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this works pretty good for sloped the other way as well. but need to set the eave as square not plumb plumb: square

if the permit is for finishing a basement, and there are walls being erected they do count here, ie. if I am finishing a basement and leaving a bedroom "unfinished" it would count If it is for an addition to a basement it counts. The permitting department here has their own rules on calculating sq footage, nothing to do with any standard.

depends on who is asking. The jurisdiction here is to the outside of the outside wall (studs but could be sheathing, no one really asks). Realtors have a different definition. Surveyors here measure to the foundation.

your, what looks to be air gap, between the foundation and the furred wall, also goes to the top where the CA example does not. If I were you I would look at the wall definition between your wall and an OOTB residential template for a foundation wall

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 16.05.2024_07.57.19_REC.mp4

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?

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. 15.05.2024_12.55.03_REC.mp4

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: