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i believe there are actual videos on how to create these google search "chief architect" column stone base

this should be posted in Q&A, and the .plan file posted

just a little 5 hour drive south There is a good video by CA on where to end the ceiling plane (inside or outside of the top plate). you may wish to watch it.

i assume you mean roof truss pitch to match the rake? yes, you use 2 ceiling planeswith the same pitch as the roof, or whatever pitch the parallel chord truss bottom chord is. CA will build the trusses between the ceiling and the roof. Its been a while since I have done it, but I would put a beam at the ridge(assuming you have a beam in the middle) and then manually draw a truss on either side, and then use the multiple copy tool to copy the trusses. if you have no beam, then the auto truss tool should just work i would think as long as the ceiling planes are correct or maybe am I missing the question to begin with

you can see this roof problem n plan view with the dashed line. this is saying the roof is encroaching into the ceiling you can fix this by setting the room height to the 6' from above, but it really depends on how you are constructing this. If it is trussed, I would put the trusses in and lift the roof planes the heel height looking some more, your plate heights are different front to back, again not sure if this was your intent if I set the north and south 2nd floor walls as gable and auto built the roof, the plates are the same If I put in trusses with 24" heel if i change that second floor room to now be flat ceiling SandyCreekHangerVer15j2.plan which, may in the end be what you want? attached

so I looked a little closer and the 2nd floor outside room definition looked odd. I rebuilt it with normal walls for the second floor, and put open to below for the two storey rooms, and I think it looks fine now. You should take a look at the footing for the brick half wall, it does not match the rest. So not sure why you were using attic walls, invisible walls, for the second floor. maybe you were trying to accomplish something? SandyCreekHangerVer15j.plan your first level is showing blue floor. I believe you need the floor under this room checked i did it for the one room and now it shows the hardwood: your roof planes are on the first level, seems odd not sure if you intended 6' walls on the end: If so I assume then you want a sloping ceiling. if so, the flat ceiling should be unchecked in the second floor room definition

thanks, my mistake, I did not remember what I actually unchecked. looking back all 3 were checked

and use the "studio driver"

SandyCreekHangerVer15j.planlooks like you have created some invisible walls to try and reduce the effect. this has led to the second story room not actually being a room, as the walls are set to "no locate". I changed them you also have a break in your front main floor wall. not sure why. I removed it (in doing so the attached lost the door windows on that side). I also removed the invisible wall on the south side, second floor your lower brick wall is also 3.5" instead of 5.5. I changed it. you can see the foundation line does not match the adjacent wall I edited the intersection of the front walls second floor to remove the vertical lines on the ortho. But because the south side balooned wall does not show on the second floor, that one is still there. maybe someone else has some ideas SandyCreekHangerVer15j.plan

see the setup at the end in this related post. it is for dimensions but the same principle applies for callouts:

put them on different layers, and create two layersets. I have 2 layersets, basement plan, and foundation plan. To avoid this problem to begin with, I have 2 SPVs to match, each with its own default set which assigns them different layers to begin with

i think they added some features in X15 for this. you might want to check out CA's video

thanks I will try that, I might be able to use the square footage sometimes for searching, but a most of the time I'm looking for a plan that is merely described to me verbally. i.e. I am told "remember that one you did with the ...." Now that I think about it, I could probably use the sq fototage to narrow it down first, then look at the preview. The only thing missing in the search is the last mod time, that would be helpful, as sometimes I am told, "the one you did last summer", but maybe the windows search combined with the thumbnail is another option

I do a lot of the same form factor but different floor plans. Its a bit of a pain trying to put a description of each into the filename. the problem is when I cant remember what is in a file, I actaully start looking through the PDFs, but there are often 3 or 4 pdfs for each one, so I have to consciously look the see which is the latest, then open that one. anyway a PITA I decided to try the CA "plan database" to see if I could preview the floor plan. It looks like the feature is there, but it almost seems random in what it displays. I will click different floor plans and sometimes the preview does not change even thought the sq ft it displays is changing it looks like it might be showing the foundation sometimes and the main floor plan sometimes. I can actually tell because the preview is no legible the dialog is not resizeable. Has anyone used the plan database and know how does the preview work? thanks

