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Measuring a door in a ground plan - hight difference

hello, I have on one floor (hight +3,33) a platform (hight 3,96). They are both a part of the same level. Now I have a door on the platform, hight 2,26m. When I drew a measuring line next to it, it calculated the hight of the entire room, resulting i...

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Overrides for varying levels of detail

I have an existing building, with existing steel columns that I know the sizes of from the as built drawings. Initially, I want to indicate the columns as a grey fill with a black outline due to the columns being encased but I will want to show more ...

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Show building material/surfaces in Elevation/Section

Is it possible to display surfaces/materials in a section/elevation? We would like to generate a series of views (elevations) in which the actual textures of the materials are displayed rather then the Vectorial Hatching -> i.e. a 2D-representation o...

Avoiding interior shadows in elevations /sections

Hi there! I have a problem that is driving me crazy! I want to do an elevation of my building - that is, I want to show the interior of my building (section) while showing the elevations of the adjacent buildings (elevation). The problem resides in t...

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Graphic Overrides - SEO target inheritance

I don't think this works that way I want it to, but I was hoping a Graphic Override could change the surface of an element used as an SEO subtraction operator, and have that surface override flow through to the surfaces of the SEO target element that...

Graphic Overrides - hide/show ?

I'm just starting to experiment with Graphic Overrides. When Renovation filters arrived in 19 (18?), I thought they were a great solution to a tricky problem (demo plans), so I was eager to see their logic extended. But..I'm not seeing a means to hid...

Publisher missing all layouts

Hi Guys Silly question, But the publisher in my office template is missing all layouts to PDF, is there any way to re-add this without rebuilding the template? Thank you Guys for your help.

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Graphic Overrides - Roof line types

I am trying to set-up a "Schematic" set of graphic override rules. I have set it up with a rule to have walls, columns and roofs show with a solid cut fill and a cut line pen of 4. But when this rule is applied my roofs all show a cut line type of "s...

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Grid tool for non perpendicular

Is it possible to insert angled grid line similar to the file attached or do i need to dimension each angled grid line individually. Thanks for the help

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Save drawing title setup for re-use

I've edited the 'Built in drawing title' to how I'd like my drawing titles to be presented and I'd like to know if I can do a 'Save as' for reusing the setup please. Any pointers much appreciated.

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