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I would draw to scale in 2D using CA CAD tools. I've drawn quarter sections (160 acre) plot plans before, just by having them overlay on the floor plan. I then send them to layout at different scales, so it can also be seen zoomed in a particular parcels/region

...might be related...

you might want to post a screenshot of where you want things to be and not to be.

My house, which I have been in less than 2 years) has almost exactly this except the right gable is moved out about 4 feet, creating somewhere for the snow/rain to go. But the last guy looks like he put in a ton of kick out flashing and flashing 20" up the inside wall under the eave to try and "manage" this When the snow melts, it then freezes where the 4 foot trough is, and then leaks. And in heavy rain it leaks (fortunately for me I have a recessed door there, so it just leaks on the patio) ..next step to "manage", put up heat coil on roof...and build another little cricket under the eave at the bottom. I've also considered build a roof on top of the roof so the gable goes directly across to the other gable.... So words to the wise, move the left gable back or the right gable back...or take the chance you end up like me

thanks, yes I use that setting for the plan view, and given the plan dimensions are used all the time, I'll have to keep adjusting for the storey pole or is it the story pole as you guys put it. Maybe it is a story for the storeys

Thats what I do, although I store them in my library. but have a default one on my template plan's CAD details Then for complex plans I go into the CAD detail, say for roof eave, and then replace it with one from my library, if I have it, or I just change the CAD detail. It already shows on my template layout, as my callout is linked and I have it there in my template layout For simpler projects where I have just two details on layout, I just copy from my library and put it on the layout. In this case my callout is not linked

I have the same problem. auto puts them at 24, manual puts them at like 6 or something, then I have to go in and adjust each. I just havent spent the time to look through the dimension defaults to see if/where they are set. Did you already look through there and didnt find anything?

you are correct, I will say ...not straight forwardly done...there are a bunch of ways to do it, none of them as straightforward as the OP requested

so you cant save it, or you cant make a copy, or both? I had this happen again, but it is just that it cannot make a copy. I can still save

you cannot. You can copy the macro from the plan and recreate in layout(per Joe), if the underlying logic and data are available in the layout (not many data are). Or do as john indicates, assuming, the macro displays to a text box or schedule, or something that can be seen. For instance, I have a macro that calculates the total living areas of all floors. It shows in a rich text box in my plan, off to the side. I then have just this little text box showing in my layout on the first page, as I have cropped the first floor plan sent to layout to just show this text box

do you mean a 3d solid? the width, depth, height are not necessarily the same, depending on shape

This is project management mode...no access to the filenmae

You don't have to change the wall type to change the thickness. You could create wall breaks, open up that section of wall and type in a thickness. If the wall jut out is wider that a few inches and then comes back, I will often draw a another wall for the jut out and change its properties to "no room definition", just for the jut out. You could also draw the wall to follow the jut outs, as I assume you only care about the inside dimensions... if you have no room of interest on the other side

anyone seen this error: I can export the CA project after I got this error, just cant make a copy...and no, the check knowledgebase does not have anything I took a chance and saved and closed the plan file and layout and it can now make a copy ...never had a problem before making a copy of a plan file while it was open

well, since you are talking about walls flipping...watch out for this one as well, where the wall gets its default material changed when I created an alcove similar to a chimney https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/37172-siding-is-backwards-on-wall/ It was acknowledged as a bug at the time

If you are not already, you need to calculate the ceiling heights using elevations. There is a topic on the forum somewhere

