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interesting. my walls have basically the same settings, i changed my room height for the cant to be 48 to see if something would change, no change, still the 24" roof. I tried pulling the exterior wall right through instead of just breaking the exterior wall to a bump out, no difference. ...a little stumped

? not sure what you mean I just highlighted it. i didnt draw it \..and if i try to delete it, it gives me the warning ...with aout rebuild turned on your changes will be lost

trying to auto do it. doesnt seem to work just tried setting to 2". made no difference

trying for a 14" roof (12+2 overhang). CA looks like it will only do 24 as a min, or perhaps I am missing something? 48" overhang specified on the long wall dbx: 6" specified as overhang 694 Muirfield Cr - fe (2).zip

3 things I have found save time beyond the SPVs 1. Plan template has the 4 elvations already on it. Kitchen already has 4 elevations on it (even though you may only use two) 2. Layout template has the 4 elevations, and floor plan layout boxes already on it, and a schedule page on it 3. Windows and door schedules already on the plan template I also have two cross section cameras on my plan template. I also have 4 walls(room) and an autogenerated foundation on my plan. This allows easier "testing" of the layout, when I make changes to the plan template.

You could try printing to different page sizes. This combined with the DPI seem to determine quality of output. I PDF to 24x36 for better render quality

i'm thinking the specific sequence of operations set something in the program which is not visible ...thats my theory

..well that worked, plus change the end type to none to eliminate the post at the wall, and then changed the newels on the right railing wall to 4" and voila thanks Glenn. That was a long haul Now we all know how to get it to that look..from scratch

plan 1871838887_NEWPLAN20x72actually works.plan that works

i saw this after i did it. and actually doing both identified different differences. I made them as close as I could (cant change some things on the object properties, but did use the no change thing to identify differences, and then changed them The only i saw which was kind of different was the stair location. so I moved the stair and it left the opening, moved it again, and it left it again. ...in both plans. I tried rebuild framing but that didnt work I had to pull the wall back and then rebirng it back to fix it. anywho, once the railing was back to normal on both, cheking the object properties, other than wall id, there are only 2 differences between all three railing walls: Top railing wall - No differences Bottom railing wall: (works on left, doesnt work on right num_whole_newels ----------------------- 1 num_whole_newels ----------------------- 0 Right railing wall: num_whole_newels ----------------------- 2 num_whole_newels ----------------------- 3 and these would look to be calculated numbers...so no more insight today than previous. attached is the spreadsheet and both plans made to be as close as I could for those 3 walls deckcomparison.xlsx 1543674498_24x502bed doesntwork.plan

what I did as well. I also tried reversing the wall, to no avail I might try and verify using the object properties macro and comparing in excel to see if there are any differences. if not I will send it to support.

..but... It auto worked before per the earlier part of the thread (and I verified it works with the other plan from above) But I tried changing per above and comparing the settings to see what was different and could not find the problem, which leads me to my question: Have people found that it randomly works, so in reponse to this people do it manually? ...or (and is my hope) there is a way to make it auto work?

the issue with that setting is then there are posts where the stairs are, which given it will be trussed, are not required. Any idea how to get rid of them?

I'm still getting this issue. the dialog shows it as full post, but it is not in 3d if I pull back the front railing, then a post will draw any idea how to fix? I tried redrawing the wall, rotating the wall 180 degrees, extending it out then back. nothing seems to work the corners do show differently on plan view: just not sure how to get it to be a post attached\24x50 2 bed.plan

Just happened to me for the first time yesterday. No idea why or how

I see now. Although your snippet above changes the numbering, it is still looks like a bit of a pain as you have to have the layout open to "watch" the numbers to make sure they are incremental, and the schedule open to re-order them?

interesting concept. I try and stay away from overlaying on layout, as I will move the layout boxes around depending on text annotations and how they fit. To me we need either one of two things, Joe's method X,Y coordinates of layout boxes, or an incrementing callout number. I personally stay away from live details as one cannot see the little things clearly like bolts, ice & water shield, WRB. So I have a bunch of CAD details in my template plan with the predermined names and these get passed through to the label for the layout so I never have to type them then on the plan, I link the callout to the detail. The problem is the callout number. There is no way to know if my last callout number was 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. So when I put a new callout on the plan, I have to guess. Then when I look at the layout I realized I guessed right or I guessed wrong and I go change it. Of course I could also go look first. But it does seem like the program should be able to do this on its own

thanks for validating @Chopsaw

if i raise it 12" i can get rid of the birdsmout. this seems like the old roof problem where it builds the wall up under certain conditions

it still doesnt seem to work. it looks to be putting in a top plate if i lower the baseline by 1.5 it is the correct top of plate but it is birdmouthed

i deleted the roof plane, and rebuilt all roofs with 7-1/4. so not sure why it would not build on top

for some reason the baseline is auto building inside the wall \ and if I manually move it to the wall, then my top plate is at 10'

right, so am I supposed to do that math (subtract them) and then TNR, or is there another way?

so if I check "flat ceiling over this room", the top of plate goes back to 9'9 and all is well. What the heck is going on?

so i decided just to make all of the rafters 2x8 in the defaults and then autorebuilt all the roofs. works for the top roof but the sunroom is still showing birdsmouth if I delete the roof plane, it shows top of plate at 9'9 and nicely aligns with the main building top of plate but when I turn on the auto build roofs it then shows 9'11 and no longer matches the main building any idea why?