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so if I change drywall from count to linear, it gives me the surface areas of the walls, excluding doors and windows, so that seems to work. Its just not by room as it is for both sides of the wall and one side of a wall could go across multiple rooms. One could break it up, but it still has it as both sides of a wall I do not see a way to get it by room for the ML. Even if one creates material list by room, it only gives you the drywall for the ceiling, not the walls. According to the doc, anything that has its center in the room will be counted, so one could I suppose add an object and then do the math, or add crown molding and use it to do the math. looks like too much work.

your count 2 is smaller because it looks to have the area reduced by the window size. Did you then just change the formula to deduct the manually entered window area on that wall, for each wall? Or put another way, was it all manual, or if you changed a window size did it just then calculate correctly without having to do anything?

If this is for limiting distances and unprotected openings, the wall does not include the rim joist, and does not delineate below grade. As such I use a pline on the elevation, manually drawn. and then I have a macro which adds up the windows, which is rather convoluted. If CA would give us the ability to have a macro use a schedule total, it would be a lot simpler. I put in a suggestion a few months back But thanks for what you have done so far, I will take a look. I have not spent much time in material lists. I just ran one on a project I just did and trying to figure out what the numbers and if they add up. and if it is smart enough to know for instance that 108 drywall is for a 109.125 room, without adding additional sheets for the 1.125" extra inch. (and I can hear the comments already, drywallers use 54" drywall by 8',9' 10',12', and they optimize for orientation/placement....this is mostly for basements where you cannot get those sizes down the stairs. plus I want to see what the calculation accounts for)

@ValleyGuy What did you do to achieve this second count column result? I am actually looking to see if I can get it (wall surface area without opening area) into a schedule for the room

@AdrienS_FX Did you log this to CA, and if so did they acknowledge it as a bug?

did you check out the CA videos on remodelling: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/#playlist-120

I tried cubicasa, as it works with Android or IOS. I assume it is more of a photgrammery engine than lidar as it can be used with android or maybe it uses both if they are available. Anyway, it took me two tries on my test house. The first try it told me it didnt work at the end of scanning so that was good. The second try worked pretty good. I got back the 2d floor plan within 24 hours, most rooms were accurate to a few inches although one 5' hallway, they came up with 4'6. it took about 10 minutes to walk the 3 levels scanning At only $10 for a 3 level house, I cannot complain, and since I do the basement accurately by laser and match it to the survey, this gives me an accurate enough plan for the top two floors. Best bang for the buck I think

i'm still waiting for an invite to the lambda delta lambda or lambda lambda lambda fraternity. Do I find one here in this forum?

i had this a couple days ago and the refresh view did not work. I ended up changing it from plot lines to live and then it worked. but good to know the other options above

did you get it to work with all auto roofs? ..I always like a game of spot the differences . your heel height looks too high or main floor ceiling looks too high as the distance from top of window to peak looks larger. ...can also see it for the space above the windows on the left

attached all auto built. 2 changes made. broke up right wall into two and made the one a gable. Changed the eave width. when building the roof, select per below 1098474939_XYZFLOORPLANX16eave and split wall.plan

Did you try changing the overhang width for that wall. If you do that you also have to set the same eave height check box

I keep four kitchen elevations on my template plan, with 2 of them already linked on my template layout. As cameras cannot be rotated, I am correct in the selected 2 about 1/3 of the time. I also have a dedicated layer for new windows and doors, so their label shows red, as here the authority wants to know what changes are made to the outside

also see

two posts is one way with the bottom post having rock material. I'm pretty sure CA has a video for vertically different columns. Look for "columns"

CA has an article on minimum and recommended requirements.

what does it look like if you set the leader style to "none"

if your drawing sheet matches your print size, your layout page will match the pdf if "to scale" is selected or if "fit to paper is selected", which looks to be what you have there. but there is only one page showing, and you say it is printing on 3 pages? I tried it with ARCH C for both and it is only printing one page for my elevation

@winterddAre you trying to maintain the framing created by the deck, or some other framing you put there?

I seem to recall I had a similar issue a few years back and someone suggested I create a room in the porch which matched the cantilever. and that seemed to fix the impact to the other room heights

And there are many free ones that work for up to 3 or 5 min

Doesnt CA link it by default as opposed to embedding

what have you tried? Without the brick, what you describe is a standard attached garage build here (except our stem walls are 48" into the ground) The elevation of the slab vs the footing is set up in the room structure

I do a lot of basement developments and sometimes I will need the main floor plan, and second floor just because the City sometimes asks. For the basement I will just use a laser measure and draw in CA onsite to make sure everything lines up. It takes about 60 minutes I'm looking for something that will be ok accurate for "the rest of the house" for a floor plan and does not charge by the sq foot. I saw polycam has a monthly fee. Has anyone used a monthly subscription service, or God forbid someone who just sells the software to do a scan and provide a floor plan. I dont need bells or whistles, just the floor plan. I can do my own video. Anyone used something with Android? I'm willing to pay $1000 for HW if I can get the per plan fee down to about $50 or less. But the 0.20 cent per square foot that I saw for a couple software packages is too expensive, I might as well just laser measure it myself and pay myself $150 / hr

@Renerabbitt interesting, that looks like it might be persistent. Or does one have to click on the CAD detail to fire the macros, and if 2 plan files are open does it still work ( the whole global variables problem)