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From some of the floor plans I have seen put together by these programs, they look to have a method to deal with the "numbers do not add up" problem. From what I can see, these programs will then make interior walls thicker to ensure the outside perimeter walls are straight. or reduce the size of an interior room. I'm not sure how that would look like in a CA import. I suppose CA could ask "what wall would you like here because the wall width is 7 5/8" in the import file" type of questions. To me its almost like these programs are a great backup resource so one does not have to go back to site, or maybe less chance of going back to site. But I think either way you cut it, someone will need to take crucial measurements at site, and will need to draw or fix up any output it produces. For something like a realtor floor plan, I think it fits the bill, or during construction to see what is in the walls, hole locations, etc. Most houses here have 10 or so rooms, it does not take that long with a laser measuring tool to do it. For the times I have been allowed, I sit their with my laptop in CA and do the plan right there. That is what I have found is the most efficient, if one can do it. but I do like the though of a backup, if I had to go back and check something out

As well, if you draw trusses I believe the section will show the truss

to do this here we use "energy Heel" on the truss

add a ceiling plane at the desired height (10')and keep the room 11' you have a 1' dropped ceiling. interesting, may I ask how come? (Utility chase?)

canadaland in the west. only the eastern canadians have pools

nice looking house!, might need to win the lotto to own that house up here ..and the pool would freeze over

I saw some notes on some commercial plans where they put the note and then a line with a filled circle at the end which pointed to the item to note, and then lined up the note boxes.I thought it looked pretty good. I was playing around with something similar in CA and it worked out alright, but almost have to use no fill to see the lines. I still have these sitting in my elevation on my template plan and then the schedule in the bottom corner

i would recommend the following CA videos located at https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/ as for me these were the areas I kept having issues with when I started Rooms, Floors & Foundations Roofs and inevitably you will need to edit a line. It can be frustrating if you do not know the behaviour, which for the most part is documented in the CAD tool series CAD Tools

interesting, thanks

if i move the dimension far enough away it does not delete the original one, but I'm thinking this behaviour is a bug. sorry audio is NFG today bandicam 2022-09-07 13-45-20-201.mp4 ?

Thanks @robdyck just what I needed. also another tidbit on screwpiles. They do not work in low lying river areas due to river rock underground (kind of tough to screw into gravel or boulders). Experienced screw pile companies will not even come and try in places they have failed before. Best to call them first.

it still works without internet, it gives you something like 15 days to connect

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