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With a deck, it's critical to understand that it behaves a bit differently than other rooms. "Decks" work best when used for a typical deck...framing and deck planks. Keep in mind that the auto frame feature is really only useful for visualization and if Auto-Frame is on, it'll rebuild the framing as per its defaults, even if you edit it. Turning off the auto-framing for decks is NOT reliable. To avoid that problem, use a different room type like a balcony. There are better ways to show the framing (if you need to) than the deck auto-framing tools. If you double-click the deck beam I put in your plan, you'll notice it's a General Framing member, placed on deck beam layer, and shown in the schedule as a deck beam. I do that so that Chief will leave it alone.

Ha! No worries there!

How about early morning entertainment? Take a look at the adjustments... BILLY-CA1.plan

File / Templates / New Plan From Template

Thanks Steve! I thought you were onto something with your adjusted post symbol, but if you look a bit closer it only seems to behave as expected on one side. The adjusted bounding box causes the post to be 'off' at the end of each railing segment. It causes a discrepancy between the 3D view and the plan view. I appreciate the effort, and just so you know, this isn't for a current project...I'm messing around with this to try to figure out a consistent & repeatable method to display these railings accurately in both views. I just can't handle the poor railing job available in the stair dbx.

Combination of items. Curved Railing wall for the railing (or a separate skinny curved stair), capped curved wall for the capped wall, stairs. Some items will need to occupy the same space as other, so you might need to build multiple items and convert to symbol, then relocate to final position.

Don't laugh, that took me all afternoon! BTW, Free Symbol!! Bent & Rusty Nail.calibz

I made a symbol out of a straight railing section just to study the faces, and oddly enough, the rails go directly to the correct part of the alum. post, the vertical upright, as opposed to the base plate.

Done...Like a Boss!

Sucks to be there! I used to live in La Crete so I know more than I need to about those brutal winters! We got about 1/4" of snow overnight and it melted already, even though its below zero. Winter feels super long when it starts in October and lasts into April! Why do we live here??

Killer! That got rid of the frieze molding as well! Respect!

Not sure how, or if you should / want to?

I assume you mean symbols used as labels? If so, turn on the window label layer, and the door label layer for those views.

Don't forget Doug, that you can add all sorts of additional information to a 'template' note type and then, as Michael said, just copy, use sticky mode and drop a note into every room. You are correct, that the OIP should be available for rooms and it has been requested for a long time...but we gotta work with what we've got!

I'm attempting to create reasonably accurate aluminum deck railing including at deck stairs. I've created a deck railing wall type that has all the proper components and I'm using a deck railing wall to make the rails that will follow the stairs. I almost thought I had Chief beaten into submission, but I should've known better! This creates a few problems, some big, some small: -the hand rail on the 'stairs' wont connect to the deck railing post. When trying to have a newel post at the upper end of the sloped railing, I need both railing walls to share the same post at the intersection. -the railing wall that follows the stairs creates some sort of wall cap at the gable end overhang -the railing wall that follows the stairs also receives the frieze molding The plan is attached for anyone who feels like messing around with it. deckrailing1.plan

BILLY-1.plan

You'll also need to tell the deck room that it has a roof over it, but not a flat ceiling.

You'll need a vaulted ceiling with enough space between the ceiling and the roof to produce a truss.

The sandwich will get moldy and the spilled milk will start to stink.

What you see in my label shows the width by height in inches because hardly anyone in western Canada knows how to read a standard door / window size, at least not in residential construction. You know how many times I got asked why the doors were 26" x 68"?? Not making that up!!

A note works best. Just make a new note type and use it for your room schedule.

You got it. All I did was use a leader line and the text macro %ObjectProperties% This is already in your system and you can use those properties to your advantage. I can't say too much because I'm no macro guru, but if you try it out, I think you'll see how I got there.

If you post your plan I can take a quick look.

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Open Symbol, uncheck Flush Mounted.