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I would be interested in perhaps a pre-review as well (i.e. what might be wrong in what they want to do).. I just got caught doing something simple and missed a code requirement which the building department caught, and there are no elegant options to deal with it. If I would have caught it at first review, the customer perhaps might have chosen not to go forward and saved everyone time and money

I assume geodetic? Have you been able to verify it against a surveyed point? how close was it? Because of it was accurate then that could eliminate the need to laser level measure. And if the GPS position measurement was accurate to the inch, then that would be the ticket as one could just walk the property with the apple watch on a 5' stick

if i remember correctly the problem with this is then you are constantly adjusting the elevations. i.e. I want to see how many stairs I can get away with on the bottom or the top. If they are all part of one flight, i can just go change the stair section. If I have a separate landing, I have to move them up and down? not to mention when you move the stairs or resize them the landing resizes differently (which is true for both cases I believe) I have an extreme dislike for stairs, always seems to be an exercise in frustration

make a pdf and send it to him?

nvm, I had tread depth locked. But to get the correct number of winders, one needs to lock "number of treads" if trying to get the three winders on the "landing". "Automatic Treads" does not seem to work This little tidbit seems to be missing from the doc link above ...unless there is some additional setting that alos controls it 30.01.2023_21.33.16_REC.mp4

my non love affair with stairs continues I am following: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00884/creating-winder-stairs.html to try and get 3 winders. It works on the OOTB template(except it reduces to 2), but not my template. When I curve the winder section it refuses to snap to be vertical Tried changing the width to match,I dont see anything else obvious. closest it will snap: I'm also trying to get three winders and not 2 30.01.2023_21.19.40_REC.mp4

well I decided to try out some other things and did get it working such that a, lets call it "initialize filename variable" assignment box is not required on elevations. the filename is required in order to know which roof value to get from which file It does have three limitations that i can see. 1. it uses the default exterior wall label to make the assignment (actually for me I used the foundation wall label, because I always have a foundation) so it you use this label for other purposes, then this will not work (although you could use the roof label if you wanted). I assume these are wall details like Rene showed so I assume it is not applicable to interior elevations. If it was you could add it to the internal wall default label 2. backclipped sections dont have any objects (well sometimes a roof), but no wall, they look to be just cad lines. so backclipped elevations would need the assignment box copied to it if you wanted these macro details there 3. the default labels are only for plan view,, so one cannot offset the label to be lets say, below the house on elevation. Instead one has to either i) set the colour of the label the same as the wall (which is why I put it on the foundation as its always concrete ii) make the text style tiny and transparent or iii) move it manually, but if you are going to do that, might as well copy an "assignment box" onto the elevation video below shows the behaviour. The global variables are assigned on the CAD detail, and then you can switch between elevations on each plan, and the global variable which was last "set" on one does not get shown on the other. It is using a global hash with the filename as the key, so there are two unique pieces of storage for the two values within the hash (essentially an array). And if one ios wondering why an initialization box to set the filename is required...well, it get the roof type for that file I neede the filename, and the filename is stored in a global variable, so itself would ne incorrect when moving to the next file. This means the filename global variable is being updated by the wall label to ensure the retrieving of the values from the hash is using the correct key I thought there might be a race condition problem here where the value gets retrieved prior to the setting of the filename global variable, but so far I have not observed one 27.01.2023_20.59.50_REC.mp4

add it to the suggestions forum, email CA

i typically use dimension lines with a blank line style for plot dimensions, because it snaps to the line. move the line, the dimension changes. move the dimension line (that you cannot actually see, but you can select) and the text moves with it

thanks, I've been hoping for some better backgrounds

every window looks through to the backyard...is that how the actual house is designed, or is it a TM glitch?

i find it useful for initially drawing bedrooms and bathrooms. Always know a bathroom must be 4'11

thats why some wait and watch ...let others be on the bleeding edge. eventually a new driver will likely solve a problem you may encounter. For me I have time so I'm happy to be the guinea pig in an effort to make things better quicker

i will use the revision cloud and put a label beside it noting the scope of change. in this case I would put on the cross section and probably note it on the elevation. generally here stacking of walls is a no no without an engineer, unless you are taking off the top plates and sistering or replacing with 9' studs ...but I would assume that is the detail the authority is looking for

i've got a couple laptops and the lenovo thinkpad is rock solid, but mine is 4 years old and does not have the greatest GPU. The new computer I bought last year was a gigabyte Aurus 17". I can say the larger screen size is not only great for CA, but also watching movies. so if you are going to buy a new one next time and you are on the road a lot, you might want to consider the larger screen size

change the sun to follow the camera reduce the backdrop intensity to 500 and have a backdrop change generic sun intensity to 5000 or post the plan

so had this problem again today. Looked at the settings from the above plan and compared to the new plan and everything seemed the same. After spending 45 minutes changing parameters with no success, I redrew the end railing and it just worked. Anyone know what causes this where the post shows in the preview panel,. but not on the 3d, and then redrawing it fixes it?

i believe you are correct as the latest NVIDIA driver came out in dec, and I installed it after I upgraded to win11

True, however, one could build a program that looks exactly like that dialog box, and output the results into a text file, which could then be read by CA. My two cents, you could get pretty close to the same results with Rene's system (or another macro system) for the DETAILS. But the cross section you have shown just doesn't make sense if there are different wall thicknesses, roof pitches, insulation, etc etc @HomeDesign724 if your boss man cannot explain the cross section or it is a "just accept the inconsistencies", then I would suggest telling the boss man to do something different. I for one, do something like below where inputted variables drive the detail(similar to Rene). I used to do a cross section similar to yours but just found it redundant to the details. more effort to flip between pages, but less effort on my part

hmmm, so for your screenshot which shows the porch, you would not show the porch (how would this look?). Or you would show the porch just with the wrong roof pitch, and then another cross section with the right roof pitch on the porch but the wrong roof pitch on the house?

@HomeDesign724 how is the cross section working? you could have two pitches in the same cross section. there is only one pitch in the dialog box

I think I understand the details, but how is the cross section working. you could have two pitches in the same cross section

My guess as well for the details, but what about for the cross section he has? And if his two roofs on the section had different pitches? how would that work? @HomeDesign724 any idea how the cross section works?

this may be a possible reason. CA is changing it under certain conditions

what is dynamic in that cross section? I'm still not understanding what that represents. Is that actually the cross section of the house, and then further adjusted by that dialog box? What would a sunken living room floor look like and how would the one floor height change in the dialog box impact it? i.e. that dialog only has one floor height, what happens to a sunken living room when you change that height? Are all the annotations just put where they are with no user interaction? Impressive if it does