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Try an Elevation Region: Terrain > Elevation Data > Elevation Region
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As Jason said, a Room Finish or a Custom Schedule will do this. And you can use reference display to show it on every floor if desired. Send it to layout. You can exclude rooms individually by unchecking Include in Schedule in the room's specification dialog, or by unchecking the individual Room in the schedule dialog. You can also restrict rooms by Type in the schedule dialog. Show by single floor or all floors. Pretty flexible out of the box, dynamically updates while drawing, but I don't know of any way to combine all heated rooms into a single report without displaying them all individually. You could get creative and crop out the rooms portion in layout if you really wanted to just show the heading and the totals. Here's a dumb little example from X17 Residential Template using two schedules:
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NEW USER - Seeking advice: Best Mac Setup (2026)
Chrisb222 replied to CA_Russell's topic in General Q & A
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I have two saved plan views that I use with this in mind during development - one has dimensions displayed, the other does not. Easy switcheroo using the SPV drop down menu.
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Invisible Walls generated for no reason? Cannot delete them.
Chrisb222 replied to WhistlerBuilder's topic in General Q & A
That setting was removed in version X15. -
Overhead Garage Door Panels not placed correctly
Chrisb222 replied to SAWConstruction's topic in General Q & A
I set the Panel Offest for this door to 2-1/4" to get it to clear: -
Save a copy of the file and strip out anything unrelated to the problem. Keep doing that till you can zip under 14mb. Or post a cloud link.
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Do you mean why is a 48"x36" window using a "4030" label? If that's your question, it's not "off." 4030 represents the size in feet and inches - 4'0" x 3'0" - and is standard nomenclature in the industry for ordering windows. Your schedule is correct... that is, if you want a rough opening that is 1" total larger than the window size.
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To elaborate, settings in the Pattern panel only affect vector views and hand-drawn lines. So placing a "grid, offset" instruction there has no effect on the raster (realistic) views.
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The 3D image is using what you see in the Texture panel's Texture Source area: the image file isn't a grid arrangement, it's one single rectangle. You'll need an image of the tile in a grid arrangement for the 3D to look right. There are no settings in the Texture panel to create a grid pattern, since it simply uses a static picture file which it can't modify.
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Separating tile material regions from one another?
Chrisb222 replied to JBi-PDX's topic in General Q & A
It's not because the material regions are connected, it's because material patterns and textures use the same offset settings, meaning the same location reference, for every instance. If you need to control the pattern and texture locations separately for different areas, you'll need to copy the material for the different areas and adjust the offsets. -
When you paste, use Paste Hold Position (Edit > Paste > Paste Hold Position) while places the object at the same X, Y position.
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You can do the same thing in 2D using an orthographic full overview camera, set to Top View with cross section slider set midway to the doors so the door swings show. And poche the walls: But it's not a Plan View, so doesn't show dimensions and annotations.
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Open the Room specification and check Build Foundation Below:
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Shane is right, it appears to be caused by the open below room. Not sure what's going on but the easiest way I found to fix the brick was create a 0.1" width "room" next the the exterior wall, and turn off the room label:
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Defaults = project based Preferences = application based
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Floor trusses between floors instead of i-joists
Chrisb222 replied to DQUser's topic in General Q & A
Works for me. Since you say you've checked your settings, you must be missing something. Are you using a layer set that shows framing members? Did you rebuild framing after changing any settings? You would get a quick accurate answer if you posted the plan file, instead of guesses. Out of the box X17, with proper framing and display settings: -
How do display countertop brackets in 2D plan as layer line style
Chrisb222 replied to GeneDavis's topic in General Q & A
If they are simply blocked solids, they're probably still getting their line style info from the 3D Solids layer. Try changing it there. Or you could make them a symbol then the layer settings are more straightforward. -
One method is to edit your screen material to have a white color in the Pattern panel, which is used in elevation (vector) views. Open the door object and access the Materials panel, then edit the screen material's Material Color to White in its Pattern panel: Your color editor may look different:
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Draw a railing manually, place in position and check "Follow Stairs." Adjust as needed:
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If you make the short wall under the roof the same wall type, brick 6 LBTL parapet, and get rid of the insulation air gap layer in that wall definition, it fills in:
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Ah. Yeah I would like to have control over that line style. I would prefer to always see a solid line there, not the dash. No way to change the automatic line style behavior. Separate control of the CL text would be nice too.
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Yes, uncheck Mark as Centerline: The size is controlled by the text size of the dimension text. So yes it can be changed but all other dimension text will also change.
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How To Tie-In First and Second Floors Together?
Chrisb222 replied to DHerb2014's topic in General Q & A
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That would be the Fill Window Building Only tool, which zooms the view to the entire building, regardless of where you were focused. In the OOB template, it's on the right-side toolbar, shown here: Or, it could be something to do with layer settings but that's difficult to diagnose without having the plan file.
