you...parcel coverage

I didn't do anything special between x15 and 16. I do not have those issues

if the lumber yard does not tell you connection details, hire structural engineer. Last one I did was steel beam to steel column, joists on top. No wood involved. Structural engineer did the post and beam specs as he was the one that suggested it instead of 4 ply LVL Yours sounds like a flush steel beam of sorts

what about the trackpad, does it have the same behaviour? and if you try in a different program that uses double clicks in a different manner from a single click? I'm with dbcooper, sounds like your left click is configured to double click.

and use 3d trees/plants to get shadowing

...well, my thought is how can the setup be the same every time, as the spans will be different. but to answer your question, i've never heard of that ability

I use a dim with no line and a polyline to do somethimg similar. I do it for parking dimensions superimposed on a survey. I keep them in my template plan for easy copying and pasting. As 24.07.2024_13.49.20_REC.mp4 I change the length or width of the polyline the dim value changes with it. I havent tried it with a line, but you could just use a polyline with a fill and mke it look like a line...similar to what I show in the video

I have seen CA do this unexpectedly, but only for an outside wall. I posted the issue last year. I did not do any wall spray painting. It seemed to occur under the condition of breaking an exterior wall, and then drawing in a new one. For instance, creating a bump in/out. If you go to the materials on that wall you will likely see the errant material. You can just remove it or set it to the default I put in a request to CA that if they are going to change the material, to show a message box informing the user

thanks, now I do not have to report!

not sure the look you are looking for here, but perhaps a Wall material region?

on a related note this also happens if you copy from a CAD detail in your project browser that has a dimension in it, along with text I can highlight a dimension and a polyline and copy to a plan view, but I cannot highlight a dimension and text and copy to the plan view. only the dimension comes across. But if I select the text and copy I can paste it to the plan view. I fI select all three, copy and paste in a plan view only the dimension and polyline paste. I have to go back and copy the text

np, I had to to something similar just two weeks ago (without the garage lower eave) so it is fresh in my mind

if you do not care about how the soffit looks, you can set the eave widths to the correct amounts for each wall, and build the roofs with same height eaves, and then adjust what is presumably the garage at the end? From your picture, t looks like the backside of the garage has a lower roof (ridgeline is not same height. across entire structure). Below was all auto done but if you want to lower the garage roof eave I believe it it would need to be manually lowered via the roof plane TNR with negative Z I find this setting a little finicky to use as the eave width in the build roof dialog has to be a certain number to work correctly and then once working it can be set to anything. I've seen this a couple times. Its weird Check Same Height Eaves to keep the eave height for all roof planes the same. Roof planes are raised and lowered as needed so that eaves meet correctly. The eave height used when this box is checked is that of a roof plane using the default Pitch and Overhang values. When this box is checked, all roof planes are affected, including those that do not need adjustment in order to align with adjacent planes. When Same Height Eaves is checked, any non-default overhang values specified in the Wall Specification dialog are used. Roof planes are raised or lowered so that the eave height is the same, regardless of the horizontal overhang. eave (flat then pitched):

You are also losing your posts. Maybe post the plan and a video 9f what you are doing. Although I would try moving the deck railing wall in or out to see if anything changes. It might not be related to the railing

am i missing something or has it always been that way? ortho: back clipped up the hill: down the hill: I'm looking to show the terrain at the camera (my terrain is 2" thick) as the grade line, and perhaps also show at the end of the back clip... if I dont back clip it, it looks to show the grade at the far end of the terrain, which isnt what I want either. interestingly it will show the terrain line against a wall, so I suppose I could put in some sort of transparent solid at my camera...not ideal thanks backclip.plan OOTB plan attached