SHCanada2

make room polyline and then edit the polyline?

i do not have those issues but it is a rare day i do more than 20 pages in a layout

almost looks like it is a bug

it takes about 30 seconds as CA will notify you when you start, then it takes you to your account in a web browser, then you "make available", then go back to CA and activate the license

you are correct, it takes a long time to learn anything beyond the basic. Is it people with nothing to do and have no money or they have money and nothing to do? and pretty much everything i learned was from the above 3 people's posts and I can say i have spent more than 50hrs. I would agree the cost benefit is tilted towards buying as you can then modify to suit if you need to (if you have any sort of software experience). i think @Renerabbitt also has macros in his templates I will say after trying to automate some things I found out the hard way i could save more time simply by putting things into my template plan and template layout rather than trying to macro the cr@p out of it. I think the only thing I "send to layout" for most projects in the post X14 world, is renderings and sections (and even now I have started to have predone sections in my template plan)

neither did I until I saw what you did. It can also be used for dash lining the foundation, but currently only for live view. I logged a ticket and CA acknowledged it is a bug for plot lines, so hopefully it will be fixed soon. If so, I *think* one could then set up these on a template plan and then the foundation would be dashed automagically, and be dynamic, possibly eliminating the white box masks

go through the ruby tutorial The biggest thing to realize is there are ruby macros and there are chief macros That and count on the fact that labels execute macros, as this will help you understand how to get things done. Not to say that is the only way, but that is the predominant, most practical way and then search the forum, there are a ton of examples

i have to export to dwg, sometimes, depending on the engineer. I will typically export "all floors" and let them figure it out. I think I had to export a section view once as he could not figure the height of a wall

i'm not sure if my workflow is the most "efficient". but on a new plan, once I determine the scale set to use, say 3/16, when I go to a specific SPV, I will change the default set to 3/16 and save it, then it is that way for that plan going forward. So on my floor plan SPV I change to 3/16, then when I go to dimension the roof plan I change the roof plan SPV to 3/16 defaults and save etc. Event though I think I have about 15 SPVs I usually do not use all of them, and even if I do, if I do not dimension or annotate a view, there is no need to change the scale, so those I do not change. For instance I do a lot of basement suites, and the kitchen elevation is there more for the plumbing and electrical than an actual fully detailed & dimensioned cabinet layout, so I have pre existing elevations on my kitchen and bath SPV on my template plan which are already on my template layout, so there is nothing really to do but center and crop the kitchen elevation in layout. For me, I essentially work by SPV. If I find I am using an SPV with two different layer sets a lot, I will create a new SPV, rather than change the layer set on one SPV. I find the 15 I have pretty manageable in going back and forth between them

some success, it works perfectly fine in "live view"

yes that is what I realized as well, I tried plot lines on and off, different line weights, no difference hmmm interesting... I put in a ticket to support. If it is "supposed" to be WYSIWYG, then it should be a bug. we will see what they say

I never saw much use for them until you mentioned they show up in elevation could be used to show the property line( and/or set backs) in elevation perhaps?

ok, i will log it

I think you are actually drawing a pline and changing the fill/transparency? I was hoping to avoid that, and after seeing that other thread, I thought, "hey I could just set this up and the foundations would always show dashed, nothing else to do, all dynamic". It all looked good until the layout rained on my parade. I also tried changing the terrain the glass hatched with white line, it looks good in elevation, but no love in layout (TF is only 5' tall below) interestingly if I raise the terrain it will dash the horizontal siding, just never the vertical wall corners

how are you creating them? If I use the build-slab-pier then I can snap to center. The one I was trying was auto build by the deck room And it looks like the slab->pier has to be under a wall

no did not change anything, but.. I think this did work, or at least it works today when i tried again

ok, so i tried modifying glass to have a white line hatch. looks good in elevation. layout still shows solid lines

looking at how siding works, i think i need a material which is transparent for 10" then white for 1" .... although it shows properly in elevation, so maybe it is just some setting to get it to appear correct in layout....

oops wrong file. new one atttached above

actual one attached now 67 Bridleridge Cr SW.plan

After reading I thought maybe I could create 4 of these terrain features, one for each elevation and stick them in my template plan. And perhaps I could set it to the semi famous white hatch to create a dash line for the foundation below grade as foundations here are always partially above grade So I setup a new material and I can see the "created" dashed lines in the elevation view, but cannot get them to appear in layout. I tried unchecking the use edge line defaults and pattern line defaults per the topic below (in which dermot indicates WYSIWYG should occur). But WYSIWG does not seem to be occurring For color fill and for no color fill in layout, neither seems to show the foundation lines as dashed Any ideas? elevation: layout: if you zoom in, you can see in elevation that the vertical foundation lines get broken up by the white lines, but this does not happen in layout. The interesting thing is the terrain perimeter is breaking up the line in layout: if I fiddle with the transparency it does not seem to make a diference.\ I'm really not that familiar with materials so I'm hoping this is possible elevation:

hmm doesnt seem to make a difference

I'm trying to dimension from center of deck pile, to outside of deck (or anywhere for that matter). But it seems like there is no snap in the center of the pile (slab) must be something simple. My snap settings have everything on except grid. it see 27.08.2022_21.38.42_REC slab snap.mp4 s the center if i start from the outside, but just wont snap to it, which means if i move the pile, the dimension does not come along with it I can snap to the outside of the pile. Any ideas why I cannot do this?

same effect. but, if i keep them blocked in my library, position on plan, and then unblock, that seems to work. ..or keep the countertops the same color as the range

yup that works, thanks.