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Will_in_pgh, you also should know that SOME of the people on this forum are more inclined to teach instead of help. They prefer to tell you how to find your own answers instead of just telling you how to do something. And while that may be helpful in a teaching kind of way, some of us who pose questions here are not interested in being taught with snarky remarks like you experienced. To Solver and Davidjpotter, I too tried searching help for Fill Style. It got me one item, relating to the fill style tab for polylines. It would take a very experienced user to be able to relate THAT information to the answer that Will was looking for.

Thank You David! I was using the Microsoft Print to PDF that came with this brand new PC and assumed it would work. Today I installed CutePDF and it worked GREAT!

So apparently nobody has had this problem before?

I admit, I am impatient sometimes, and today is one of those times. I had to reinstall my software when I replaced the laptop. I used to be able to print to PDF and when I open the PDF file then I could zoom in on it and it would zoom in without any trouble. Now, when I zoom in the picture becomes pixelated and I am not able to read any text on the drawing. I know there must be a setting I missed when I tried printing, but I cannot figure out what it could be. I tried changing the parameters for printing, including the scaling, but zooming in still causes the pixelating problem.

I have a wall with a window or door in it. In Plan view I click on the window or door and it shows me temp dimensions so I see the width and its position in relation to other objects. I can click on one of those dimensions and then edit it, thus moving the window or door slightly. At least, I WAS able to do this on my old laptop.

I see the temp dims, but I am not allowed to click on a dimensions to change it.

I had to replace pc and reinstalled software. I copied my plan files from backup and opened one. I can grab an object and drag it around no trouble. But if I click an object and want to enter specific dimensions to locate it (as in moving a window one inch), I cannot edit the displayed dims. I know this is just a setting in the software but I have not been able to find it.

I am going to generate dimensions for my home now, and based on past experience I am not going to be happy. Previous plans, when I generate either exterior or interior dimensions, the drawing becomes hopelessly cluttered. I have in the past had to go thru the drawing dimension by dimension, deleting duplicates where they were not needed. I cannot call out a specific example, but I could see a room with door and window and closet, and there will be two or more dimensions locating the window, and/or the door or even the walls. It seems to me it might be easier to manually dimension it, but that may take as much time as deleting all the duplicates. Are there any settings I am overlooking regarding automatic dimensions?

Thank you Jo_Ann, but I still also need to add height to the crawl space don't I?

I have completed a floorplan all the way thru to choosing paint colors, floor finishes, and even place electrical and made connections. Then the wife decided she wants a basement. How easy can the existing plan be changed to allow the current first floor, which has an Absolute Elevation of 0" to be changed to allow a daylight basement? Currently Floor Below (D) is a crawl space at -46 1/8. I wish to add height to that so that the basement height (floor to Ceiling Below (H)) is now 97 1/8. But I want to have a daylight basement, with 48" above grade. Thus the Floor (C) Absolute Elevation should change to 48" from 0". But no mater how I change the Default Settings for Floor 1 Defaults, the Floor (C) remains at 0".

JoAnn, Where are the gables placed for this?

That is fairly accurate Eric. As seen in the plan view of your drawing, and North being up, the roof at the top is good, but the roof at the bottom should look the same instead of having the dormer style roof over the south wall that juts out.

I was taught in school that the bottom of the page is always south UNLESS otherwise specified, so I assumed that most other people were taught the same. So. The bottom of the page is south. Top is north. As you can see from the floorplan there are many walls that jut out and others that are indented (corners, main entrance). If I start over and draw the entire outline from scratch (which I originally did), the roof planes all build automatically but they follow the shape of the outline. Even after I mark the walls that are supposed to be full gable walls. I do not want the roof to look like that. I want a full gable on the east wall, a full gable on the southwest wall (of angled room) and full gable on the west wall of straight part of building.

In the attached, all I am trying to achieve is a gable type roof on the angled section and on the straight part. The roof eaves should extend out to the furthest points of the north and south sides of the house. They should NOT follow the zigs and zags of the walls. As you can see I was unable to accomplish that. I tried drawing manual roof planes but it too failed. And now as you can see the wall where the angled part joins the straight part is not a full wall when viewed in a perspective view. V1.plan

DIG5050, I too have the same software, and I also have had trouble with Print Model. SO, I tried something very simple. A basic 2 room house, 1 floor, with gable roof. The Print Model for this worked flawlessly. Therefore I must conclude that the trouble I am experiencing (and probably you were) is due to errors in the drawing. I ran Plan Check and it turned up 24 problems on the first floor and 13 on the second. 32 of these were not what I consider drawing errors. For example, one was because the software expected a room named bathroom to have a window or else exhaust fan, and I had not added the electrical yet. The other 5 errors were strange indeed. 2 "invisible" walls to outline a gable wall above a porch on first floor supposedly had layers reversed. But reversing them did not make errors go away. So, run a plan check and see if correcting any problems will help with the Print Model

This is more commentary than question, since I already solved it. Just wonder if others have had the same trouble. I was applying a specific manufacturers material to the exterior gable of the house. I used eyedropper to select it from another part of building, then applied it to the gable. This worked fine. I then rotated the building and used same technique to apply to another gable. It failed. Eventually, after trying several times, I opened up the wall segment and changed the exterior material there. This time it took, BUT, I had to open it in the attic level, not the second floor level. Does anyone know of a bug with the material painter tool?

Jo_Ann, that invisible wall indeed was the source of the trouble. I discovered that by deleting the invisible wall. Thank you all for the help.

Eric, I followed your advice. 1. Deleted all roof planes and turned off auto roof rebuild. 2. DELETED the left side 2nd floor wall before dragging a new one into place. 3. Created a new 2nd floor wall by dragging from the front left corner to the rear left corner. 4. Aligned this wall with wall below it by turning on reference floor and shifting wall till I had a sky blue line on exterior side of wall. I zoomed in as far as software would let me so I could be as precise as possible. 5. Zoomed back out and rebuilt roof planes. Problem still exists

I know I have done something wrong but short of starting over I cannot find my mistake. In the attached drawing, on left wall of house where the Nook roof eave meets the side of the family room wall, there is a hole in the wall visible on the Perspective full overview, as seen by my screenshot. I have no idea how it got there. I would bet that if I start over the anomaly would go away, but I would not learn where my mistake was. Could someone please find my error and explain it? lodge ref v1.plan

Open the plan and go to the foundation level (usually level 0). Now press the F9 key on the keyboard to see the reference floor. Next, go up one floor. You should now see the foundation outlined in red. Click on an exterior wall and change the temporary dimension to move that wall in by the thickness of the insulation. Repeat this for all the exterior walls you wish to change.

I may be wrong with this suggestion, but my way of doing this would be to go to the upper floor and re-align the outside of the wall perimeter with the foundation concrete.

@ Solver, I think he wants the upper walls to frame flush to the concrete, not flush to the insulation layer.

I hope that is what I need. Will try it and see. There is really no image to post that would show the issue. I just started the floorplan using the default floor height because I did not know what the correct height would be and did not want to delay the design process by 2 months.

Eric, it is for a tiny house on a chassis, and we did not have the chassis ground height before. Now that I know the height from ground to top of chassis, I want to set the bottom of the house at that height so I do not need to constantly remember that dimension when working on the floorplan.