I've been looking for apps that tell you once you are done scanning if the scan is successful (cubicasa does this). I typically draw the plans onsite with CA. I find its worth the couple hours to ensure it is correct. But I also scan using cubicasa as it is only $10 and you get the floor plan the next day. I will also use cubicasa for floors that are not actually being renoed, as no one cares if the dimensions are out by a few inches. But I do ensure the outside walls are correct, so that I can do correct elevations. Polycam supposedly does the floor plan as soon as you are done scanning, but I have not been able to get it to work on my phone. What I would really like is as soon as I am done scanning, I get the floor plan, and the 3D model (so I can see other things like furnaces, hot water tanks, etc). Today I take a video. If you find something that works, please do post it. For me, I can draw over a floor plan provided by these apps and pay myself $100/hr, vs paying 20c/sq ft for a CA file. i.e. for a 2000 sq ft house, I can draw onsite in CA in max 3 hours, vs paying $400. The largest variable for me is roof lines and split levels, and I dont know if you actually get proper roof lines with canvas?

its a terrain feature, which I assume even thought it is represented as a pline, means if I break it, it will no longer move up and down with terrain changes

well I realized another option is to make that terrain feature really tall, downside is, I cant cut it off at the PL line because it is now a large pline: but maybe thats ok. so final problem: The above is vector view, and I print plot lines. But plot lines does not seem to print the dashes "well", in that the dashes are not consistent as soon as the line curves (pdf screenshot is below): Is there a trick to this? or is it just a vector and plot lines limitation? I tried live view, but had to change the line weight to 18 to show up, but it then shows as tiny dashes:

I assume then if you want to lower or raise grade, then you are lowering or raising your manual grade lines, as I assume your topo lines are static from a 3rd party survey(i.e. the topo lines are an initial reference only)? Or are you using a 3D topo program, getting the grade to where you want it, then importing those lines back into CA to then manually adjust your manual grade line?

hmmmm How do you do that? Are you manually drawing grade lines or are you using CA's terrain? If the latter are you then doing a CAD detail from view and then copying and moving?

The jurisdiction here has been moving to measuring building height from any point where the building meets grade, in order to determine if the height complies to bylaw. This is a bit flawed because roof peaks are in the middle not at grade...but this seems to be the trend du jour More and more revit drawings that I have seen now show a max bylaw height envelope which mirrors grade. I was playing around with terrain features: and thought maybe add in another terrain feature with it x feet above the terrain. It worked okay: but because it is not a line, but 3d, I put it at 0.1" or 0" thick, but the dashed line does not turn out great because it is drawing two of them, one for the top and one for bottom of the 3d terrain features. How are others accomplishing this? CAD detail from view and then offsetting it? I tried a fence with just a top rail,but max height seems to be 200 in+ 120" vertical offset for the top rail equals 320", where for residential here it is between 33 and 36 '....short by about 8 feet

after fiddling with terrain on elevations, and on my last job actually had to draw a line in because it looked like this: I finally decided once and for all to implement a terrain feature that is really slim, in my template plan, to allow control of the grade showing in layout without having to move the camera and fiddle around I have four of these elevation features, one for each elevation. This is the downside, it means a separate layer set for each elevation, but because I have these elevation already in my template layout, its not that big of a deal, as I changed them there as well: Layer sets in plan: then in my template layout I have, for example, for my left elevation layout box: and the layerset has for the above: Note the "terrain perimeter" is off. That is on purpose in order to not show the terrain, but to show the terrain feature slice instead. The terrain feature on the plan is shown below (4 of them, one for each elevation) Each is assigned a different layer (I used "Terrain Featureslice bottom PL", ..top to PL, etc. I named them PL erroneously as I copied these from another plan where I had to provide grade at PL) The thickness(which is actually how deep the terrain feature is below the top of the terrain) is that large of a number so the bottom of this feature is well below the bottom of a basement. You can then move them to wherever you would like on the plan for the grade to show on the elevation. The elevation on layout using the layer "terrain perimeter" (normal method): The elevation on layout using the terrain feature and the terrain perimeter layer turned off A much cleaner look.

I'm not understanding, IF you are using project management mode, you have projects and have no access to the project files unless you export or backup. if you are not using project management mode, you save files to directories. Are you using project management mode?

i've always used layout boxes with update on demand for renders to avoid the whole create an image from a render over and over and over again The painful part is printing, because CA then renders it again for printing