Larry_Sweeney

I have a 12" foundation wall with a cement floor flush with the top. The wall that sits on top of this wall is a 8" block wall with stone veneer and a 2X4 wall on the inside of the 8" block wall. I decided to make the 12" foundation walls on each end a pony wall consisting of 12" blocks and the top course the 8" block with stone veneer. This way I would have a ledge for my cement floor to sit on and also have stone veneer below my floor level. I built my pony wall with the top of floor at 0" and my height off floor at -8". This seemed simple enough till I looked at it in perspective floor overview. The pony wall went all wierd. The attachments shows the 12" wall and then the pony wall. I don't understand what setting I have wrong. I get the same result when I do the opposite foundation wall. Also, when my concrete floor is built it doesn't go all the way to the block foundation where there is a pony wall (across the front) and the top block is smaller. I have my front wall made with 12" blocks and one course of 8" block on top. The concrete floor stops at the inside line of the 12" block instead of going to the 8" block. Is this a bug? As always, all advice is gretly appreciated. Here is a Dropbox link to the file. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BOYD%20STATION%2003132014.zip

I make a rectangle p-line and use a solid white fill. I then "cover" the area I don't want to see. Sometimes, depending on the situation I make the lines of the rectangle p-line white also. I usually do this before I send it to layout, but sometimes I do it in layout. It just depends on what works best under what condition. I like doing it this way rather than changing the foundation wall to a dashed line. The problem here is that all the foundation lines are changed to dash ----- above and below ground.

Bill..............VERY GOOD!

I opened the Patterns/Chief Siding Pat. file (attachment) and I noticed what I think is a board & batten pattern for 2" bat on 12" centers. If this is true, how do I access this pattern? The pattern that shows when you click on this pattern file is the first one on the list (I think)

Is there a way to make a pat. file for a board & batten with 2" batten on 12" centers? Can this be done "within" CA or will it have to be accomplished in another program? I thought somewhere along the line I read about this in a thread, but can't find it now.

Were the I-beams made with molding p-lines on a horizontal plane and then "rotated" to the correct position? If so CA "reads" the molding p-line in plan view as if it is still in the horizontal position---thus the longer length. I don't know if I would call this a bug, but what I can remember about this it has always been this way. If you want to show the I-beam in plan view I would just show them in plan view by using cad lines. This is referred to as a "work around". As you work more with CA you will become quite familiar with this term. I hope this helps clarify things. Good luck.

I'm not sure. Rumor has it that he lurks around here under bridges.

David......Terrain in CA can be VERY frustrating. Just when you think things are moving along nicely, it'll kick you in the groin. Good luck.

"not a bad word was uttered" Scott.......Now come on. Can you get Lynn to verify that?

Perry......With AC voltage, how did you hook it up that it ran backwards? You're scaring me.

Scott. I totally agree with Perry. This video is especially good to watch for people new to CA and working with terrain. TMI is very important using terrain data in CA. Another is continuing contours for a distance past the terrain perimeter. My biggest problem any more is getting my road to look even along the edges while still having a slope. I keep working on it. Sometimes, as you mention, it can be just a little change in placins a contour line that will do the trick. It's learning what "trick" is the kicker. I hope CA will work on "fine tuning" their terrain building. A little bit "behind the scene" on each version would be nice.

Jintu...I just didn't understand your answer because I had all my lights turned off in the "Light Data" dbx. of my light fixtures before I did my raytraces, yet in the "Adjust Lights" some, but not all, of them were checked to be on. It just puzzles me why some show as being on when I had them turned off in the Light Data. Either way, thanks to you, I know where to go to double check my "on/off" light situation. Have a great day.

Graeme......This is something I'm going to have to look into. I think I have a fairly decent system, but lately I've noticed a slow down in X6. I've been working on a couple of projects where one is over 25 meg. and the other is over 40 meg. The slowness at times is getting to be quite a pain. It seems especially slow in views where I'm adding my "fills" (cad work) in my sections I'm detailing. I'm not a computer techy by any means. but you mention the SSD drive you purchased. When looking for a good fast drive, what are the things to look for? My computer is 2 yrs. old also, If I could get another year out of it I would be a happy camper.

