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I so often need to stretch my entire 3d model, all floors all items in either the X or Y direction. Man I wish there was something like that.

Can you explain how that first landing/tread is created with a Volute? You guys tend to skip over the basic key to creating these things.

Glenn came up with the cleanest way to do it while we wait for CA to work it into the railing dialog menu. "This is easy to do with railings. Build you deck to the correct size and make the railing Invisible. Draw another rail outside the deck and configure it how you want (no shoe, etc) and make it No Room Def. In elevation, select the rail and uncheck railing to make it a plain wall (you need to do this because you can't drag the bottom of the wall down if it is a rail). Drag the bottom of the rail down past the deck. Make it a rail again. The beauty of making it from a rail is that it is easy to modify balusters, newels, spacings, heights, handrail, etc." Here is the end result for a recent project of mine: Last edited by Glenn Woodward; 07-09-2012 at 07:21 AM.

Thanks, for the life of me searching I could not find it. Sometimes my search engine skills really suck.

I'm pretty slow when it comes to this tweak of the black and white elevation views having heavier line weights as shown by the above people. So I take a standard "elevation camera view" and I turn on my Layer set and annoset for elevations. In the annoset dialog for layer control we then turn on just want we want for elevations, but to get the line weights we then adjust things like "roof planes" to a thicker line weight? but I don't see the layer name for roof hatching to turn that to a grey tone? I do for walls and wall hatching. Although the line weight ends up light for roof hatching, I'm just not sure how that happened. I see I've got that wall hatching confused with the plan view interior hatching. So I'm not sure how to set line weights in elevation views. Could someone do a screen shot of the dialog box to show and example of changing to the roof and walls?

I asked this question last year, but cannot find the thread. I managed to get this to work then too! I even have the model still but I cannot do it again on another model. I'm simply trying to get a cable railing to display correctly where the newels are on the outside of the deck edge attached to the rim. This was done by drawing a deck first with an "invisible" deck railing, then draw another rail wall outside the first, and snug it up next to the invisible railing.... BUT.... under the structure tab dialog box the default wall heights dbx is grey out on the one that will not extend below, whereas the one that does extend below the top of the deck, the "default wall bottom height" is unchecked. I don't recall why or how to get that to work. Any one know???

Please Glenn, Can you tell me where to find the command "Edit Wall Layer Intersections" I've looked and looked and cannot find any such command in X6.

Thanks for stating this Dan, I've been using X6 on my new laptop for months and I never check which card it was using, then come to find out it is using the built-in slower card. How do you force CA to use the added NVida card instead?

Would you guys mind explaining in more detail how you use Annosets to get that look in the elevations? I've tried but seem to have failed. Maybe a screen shot of the layer annoset that produces those fine images.

Still it is not parametric or anything, you are forced to use 3d models of various elements and build, set them in place. This is a slow tedious process, but obviously looks great on a 3d model

I'm with Joe here. I've tried customizing the labels for each window like (N)3040 X0, but should I change the window, it does not change on the plan. Can get into trouble fast if your not careful. I found the Architect's method of using symbols that refer to a schedule to be much safer in the long run. Plus cleaner. Just not as easy for a contactor to work with.

Can you guys that use Layer 0, provide a graphic example of what yours looks like? I've had some issues with using this method when I send it to a printer, plus what lays over it.

AutoCAD has a very easy to use paint tool called "matchprop" that applies the properties of a selected object to other objects clicked upon. CA has something clunkier, and I was wondering if I've missed something more useful like the ACAD version???

There is also a neat trick to get the railing to the outside of the deck so it looks like its mounted correctly using one invisible railing and another visible one just outside that.