floor plans and sections drawings questions

<p style=”text-align: left;”>thanks Merv,</p>
       That shows you how dumb I am. i never thought to check the layer to see what it really is. I see now what is the problem (see pic below. the window below is not to bad but I don’t have a file that is very bad right now look at outside trim line) it’s seeing all these objects inside of the house, the lines and dots are staiways, cabinets, members, beams, lights or anything else that is inside the house.  I feel  embarrassed now that I see this and realize i was to dumb to realize what is going on. what a waste of time it was always selecting the window etc. and deleting it out and changing it to the layer I wanted.

sorry don’t know how the extra got in at the start.

hey I got another question I do work for people who use autocad and they have 12 layer settings with they’re preferred names. before this I just selected the things I wanted in worksheet view and changed it to their layer name etc. but i’m wondering is their a way  I can change the default setting so that instead of having 7 window layer there’s just one for all windows accessories and instead of all the different wall layers on  just change it to one and so forth. and have it on just their template. I tried changing the layer to the same name but it doesn’t let you use the same name twice the only way I could figure it out was to numbers behind it but now i’m thinking I know there’s a better way and i’m to dumb to know it.

thanks again for you’re help above merv.

Conrad

K thanks for the help Merv,

And I’m sure you deserve the rest after you were babysitting you’re grandkids. and yes that does look like a big job doing like you’re pic I think what i’m going to try and do is go into the layer settings catalog on a totally separate template and just rename the layers for example. all the walls I will change to WALLS and numbers behind like: WALLS1 WALLS2 and so forth hopefully that will work, I had thought about doing it the other way like you’re pic but that would take a crazy amount of time. and I’m also having a problem when I export it to a DWG for them it seems like my line weights do not stay at the correct weight when they import it into autocad after I sent it to. (they do have an older version) any ideas my problem or there’s.

And also not sure what you mean by: (was that an AutoCAD command? or one of Brian Hunter’s specials in APDesign?) ??????

By the way never saw Australia (but met a guy when I was in California) who was from there and he gave me a ballcap from Sydney AUS.

Conrad