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Bri: I would love to help you with your projects. I have been working with Chief Architect for over 12 years and I think I maybe able to help. I have worked with other draftsman in the pass. Call me when you have a minute. 337 380-0383 I live near Lafayette, La.

Sorry I found it, simple answer, thanks

They show in the plan view, not in the 3d

How do you know you have trusses?

This is a great product and when I was at their booth at KBIS last week I picked up a copy of their in house magazine called CAMBRIA Style. The magazine is very well done with beautiful kitchens and baths, all using Cambria quartz. Fyi, complimentary subscription can be signed up for here: https://offer.emags.com/cambria

It's not a layer issue, I've been searching the internet for a few hours, I need trusses to be visible. Is there any secret to this? Thanks in advance

Oh, and 4) Your Terrain Break is running along the outside of your wall, pull it to the center and you won't see that grass climbing up the wall like that.

1) Terrain Surface Smoothing is set to Linear. Never going to get good terrain with that. It was probably changed due to a "too many elevation points" message that you hit "Yes" to. Set it to Low, at least. Medium is typical. 2) You have a series of Elevation Lines pretending to be basic CAD Lines inside of an Elevation Region in your raised pad. They're set to 0" while the region is -132". Never, ever have terrain data inside of or crossing over other terrain data. They will fight, and the results are never good. 3) Elevation Lines and Regions really don't need to be smooshed up next to retaining walls, you'll often get better results if you back them away a little.

Welcome to the Tenth Circle of Hell. When you figure it out, please let me know.

Hello, I am new to posting in the forums, but have been a frequent forum reader. I am trying to get my terrain to look less choppy along the retaining walls. See image below. I've tried looking up videos and using other tricks found in the forum, but have had no luck, so it's likely user error. If someone could look at this file and give me some tips that would be appreciated! I've attached both the file and the site plan for reference. Thanks in advance! 25001 - Eureka House.zip Eureka House_Grading Plan_03-01-25.pdf

I had no idea about this tool. Thanks for sharing.

Im going to give this a shot. Shane

I didn't know there would be so many ways to pull this off. Thanks all to the great insight!

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I have used Benjamin Obdyke Slicker for wall rain screen. Easy to order direct through them. The products are very good. I have also used the Hydro gap product on a few projects. That WRB is great if you are not using a full peel and stick or liquid flash product.

Yes, just one more way to accomplish it with a single window instead.

If that arrow is supposed to indicate a slider then Joe and JK are correct. Otherwise if you're just looking for lites:

From the pic in the OP it's obvious that the correct tool would be "Mull Windows". This is not about "Custom Muntins".

Easy to do... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00930/creating-custom-muntins.html

Also YouTube for Chief Architect and mulled windows, or Grills

Search for "mulled windows" in Help. Also, look at the online videos Chief has available for Doors / Windows. Jim

Hi everyone, I’m trying to create windows with lites in the upper half of the window, but nothing in the bottom half. I have played around with different window styles and the amount of lites added but I cannot seem to get this right. I have attached a photo as reference to what I’m after. thanks in advance

For users of Sketchup, the new release of 2025 Sketchup Pro has premium access to some live symbols in the 3D Warehouse. They are like typical 3D Warehouse symbols which easily can be imported into Chief, but since they are live, you can easily change the symbol dynamically before you download them. For example, they have a corner shower unit. They have live toggles and slide bars to dynamically change the shape and size of the unit, the number of shelves in the unit, the type of shower head, etc. before sending it to Chief. They have have a drop ceiling which dynamically change the ceiling tile pattern bases on your room size and has configurable air vents, sprinkler heads, etc. They also have doors, windows and a bunch of other commonly used symbols. You can size to fit the room in your particular model before you import it into Chief. There are also a lot of new textures and even 360 degree panoramics you can download. I get a ton of free symbols from 3D Warehouse for my models, but these premium, live symbols will be a great addition. I got access with my Sketchup 2025 Pro subscription. I don't know if you can access any other way or not.

awesome, thanks Alan. I'll check in with those guys. Do you have good experience with their products?