Chrisb222

1. was smooth when I opened the file..? 2. align the front of the temp wall with the room divider wall on the master deck, and it fixes that 3. I don't like roof intersections like that. I'd move the garage forward

Here, attaching those to the gable would be part of dressing the trusses on the ground.

Thanks Glenn, thinking it through I probably can't automate what I want to do. Maybe the Suggestion for mulling in the window dbx would offer that option.

Is this auto roofs? I haven't tried it, not at my computer so i can't answer your question but when working in manual roofs you should be able to delete the hole...

Would like a macro that reports the number of individual units in a mulled window, and their sizes and type. I checked the object properties of a mulled window and it doesn't appear we have access to that information within the mulled unit...?

Spell check is not available within the DBX but it is at the layout page level when multiple objects are selected. Selecting a single layout box will not trigger the tool. The easy method is just hit Select All at the layout page, then it checks everything including layout labels.

I thought it was clear. At least, I knew what you were asking. But yeah good to have more advice available for users.

Personally, I'm orientated towards "outlooker" as the language seems rigged against outsiders. Always looking out for the correct terminology can leave you hanging over the edge. I mean, it's whatever floats your board, but if yer canoe slopes you might consider a cantilevered solution... as long as Gable approves (I read that his Outlook is keen but that was in an email). Well, I'm gonna grab my skyhook and rig up a floating levelator to cantilever this space rafter over my hang! Been good to canoe ya!

Like TT said, they should generate automatically if the settings are right.

On the left, the valleys don't join properly: Corrected: On the right, sometimes I'll add tiny square ends to the roof plane to clean up: This is not a perfect fix, looks good from a distance but causes small artifacts: I was able to get this by adjusting the height of the main roof fascia, manually building the eyebrows and extending them past the main roof, and setting the main roof Shadow Board to "gable only":

In that case, why not consider using public domain stock photos of various vehicles? Strip out the background imagery, and add them to your renderings in post production. That way you can show a variety of vehicles, instead of the same one over and over. Plus they would be naturally photorealistic, and free. The only issue would be orienting your building model to the perspective and angle of the vehicles, involving some trial and error.

PS you might want to update your siggy

As Tea Time said, the room below is interfering with the straight frieze. You can correct that, and keep the roof and ceiling settings in that room by: Uncheck Roof Over This Room on the room below Unlock the Roofs, Trim layer In 3D, select, then cut the correct frieze to the clipboard Turn Roof Over This Room back on Select and delete the new incorrect frieze Paste Hold Position the correct frieze The only problem with that trick is the frieze will not auto generate if you make changes to the roof plane(s). For the curved roof I had to rebuild the roof plane and the frieze worked for me. Not sure why it didn't for you. Farr Residence CB.plan.zip

I would use the Custom Backsplash tool for that. This was done in X14:

We can't. It's a mis-labeled dialog option, since there is no "default" for those settings. In previous versions, as recently as X10, you could enter the line weights in the Send to Layout dialog, and those settings would be remembered for subsequent views sent, until they were manually changed, even after restarting... which was a sort-of "default." Now those line weights are hard-coded and any changes have to be made to each view after it's in Layout. And any changes made there won't affect other existing views, or new views being sent. For some odd reason @ChiefArchitect thinks using Edge and Pattern Line Defaults is a bad idea, even though several of us have argued that it's a great way to maintain consistency among various layout views, without having to worry about all of the layer settings matching. There's a thread on Suggestions asking for this feature to remain, and to give us actual Default settings for Edge and Pattern Line weights and colors: Yes, as DB said, just uncheck those options, and the line weights will be derived from the source view. However, there are several nuances to that option. Click on Help in the Send To Layout dialog, there you will find all the information about it.

No.

No, that's the one I edited. But looking again I guess you want that jog there. My next move was to simply select the front wall (the jog) in 3D view, drag the top of it up, then drag it back down. And the issue resolved itself: We're not supposed to manually edit wall tops but I've found that with this program sometimes it just works, and I move on. As long as it doesn't screw up something else, which I didn't check.

You've got a little wall protruding into the roof area: Clean that up and it's fixed: The Main Layers ARE aligned, that's why you're not getting the tool. But the exterior layers don't add up to the same thickness, causing an offset on the outer surface.

Not sure exactly what you want, but the Wall Type definition had no framing specified in those pony walls. I specified framing for the lower wall but not the upper since it has cast iron (?) as the main layer. The settings are kinda messed up, had to fix some stuff. Is this what you're after?

What's "wrong" with the wrong template? If it's things that can be imported like saved plan views, layer sets, etc, that might be easier / less rework.

Hit and run reddies suck. I greenied you to offset

Select your stuff, hit the Transform/Replicate button on the Edit menu, click Rotate

Of course you're correct, providing one has the side window open. Just adding that for completeness

When you drag a new tool into an existing toolbar, it will create a new, separate toolbar with only that tool in it, UNLESS you drag/drop the new tool really close to, almost on top of an existing tool in the toolbar you want to add the new tool to. You can see the toolbar highlight when you have the new tool in position to be added to it.

I send elevations as Plot Lines, which can be accurately aligned using the Point to Point Move tool. Since the view is basically CAD, all of the CAD lines are snappable. Doesn't work as well if you send to layout as Live View, but you can still use PtPM, just have to position the tool visually since you won't have snaps.