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purely a guess, but did you check your date time settings in windows? In the Region panel, under the Date and time formats section, you’ll find the option to select the Short date, Long date, Short time, Long time, and First day of week from the respective drop-down menus.

if you have some of the more advanced, cheaper, laser measurer, you can stand 20' away, take a horizontal measurement, and point to the top of the tree and take that measurement, and then the device will calculate it for you. ...but the above method usually only works at night/dusk when you can see the laser

slick...and creative use of solids. merci. would be nice to appear by default. otherwise need to place one per room. It might also help solve another problem for sections and elevations related to global variables...

after playing around, I forgot that text macros are just text, and there is no real way to create a macro which does a if %DET_CLADDING%=="STUCCO" then %RSI%=2, as ruby macros cannot read text macros or write to text macros (well they can read in a round about way but then you have to manage the global variable problem between plans, and because these show up in cross sections, that is harder to do), but even if it could read them, it would write to a global variable, and then I would have to manage them between plans ...or start writing to files. Anywho, maybe I'll come back to it another time so I think in absence of doing the Kristjanm method of the model (whiich I will put on my "try this out list"), I think the master spreadsheet and copying either to text boxes, or notes is the way to go. Notes have one advantage in that one doesnt have to place text boxes, one just keeps the notes in the user library, and put the note on the section. If there is a new wall assembly, then create a new note, which I assume is similar to your text box blocks. ...not a whole lot of difference However, the note method is also not as pretty as having the wall assembly graphic next to it, which, especially the 3D ones, have the wow factor. so a chocie between a little quicker, but less pretty . I suppose the note method would also guarantee the wall number in the cross section matches, where if using text boxes there would be a possibility of putting a W2 label on a wall in the cross section, and then the text box actually has W1. But my guess is, there is always the same numbering, W1 for above grade W2 for below grade, W3 for garage etc..

L shaped as you come in the door. then swap bedroom for bathroom. you may wish to check with the engineer. for here typical 2x10 joists will span more than 6'. Maybe you can have him move those two beams closer together in the middle

yeah its something weird, if you look at the GPU processor it is up and down like a yo yo

i may be imagining things, but it seems like this got worse after the last update a couple months ago. So I just printed to pdf my layout, and tried to close the layout without saving and the GPU is going crazy for like a minute and a half, before the layout would finally close we will see what they say

I can try the sample size cut down. I personnally hate the continual sending of images. Ultimately, I would just like to know why it doesn't seem to obey the "update on demand" and if there is a way to make it only update when I tell it to.

I thought the whole point of update on demand is so it does nothing on the PBR, until I ask it to update (or it prints). seems odd I'll send it in thanks

not really the floor joist,. it gives a nailer instead of using an anchor bolt to put the wall on. They nail the 2x4 boards into the form before pouring, and then they just put the nails out and leave the 2x4 on edge. blocked every 48". it actually makes for a nice cribbing job because they take a flat tool like an ice scraper and just scrape off the conrete using the 2x4 on edge embedded in the top of the wall. Very level and mostly flat

yup something to do with the layout. once I close it, the memory is released and GPU drops to 0

I've noticed the undo and other things(today I right clicked on a PBR camera in th project browser) sometimes takes a very long time(> 1 min) to complete (of course the object browser has a preview so perhaps that is why it takes so long, but why longer than opening up the camera in its own tab?). Today I added a revision to layout and then I clicked the undo. CA sat there spinning for a minute or so, and the kicker is the GPU is going crazy in task manager with CA occupying it. I have 5 "update on demand" PBR layout boxes in my layout . Anyone else seeing this? and if so, do you have layout boxes with PBR (i.e. not images)? Its not repeatable on demand. Its like something is triggering the PBR, but even if it was, the :"sitting there spinning" is lasting a lot longer than the PBR actually takes to complete when the PBR is open. .....maybe all 5 are bing updated periodically even though nothing was changed that affected them .... intreresting that the GPU memory is also pinned. I haven't noticed that before.

i heard from a transpanted cribber than no one else but alberta uses a "ladder", so that will be interesting to see if it is adopted in the NBC 2) Except as provided in Sentences (3) to (6), anchorage shall be provided by a) embedding the ends of the first floor joists in concrete, b) fastening the sill plate to the foundation with not less than 12.7 mm diam anchor bolts spaced not more than 2.4 m o.c., or c) embedding in concrete two 38 mm by 89 mm sill plates placed on edge and separated by blocking spaced 1.2 m o.c c) is alberta and the whole "suite" thing is different between provinces. I'm not holding my breath that they will be harmonized...maybe the just the energy component

