What is CA BEEF with drawing a simple Porch?!?

[VHampton]

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Agreed with your comments Scott. I have yet to make a lumber or material list which is why I mentioned that the manual method might miss a few ingredients. Some contractors really like the material list ability of the program and they are quite diligent in making the excel results work very precisely.

Again, if the model looks great, the sections and camera views require very little graphic corrections.

BTW...I usually use polylines for porch headers as well. The only advantage to a 3D molding is that the lintel can have a crown or whatever else you want to add to it. All it means that I have to go back to plan view and draw in two dashed lines in lieu of the 3D molding line (which I turn off for plan views anyway).