TheMadCadder

Hey @y-g-m-n, I really appreciate your taking the time to reply, that was the issue and it is now fixed on my end! Plans are off to the engineer.

HELP!! Project file attached. So I've recreated this model from scratch, exterior only, trying to get around this issue. New model file attached...same wall. Upper floor windows in the rear wall wont cut their openings. I've isolated the issue...vaguely...to setting part of the space inside to "Open Below" in room definitions... Any help would be greatly appreciated as I now need to deliver these plans and I need the 2d elevations to do that. 850 HEIM NEW.plan

My first major glitch...anyone have an idea why the exterior siding shows in this one window in the attached image?

use a cabinet soffit to create a belly band against the exterior wall where you want the exterior siding to transition from one to the other...hide it under the lower roof if you don't want to see it...then you should be able to paint different finishes above and below the belly band. This is how I've been doing it, but I'm new so perhaps others have a better method?

Have you sacrificed a farm animal yet? Back when I was designing roof trusses, any time we had a gambrel roof to design we would gather the design staff and sacrifice a farm animal to divinate the correct pitches and heights to use... just kidding...or am I?

Go to Default Setting (The little Wrench button) > Floors & Rooms > Floor Levels> 1st Floor > Change Relative Height to your new wall height. OMG I've learned enough now to answer a question!!

I run 2 computers side by side...one with Win11 and all the new software I use, like HD. Then I have my old reliable Win7 work machine that runs certain critical software that won't run on the newer OS' like my AutoCAD. I've been working this way since about 2013. Not the solution you were after I'm sure but it does work well for these sorts of issues.

Thanks!

I've been all through the defaults and do not see where this is possible to do...where in the defaults would I set this? Ok...after a bit of experimenting I've solved the first issue... By setting the default window label to "specify label" and then typing in the following in the dbx; <carriage return> <carriage return> %automatic_label% I get an automatic label that is located just outside the exterior wall as I would like...however, the <carriage returns> appear to act as text (not transparent) and now hides the window in plan like its "whited out"... Suggestions?

It means I do not use opening schedules in my plans and so it is not a solution to the problem I am working on.

schedules are de' debbil

I really hate to have to do that for every opening...on every plan...and every time an opening changes. There's got to be a default setting for openings text position...or is that only a CA thing?

Can someone point me to the setting to control the positioning of the auto text for door & window callouts? Currently (out of the box) my door & window size text is located directly atop the doors & windows. The default exterior door text sits outside the wall, as I'd like it but not the interior doors or the windows text.

I've downloaded all the free cats I think I'll want... Any recommendations for 'must have' catalogs I should purchase as a new user?

Oh thank you! Took a sec to figure out I need to send a vector view to layout otherwise the "plot lines" option is greyed out but I've got printable elevation views now!!