Larry_Sweeney

Here are my results using a roof for making a rail cap on top of my curved top wall. for clarity I made the center section a different color. I started my roof "rail cap" by making my rafters and all fascias 1" thick and my roof surface 1/16" thick and the material white (color for my purpose). I then added my shadowboard profile to the roof planes. This is the cross section of what that combination came up with. With the roundover on the profile molding I added for a shadow board there was a conflict with the roof surface as I point out. Depending on your shadowboard profile this may not be a problem. To fix my problem I put my roof on a different layer and turned it off. This left the shadowboard still showing since it is on a different layer (roof trim). Then in place to the original roof I installed a p-solid to match the shape of the shadowboard and came up with this. This is also what is shown in the render view. I first tried to make a seperate 3D molding p-line but I kept running into problems and then realized I still had use of the shadowboard trim from the original roof used to make the curved top wall. Using the the shadowboard was a MUCH easier solution. I then put the shadowboard and p-solid I made for the cap (red) on it's own layer. There may be a better solution than this but it didn't go too bad once I figured out the process. A much easier solution would be to have CA give us the capablity to curve the top of a railing wall and then use a custom rail cap on top following the curve. How about it CA.----------X8?

Kirk................Thanks for the info. I had already visited the texture site you listed in your second thread. I didn't see what I was after. I'm looking for what I refer to as Pennsylvania Blue Stone. You can purchase it as square and rectangle pieces or random broken sizes with a thickness around 2" or so thick. Some pieces can can cover many square feet. Over the years I've worked with peices as large as 6'x12'x6". Bluestone patios are quite common around here in the northeast. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time finding a texture that will work. As for the 3-Diva site, it's one I've had marked as a favorite on my "Favorites Bar" for a long, long time and never had any type of problem before. I don't know what happened, but to say the least I'm a little "gun shy" now, but thanks for letting me know you had no problems. Have a great day

Ben.............agree 100%

Does anyone have or know of a seamless flagstone texture for use on a patio? I've been doing searches, but as of yet I've turned up nothing. I was thinking there was something on the 3-Diva site. I use to go there all the time, but I tried to go there yesterday and all kinds of S#$% came up on my screen and I didn't even get to the site. Some type of virus. Scared the crap out of me. I'm no computer gugu. Luckily my son-in-law was here (my computer gugu) and straightened things out. I highly recommend not going to that site anymore. I also thought there was something on the "old Chieftalk", but I don't know how to get on that anymore.

Mark.........The gargoyle came from Google Wharehouse. It was close enough to what the customer had purchased to use in the design. That section is still a work in progress. The actual gargoyle weighs 900lbs. It's solid concrete. I told the customer to get one formed out of dense foam, (He thought I was joking!) The cost of building the structure to sit it on would be W-A-Y less expensive. Structurally it's a real PITA! I'll need an engineers stamp for sure.

Curt.......this would definitely have been easier, but in plan view I wanted to show an actual wall. Now the next thing will be installing a cap on top like I want. I'm going to try and use a roof, shadow boards and freize to get what I'm after. This is the profile I'm after. I'm hoping to be able to use the roof rather than a 3D molding p-line. I have a feeling using a p-line will be a real pain. If it the "roof" idea works I'll show it on this thread.

Ginkgohouse......That worked! Ginkgohouse and to all............Thank you for your time and comments------much appreciated. Have a great day P.S. Ginkgohouse---Do you have a name?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BERLIN%20REAR%20ADDITION%20PROJECT.zip How does that saying go. If you don't succeed TRY, TRY AGAIN!! I'm not sure what I did wrong the last time, but if this doesn't work I'm going for a walk. Maybe it's best if I go back to bed and start this day all over again.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BERLIN%20PROJECT%2006292015.zip Sorry about that..............Like I said earlier, my mind is in "brain fart" mode.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BERLIN%20PROJECT%2006292015.zip Scott.......No it's not a railing wall. To eliminate aggravation, here's the link to the plan in Dropbox, which is still in an early phase of the design process

Ginkgohouse.......Looks great, but I'm having a "brain fart". For what ever reason my roof won't cut the wall. Do you or anyone have any ideas to what I'm doing or not doing that is keeping the roof from cutting the wall or do you need to see the plan? I'll have to show it through Dropbox if that's the case. Thanks for taking the time.

