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  1. Open Defaults, shedules, room finish schedule. Uncheck Room. Then you can delete.
  2. Not sure as I said legs and molding are the longest part. FWIW I made this from the one I already had in under 10 minutes. (used the symbol for the bead instead of the molding lines) Oops just saw you are using full overlay few more minutes though I cheated a bit, just change the default separations and knobs.
  3. Welcome aboard while you didn't ask as @DBCooper suggested you can do this in CA mostly with cabinet tools which have some advantages. It would likely be easier to make a few parts on SW since you know that. (Legs and hardware- rest in Chief) I did all of this in CA. Advantages being: would show in cabinet schedule, simple to resize/reuse, change doors/drawers/hardware, and of course materials. I understand that this is an off the shelf item but down the road you never know and I like to minimize remaking things. The most tedious part in CA are the legs which I started before fully awake so fiddled a bit. Unfortunately the bead molding around the cabinet can't be done within the cabinet since it won't wrap the legs. Just before posting it occurred to me that it should be turned into a symbol to be easier to resize width and length so put one in the plan. Plan attached including some of the failed parts for legs before I woke up. I didn't bother to do custom door or drawer symbols, just fished something close out of mfg catalog. Plan attached. Cosco vanity.zip
  4. Open an unmodified template, hopefully the residential has not been fooled with. Save as "something". In your plan- file, import saved plan views. Select working from the DBX and check replace. Though to me the purpose of the working plan is that it can be whatever I need at the moment and NEVER ever gets sent to layout. Making the default moot. The other plan views however need to be dealt with judiciously.
  5. Well a door panel is automatically full overlay and usually includes rails and stiles. Likely could be done but more work, less flexible. Why do you want to?
  6. Note that arrow keys use the distance set for grid but will work with grid snaps off; they just won't snap to the grid but always move the distance set in default.
  7. For tracing walls I set plan default snap distance to the thickness of drywall and use arrow keys. I usually have grid snaps off so don't need to override.
  8. Not sure what you want them to look like. I fiddled a bit guessing at that. Sometimes it's changing to spots, sometimes it's a mix of point and spot. Changing backdrop can help if it allows some added light without bringing in too much color. Adjusting materials is likely key. For most of these I lowered the changed the emissive of the light bulbs, also changed the shade material. I'm not sure which of those materials will come through but plan with a couple of lights included, hopefully I managed to include the materials (but was just messing around so not as careful as I should have been) Oh and FWIW what I got from your plan looked better than the image you posted before I did anything. Not sure why. Original Option on the bright side Emphasis on bulbs Changed backdrop and increase light from it Looks as if I have to post plan after this.
  9. Don't know what you did. You need to: Import macro, select all windows in plan, open, go to OIP, pick an unused field or create one, macro drop down/user defined/glazing. Sample plan attached. Glaze sample.zip
  10. In a custom schedule I put the glazing macro in comments OIP, and thermal area in Code. Note the difference which will can add up. Here is result wihtout grouping after pasting into spreadsheet.
  11. I believe he's after glazing area not thermal envelope. This gives glass area for fixed, awning and casement windowsGlazing.json. Does not account for center sashes in double hung or lites. You could get Alaskan son to put something all purpose and more accurate. gw=width-(sash_side_width*2) gh=height-(sash_top_width+sash_bottom_width) glass=gh*gw glass.round(2) Unfortunately placed in a schedule I can't get the columns to add up. IF grouped items in schedule it only shows qty but area is for only one. So would have to export to spreadsheet. Glazing.json
  12. Well you can add polylines around each grass area, set to include in a custom schedule and get a total. BUT that is a lot of work. I've more often had to include impermeable area which is already (hopefully) made up of polyline objects. Make a schedule for all the impermeable. Then separately subtract that total from the lot total.
  13. I'm using AB Viewer link