Jonathan Pickup

If you use the extract tool, you can get a polygon for the face of the building and then extrude that. You can add the groves and joints to it as well. I have found that with a few keyboard shortcuts it becomes very quick.

make sure you have selected a class that has walls. Not the class of the wall component, the class of the overall wall. start with the name of the wall framing model then choose the layer Choose the class of the walls now click OK and it should work

try selecting the two hardscapes, right click on one and choose Add Surface

yes only by making sure they match/don't match the criteria Use tags, it is the easiest way....

ah, now I see your point...

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I'm sorry Jim, I don't really understand why you trying to make the wall alignment so simple. In your example you have walls that could have several options a simple left or right just wouldn't work. I personally don't have a problem with the dialogue box the way that it is

i tried this as well. i get <image> on the tag, but not the actual image.

I'm with Bob on this one. The data Tag tool will read the information from the landscape areas on the design layer. The usual argument for not putting information on the annotation part of the viewport was that it was no longer connected to the design layer. This is no longer true with the data tag.

At a recent online webinar, some of the users wanted to know more about layer and class filtering. I made this youtube movie to explain how i use layer and class filtering: https://youtu.be/6xCPL_I-qdg

This movie might help https://youtu.be/7XlsOZGSA9I

yeah, what he said...

Hi Alan, this is the link indicator. This object can be used to create a link to a viewport. When the object is red, it is not linked. When the link is green, it is correctly linked to a viewport. You done need to get rid of it, it doesn't print.

If you create detail viewports that way, you can’t link the detail callouts and references to the individual details.

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