Larry_Sweeney

Cory....I don't see a difference between the render and the vector views of the arches. What difference in the brick arches are you referring too?

Andy....Many thanks. I really appreciate your help and I'm sure the surveyor does too. If I have any more problems I'll give you an email. Have a great day and I hope you're keeping your feet dry.

Andy.......When I go to open the file that you zipped me in AC 2010 I get the alert message shown in the attachment. I don't have any program opened on my computer, but from the alert I'm not sure what it means. Should I be concerned about this? Do you think the surveyor will be able to take the converted file and be able to work with it?

Andy......I'm not familar with DraftSite. Is that some type of a AutoCad program? The zip. file you sent in the second thread, is that in AC 2012 format? Did you open it up in AC 2012 or something else? I have AC 2010 but could not upen the file in the AC dwg. format that you zipped. I just want to make sure if I send the surveyor another file it will open for him in 2012 AC. We are both getting a little frustrated and are dealing with time schedules. I really appreciate your help.

I received a survey of a track of land in 2012 AC format. The surveyor wanted me to place the outlines of the buildings, roadways and parking areas where the owner wanted them placed and then send it back to him in 2012 AC format. I've received many AC dwg. files over the years, imported them into CA, worked with them and never had any problems. I've never exported converted CA dwg. files out in AC format, but I thought there shouldn't be any problem. At least that is what I told the surveyor. I've tried 3 times to send him the converted CA dwg. file and every time he has contacted me that he was unable to open them. I made sure when I exported the CA files I converted them to the same 2012 AC format that they were sent to me, but he still can't open them. I took the file I converted to AC and imported it back into CA and it imported correctly back into CA. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what is happening? Maybe I could link the CA file to someone that has AC and they can try exporting it out of CA into a 2012 AC file and see if they can open it. Any help or advice at this time will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. I decided to send the file links so if someone could help............. Here is the link to the CA file before conversion https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BOYD%20STATION%20SURVEY%20VERSION%20CB.zip Here is the link to the file after I converted it to 2012 AC https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49042923/BOYD%20STATION%20OFFICE%20LAYOUT%2002282014.dwg

Perry.......Yes, this is true, but don't you think it would be better just to have a dbx. that could be checked for a particular wall? Seems like it would save alot of time ---- at least for the person building the model. How hard it would be to implement for CA could be another story.

Perry & NewPTV...... Thanks for confirming what I thought. I think I'll mention in "Suggestions" a dbx. for having the wall insulated that is highlighted. Have a great day. Perry, I hope you're keeping your feet dry!

If what Dan doesn't work for you just build the walls in CAD with fill. I know it's a pain, but then so are the circles when you can't get rid of them.

Is it possible to select a single wall to have insulation or do you have to give that wall it's own "type"? I know when defining a wall you can check it to have insulation, but I see no place, when you click on a wall, that you can just select that particular wall to have insulation.

Rod.....I'm behind all those items 100%.

To all....Thanks for the info. Doug.... I'll look into the info you gave in your thread later. At present things are a little hectic.

Perry.....Framing could definitely lead into a lengthy conversation, I think what I'm really discussing is the downfalls in the "Architectural Block". By the way, are you guys going to get hit with all the rain that they say is heading toward the west coast?

Doug.....When I move my cursor around in plan view I just have cross hairs. When I move over the cursor over to an elevation I have cross hairs "plus" an arrow pointer. It's this arrow I"m talking about having a solid fill. Right now it has a fill, but it is semi-transparent and many times when the cross hairs and this arrow is over a colored area it is hard to see whereas if the arrow had a solid fill that wasn't semi-transparent things would be much better. That is, at least for these tired poor eyes.

