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I'm on a Mac (first off) and have never been able to use the keyboard commands to move to the "next tab" or "previous tab." What's the trick to this? Can I assign my own hot keys for this? thanks. Jason

New follow-up question. If I create a whole bunch of new materials (that will be in my user library). Can I then just reuse them for other projects? And, if I change the vertical/horizontal positioning, will that change the positioning in other models in which I used the same set of materials? Or, is the positioning done per model? Not even sure if that makes sense what I'm asking. Thanks. Jason

Thanks, Chrisb222. So, basically, I'd need a separate material pattern for all tiled walls in a house so that I can adjust them to exactly where I want. Is that your understanding? That's exhausting!

I'm not sure exactly how to ask this question, but I'll try. I'm an interior designer and tile patterns for showers are critical to me. Currently, if you have material regions of the same material on 3 walls of a shower, they are all connected to one another. Meaning, if I move the center line on one wall, the material shifts on the other walls. Is there a way to keep this from happening?

I simply can't figure out how to do this. I need to change the ceiling height of a room on the first floor without changing the floor height of the room above. What's the best way to do this? Thanks. Jason

I figured it out - you have to select "Default Wall Bottom Height" on the wall specification of the wall behind the material region. That carries the wall all the way down to the new lower floor height. Thanks, everyone. Jason

That seems complicated. I'm working closely with an architect and we have standard wall thicknesses that are pre-defined. Not sure how this would mess with my definitions. I'll have to give this some thought.

Here in Florida, we do a lot of drop down showers (6" below the dry floor). When I add the material region to the shower walls, the material doesn't go all the way to the floor of the shower (you can see the drain at the bottom of the shower). The material region goes to the floor on another wall, but not this one. I have the elevation camera set to back clip just behind the tile layer. Any thoughts?

Rookie65 - good question. Yes, I did remove the jamb and casing. I actually have that set in my defaults for doorways.

When I place a doorway in a wall, the drywall layer doesn't show as wrapping the opening in plan view. Why is this? I've checked all my layers so that only the framing layer is set at framing. The two drywall layers are set as interior and exterior layers. It appears correctly in 3D, but not plan view. It's kind of annoying that it doesn't show up correctly. drywall.pdf

Is there a way to make a baseboard return using the room molding polyline? There are instances (especially around shower openings) where I'd want to return the baseboard to the wall rather than just have it end. Creates a clean look. Thanks, Jason

I have a wall that I can't get to be a certain length. As you can see in the picture, when I select the wall, there is an extra part of the wall at the end that I can't select or remove. Any thoughts? Also, how do I get the drywall to wrap around the end of the wall? I have some other walls in my model that do show the drywall wrapping the end, but can't figure out why it's not doing it on this wall. Thanks, in advance. Jason

Thanks, Chris. That totally works. I'm not even sure what cabinet modules are. Jason

Simple question (I hope). How do I get rid of the extra lines in a cabinetry filler in elevation view? See attached pic - fillers on either side of full height cabinet have extra lines in them Thanks. Jason

Hi, all. Trying to get this figured out and I'm close, but there is clearly something I'm missing. I'm interpreting an architects plans (2 D) and creating the 3D model of it. On the main house in the file, there are three bump out windows - 2 on the second floor, 1 on the main floor. The bump outs are supposed to look like a cube intersecting the corner of the house. In the case of the ones above/below each other, the two bump outs are separate from each other. Meaning they should have any connecting pieces, but have a finite bottom and top (I really hope that make sense), including the upper one should not touch the eave. In the screen shot attached, you can see I almost got the bottom one to work, but there are still massive holes in the walls that I can't for the life of me figure out how to close. I tried doing this with boxed windows, but that didn't work. I saw one video that explained about using a "room" to get something like this, but it was on a flat wall, not around a corner. Plan attached and thank you, in advance, for any tips/advice. Jason Gaherty.zip

Eric - one more question. How do I draw the pony wall and manually shape it? Can't figure that one out at all. Thanks.

Thanks, Eric. Signature updated. I'm sure I can get this to work now. Thanks for the tip. I rarely draw the roofs since I'm an interior designer and don't really care about the outside. But, now I know I need the roof to make all the inside walls work.

I've never been able to figure out how to fix this problem (which doesn't seem like it should be a problem). When I have two adjacent rooms with different ceiling heights, there is almost always gaps in the wall for the room with a lower ceiling. I've attached one screen shot showing the problem and a back-up copy of the plan file. In this particular home, there are two rooms with sloped ceilings - one tall one, one shorter, and then a bunch of 8' tall rooms. As you can see in the screen shot, there are gaps everywhere! Any helps/tricks/notes would be great appreciated. I have this problem on nearly every drawing. Thanks. Jason Appleby Backup.zip

@HumbleChief - I just watched the video again and he does the "exploding" in plan view. His fix worked for me.

Thanks, @solver. That definitely works. For future users looking for this solution - options to try to fix gaps in the top of walls, especially when trey ceilings are being used. Keep in mind that I'm an interior designer using CA for the interiors capabilities, not the building details. The framing is less important to me than being able to show my clients the interior wall/ceiling details. 1. If working with adjacent rooms of different ceiling heights, use a standard interior wall, but mark as invisible. This helps fill in the gap above the ceiling in the rooms with shorter ceiling heights. 2. If a small gap still appears, consider changing the ceiling structure to be 0" or delete the ceiling structure all together. Only do this if you don't need that framing information in your plans. 3. If one of the shorter rooms has a trey ceiling in it, you need to explode your trey ceiling and then move the ceiling plane in the shorter room so that it rests on the inside of the invisible wall rather than over that wall.

Let's try this one more time - this is an X13 version. I was able to fix some of the problems by changing the ceiling structure to 0". That worked. Now the only issue I see if the huge gap where I have a trey ceiling in the dining room. Untitled 1.zip

@solver - yes, sorry. I already moved over to the beta version. Let me see if I can save this as an X13 version.

Figured it out. Plan file attached. Untitled 1.zip

Not fixed. I can't get the file less than 18.6 MB. I have taken out nearly everything except walls and ceilings and can't figure out what else to do.

how do I save a backup file to be less than 14 GB? Mine comes in at 19 GB and the system won't allow me to upload it.