Larry_Sweeney

Michael......................Your's barely visible----mine invisible! What sink did you use? I'm using the standard double kitchen sink that is in the library.

What is the trick to show a sink in a base cabinet using the Reference Display? I'm doing a plumbing layout and was going to turn on the base cabinets with sinks on the floor above for referencing my drain lines. The base cabinet shows, but the sink in the cabinet doesn't. I played around with the reference display options and layers but I can't find the cure. Is there one?

What is their reasoning behind this? Something to do with codes or liability out there?

Scott....Have you ever played around with just the roof sheeting showing on the rafters/trusses?

GOT IT! Everything shows like I want it to. I swear I had the same setting earlier and the subfloor did not show. The settings are Rooms-ON, Floor Surfaces-OFF. If I remember correctly Scott saying that the setting didn't always produce the results.

I would like to show the plywood floor in a 3D framing overview. I've played around with the floor surfaces, rooms and floor structure setup trying to get the right combination so the plywood subfloor would show along with the framing in a framing overview, but things aren't going very well. I remember Scott had a video "somewhere" where he was accomplishing this, but I can't locate it. Scott, can you or someone steer me in the right direction on how to get the subfloor to show? Thanks.

Perry....Thanks for leading me in the right direction. After "playing around" with the truss base and my situation I finally got acceptable results. My situation was using the "California Tie-In", but instead of pulling trusses I wanted to use rafters over the truss base. I don't know if it was the correct way, but I made seperate roof planes just over the truss base, Highlighted those planes and had CA just build framing for those planes. I'm not sure this is the "correct" way, but I got the results that were acceptable. I seem to think Scott may have done a video on this quite a while back, but I didn't find it. Now if we could only get CA to give us the ability to do the correct framing for using rafters on a "California Tie-In". Have a great day.

Perry....I've never done this in CA before to be honest. Can you direct me to a good training video or reading on the subject? Or would it be better/easier to post the plan?

Perry........Are you saying I should have a "truss base" for the rafter plan?

I have a plan that is mostly trusses, but there are a few places that I want to use rafters. I have two plans--one using rafters and one with trusses. I copied all the rafters from one plan and temporally set them next to my "truss plan" trusses. I then copied certain rafters over on to the trusses. Everything went well until I got to a certain area. (attachment). When I transferred rafters marked "A" over they went to nailer's between the trusses "B". Any ideas? Am I going about this correctly? I tried blocking the rafters before coping them but the block disappeared in vector view even though the layer they were on was on.

I have a plan that is mostly trusses, but there are a few places that I want to use rafters. I have two plans--one using rafters and one with trusses. I copied all the rafters from one plan and temporally Screwed up. go to next thread.

In the "drop down" window for elevations click on and use the "Wall Elevation". That will give you what you're after.

Randy.......Checked out the items you mention and everything checks out okay. I sent in a ticket to see what Support has to say. Since I'm not very "computer savvy", whenever I get any "pop up message" I get nervous real quick. Appreciate the advice. I'll let you know what Support says. Have a great day.

This window started popping up every few minutes. Can anyone explain what it is telling me and what to do to stop it? Should I be worried? I have plenty of space on my hard drive.

Do the lines show up once you send it to layout. Many times once an elevation is sent to layout these types of lines are gone. If they are still there in layout you always have the option of editing (eraseing) the line in layout. If you do edit lines in layout make sure it's the last thing you do in yout layout. This is because if you happen to open the layout window you edited you will lose all your editing.

Bill..........I deleted the door and then copied a door from the second floor that showed correctly (opaque glass) in elevation. Once the copied door was in the double wall the glass was no longer opaque. I had done this early on in trying to trouble shoot the problem. I did a work around using the p-solid like I talked about. I think this is a Bug, but I've been wrong many times before. I'll post the plan through Dropbox. The p-solid is the layer named "Door, masking". I think I turned it off before sending the plan file. Here's the link. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BOYD%20STATION%2003282014.zip

Joe............The problem is that the French door's glass isn't opaque and it should be. All the other glass in this and the other elevations are opaque. The question is why isn't the glass in this French door opaque? When I mentioned the opening indicators was how I noticed that the glass wasn't opaque. The opening indicator has nothing to do with the problem of the "non-opaque" glass. Sorry for the confusion.

