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Top wall plate on lower walls not updating
SHCanada2 replied to Chiefismeantome's topic in General Q & A
you will need to lower your beams now to match -
Top wall plate on lower walls not updating
SHCanada2 replied to Chiefismeantome's topic in General Q & A
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' -
perfect glad to see I am not the first person to have this.
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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.
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thanks i will try that. my broader question is, what are others doing?
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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
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does it happen on both your computers?
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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
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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 .
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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"
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is that hose on the roof? open rafters on the left? I cant tell what going on
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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
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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
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symbolic links might help? it might be worth taking a look ...
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sounds dangerous
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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
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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
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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?
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@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?
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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
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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
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How to fix wall length Or lock the wall dimentions
SHCanada2 replied to hamedDesighn's topic in General Q & A
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 -
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
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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?