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I'm sure this will be a great help to many people! You truly are a giver on a level with John Stamos!

https://brick.com/onlinetools Arches will still be laborious.

Yes, and it was just some of the older blocks from the Core catalog. I have several of my own where everything was on one layer, and then of course there are many other symbols, and most of them appear to have their text on the default CAD layer. So far I've only found the two instances in Chief's elec. symbols, either Text or Default Cad.

Layer: Text

I can't remember, or quickly find which layer controls the text portion of some electrical symbols. For my electrical set, most layers are light gray...and one of them is affecting the symbol display. It's gray as well, and of course, I want it black. Can anyone help me out?

I can't find a cursor setting that has a filled circle behind it, however if improved visibility is the goal, there are plenty of settings within the "mouse pointer" settings. You can easily increase the pointer size and color. In "additonal mouse settings" there are more options for cursor types. And there are third party apps for downloading custom cursor types, if you're not afraid of potential malware being installed!

I can tell you that the circle you see in some of the videos myself and others use is inherent to the screen recording app. I use Flashback Express, and it adds that circle automatically for recordings only, it isn't a cursor setting. I'll see if I can find any thing else to help you out.

Type "mouse properties" into the windows search bar.

You can move an existing elec. connection line and it will 'connect' to darn near anything.

I was wondering if my post would be in time! Luckily both ways work.

I can't remember back quite that far but I hear you! This garage floor thing just became a habit for me after that. It kinda bugged me not seeing the slab on an elevation view. I've got problems with wanting things as close to perfect as possible!

Don't do that....just bump that sucker back to drawing order #27.

For anyone else stumbling upon this, I thought I'd post a link to the last time I recall this topic being discussed.

In exactly what type of view are you adding lines, details and notes?

This doesn't clearly explain what type of view you sent to layout, the type of you view that you detailed, or how (if) you sent the views to layout. When a section or elevation view is sent to layout, it is automatically saved, no action required. It would appear in the project browser.

It uses THE ZERO POINT!! These offsets are very simple to figure out and even simpler if you always start your projects on zero for the x and y coordinates then build up and to the right, with the goal of keeping the project on the positive side of the x and y coordinates. I use the material offsets specifically for the hatch pattern regularly, just like you described, but for ICF foundations. You'll notice in section/elevation views that the x offset will shift the pattern horizontally, and the y offset will shift the pattern vertically. The simplest way to adjust the vertical offset of a foundation block material is to use a negative offset that equals the TOP OF FOOTING elevation.

Remember to factor in the slab thickness when specifying room heights! Stairs will still automatically work correctly.

It will do this automatically if the concrete slab is the floor finish, not the floor structure. Use gravel for the floor structure.

Not plannedrite at all. plannedRONG in fact!

you'll need a different wall type for that area, possibly a pony wall, and because of the elevation of the butting roof, you'd need to manually adjust the wall polyline. You can use a material region that cuts the finish layers. Set this to material to be 1/2" plywood (or whatever material you need) the gable wall can be set to have a different wall type where it is cut by the roof, essentially an automatic pony wall. Wall Spec. dbx, roof tab. The material region is my preference. I'd be setting it as a single layer, 1/2" thick, material...housewrap.

Simply change the color of your drywall material. Example: My typical drywall color is very neutral, but my client wants the interior walls painted a different color, specifically Benjamin Moore AF-10 - Gardenia. With the Library Browser open (off to the side), search and find that color. Then using the Adjust Material Definition tool, select your drywall material, and then use the color eyedropper to grab the color from your library browser. See the video below for an example. whole house painting.mp4

2 simple ways to handle this: 1. In the wall spec. dbx, change the material for that layer. 2. 3d, materials, plan materials, select the existing siding materials and Replace with a different material. This is a WHOLE house approach, not portions!

For Interior Walls: changing the material of a wall layer (say drywall for example) will indeed have a global effect unless the wall exterior or interior layer is not using this default. Typically the material for an interior wall can be changed a few ways: You can change the material of the walls on a room-by-room basis through the room dialog box You can change the material of the walls by painting a style pallette to a room. You can paint individual portions of a wall within a room by using the Material Painter. Based on my own experience, I would not recommend adding layers simply to get color on a wall. I feel the cons outweigh the pros. I have my drywall layer spec'd as a simple neutral color, and if I need to change the paint colors, I would do so using method #1 from above. If I needed to 'paint' 1 wall, I'd use method #3. These methods are shown in the image below. Note that a style pallete will paint more than just the walls, unless you adjust the settings accordingly, which would be needless bloat to your library. Note that the wall with 2 blue paint colors still shows the default material in the wall dialog box after being painted.

Just needs a spoon latch on the bottom frame

@DzinEye You assumed correctly! You know me, I'd use another window! Inner window reduced in size and height by the thickness of the frame, outer window a pass-through.