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I think it essentially has to be this way, as CA does not "know" that you do not want a roof there as some may want actually want it there. I suppose CA could try and keep track of roofs you delete after the auto build, and not rebuild those same roofs, but then you would still have to delete them, but only once. or it could assume any auto built roof that intersects a manual roof should not be built. I would think the latter would be significant effort as it would need to check the entire roof to see if there is any little portion of a manual roof intersecting it

I was pondering how to do this. The survey is the survey so to speak. any interpolation will be guessing. I was hoping CA's algorithmic guessing plus any tuning would be better than mine. Are you saying just the elevation points will be a nightmare to tune, and I am better off making at least a first pass guess with elevation lines (ensuring the elevation line matches the point in at least the one location and does contradict any another) and tune from there

Some DAs require proposed and existing ASL elevations to be on the site plan. For flat lots this is not that big of a deal, and sometimes requires some math on sloping (ex: 4% driveway slope, would require a calculation of taking the ASL at the sidewalk, and calculating the elevation change over the length of the driveway @4%). On flat lots, I just put in markers and color them different for existing vs proposed (or leave out the existing if I can get away with it), and neither is actually an elevation terrain point It is more of a PIA for walkout lots, or split walkout lots as one has to continually ensure drainage is away from the house. My question is, what are people doing to show the existing condition and the proposed elevation condition. Is the existing condition a separate plan file with just the terrain, and then the proposed is on the proposed building plan, and use a reference display to show both on the same? if so how to you ensure the ASL labels for each point do not overlap? Ideally I would like: 1. be able to show a cross section showing visually how much fill would be needed, and as such required retaining walls 2. on the site plan show something like below, but really this below shows two different point markers at different physical points, where the message to be conveyed is they are the same point (I suppose I could overlap them and angle the text for the proposed to be away from the existing, or just put in angled text for one of them): It just all seems to be a lot of manual work. Any ideas would be appreciated

The survey around here for residential typically only has ASL elevation at certain points on the site. I am trying to convert these to elevation points in terrain, if possible. My first step was to import the DWG into CA. But I noticed that what look to be point markers in the DWG dont actually import in CA (I tried the different options in the import, no luck). Am I missing something or is this a known limitation: DWG with only property line and elevation layer data turned on CA with all layers (rotated): but even if I could get them in as "X" or something else, I do not see any option to convert to a CA elevation point. Is there a way? My method of last resort will be overlaying the PDF and creating elevation points in CA overtop of the X point markers in the PDF

thanks, I'm always looking for art and frames as well

use a reference plan

I suspect that is the issue. I do 24x36 all the time with CA details, and only time I have issues is if there are like 10 RTRT images

i've seen that once I think, and restarting CA fixes it

are these screenshots of the camera, or screenshots of the camera/image on the layout. You could post the plan and see what everyone thinks

looking a little closer at the screenshots, it looks like CA is making roofs in addition to the manually drawn roofs? This, I think, is expected behaviour as I have this happen all the time and then I delete the auto generated roofs (and turn off the auto build roofs). it is a bit of a PIA if you add some more building and want that portion of the building to auto build. As you have to go build the roofs, and delete the other roofs auto done on the rest of the building. rinse repeat everytime you change the building addition

might be similar as:

My apologies, I meant post the Chief .plan file

You might want to post the plan

surprising. Backdrop at say, 500 and sunlight at 2500 made no difference? You might want to post the plan

what is your sunlight at? you may want to try and reduce your backdrop intensity

see attached from the out of the box residential template 16.02.2025_16.36.55_REC.mp4

It took me awhile originally to figure out they were not part of the dimension line. You can also, once you manage to tab through to get to them, notice the affected dimension will turn Grey in color. You can the click on the Grey number and type in a new dimension and it will move the marker to match. I use this functionality all the time when I import an image of a survey and have to dimension walls and window wells to the property line as the image has nothing to snap to so ca drops a point marker

I just type less than you :o)

put a cabinet there and then find a dishwasher in the catalogue to drop into the cabinet. I use the "chef" series dishwasher

if I have to use point markers to fake a dimension, I will put the point marker radius to a small number. they can be problematic to select. you might have to hit tab until you select it

From the import menu? ...same as any other image...or is there something special

please post to Q&A with screenshots

should be posted to Q&A. to save as a template, click save as template to start from a template, click new layout from template and then select the same file that you saved the layout template as

CA has a "Recommended hardware" thread. I would suggest start there. The graphics card makes the largest difference for real time ray tracing(RTRT) for speed, but I do not remember if X12 had RTRT