BrentJohnJohn Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 I know this is a simple fix, however I have been searching/working on this all morning. I am needing to trace CAD lines with an exterior wall. I need for the outside/brick to snap to the CAD lines. Currently, the interior framing is snapping to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentJohnJohn Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 rgardber, Good information. How do I have the exterior part of the wall, the brick, snap to the lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentJohnJohn Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 rgardber, I took your suggestion and created extra CAD lines by offsetting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 It may be easier to use the General Wall Defaults and select Resize About>Outer Surface; this will allow you to snap the outer surface of the wall to your CAD lines. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrentJohnJohn Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 rlackore, Yep, that is what I should have tried! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 9 hours ago, rlackore said: It may be easier to use the General Wall Defaults and select Resize About>Outer Surface; this will allow you to snap the outer surface of the wall to your CAD lines. bit late to the party but yes , this is the best method and one I use.... Shortcut Key is Alt-Q to access that DBX. Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonJFBdesign Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 HI All, were you able to get this to work in X14? I'm currently using x14 and changed the General wall defaults to outer surface and the external walls still wouldn't snap to cad lines. other than setting an additional cad line back the distance of the main framing layer. any ideas of how to get the outer layer to snap to the cad lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, JasonJFBdesign said: HI All, were you able to get this to work in X14? I'm currently using x14 and changed the General wall defaults to outer surface and the external walls still wouldn't snap to cad lines. other than setting an additional cad line back the distance of the main framing layer. any ideas of how to get the outer layer to snap to the cad lines? Seems to work fine for me in the default Chief Template doing a quick test............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 I think there is a bit of confusion here. I believe the OP was talking about the ends of the walls (where the brick wraps around the end). In that case Resize About doesn't apply. He was not talking about snapping along the length of the wall. Like this: There are a couple of ways to do this that immediately spring to mind. 1. Select the wall, click on the temp dimension along the walls length, use a + and the extra length needed, you can also select both ends or one end to change the length of the line. 2. Snap a room divider wall perpendicular to the wall so that it snaps to the end of the main layer, drag the room divider wall over and snap it to the cad line, the end of the wall will drag with the room divider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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