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IAMDesign catalog. Considering making your own, just to save on surface count. I'm including mine from my library for you to use / try / inspect. Round Glass Clamp.calibz

@RobUSMC Just found these: Search "shaker rail" or "shaker stile" Aspire, Canyon Creek, Wellborn are the brands.

Glad to help!

If you post your plan file or a google drive link / dropbox link, you will have the answer in minutes.

@DBCooper From what I can tell, these settings don't make a difference when "upper and lower' wall are both displayed. They don't control the display of the wall so much as they reference the opening when the containing portion of the wall is not displayed. So when both portions of wall are displayed, you get the full cut.

Like the message says, there is no ceiling out there. First, place it where it works, then lock the truss envelope. Then move it to where you'd like.

Place a door in the plan. Take an elevation view and put a 3d solid on it. Take another section view through the door to size the solid onto the door panel and to size it's depth. Convert to symbol.

@Drew-PRH Glad to hear you have your issue taken care of. If you get the chance, please check the the post that helped you as solution which will help others! Thx. And maybe post an image of your result after you've implemented the fix. It's helpful and interesting to others to see the before and after!

Glad to hear you have your issue taken care of. If you get the chance, please check the the post that helped you as solution which will help others! Thx.

I use those types of pony walls on most of my projects as most of my projects have walk-out basements and that is how they've always behaved and still do. The only way around this is to use a reference layer set that with a separate saved plan view. Or CAD work. Same window in elevation view

You can take any cabinet door and copy it to the user library. Then resize it, use stretch planes if appropriate for the type of door symbol, then place the door in plan view as a stand alone object. Then convert the resized door to a new symbol as a cabinet door/drawer and save it to your library. The symbol needs it's original size to be the depth you want, otherwise it will revert to the original size even if you've changed it in the dialog. You can always click on "Reset Object Size" to inspect what the symbol's true size is. I made this one 3" thick to make it really obvious.

If anyone is interested in 3d trees that work quite well for PBRT renderings, please feel free to send me a message or reply to this topic. I have a catalog that I may put up for sale if there is a reasonable amount of interest. Below are 2 examples comparing my trees with Chief's tree image versions. Hint...mine cast shadows! Let me know if you think the difference is a good thing!

You can't avoid this. What you can do is repeat the ordering process manually and I can think of 2 simple ways to do this. Before adding the new window(s), make a text copy of your schedule and place it on a reference layer with the drawing order behind your schedule with a bright, different text color. This will serve as a simple visual reference to drag the schedule back into the correct order. To do this, ctrl-c the schedule first, then convert to text, then ctrl-alt-v the schedule. Use a pdf or your previous plan as a visual cue to reorder the schedule manually. You can also add a custom field to the OIP in which you add a comment about the date of addition or something to that effect. This will make it easy to at least get the added window to the bottom of the schedule. Alternately, you could place the added window in a separate plan file and set it to use a custom schedule for revised / added windows. Then copy the window and the schedule into the correct plan file.

Can you post an example image that you aren't quite satisfied with?

You have 2 layers in your wall definition assigned as framing. Open the wall specification dialog, select the thin exterior layer and uncheck "Framing" in the Materials Properties tab.

You're correct, these don't model correctly in all 3d views. I'm also showing 2 views where the representation doesn't match, and I also painted the steel, turning off auto-framing. If Chief does work on this, I would then love to see default material assignments available for different types of headers.

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Got it. That makes sense. I'm aware of this newer feature but have never used it. Thanks for digging into that!

@TeaTime Thanks! For some reason I didn't just use help, so I appreciate your input. Do you know what an "arrow backoff point" is? I didn't find that in Help.

@Renerabbitt I don't have any device like you mentioned. I rely on typed searches in the library. I've gotten used to the 2 letter search approach. The first 2 letters of the words in the name bring what you want almost right to the front, especially if you select catalogs or use a filter. The first 3 letters of the words in the name is of course even more accurate. @Kbird1 And I realize I worded the 2nd part of my question very poorly. Y'all were suppose to just know what I meant I guess! I would like multiple library browsers! So a library browser that is separate...from the library browser! @TeaTimeDuh! Thanks for pointing out the obvious! That gives you an idea as to how long it's been since I made any adjustments to my toolbar. In hindsight I realize it was a silly question. How did I think I arranged my other custom toolbars?! I think having the customize dialog window open threw me off...just used to the background window not being active while another window is open in the foreground. I'm sharing an image of the library that I referred to. Obviously this is much easier to see and use than the small too icons, especially seeing as the icons look very similar at the reduced size.

Can an insertion point be added to a cad block if the cad block is already in your library? Or does one have to add the insertion point and then add this updated block to the library and delete the original?

When I create a custom toolbar using multiple Place Library Object tool buttons, can I re-order the arrangement of these buttons in that toolbar? I wasn't smart enough to add them in alphabetical order, but that is how I'd like them arranged. On a different note, I wouldn't need these toolbars if I could have multiple library browser windows. Is that possible? For example, when detailing a section view, I have my own library of frequently used fill patterns. These are most easily accessed from the library especially because of the large visual size of the preview compared to the tiny size of a library tool icon. If I could have a separate library browser window, then these could remain available while I use the library for other things in the midst of the detailing process.

Glad to help! This one was a real challenge. Always nice to beat this program into submission before the weekend!