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Select your solids and in your edit toolbar use the convert selected to symbol tool and convert to the symbol class millwork. Then change your railing style to panels and apply your new millwork as the panel

Larry make sure to quote or mension me for faster responses so I get notified. you attached a plan and then deleted the attachment so it is not downloadable. Do you have a photo of what you are trying to accomplish..I have a feeling you are missing a very crucial capability of the railing tools. Can you try posting the plan again?

What are you trying to accomplish when you are specifying “general notes?” That is simply a note type. You can create new notes types. You can have new note types default to specific layers or rather have saved plan views use specific note defaults. You can create a new note type called general notes 2 if you like. I would need to know what your end goal is in order to understand

is your user database on dropbox? because that can cause some problems

You can have as many note schedules as you like for as many custom note types as you like that display any way you like and include as many custom fields for those notes in schedule as you like This has been around for a few versions now Have any questions?

can you post your .plan file

You might have trouble getting info on this stuff. I personally just can't remember that far back to know when they changed things and how they were changed. Font change in the current versions is driven by the text style being used on the windows,labels layer

I would guess that the baselines for those roof planes are not sitting on the outside main layer of the exterior wall. It may be easier to take the roof plane that has the correct seat cut and copy/paste and then reflect about an object that is center to your ridge.

The PAT file is vector based and has no editing capabilities for your textures which are raster based. The Pattern panel is so that YOU can designate a pattern to represent your material but this will not make a stacked texture(The one you made) into an offset texture. You need to make your texture source into an offset texture

My first few years of rendering I would walk into places and just stare. I was just looking at how light bounces. I would geek out on it. One of the funniest things to try and explain to someone what you’re even looking at. yes I’m seeking a tree and plant package that’s pretty extensive now. Hard scaling and landscaping materials, mounds, tons of bushes, climbers, architectural blocks for distribution regions, potted plants, trees. All with custom CAD blocks

Can you tell us more, why are you trying to group them, what is your end goal? What was the infill for, there may have been a better method we could point you to. The screenshot doesnt show solids in a stair rail. Consider posting you .plan file for the project.

Would be happy to, you can buy blocks of training direct from the website in my signature if you like. Reputable and well known trainer in Home Designer Pro

Another Example of a backdrop and foreground blend

That is pretty significant, can you post a plan file and bubble the section you are refering to?

Try deleting the user library data file with chief closed and then re-open chief and it will rebuild the file

I personally suggest that you change the location of your data folder as it is in the Documents folder which is a folder that by default in win 11 is on OneDrive and onedrive can cause problems with chiefs database system. You should call in to their support

do you have any active filters in your search, please cancel any filters you have. on youre previous search you had bathroom mirrors and frames as an active filter

select any item from any other catalog and choose to copy to user library, and see if you have a user library folder then

none of those screenshots are showing your user catalog. Its been a long while since I had zero items in my user catalog but I believe by default it still shows up even if you have no items in it

For beams and such you need an accurate model. Personal opinion that the trade off isnt there in terms of needing an accurate model vs needing a takeoff since i do not need an accurate model to produce condocs. That being said, what discrepancies are you running into? Would help to know what problem we might be solving for as some solutions might require macro or adjustment to material properties or the model etc.

can you screenshot the part of your library that is the user catalog. It seems like you've already successfully installed these items which will be in your user catalog

Would love it if you went here and explained why you too would love Layer based Fill Styles

Can you screenshot any dialog messages you get when you try and import? Can you screenshot your library browser? I just dragged and dropped the file you uploaded and it installed right away

2d is simply a representation of the 3d counterpart. Complex to get into the details of this but what you are asking for is editing the 3d mesh geometry of the object. The delete surface tool can temporarily delete clusters of polygons(based on the smoothing angle of the 3d object as designated in the 3d panel of the object). When you have temporarily deleted the surfaces you want to remove, then with the object still selected, choose convert selected to symbol from your edit toolbar.

When Michael has a system that is applicable then I simply defer to him and promote his product. He's a good hard working guy that builds great systems and is so good to this community so its good to support each other here and give him the floor. If I could bother you though, curiosity has me...what is a use case for this for the electrical symbols? What are you showing on the different plan views?