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In this example, the vert's are a railing wall, like Joe mentioned. The tempered glass is a wall where the shape has been edited in Section View. That keeps them separate from the stair's railing.

This depends on the render view type and what the purpose for placement is. For a not-so-great visual, emissive is fine. If it was mine, I'd use added lights.

Depending on the type of rendering style you are using, the simplest method will be to place a 3D molding in section view and give it a material that is 'emissive'. Another less simple way would be to use 1 'added light', adjust its light settings, then replicate it using the 'transform/replicate object' tool. You can replicate the added light in the x,y,z direction so it will follow your stairs...you'll just need to confirm the rise and run of your stairs to make sure its accurate. I'd suggest using the exact same numbers so you have 1 light per tread. Or change the ratio to your liking. Does that make sense?

Did you try this:

Yes, My mistake. A general framing member created in a wall detail is part of that wall's framing and certainly will move with the wall.

The OP is about plan display control of footings. This requires a simple workaround as footings won't display differently. I use a standard polyline drawn on top of the footings in plan view for existing walls. I place this polyline on its own layer, copied from the footing layer, and change only the layer line color to a medium gray.

This won't change the plan display of footings though, correct? The wall footings are on the same layer (1 layer only) regardless of the wall types and layers. I'm working on the exact same thing right now. There are a couple of choices to distinguish the existing footings from new footings: -draw a new CAD p-line over either the existing or new footings with separate settings -turn off footings on the as-built foundation walls, and replace with slabs or p-solids or a molding, which can be layer set and controlled If the auto-built footings can be layer controlled, I also need to learn how! And right away...I'm completing my drawings as we discuss this.

Seems to me the simplest would be a molding p-line for 3d views and a CAD box for wall details or a gen framing member for each wall detail where it matters. Which leads to the real question...what type of drawings and how many need to show the wall bridging? @ACADuser Alan, would you be able to shed a bit more light onto your project details: where and why you need to show it? Perhaps you could share a few screenshots of the project drawings where the bridging needs to be displayed.

Nope.

The U-channel is also upside down and that can't be changed with the bridging tool AFAIK. Instead, I used a gen framing and it is oriented correctly. But it doesn't show up in plan view and it must be drawn in every wall detail. Copy-paste doesn't work for this.

I also am getting some unpredictable behavior when changing the wall bridging. Auto built bridging: edited wall briding to u channel: Every wall deatil shows continuous bridging, but in 3D it only displays in one stud space. That's odd.

That'd certainly be a faster way to get it to show up in 3D views, it just wouldn't be in a wall detail. Depends on the type of drawings being provided I guess.

I know, I know! My phone rang and I never got back to this. I was going to add a few screenshots with some of the settings. Luckily several others have added their expertise to this topic!

Shouldn't you be able to select all the bridging in plan view (on a single floor) and adjust the size for all the bridging at the same time?

If this were my plan, I wouldn't use the bridging tool. I don't trust it to stay in place. I've had too many issues of bridging behaving twitchy and messing up a completed wall framing detail. I use the General Framing instead. Chief leaves that one alone so I get to be in control of how it behaves. You can still place it on the bridging layer, adjust it's type, material, etc.

I think it is.

This is exactly what I do!

I use FlashBack Express. Not because it's better, only because I don't know any better.

That purple preview panel is what I was referring to; it follows the Floor Camera defaults for the color in the Backdrop tab. I believed that's what the OP was referring to.

I've never had shadow boards auto-adjust the direction of the fascia material. What I did in this case and have done in the past is to use a separate roof plane just for the fascia on the gable ends. Drives me nuts, but in this case, it's just modelling, no roof plan is being provided. I'll dive a bit deeper here because this is crazy annoying. I'm using a timber framed roof that will have a 1x16 fascia and a 1x4 shadow-board. So I create a separate roof plane (2" wide) just to be able to show the correct grain direction. Oddly enough, the fascia can be change separately but the shadow board on one side of the gable will auto-change the corresponding shadow board on the other side of the gable. In order to change the shadow board material separately, I need to re-name one of the 1x4's so they are 'different'. However, then the shadowboards don't connect. Luckily this doesn't really show from the distance of a full overview. Still, a lot of extra steps for this.

I believe this follows the default settings of the Floor Camera. Change the backdrop color there and the library will change as well.

I'm doing it right now. It's got to be one of your settings. Double check dimension defaults / Locate Objects, make sure framing is checked.

I believe Chopsaw may be pointing you in the right direction. I use this on every plan. Check your dimension defaults. And I'd recommend setting up a custom anno set for framing if you haven't done so already.

My bad, I didn't explain clearly enough. I never use the Export to PDF tool, yet it's the tool that's always displayed for the entire group. I'd like to change it to keep the Export Picture tool as the constantly displayed tool for the group. I know I can just add that tool to that toolbar (and I will) but I feel like this should be able to be adjusted.

I have the Export Tool parent tool in my tool bar, and the child tool that is always displayed is the Export PDF child tool. How do I change which child tool remains active or displayed, without adding each child tool to a tool bar?