Jintu.......Thank you for the information. What you are saying is that no matter which way the light fixture's "Light Data" on/off dbx is checked the Camera's view "Adjust Lights" has the control as to whether the light is on or off or am I missing a point? Once again, I thank you for your time.

Alan....I'll try again. I went back and checked the file before I zipped it and the plan file was good. I'm not sure what went wrong. If it doesn't work this time I'll use Dropbox. It was taking forever to load the file so I'm just making it available through Dropbox. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/LANDIS%2003072014A.zip

Alan....I was attempting to do a raytrace of the right front. The flood light on the front of the garage up at the peak shows on and it looked like the fan light in the screened porch was on also. I didn't check to see if any other lights that were turned off are showing on in raytrace. Thanks for taking the time. LANDIS 03072014.zip

I have all my lights turned off to do and exterior raytrace, but some floods on the exterior are showing as being still on. I double checked to make double sure they were off and they were. What's my next step?

Scott.....I usually make the terrain work for me, but I always end up spending way to much time trying to get it close. Semi-close (sometimes it's semi-far away) is always where I end up. My achilles heel is that I'm a perfectionist-----yes, I know, get over it---right? That's what my wife tells me--bless her heart.

Scott......Good luck if DSorensen post the plan. I'll be watching. Projects that have a lot of terrain (contour lines) drive me nuts. I reach past the wine and look for the Southern Comfort at the end of the day! Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to what happens with terrain in CA. It is something they really need to work on, but probably not in my lifetime and I'm Hoping to be around for awhile. Have a great weekend.

Gene......It may be a bug, but this is the way around it. The gutter is just a molding pline. Select the section you don't want, open it and check the dbx to not show molding on line. If you just want to remove a part of the gutter then break the line first. Ca will still rebuild it, but the section you don't want to see will be turned off. This was just enlightened to me by Glenn Woodward------Thank you Glenn. oops! Just reread your post. Forget what I said.

Glenn.....What you stated in your thread happened to me yesterday. I never log out and every time I open Chieftalk in IE I'm logged in. Yesterday I closed out IE, because it froze, which has been happening quite often lately. (?) When I reopened Chieftalk I all of a sudden had to login. Later I went out of Chieftalk and again when I opened it back up I had to login. This morning, when I opened IE and went to Chieftalk I was already logged in....Go figure! I have made no changes to my computer settings in ages. As a matter of fact, when it comes to making any type of "internal" changes I usually consult my Grandchildren.

Glenn.......Thanks. Correct as always. I appreciate your time.

Yes, I'm no programmer that's for sure. The way my mind works (thinks), it would still "be there", it just would not be displayed. That's an easy programing issue---right"

Joe....What is needed is to be able to turn them off on a individual basics. In the case you mentioned you would want to turn it off, but yet it might be nice to have it on encase something would be done that you would want to see the problem. At that point you then could have the option to fix it or turn off the highlighted circle for that instance.

I'm attempting to show "fill" in some of my material in the Structure Tab of my Room Specifications so they show solid with no "background lines"when I do an "Auto Detail". For instance, in the "Floor Finish (K)" I have 1/2 cement board, which I put a fill in and it showed when I did an Auto Detail. I then put a fill in my 3/4" plywood subfloor isted in the "Floor Structure (L)", but it did not show when I did an Auto Detail. I was trying to put a solid fill in these items because in an enlarged detail of a cross section you can always see other lines showing inside of these items due to the fact that they don't have fill. Always before when I did an enlarged detail I would go an fill these places in on the enlarged detail manually one at a time. I thought if I could figure a way to have them all filled using "Auto Detail" it would save me time. What I don't understand is why one item will show the fill and another item won't. I also used solid fill for all my material in the "Wall Type" and they all showed after doing a Auto Detail. Other than the 3/4" plywood in the Floor Structure Tab I've had flavorful results. Am I going about this in the wrong way? Is their another dbx. where I can put fill in the 3/4" plywood subfloor and it will show after doing an Auto Detail?