create a new layer and put only your posts on that layer

but if a software already has them, that would, I would think, be a large consideration in purchasing the software. If I spent all day swapping out fabrics and window coverings, and furniture, I would rather a pallet be available, than go and create my own, one piece at a time.. If it is relatively simple, I'm surprised CA does not hire a summer student every year to do so, or perhaps to categorize existing ones. If i open up a couch and select the materials, a bunch of materials show up, and the first is a "Absinth Painting". Not exactly something one could put on a couch I'll add my +1 to your request

so can the user simply apply a fabric from a list of fabrics, to the furniture in the plan? If so, that would be a large selling feature I would think, and CA might want to consider adding that. It would be nice in rtrt to select the couch, and then have a floating window with the fabrics, and then just paint them onto the couch

x15 has a denoiser. RTRT on your machine denoised is probably like 4 seconds or less. Your setup is pretty much what I would buy today, minus the storage. You guys must be storing a lot of interesting things. Even at 1 GB per project, that would be 2TB=2000GB, less the O/S et al is 200GB =1 800 GB. @ 1 GB per project, that is 1800 projects

create a SPV for the foundation, set the floor level to 0 in the SPV in the selected defaults set: In my "Currently Using" 3/16 Foundation plan set", it has (if I click the edit). you can create one note the layer set is "Foundation Set Print" edit the dimensions: I have below. you will have to click the + button to add the named dimension set. then once you do, set it to a specific layer: and ensure that layer is on for the layer set you define in the first screen above. mine is called "Foundation Set Print" and it looks like Basically I spent half a day creating these for each scale. It is probably overkill, but I like the dimensions, CAD, callouts, and text separated by layer depending on which SPV I am on

my view is you pay a large premium for the latest. I'd rather get a new one more often than invest in the best of the moment as you are never sure where things are going When I watch the video card processing raytraces, it seems to use the video card processor more than the video RAM. And I did the math on storage, it wasnt worth my while to go to 2 TB. I'm good for like 5 years. Even when CA is slow on my PC(while not doing RTRT), the processor is never pinned, so I'm not sure what the bottle neck is So if I was buying something today, I'd actually wait a few months until the 40xx came down in price and buy 32GB ram (that had expandibulity to 64) a midline processor, 1TB and probably 10 or 12GB on the video card (just in case). Thats running in a desktop version about 2500US up here. laptop about $3300 (non dell), which is why I would wait. I have a general thought, $ 2000 for the hardware, over 30-36 months ...unless a sale comes along or I by chance can resell my laptop to my cousin or something

i just tried the mydomastudio. First thing I did was I added a wall to the loft template, and it ballooned the wall through the loft floor, which makes me think the loft floor is not a real floor in their template. So the usual difficulties look to still be there. It's nice that they list all of the furniture in a window and you can just click and drop, and it is quick to scroll thru different couches. CA might want to look at this. it looks to have a "similar" feature, which shows all sofas if you select it. I also have to send my camera to be rendered, where it then sits in a queue, currently 5 people ahead of me. waited about 5 mins. And if I want to move the camera I then need to do it all again. Compare that to CA RTRT that renders in seconds. But I'll admit their render is excellent. so maybe that is the selling feature. I played around in some of their elevation views, but the dimension tool would not dimension to the inside of the stairs. the whole dimension thing was an exercise in frustration, one elevation showed some chinese characters. It's like they are trying to do con docs, but have realized its not that simple. It does look like it has some features which is subsidizing the price. For instance, they list prices of furniture from their preferred vendors, so my guess is they get a kickback But what it does look like it is, is a full contract, pricing, proposal package management solution. My guess is that is also selling it. But for me with the whole trying to do things quickly in web pages, was also an exercise in frustration In the end, I would be curious to know if people that use this software, an then used a nicely setup CA template for interiors, would prefer this software, and for what reasons.

well for me I always thought it was odd that the North pointer would be under a CAD menu. It really has nothing to do with CAD other than its representation is 2D

maybe use billboards?

maybe post the plan. just speculating, might be more of a balcony than a deck, might want to try changing the upper deck room to a balcony

if the object is right but the dimension is not quite right, I will do a point 2 point dimension, which if you dimension to nowhere CA will put in a "marker" point, which you can then move the marker point to be where you want it to be and the length you want, and no one will notice if it does not match exactly. more of a generic solution...that I use when I get frustrated