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Colored Elevations - to scale
Send colored elevation to layout (with or without artistic treatment, with or without shadows - Standard, Watercolor, whatever you want)
Change to Vector View. Be sure to keep toolbar layout exactly the same.
Send Vector View to layout.
Open vector layout box - note width, or put width on windows clipboard.
Open colored view layout box - match width of vector layout box.
You now have your colored view at exactly the same scale as the vector layout. It's quick, painless and accurate.
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Pre-sized building(Garage)
I wanted to place a garage in my plan near the house and was thinking we should have a tool to just drop one in.
The "polygon shaped room"tool works great for this.
Just select 4 sided and the length of the walls=24'
Still would be nice to have a building tool for garages or sheds..
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Wide footing section under foundation wall
Here is how you can make a wide footing section under a foundation wall.
Let's say the engineer wants a 3' section of the 20" strip footing widened to 30" for special loading. To do this you need to break the foundation wall into a 3' segment and widen the footing. You will find that the segment will want to merge back with the other walls, so you can do one of the following to keep it separate:
Designate the roof over that wall as gable
Move the wall segment to a new layer
Select 'retain wall framing' (probably the simplest way)
You can also edit the depth of this footing in section view.
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Originally Posted by lbuttery
If ANY setting changes between the two wall sections chief can't join them together.
Perhaps this is improved with X2, but I am certain that in X1 some settings will not 'stick' with regards to this trick. Does changing the footing width qualify as changin a setting?
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Handy little measuring tape
X2 brought us the new use of point to point dimensions as a measuring tool. I found that quite handy for a single use, but for multiple uses it does not work. Here is something that works in X1, and probably many prior versions.
To make a handy little measuring tool, draw a cad line, and in the DBX, designate "show length," and if you wish "show angle." Designate arrows on both ends, and change the color, line style, arrow style, and arrow fill to suit your fancy. Now you have a tool that measures anything between two points and is very reusible.
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Lew, I meant to mention that it can be done in X1 and prior, thanks.