glennw

By default, Chief uses the same fill pattern that you used in the plan and uses it for the material. You will see "(loaded from plan)" in the Define Material dbx..Pattern...Custom Pattern Options...File:

Scott, Is this just a cad detail that you need a fill pattern for. Or do you need a material with a fill pattern and a texture? Here is a fill pattern only for a cad detail. Not perfect, but close. Let me know if you need the material definition with fill pattern and texture. If you do need the material with that fill pattern, you can apply the fill pattern to the object in plan (or elevation - depending where it was drawn) and then when you apply a material, it will take it's fill pattern (for a vector view) from the fill pattern you applied in the plan view.

Bruce, I am curious as to why you would want to print the extension line numbers?

I am not 100% clear on what you want, but try a single hung window and change the Bottom Component size.

Alan, Because you have made the sash size zero on the 2 windows that aren't showing glass. Without a sash, you don't get glass.

They should be in Chief Architect Bonus Catalogs...Materials High-Resolution Grass

I was just playing around with this and it seems like it is possible to do it all with Wall Niches. You can stack a WN on another WN. They curve to follow the wall. So...you can use a WN for the main panelling. Slope the top and bottom using the Shape panel so that it follows the stairs. Apply casing as required. Create another WN, size and shape, add casing, etc., to represent the panels. Overlay this WN on the larger one. I would do a vid, but I am having trouble with Jing. Here is a very quick example:

Mick, You are correct. In your example above, the stairs are contained in a room. Try breaking the room definition formed by the large room and see what happens to the winders

You need a bit more than just walls. The walls need to form a room.

It is because they are pony walls and set to display the upper wall. Why have you made them pony walls with the same wall top and bottom? If you display the "Lower Wall In Plan", the problem goes away. Or, better still, get rid of the pony wall. You might also be interested in the "Hide Openings In No-Displayed Parts Of Walls" setting - although I don't think you need to worry about it in this case - just a heads up. You also have some of them defined as Foundation walls which should not be necessary. It also looks like you have painted the wall with the shingle material at some stage which will probably only complicate things more. Probably better to set that back to the default material for the wall (Cream Siding). Once you have got rid of the pony wall, the wall will probably turn to shingles. Open the wall dbx, go to the Material panel, select Exterior Wall Surface, Select Material. Make sure you are in Library Materials. Down the bottom, under the icons, is a check box to Use Default Material. Check this box and the wall material will revert back to the Cream Siding. You can also do the same thing in Plan Materials by selecting Use Default at the top of the drop down list of materials.

Maybe if you invested as much time and effort in reading the manual and composing your first post as you put into your last post, there may have been a different result.

Yes, I do.

Johnny, I am not sure that Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom is the best solution in this case - it just seemed to make things worse for me. The reason that there are 2 walls is that the subject wall is being cut in two by the invisible wall running perpendicular to it - an auto generated attic wall, I think.. This is easily fixed by breaking the invisible wall where the 2 walls cross and then dragging the gable wall over itself to redraw it. The gable wall should now be a single wall breaking the invisible wall and you should be able to easily reshape the gable wall bottom. Leave the auto attic wall as invisible with auto attic walls toggled on if you want to - the attic wall won't rebuild as long as the invisible attic wall is there. It also looks like you need some extra ceiling planes in the porch to finish it off properly - have a look up from inside the porch.

Your signature says you are using X8, not 8 as per your message. I would contact tech support with a problem like that.

Change your main layer for the outside wall. The internal walls are building through to the main layer.

Mark, I am not sure that I am reading you correctly. The Pattern size can be changed on the General panel and the Texture size can be changed on the Texture panel (Scale). Why the need to select a custom pattern?

Not perfect, and a bit of overkill, but you could always copy the window in place, change it's Type, uncheck Include In Schedule.....

I have used Wall Material Regions to do this type of cladding before. Michaels tip of hiding the MR layer solves the problems that MR have at the corners. I have done something similar, but instead of turning the MR layer off, I have used a "Gap" material type to hide the MR and clean up the corners

I didn't open your plan, but I know that both psolids have to be drawn in the same plane.

How are you trying to convert the second polysolid to a hole? With the Create Hole tool on the Edit toolbar, or the Hole In Polyline Solid the PL solid dbx? Maybe post a plan?

You must not be using Chief Premier X7+ if you do not have a Match Properties tool. It would be helpful if you placed some details in your signature - like your Chief version for a start. How did all the ceilings get painted with stucco in the first place. Depending on the answer, the solution could be different.

Michael, It is a mere bagatelle.

Is that an echo I hear?

Scott, Ah..I see it now when I generate an Orthographic Full Overview. It is definitely connected to your Sun Angle and/or your terrain material. Your active Sun Angle is for 5pm on 22/12/2012. This results in a very low sun angle of 7.7deg. I believe that what you are seeing is the "sheen" of the low sun reflected off the terrain. If you open the Define Material dbx for the terrain material (Grass 7) and turn down the Specular setting, the light cone reduces or disappears. Or...try using one of your other sun arrows.

Scott, I don't see it when I open your plan and generate a Perspective Full Overview (Standard Render view).