First off, or should I say SECOND OFF. I wrote all this before, hit the post and it supposedly posted, when I went back to Q & A it wasn't there. This posting problem is really starting to P*** me off! Some day some how I'm going to find where those post get posted. Oh well, that's a whole other subject. I'm going to try this again...... I was working on an elevation and I noticed that in one of my French doors the glass wasn't opaque. All the other windows and doors in this elevation and the other elevations were opaque. I picked this up when I noticed two opening indicators showing on the French door. This is when I realized the glass wasn't opaque. The "other" door that is showing (I painted yellow to show up better) is at the other end of a hall from the French door. In the attachment I show part of the elevation and the floor plan where the French door is located. I'm pretty sure the cause of this is due to the way I installed the door, but I don't know how else this could be done. I made a doorway in the block wall and then installed the French door in the framed wall because I want the door to be able to swing against the wall in the hallway. This is as you would do it in the "real world". I tried changing the "double wall" to all three of the different options for double walls and it didn't change the problem of the opaque glass. I suppose as a work around I could just put a p-solid behind the door, "paint" it white and have it turned on for this elevation anno set, but I thought maybe I'm just going about the door installation wrong. Has anyone had this happen to them or know the correct way of installing this door so the glass is opaque? Would this be considered a bug?

What Scott is saying in a round about way is POST THE PLAN.

To all..... Thanks for taking the time to give input on how you deal with different types of details and sections. I've picked up some very good information. Have a great day.

Rod...I guess you could say that this is also my question as a whole on this subject matter. Thanks to all for your input. It's much appreciated.

I'm completely self taught, but I've been doing designing for over 40 yrs. and have always had this question in the back of my mind. What is the difference between a section and a cross-section? Sometimes when making a "cut" I'll use the "backclipped cross-section" tool and other times I'll use the "Cross section/Elevation" tool and refer to both as "Sections". As you know one will give you just the actual "cut" while the other gives you the "cut" and what is beyond that cut in the direction of the arrow. Are they both referred to as a section? Is it "proper" to use both in the same layout and call them both "Sections" or should each type be referred to by separate names? If separate then by what? I've looked through different books on the subject over the years and have really never come across a definitive answer. No one looking at my plans have ever said anything one way or another about how I had them drawn. Like I said, it has always bugged me and I'm just curious. You know, It's h--- being a perfectionist. Thank you.

Doug.......Thanks for reviewing this thread. Ah yes, there's always a trade off. Do you have a better suggestion?

I don't know if you would call this a work around, but it was what I was after. I just go into Layout and turn on the print review. This way I can see the line weight on the layout and I can keep the line weights turned off in the plan file.

I have an instance on my first floor where I have my "cross section camera arrows" close to my floor plan. When I go to my second floor I must pull my dimensions out farther away from the plan and thus my "camera arrows" also need to be pulled out farther away from the actual floor plan. Now back on my first floor the "camera arrows" are way out away from the rest of the plan. With it like this, when I send to layout my first floor "camera arrow" locations are taking up valuable space that I could fill with something else. It would be nice if we were able to adjust the cameras in or out from the plan on each level to eliminate this problem. I believe in previous versions we were only able to click on a camera on the floor plan that is was made on. I'm not talking about moving the arrows so that the cross section changes, but "in and out" as referenced to the cross section cut. I know I could turn off my cameras and just place callouts manually, but these would not be able to automatically update. (CA is starting to spoil me) Is there any other way to accomplish this? If not, is it worth making a "Suggestion"?