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Joe, who knows where the disconnect is between the manual and the real world. I agree, upon taking the time to shoot a Floor Camera, that ceilings are shown. I think maybe the OP's problem is that there is no first floor built - at least that's what the Structure tab implies to me.

From the X6 reference manual: Floor Cameras and Overviews show the Current Floor only, not including its ceiling,

Did you mean to attach a picture?

Dimensions are necessary. But your your drawing WILL be scaled - that's why we include a scale on the drawing. The great benefit of CAD is that it allows us to create at full scale. Remember lead and vellum and drafting the plans at a scale? Did you ever slap your scale down on the vellum to verify what you'd drawn? Of course. Then you did a bunch of math and prayed your dimensions strings added up. What's sauce for the goose...

My experience has been just the opposite. My fist job in the industry was with an engineering firm - everything was on 30x42. Then I joined an architectural firm, and everything was 24x36. Now we're down to 22x34.

Exactly. Whatever fits best with your style, work-flow, and project needs. In my experience, with anything less than 1/4" scale, I get a lot of calls from subs who are working off a copy of a copy of a copy and can't read the text anymore. I'll go 3/16" when necessary, but IMO bigger pays off in the long run.

I didn't know this dbx existed - what a time saver! Thank you.

I know it's convenient to fit the whole house on one sheet, but you might consider match-lines and using two sheets.

Perhaps ask this question on the HomeTalk Forum: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/

If you use Chrome and Google Drive, you can save the entire web page as a .png file directly to your Google Drive with one click. You could also print the entire web page to a pdf using a PDF printer. I'm not bashing your method - just throwing out some alternatives that may eliminate a step or two.

I'm not sure if you'll find a free product that allows moving pages around. I use the pay version of Nitro PDF - it's pretty solid and allows commenting, cloud storage, e-signatures, bookmarking, etc.

DEFAULTS>PLAN>GENERAL SETTINGS>IGNORE CASING FOR OPENING RESIZE

I don't think there's an automatic solution for the plan view - you may have to draw in a CAD object by hand. Perry or someone else may have a solution.

Got it. I've never figured out auto-build for complex roofs.

Really? I don't think you have to do anything to the walls. Works for me with or without walls.

Did you check the obvious to see if the layer the fixture on is locked?

I'm still on X6, but AFAIK the edit wall intersection tool doesn't work at wall openings, only at ends, which is why I don't think it will work for the OP. It would be nice if the OP wouldn't leave us in the dark and would tell us how the problem was solved.

I can't open your file - I'm on X6 until my computer is upgraded (ran out of disk space). Be sure to draw the lower (curved) roof planes first, curve them, then draw the higher roof planes with the baseline along the ridge of the lower (curved) plane.

There is a step-by-step section in the Reference Manual on how to accomplish this condition. That's how I learned:

I agree with most of this for my area. Plus, some jurisdictions will count a suface as pervious, while others will count the same surface as impervious.

The wall needs to have the main layer defined as a framing material - right now it is set to a non-framing material: Pine(honey).

I don't get that problem. Post the plan so we can take a closer look.

Better control has been requested several times, including here: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2150-global-and-local-control-of-origin-for-display-of-line-styles-patterns-etc/?hl=pattern Maybe bumping this up in the suggestion forum will get CA working on a solution.

I agree. I believe you're thinking of DEFINE MATERIAL>TEXTURE>OFFSET AND ANGLE>GLOBAL SYMBOL MAPPING.

Are you looking to gain experience to as a part-time designer/consultant, or... are you looking for someone else with experience to be a part-time designer/consultant.