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When I assign USE DEFAULT to a ceiling joist, it assigns FASCIA 1, which is the default material for your roof rafters (DEFAULTS>MATERIALS>RAFTERS). So those two things seem to be tied together. However, if I delete your ceiling surfaces, add new ones, and build the framing - I get SIDING VERTICAL on the ceiling joists. Weird. Still no z-fighting, even in Standard View.

The plan I opened has SIDING VERTICAL assigned to the ceiling joists. Didn't you mention stucco - or did that change before you posted the plan? I don't get any z-fighting between the ceiling surface and the ceiling joists.

You can also shoot an elevation and use a wall material region.

It deleted for me. I get a dbx asking to confirm - do you get the dbx?

Can you be more specific? Are you going for an interior view, doors open, showing the car interior? An overview showing hoistway, rails, car, etc?

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Here are some ideas: 1. 3D views can be rendered using different methods. If you are using Vector View, and you make a change to the material texture, but not the pattern or color, you may not see a difference until you switch to Standard or another method of rendering. 2. The materials can be defined and assigned in different ways. For instance, the exterior finish of a wall can be defined in the Wall Specification dbx (Wall Specification>Materials>Exterior Wall Surface), or in the Wall Type Definitions dbx (this is the the default). So, if you're making a change to the material using the Wall Type Definition, but you've "painted over" that default material using the Wall Specification dbx or with the Spray Can, you won't see a change until you remove the material applied to the Exterior Wall Surface. Posting a plan, or some pictures, will help us narrow things down.

File name is too long. When CA appends "_auto_save_plan" to the end of your file name, it exceeds Windows' limit for the length of the path+filename. Shorten your file name, and I'll bet it works.

Wall Specification dbx should have the Align Pony Wall settings as shown here: And the Wall Type dbx for the ICF lower wall should have the Wall Layers as shown here:

That's absurd. Clearly a bug. However, I appreciate the workaround. Thank you, Scott.

My problem is with a deck on an as-built. Different sections of the deck have the planking running in different directions, so I divided the deck into three rooms. See this picture: The selected room has the plank running the correct way. The other two sections need the plank rotated 90 degrees. However, no matter what settings I use in the Deck tab of the Room Specification dbx, I can't get the plank orientation to change. In the ortho camera view, I can't even select the other two deck rooms - why, I would like to know. Any help would be appreciated. Plan attached: 14044.plan I have to go buy a mouse now because my Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX has failed. This is the second MX I've burned through in two years. I can't recommend them, though when they are working, they perform really well.

Auto-Save and Archive are two separate things. Auto-save saves to a single file, which is written over with each auto-save - in your case, every two minutes. Archived files are created every time you manually save the file - a duplicate copy of the file is saved in the archive folder according to the Auto Archive Files preference. Auto-saved and archived files reside in the My Data Folder specified in Preferences>General>Folders. For instance, these are my settings: These settings create an auto-save file every five minutes. It's a single file that is over-written every 5 minutes. My Auto Archive Files preference is set to Previous State, so my auto archiving also only saves a single file which is over-written every time I manually save the file. If I select Daily or Hourly, then lots of auto archived files are saved, up to a maximum of 50 (Auto Archive Warning), when CA will warn me that I have 50 archived files.

There should definitely be a way to copy cameras. I'll use this opportunity to stump for one of my posts in the suggestion forum... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2635-duplicate-tabs/ ...that would create a duplicate tab that copies the camera view, with an option to create a new camera at the same time. This is only within the same plan, so it doesn't solve copying cameras between plans.

I suggest creating your jack arch as a millwork symbol which can be applied to the window in the Treatments>Exterior Millwork Above Casing dbx. Instead of modeling the jack arch as full-depth, model the depth to match the reveal you want - then when it is applied it will look correct in camera view.

Both materials are showing for the jack arches - but maybe you were expecting one material to be the brick, and the other to be the mortar. That's not how the jack arch symbols are modeled. Shoot an ortho overview and zoom in on the jack arches to see what I mean.

This might get you started. Basically, it's two stair sections, as Joey mentioned, each with a separate landing. The lower section is defined as a winder, and there is a pony wall between the sections to fill in the gap created by breaking the stairs into two separate sections. There are still issues, such as the newel on the second tread instead of the first; and of course the fancy paneling and balusters, etc. There are probably better methods - I'm no stair guru. test stair.plan

Glen, good catch.

The walls will break - you just have to keep picking points a bit farther away from the intersection until it happens. CA is funny that way.

Break the south wall at the intersection with the west wall. Now redefine the little stub of the south wall to be 8" total thickness.

I opened the CAD detail and everything looks fine on my end. I wonder if it may be a display (or driver) issue. Sometimes I'll notice a slight "skew" to an orthogonal line while zooming and panning.

That's not really true, is it? When a wall start or end is located at/near a wall intersection, you can't adjust the length absolutely - CA will adjust the length to create the intersection.

That's interesting. So, it's a work-around to "lock" the wall height. I agree that an ability to select/deselect the check box would be helpful, or maybe something more obvious, like check boxes for "lock top height", "lock bottom height", "lock length", etc.

Scott, By age 50 you'd think I could read a post. You're right, the sill plate disappears until the Default Wall Height box is rechecked, so I answered my own question about whether that box makes a difference. However, I don't lose the exterior finish; a separate issue maybe?

Post-operative plan is attached. Crestview Wall Drag Test.plan Here is proof I dragged the wall down: ...and proof that I dragged it back up: ...and here is an ortho view after dragging back up: Stupid question maybe, but did you build the framing in the first place - before noticing that the sill wasn't there?

I don't have that problem. I can drag it up an down, and it rebuilds the sill plate and exterior finish just fine. Yes, the Default Wall Height is not restored, though. Does the check box matter? Does CA treat the wall differently, even though there is essentially no other difference?