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I think we need a dedicated tips and ticks thread to grass where everyone posts a picture of their grass and the settings. Then everyone can just peruse grass all day instead of everyone spending all day creating grass. And then there will be a whole bunch of variants of grass to pick from. Or we pass around the hat to the few that may want to

i think that is only the case if you navigate to it using the little arrows, and not clicking on the catalog? ..or at least that what happened when I tried it. once I click on any other catalog it shows in the filter. so how did you click on something without clicking on the catalog it is in?

I think that is by design, if I click on an individual item, I already know what I am on so i do not need it to show in the filtered results. the filtered results look like anything other than a click on a individual item

the other way you can do it which is not as accurate is to group select them, then hold the control key down while you rotate the group with the mouse. I do this a lot for pictures of site plans. I draw a horizontal line then try and align the plot line in the picture to line up to the horizontal line i just drew. but even then I will typically still adjust in the Tranform replicate 0.1 deg one way or the other to get it close to perfect as I will then draw setback dimensions from it

I assume you want them all rotated the same amount sometime i will click on the line that I want to be at some angle, and click on transform replicate, click on rotate->absolute angle, and then record the angle it is currently at, and the subtract that from whatever angle you want it to be, and then group select all the lines, go back into transform replicate, and then rotate that "relative" amount.. so if that 80.22 line is at 285 deg and you want it at 270(vertical), then the difference is 15. so group select all the lines and rotate them relative -15 deg (negative is clockwise). they will all move -15 deg, and your 80.22 line will be vertical

A screenshot of the lines and what you want to do with them would help. You should be able to group select them the use the transform replicate to rotate them

when this happens to me (because I forgot to change the defaults at the beggining), I either select all the dimensions and change the number size or go into the dimension default for one dimension line, and change the text size (but then the labels are mismatched), this will change for all dimension lines that use that set you can also change the dimension default used by the dimension line, but you would have to do for each, or select them all and do it

a screenshot of where you are looking and your elevation would help

if you have the X15 beta, you can also replace all fonts in the plan or layout in a single shot.

screenshot would help

thanks, I'm always looking for better backgrounds

that was creative, thanks. I was looking for a method last week, but ran out of time to do something beyond the default. but now i know where to look board & batten board and batten

I got it to show eventually (it did not originally but I do not know what I did, I think once the callout C01 was showing, and now it can go on and off, but not sure)

please add your request to the suggestions forum. There are many of us who would like deck improvements

gable backed into a shed roof? try a gable line?

I believe then you can report that via the regular support tool

material list using a polyline?

for us up here in canadaland, there are regulatory requirements for window openings, but not doors as doors are solid

+1 windows, doors especially

basically, ideally, you want to ensure you know what scale your plans will be in layout before you start dimensioning or adding text. Once you know that you then pick your default set accordingly. and the way I do that is I change my saved plan views to use the one I want. You have to do it once at the beginning of the project..if what you want does not match the template SPV. I think others just have multiple templates but of course, you have to set these all up. Mine are a bit overkill, but I just spent a few hours one day manually doing them all. The other way is after the fact the way you are doing it, or changing the text style to what you want and everything that uses that text style will change.

hmm how is this being accomplished? if I dimension my building, add text, dimension electrical, and then I need to expand the building so a different scale is required in on layout. wouldn't you have to go into each and change them? Room label text style, dimension text size, etc.

I did the math on 512GB, I can do 500 projects. if the 1TB was only $100 more, I'd probably buy it as they are faster read/write I do go over 16GB RAM on my dedicated machine but that is because I am opening other things, such as MS edge.

I've seen this occasionally but thought it was something in my plan. I just click the fill window button

i just did, and I saw that you can filter by object type, which is handy, but it also implies one knows what the types are. I suppose over time you will as one can look at the "Details" after finding what they want and then make a mental note of it (or save the search). But the more interesting thing in the video is it didnt appear to work for cabinets for the manuf he chose. I took a look and that is because the most of the items are "cabinet doors" not cabinets in that catalog. Here are three different types. So one has the "know" the items below are in these categories

i wouldn't consider myself a wiz, but I will do automatic roofs, and then finish the walls locations, and then alter the roofs manually. of course the problem is, as soon as the customer wants an a little bigger/wider, etc, then you have to adjust the manual roof again. I find it very time consuming for plans which get lots of changes, especially additions that have gables & crickets