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I think I saw that in another post, put in the invisible walls, generate the roof, remove the walls. Thanks @glennwthis:: invisible room only needs to encroach on the large room as far as it meets the valleys on either side. are the tidbits on information that even if I was to do it once, I usually forget the next time. ...now when I search the forum I will sometimes search by my name to try and remember the ones I know I asked about but do not remember the answer!

ok thanks, good to know its not available automatically. For this house I am actually using a roof baseline polyline (I saw a video by rene, and thought, wow that is a quick way to fix up the roof after the auto build is done), so I was really hoping as well, that somehow modifying the roof baseline polyline somehow would make the roof connect to the main roof. But no luck ...so far

I think all I did was draw four walls then drew the entry, then changed the ceiling height on the entry. set the gables.

I want the ceiling height to be different though and still want it to be automatic. Not possible maybe...

Is there a way to get this front gable to extend to the main gable, automatically? The front entry has a different room height. It it was the same room height then it does automatically extend rooftest.plan

ok thanks, yes that is what do as well, although a lot of times I will just use the cross hairs and get it close enough, for layout boxes on the same layout I tried once to have a few different lines on the layout(on a layer I turned on and off on layout) for bungalows vs 2 storeys to align elevations, but ended up moving them around anyway. It is almost like a numbered grid would be useful on layout in absence of being able to snap to walls within the layout box

check with @Renerabbitt. he is in socal I believe and sells templates

I would say the SPV allows one to stay more organized as it is a collection of defaults, layerset. It is one button instead for 2 or more everytime you want to change to a different default set. I have most of the SPVs for instance to put text and dimensions on their own layer, and then the layerset for that SPV matches it I still occasionally override the layout box to use a specific layerset if the one I want does not match the SPV. If you are setting up SPVs you need to also decide how far to go. I do not have an SPV for every scale, nor do I have one for every floor level. I do have default sets for every scale, so in theory if I want to use different size fonts, when I first start a project, I will change the defaults in the SPV to be the scale I want and then save that SPV. A lot of time I am lazy and just change the font size of the default set (which then changes everything made with it) I do not use the _working plan view. I have the following...but the Elevations one is new for this project. it is the same as the plot plan view but with a different layer set. Basically if I am going to spend time going back and forth between a layerset, I will typically create an SPV for it(because that is my navigation between layersets) If it is a new layerset with just one layer turned on/off to differentiate itself from another, then I will typically just set that in the layout box

hmmm not sure I understand, can you elaborate? i.e. are you doing this on top of the layout box?

the problem is the space between the letters and the underline beneath those letters (touching in my case), not that underlining can be set to underline a space in between words CA gives me this: I want something more like:

Typically I dimension the actual setbacks from PL to building, and let the Development authority check to see if it complies But, I've seen a few plans where all of the important information is displayed on the first page in a summary like below. So is there an easy way to get a dimension into a global variable in order to report it? Maybe make a symbol, with some arrows, and use its label to display its width and assign to a global variable? ...although the symbol wont move when I move the wall, so the dimension would not be dynamic, kind of defeating the purpose Ideally need something that acts like a dimension line Anything easier?

well found, what I could only describe as a classic work around and reminds me of the 90s typing ____ in places. The below is for font size 9" 1.don't underline the text 2. put a bunch of spaces underneath on the next line and underline those and reduce font size(in my case I set to 7). (and adjust number of spaces to match word above) 3. Set user specified line height for the above to be 35% (if you do not change the font size to be lower per above, it looks like you cannot specify lower numbers for this property. Mine kept going back to 35 even if I type 10 or 15). I.e. if you keep step 2. at 9" size, it looks like it can only get so close vertically to the text above it. looks much prettier...but still there must be a better way ...maybe it is a side effect of having my windows display at 150%...like the old text wrap issue form a couple years ago

i can get a little bit of clearance by picking another font, but it is still tiny

your screenshot looks pretty close to touching...at least with my glasses... on my computer The screenshot I posted was once I printed to PDF using the CA PDF driver does the PDF show like that as well on the Mac?

I looked in the forums for underline, and surprisingly only 2 pages of topics are returned. Anywho, the CA underlining always has the line directly under, and touching the text. Is there a way to have a gap?

I removed the scale from the title block a long time ago, and put it on the elevation or floor plan label. If there is no scale or I do not want people to scale, but people might be expecting a scale I will put NTS on the label. Then you never have to worry about keeping them in sync

Thanks, This worked although the markers(now CA elevation point markers) are tiny compared to the DXF viewer when I first took a look for them, so they could be overlooked...for future readers of this post. I then grabbed them all and increased the size. All good. Next related question. After seeing the very uneven terrain that CA concocted from them, I just want them as Xs or point markers as I will probably do what Joe mentioned and try and draw some contour lines. Other than CAD detail from view(which converts the point marker X to 2 lines), are there any other ways to convert the elevation marker back to an X or something else. I dont see anything usefull on the context menu...although replace from llbrary was promising until it filtered by terrain object

and for those of us who rarely every send to layout...is there a method?

create a polyline when the wall layers are on to get the brick. The default living area label is to outside of studs

In fiddling around I think I see the issue, the object wont always follow the terrain unless you open it up and close it...rather annoying

...having to open and close to trigger the macro...the problem that never dies although the updated schedules in X16 got rid of a lot of my macros that sometimes suffered that issue. ...maybe I should try a schedule to solve this problem....never know I'm going to try a couple more things, but may head his way. sometimes when I lay off the problem for a couple days I come up with a new idea

@robdyck I'm fine placing them originally to be where I want. I just don't want to have to move them if I change the terrain and the subsequent elevation changes. In other words I want the marker/labels to auto move vertically in elevation view when the underlying terrain elevation changes (through me adding a terrain line or region). Does it do that? see my second screenshot, the marker is sitting on the terrain. If I adjust the terrain up, the marker should move with it and report the new elevation. Let me make a video

thanks @robdyck hmm, that looks close but not sure if it is what I am looking for. Markers on elevation/storey pole can be macro'd and/or configured to show ASL elevations. The question I have is: can you drop a marker anywhere on plan view, which, and here is the crux, reports the ASL of the terrain at that point, and that exact same object shows up in the elevation view (and shows ASL)? And if I alter my terrain, the numbers being shown change, if the terrain changes that affects that point Looking at your videos, they look like two different objects?

...and shows up in plan view and elevation view The closest I found is to place a symbol on the terrain with the elevation reference to "From Terrain". and then specify terrain to bottom as 0" Then after doing that (and I must to that to put it on top of the terrain) change the elevation reference to "absolute". And then set the symbol label to %elevation_reference_to_bottom% But if then adjust the terrain after doing that, the symbol will not move with the terrain. I tried terrain feature as well but it does not report its elevation. At the end of the day I am looking for a way to show the height of the terrain at a specific point, and show that both in elevation and plan view using the same object. It would be nice if objects always reported absolute elevation in an NPV, regardless of the elevation reference, but does not look to be the case what I want is to place a marker object on plan and it shows elevation of terrain and then goto the elevation and it is already there:

I would just put a wall with a door there and a glass window in the wall