Bill........Thankyou---seems like a good work around. I'm not sure how often this problem comes up, but as CA's Deedeeu said, "it would make a great feature request". I try your idea and see if I run into any problems and follow up on this thread later. Have a great day.

I would like to curve the top of a exterior railing wall (attachment), and I'm getting a sore spot on my head from all the scratching. I've been unable to find any info on this so far. Is this possible to do with walls in CA? Of course I could make it out of a p-solid, but would prefer using a wall if possible. If this can be done can anyone point me in the right direction for the info or instruct me on the procedure? As always all advice is greatly appreciated.

Perry........Thanks, that was the ticket! So, does this work the same on an interior door if you have different size casing on each side of the door? It goes by the largest casing rather that the size of the casing nearest to the inside corner?

I don't know if I'm having a "brain fart" or what, but I can't get this door to move any closer to the corner. I have "Ignore Casing for Opening Resize" checked in Plan Defaults. Without submitting the plan, doe anyone have an idea what's going on? As always, all advice is greatly appreciated.

Bill.............Thanks-----now it's time to "play"!

Can an eyebrow dormer be built using CA so the ridge of the dormer pitches up the roof rather than being level? If this can be done can anyone steer me in the correct direction. Thank you.

When you select/tab the individual windows of the mulled they do not have the "sill or casing" selection available.

NOTE.............The second and third attachments should be reversed. Joe..... "you might need to select/tab to each of the components and set the "Sill" there." Are you meaning by this statement that I should do this before I mull them? If that is the case then that was what I did. This shows in the first attachment before mulling the units.

I want to mull a casement window with sills on each side of a door. (attachment 1) Once I mull the units I have casing replacing the window and door sills and I lose the door sill. (attachment 2) I then opened the mulled unit and rechecked exterior sills, which is a custom sill profile and lose all casing & sills around the mulled unit. As shown in the third attachment, there is a "blank area" around the mulled unit where the casing a sills should be. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong in my mulling setup? I've tried doing a search on the subject, but I'm either not "labeling" the search correctly or it has never been discussed before.

I might not be understanding the question, but why can't you just use a moulding profile to make the dome. If it is a simple dome, once the profile is made you can make it any size in width & height when brought into the plan.

I'm assuming by "shop drawings" you are referring to 2D cad. I used ACAD for years to do all my cad work. I started using CA in version 10 and have been trying to use CA's cad tools ever since to do my cad work, but at times it has been very slow and frustrating. There are many on here that will tell you CA's cad tools are just fine, but I think many of them have very little experience using other cad programs. CA was developed as a modeling program first and seems to just have "thrown" in some 2D cad tools to quiet the what they think were a few percentage of the whole users. There goal is to make the model so accurate that 2D cad isn't necessary and that's great, but I think that's a long way down the road. They MUST do more to improve their 2D cad (and 2D dimensioning). There has been many threads over time talking about this problem, but for the most part they have gone unheard (my opinion). So, to answer your question, yes you can make shop drawings in CA, but you may get very frustrated at times using it for 2D.

Perry........I did not want them grey. I wanted them black. If they are set to be black shouldn't they show as black even though the lineweight is only 1? I'm not quite sure how the lineweight got set to one. This was an older plan that I brought into X7. Not only are a lot of my lineweights wrong but 2/3's of my linetypes are not correct when I brought this plan forward into X7. This plan came from X5.

Okay, I think I found the problem. My lineweight was set to 1 for my cad lines. (?) I changed the lineweight to 18 and the lines showed black in the "Print View". To double check the problem I changed the lineweight of the dimensions to 1 and they showed as grey in the "Print View". I'm not positive, but I don't think I had this problem in previous versions. I'll have to review X5 and X6 and see if this same anomaly shows up in those versions. Does anyone else want to check this out also just to confirm it is just not my printer?

Alan.........my dpi only goes down to 300 Scott..........Shown in the attachment was how my preferences were set up-------just as you said they should be. Sorry I didn't get back to you all before this. I was called to a job site to work out a problem.