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thanks rene, its the little tidbits like these which makes things more efficient

interesting what they do, it looks like they adjust wall widths to compensate for the inaccuracies of stitching the rooms together. I suppose you got to put it somewhere

i still need some skill in measurement, the software does not look to see the post, had to measure along the beam. tried it from the backside. And this is interesting but then moved to the left and got better results but numbers still do not make sense, looks like 2'10 or maybe 2'11, but to the corner shows 2'11. difference of 1"/0" but looks like there are 2 2x6s there so should be 3" difference. Can people specify door widths using this software? maybe I just need some training One thing for sure, this would be invaluable for future renos, showing all the wiring, posts, plumbing

nice storm sewer drain grates, now that is attention to detail

it seems when I try and widen a road/driveway etc it is always concentric. Is there a way to just widen the road on one side? I tried ALT, X, C, SHIFT went into edit preferences and change to point from concentric no dice. anyone know how? thanks 30.05.2022_10.50.38_REC.mp4

thanks, Are you charged a per scan fee by matterport? if so, how much? Are you now going to redraw in CA off of the floor plan view in the link? Or how does one convert that to an accurate CA plan without having to "measure" each wall in the link 45 min is pretty darrn good IMHO

i tired to get the furnace clearance in 3d ...clearly i need lack some skill

that is an impressive amount of detail. How much are you charged for this 2 storey? How long did it take? I noticed the furnace room flor plan view does not show furnace, HW etc but the walkthrough does. I do a lot of basement suiting where a second furnace needs to be added. locations of existing furnace, HW etc relative to each other and walls are crucial Do you have to take these measurement by hand ro is there a way to measure these clearances?

3) sometimes the forum software gets confused and you have to exit your browser and come back. I've had it happen numerous times where it will not upload anything.

as solver states, create a new layer and open up the water polylines and assign the new layer, make a different layer for drains, then create a layer set for water supply and one fore drain lines

i'd go for more memory. I only really run CA and word/excel, screen recorder, windows stuff on my machine on Win 10 and it is at 14GB. it all adds up

got it, yes this is the simple way, and works well, i see the "3d hole" option now when i place the 2d polyline on the psolid. I think yesterday I had the polyline off to the side and thought it was a two step, select pline then place on psolid type of operation. clearly I was incorrect, and it is a lot simpler to place pline on psolid and then convert polyline->3D solid hole. looking good now:

i have it working pretty good with the 2 psolids and the subtraction, but keep getting the "Serious error". if i move around the psolid i can make it go away..sometimes. the latest one I cannot get to do the subtraction EditBehavior.cpp(800): Error #272000999 "A serious error occurred. Do not save the file in its current state. If you want to try saving your work, use Save As to create a new file. Please restart the program and contact Technical Support." 05/23/2022 09:41:30 PM Build: 24.0.3.48 Windows 64-bit anyione else seen this? 23.05.2022_21.44.33_REC.mp4

yes thats a problem, and one of the reasons I went to the psolid as i wasn't sure it could be done from the help: To convert a CAD object into one of these 3D objects, select the object and click the Convert Polyline ../../Resources/img/btn/ConvertPolyline.png edit button to open the Convert Polyline dialog except there is no such edit button when I was trying earlier. Now I discovered it is only available if I am not on a CAD Detail.so i copied it to the elevation and I can convert to polyline to a psolid. then the manual indicates: so now I have a psolid for my arch. I noticed solver you drew a hole, which I can as well using the 3D solid feature, but I already have the pline drawn, how can I use the pline to make the hole instead of drawing it by hand again? I also tried converting to a psolid and then placing the psolid on the other psolid and trying the subtract /union. etc. It appears I needed to select the large psolid first and then click on the subtraction icon, and then click on the arched psolid (otherwise it would subtract the other way).. Problem is it would not allow me to click on the arched psolid, it kept selecting the first psolid. I changed the arched psolid to a different thickness and now it works (although I had a couple "encountered a serious error" error a couple times. so after all that. two lessons, convert to psolid in elevation, and change thickness of psolid to allow it to be selected (although my guess is there is another way, I just do not know (there does not appear to be a drawing order available))

the fake facade a few inches this side of the wall, with it cutout with the arch for the windows I've now created a psolid for the entire two floors and a pline arch, but dont know how to create a hole in the psolid with the pline this look

I created a material region, but how do I cutout the arch? or is there another method other than material region thanks

I am using P2P, its not dropping a marker. I did use P2P and dropped a marker far enough from the line and then moved the marker. but thats not what I want because I am moving the property line to get the correct setback. this worked well and kept the polyline rectangular intact. thanks works well too if I did it correctly, ironically I already had an end dimension there, I just never tried to snap to the corner (intersection of the blue PL and dim end) both the above two allow me to move the polyline rectangle and see the setback dim change as I move to get what I want thanks. the 3'6 is snapping to the corner of the vertical dim end line and the blue PL (I just moved it to the left) I dont understand, is this the same as putting in a dimension perpendicular, or is this doing something with the perpendicular tool

I have a property line which is not parallel to the house, and for some reason I cannot snap to the line, it keeps wanting to snap to the where the off angle line meets the vertical line. I read the manual and thought it was the "Exensions" but I turned that off and it still does not work. any ideas. in the attached video it starts off snapping to the line but then moves off of it. any ideas? I can place a CAD marker to get around it, but I think I am missing something simple 21.05.2022_17.29.28_REC.mp4

looks like you would need to use the pony wall functionality per solvers video

I do this the dumb way all the time with scanned surveys, I just use the transform replicate repeatedly until the lot line matches the vertical crosshair line of the mouse pointer. it sometimes takes 4 or 5 tries, but it works to be close enough when I check with the setback dimension. nothing like trial and error to pass the time. The only problem is I never remember that neg relative rotation is to the right...or is it to the left...

for interior doors I've always known the RO to be door width +2" for prehung off the shelf doors

@solverhow did you get the frieze to show up on the short walls? I cant tell from the video

i have a macro as well tied to a poly line. Draw a polyline in the elevation, mark the windows as being on that elevation and it will calculate a percentage. If Doug_N does not get you what you need, let me know. he has been around a lot longer so his may take care of more scenarios

thats kind of what I came to the conclusion of...they were snapping too often to where I did not want. I'll also confess though that I never ensured the walls were on the gridlines

The other tidbit I discovered to help prevent these (not equal to the correct angle) is the make parallel/perpendicular tool. Using this tool you can ensure your roof planes are always 90s or whatever, just not 90,123455 (draw a 45 deg line an then make it parallel to that line)