Thanks, I'll take a look. Alberta, but we also have our own version of the NBC. So it will be interesting to see if we adopt it

how do you do this for rimboard, floors above garages, cantilever floors, walls partially above grade, etc. polyline apoolza? interesting, I had thoguht one needed somne sort of software to do this, good to know you are able to do it (I assume with not too much effort) in CA

i am concurring with you. i.e. figuring out the areas required for the tradeoff is too time consuming. I did it once for a whole house, it was a PITA. right ... I didnt think to go 2x8. zone 7A for 2x6 requires R24 and the RSI of the cladding to make 2.97. I just looked and zone 6 is the same, 2.97. Throw on another layer of gypsum to make it to 2.97 for 2x6 tall walls if you arent including cladding in your calc? or add exterior insul? exterior stone? 2 ply gypsum would be unconventional but would get to the number: ...would just have to remember to get a different window thickness EXTERIOR AIR FILM 0.03 CLADDING 0 WATER RESISTIVE BARRIER 0 3/8" OSB SHEATHING 0.09 2X6 (12" O.C) C/W R24 INSULATION 2.6 POLYETHYLENE VAPOUR BARRIER 0 1/2" GYPSUM BOARD 0.08 INTERIOR AIR FILM 0.12 ASSEMBLY EFFECTIVE RSI 2.92 ZONE 7A (W/HRV) ABC 9.36 REQ 2.97 or if the tall wall has no windows, calcualting the actual area of the studs instead to the 25.5%? or is it a well kept trade secret ?

good advice

once you get to a tall wall, arent you going to need the RSI of the cladding to make the requirement? or do you put in R24?

yeah thats why I dont do it for whole houses.

...well it is still a work in progress...trying to see how much could be automated. I tend to do tradeoff because you can easily add insulation to the attic, and R22 /24 is considerably more money than R20. R24 is like double the price. That being said I also rarely do full houses to the level of calculating the efficiency. And computing all the areas is a pain, so I decided to put some effort into seeing how much can be moved to CA for the prescriptive method,..and if it could be done easily, and hopefully automated somewhat. Plus I see a lot of other plans, and I wanted to take the best of what I saw. Some of the larger builders just put down every wall/floor ceiling type in a table, and then they mark the section with callouts. I saw one that was like yours and then there was another table attached with the cladding type, and 3 resulting total RSI numbers. Some background, my details are for the most part controlled by global variables, so I have a variable called DET-CLADDING that I set and then all of the details change the text to whatever that is set to, Stucco, vinyl, etc. That part works fine. But the question is how to get the details to convert to the RSI calculation automatically. As such I wanted something that was dynamic, which is why I chose the note schedule. So what I did so far was to put what you see into 2(unfortuantely had to be 2 because it could not format) variables, DET-W1.1-26-Stucco and DET-W1.1_RSI. And then the note callout has those two in two different fields, and then I created the schedule, I was going to try and copy the Canadian Wood Council naming convention for wall assemblies, but it gets fairly extensive. Anywho, my end goal was to try and create one global variable for each of the assemblies which auto generates the wall RSI, based on the original detail. so instead of DET-W1.1-26-Stucco, it would be just DET-W1-WALL(TYP) and DET-W1-WALL(TYP)-RSI , which is what the note is named. And then my plan was inside the DET-W1-WALL(TYP) macro do a $x="EXTERIOR AIR FILM"+"\n"+DET-CLADDING +"\n"... and then do the same for the RSI. Which is why if I could format it properly, it would be better to just have one variable. ..although the RSI would probably be some sort of lookup..havent sorted that out yet so if I got it all working, for a new plan, I would set the detail variables, and then put a note callout on the wall section, and do nothing else. the schedule would just shows the ones on the plan. Plus floors like those over garages would have to be done manully anyway Are yours predetermined text boxes grouped as a CAD object and then you just have all of them on a single layout sheet? or how are you managing the changing stud spacing, insulation, and cladding? I also thought about getting it out of the wall type itself, but that doesnt help with ceiling and floor. I suppose if the callout could get the room info, it might be possible, but i dont think that can be achieved from a macro in cross section.

nvm, there was an extra carriage return on the RSI numbers, at the bottom of the list, athough no idea why that would impact it

actually that only works if there are numbers in the text, which I do not want. back to any ideas?

NVM, putting the multiline text in the note text field, while putting the multiline numbers in the "comment" field works

I'm endeavoring to move off spreadsheets, but I cannot get the formatting to work in the schedule. I am trying to return multiline in one row. I tried using tabs in a macro to try and align two columns within one column. That didnt work, see below I tried to different columns, but the numbers dont seem to line up I suppose I could use a uniform character font and type out the spaces, but do not really want to do that. any other ideas?

I use one pitch cad block on the front elevation, if all pitches are the same andvthats it. The roof plan view is quite nice with its pitches and artows, it's also where I dimension the eave. I don't dimension eaves on elevations. Biggest problem is people ask for the pitch triangle. But I did see a plan the other day with the label in the roof like CA does it. Must have been CA...