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Chris Pooley

Hi, I am trying to make the railing show like the stairs, as in, display differently above the break mark, I want lighter lines and no fill (as per the stairs in my picture). In the rail selection settings I have set the "Relevant_Bottom Story" to "b...

Chris Pooley · 2024-02-28

Hi all, I am having troubles working out what I am doing wrong with my settings? In the attached images, the wall is sitting at just over 600mm from its associated FFL, so I thought if I set the cut plane at 800mm I would see it cut through? The wall...

Chris Pooley · 2023-11-14

Hi All, I am trying to make the detail marker show the layout the view is placed on. I can manually draw write the layout ID in there, but if I add more sheets or change the order of the sheets, I would like this to automatically update. I know this ...

Chris Pooley · 2023-10-29

Hi All, I have had 2 jobs now where I have needed to "snip" a 3D perspective using the windows snipping tool and pasting onto the layout, rather than using a 3D perspective. My preferred method would be to use a perspective, but something in my model...

Chris Pooley · 2023-08-18

Hi All, I can not select any drafting fills in my fill tool. If I change them to cut fills, and or cover fills, I can select them, then I can change them back to just drafting fills, they remain, but then appear as "Missing" in the tool dialog. I hav...

Chris Pooley

Hi Juan, Thanks for the reply. I did not try that, I will try that on my next job. Using the "Tree Model Simple 25" trees was a good solution as Lazlo suggested. Thanks again

Chris Pooley · 2024-02-29

Thank you for that, it was that I had the floor to ceiling height set to 300mm, as there is no floor above it. Thanks again.

Chris Pooley · 2023-11-15

Thank you very much.

Chris Pooley · 2023-11-05

Hi Lazlo, Removing the trees makes a massive difference to the file size. However, the trees are important to council given the zoning of the site, so I want to show the trees that are remaining. I was really just hoping to be able to generate a 3D d...

Chris Pooley · 2023-11-02

Thanks Erwin, I think this is the answer, I cant make it look exactly how I want it to look, and it is still a bit clunky, but more than twice as fast as before and the PDF files can be e-mailed. Thank you,

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Railing view above current story

Floor Plan Cut Plane Settings

Detail Marker to show layout ID it is placed on

3D Perspective generates far too large PDF

Drafting Fills not selectable, only cut fills

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