SHCanada2

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  1. your subfloor is at absolute elevation 3/4", not sure if you want it that way.... It looks like your short wall height had been changed. i clicked the default. I also then adjusted the roof plane using transform replicate, adjusting the Z until the top plate was at 9'
  2. perfect glad to see I am not the first person to have this.
  3. And i certainly will. Eric, it sounded like you have not experienced this problem? I always think to myself, surely I am not the first person to have this issue. and in this case I would have thought every man and his dog doing outside renders would have this issue, which is why I was asking the broader question.
  4. thanks i will try that. my broader question is, what are others doing?
  5. the water reflection in the glass (from the backdrop) is distracting. I put some trees on the left (out of view) for the left windows. But for the right windows I have an interior camera pointing that way so I dont want trees there. I suppose I could put them on a layer. I tried adjusting the sun position but it did not seem to make a difference But is there a way to dullen the reflection? or what is everyone else doing? thanks
  6. does it happen on both your computers?
  7. if it was me and I had that budget I'd look at AORUS 17X AZF-B5US665SP w/ Core™ i9-13900HX, 32GB, 2TB SSD, 17.3in QHD 240Hz, GeForce RTX 4090, Wi-Fi 6E, BT, Win 11 Pro or ROG Strix SCAR 18 G834JY-XS97 w/ Core™ i9-13980HX, 32GB DDR5, Dual 1TB M.2 SSD, 18in WQXGA, RTX 4090, Wi-Fi 6E, Win 11 Pro or Stealth 17 Studio A13VI-017US w/ Core™ i9-13900H, 64GB, 2TB SSD, 17.3in QHD 240Hz, GeForce RTX 4090, Wi-Fi 6E, BT, Win 11 Pro i'd put my money int he graphics card as that is the only thing I ever see pinned
  8. i tried to convince a truss guy to do this for my own new attached garage in order to avoid a window at the ridge. He wasnt buyng what I was selling In the end I built the walls shorter as they went towards the house. but I only needed inches not feet So if this is going to be trussed, you might want to ask the truss guy if he will build it like that .
  9. i typically do not do brick, but I have seen this question more than once on the forum. Did you already search the forum? It helps to click on the search options and click on "all search words"
  10. is that hose on the roof? open rafters on the left? I cant tell what going on
  11. i find this problem occurs even when not named the same because you cannot see the full file name. I cant see "john Smith preliminary 1" and "john Smith preliminary 2". you have to hover, and if you have to hover then I suppose one could look at the directory. This is one thing I like about just copying the file as a checkpoint, it gets the ugly "Copy (x)" filename, so where i used to have the issue of editing the wrong file, it is less and less. But it is ugly
  12. maybe there is a way to alias the plan file, so they dont appear to all have the same file name, but do. i'll do a little digging
  13. symbolic links might help? it might be worth taking a look ...
  14. that is discipline. as to why not, for me because you have to save and close views and the file in order to copy the directory
  15. always for a new pdf even if it is a minor change? or do you overwrite the PDF in the directory and then send that out? or name it something else I cant copy the folder if the file is open, and I might print 3 pdfs as I am making changes and sending it to the customer, as saving and closing files takes some effort especially if I have two files open and only want to save and close one. i.e if I am working on a plan i dont want to close all the open views in order for CA to close the file, in order for me to copy the file/folder
  16. so they look like 20230405 - 84 Howse Heights.pdf? and you manually enter the 20230405? if there are two on the same date, what do you enter?
  17. @rene, I'm curious as to how you version PDFs to customers. do they match the folder plus a .x? totally different, manually kept track of?
  18. do you create a new folder everytime you save a PDF that is sent to a customer? ...it almost looks like it from your screenshot
  19. I think there is a nuance here. I have different versions of plans simply as checkpoints, but then there are different versions of plans because the customer wants a different option. For the checkpoints I just make copies and use the lastmodtime to figure out my last version. This means my current plan/layout is always per the name I selected: i.e. 123 abc street.layout For new customer options on the same house I will: Prior to opening in CA, I will copy both layout and plan, rename both, and then open the newly named layout and select tools->Layout-Reference Plan files, and change the reference to the new plan file The downside to this is when creating PDFs I have to add a v1 to the end, then v2, etc as I do not synchronize the PDF version to the layout or plan file name
  20. my two cents, to compensate for the lack of wall locking, one can draw reference lines, and/or drop dimensions to markers. I did this one below last year, and it was an exercise in frustration/patience. it was a outdoor covered porch the homeowner "built". By dropping the dimension to markers, you can monitor the walls to see if they move, without having to memorize all the dimensions. I then will go back and clean them up if I can. but even below, it is not exact, mostly because I did not draw reference lines and did not do the make parallel thing for the roof, I tried to do everything with the walls and dimensions. In hindsight I should have drawn it out in CAD and then traced the walls, or just done it as CAD (which I considered, but I needed a cross section and thought that might take longer) Because in reality no one actually measures angles actual then gave up a little and went to the crazy homeowner built "roof" with the little overlap a I actually considered doing the whole thing in CAD, it might have been simpler
  21. The easiest way I find to do this inside a building is just draw across the building using the interior dimension tool. CA has a couple videos on dimensions, including the use of this and other tools. They are worth a watch
  22. is there an advantage using that method vs the schedule to text? If I schedule to text, then copy that to then be two of them, then peel out what I do not want in the first one, and then peel out what i do not want for the second one, it seems straight forward as they just show like this in the text box: then I edit the two to look like: and which yields: of course if one adds a sheet to the middle one has to do it all again, but I assume that is the same for the CAD detail method?