I recently built some trusses using p-solids due to "truss envelope problems". When I was building the trusses the p-solids was on a layer call "Framing truss BUILT". Once the truss was finished, I blocked all the p-solids and put it on a layer called "Framing truss TR-7". Later I did a cross section elevation and the truss wasn't there. I went into my layerset to make sure my "Framing truss TR-7" was on, which it was. I was puzzled and was trying different views and going through the layers trying to figure what was going on. I finally realized that not only the "Framing truss TR-7" layer had to be on, but the "Framing truss BUILT" layer also had to be on for the truss to show. Is this odd or what? Has it always been this way? I had a problem earlier where the p-solids I made for the truss was to have a "solid fill & moved to the front" before they were blocked , but once they were blocked they "lost" their original identity and were no longer filled with a solid color. Why in one case you would lose the original identity (solid fill) and in another case the architectural block would keep part of the original identity (original layer)? Just seems it should be "all or nothing". Did I go about "building" this truss and making it a block in the wrong order or what that caused this problem? I know what you're probably saying----Does it really matter! Well, in my mind, I would just like to know.

Randy......I have the same look with Glenn's reply (attachment). His earlier threads were the same as everyone's else. He must have changed the font. I call this "quite humor".

Doug.....What about giving a solid fill to the pointer arrow that's with the cross hairs so it is "in front" of everything?

Two things: 1. Is the line weight of the cross hairs changeable and if so where? They are so fine that even making them black they become had to see at times. At least for these tired poor eyes. 2. Is there a way to put a solid fill in the cross hair arrow pointer and move it to the "front"? I think the arrow should show up no matter what color you are on. I noticed that when on some of the darker colors it becomes very hard to see. Maybe nobody else has this problem, but after a long day in front of a computer screen this "old fart" has problems seeing and I want to blame it on something other than my age.

Dan & Doug.......Things seem to be working okay today. I did reboot everything. If I have problems again I'll try to make sure exactly what I'm doing when it happens and post it.

Rod..... This is exactly what I ended up doing. I usually don't bother with the truss detail in my models whenever I can, but there's a lot of things going on in this model that I want to make sure the truss company picks up and understands. I like to get my plans as "black & white" as possible with no "grey" areas. I always have a "hair pulling-too much coffee" day when working the trusses up in CA. The "truss envelopes" drive me nuts. After reading Gene's thread I'm going to sit down later tonight (with a glass of wine ) and try his apporach.

Glenn.......You came through again. When I set up the back clipped camera I had it at about 10"-----thus the p-solid would not show. I knew that the p-solid was suppose to set to the camera if it wasn't on an object, but I thought it was right on the line of the camera, not 12" in front of it. Many thanks. Your advice is always appreciated. Have a great day.

Gene.....Thanks for that info. Hopefully a little later tonight I'll have the time to play around with your suggestion. Much appreciated. I'll let you know how it works out for me. Have a great day.

David......I was in a back-clipped view. I could make a p-solid if I started on an object and it would show in that view. If I tried to make a p-solid not on an object (in open space) the p-solid would not show in the back clipped view. If I looked in plan view, render view or elevation view I could see the p-solid I had made in the back clipped view even though it did not show in the back clipped view when not made on an object.

Randy....I guess the sooner the better. My worry down the road is that we'll be losing all the info that's been posted over the years on the "old Chieftalk". There are still a lot of people out there using the older versions and many of the post solutions work for many versions. I have a feeling at the end of the year we will be roped into a change no one but CA is going to like.

Gene......I'm sure that's it also, but I'm unable to get the truss even close to what I want by working just in the envelope. Working with the envelope can be (and is) very frustrating. It would seem that if you can make changes in the "truss detail" area and those changes show up in the model, there should be a way to lock and keep those changes to the truss. If you have a chance to look at my model, draw a truss along side one of the trusses I modified and see the difference of what I get and what I want. This is especially true over the stair area. If there is a better way to define the structure of the rooms so the truss builds more correctly I don't know how to do it. Thanks for your time.

I was working in a back clipped cross section and made a p-solid on a material (2x12 floor joist) with no problem. I then tried to make one "in space" (not on anything) and it disappeared, but when I look on the plan view, elevation view or render view it is there. I can go to a elevation and make a P-solid "in space" (not on anything) and it shows. Is this the way CA always worked with p-solids in back clipped views in earlier versions or is this some bug in X6? I was thinking the when the p-solid was made "in space" it would be placed in line with the camera.