Wrap around deck

[05uurx]

I am drawing a house, that has a deck that wraps all the way around all 4 sides of the house...

This really screws up the plan...at first, the whole plan was being identified as a "deck", then i added a famous invisible wall to one side and that solved that problem...

But now when i auto-dim...all my dimensions go away, becuase the deck is seperating the house from the outside world...

-all my deck railing walls are set to "no locate"...
-the deck floor height is set to a different height as the first floor

How can i get my dimensions to come back? i've attached the file (the drawing is unfinished at this point)

[Allen Brown]

Temporarily set one of those deck walls as "No Room Def", do your auto exterior dims, then set it back.

[Redback]

Matthew if you open up your railing a small distance then generate your auto dimensioning you will get your dimensions back. Then close the railing back up. Cheers Gary.

[lbuttery]

Matthew:


You may want to post this as a situation to be fixed in the suggestion area of the forum.


Lew

[tmunson]

Have you specified the deck as Decks in the Room Specification dialog. I believe Auto diminsions will ignore the deck and just measure the rest of the house.

[luckyudesign]

the same problem occurs when you have a porch on the front of a house. you have to manual dimension all walls, windows and door. very irritating!