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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).

Preferences...Edit...Snap Properties...Other Snaps...Bumping/Pushing. Have a look in Help.

Do you have Bumping/Pushing turned on?

That looks like it is caused by the effect of screen resolution and has nothing to do with the line weight or line scaling discussed. Is this a separate issue than the one we have been discussing? Because the line is so close to horizontal it is "jumping" to the next pixel row- sometimes called "jaggies". Can you increase screen resolution? There are a couple of settings that MAY have an effect on this - but I am only guessing. In the camera dbx (also in 3D...Camera View Options), there is a setting for Edge Smoothing When Idle. Note that this setting is view specific. Check that and see if it does anything. There is a Hardware Edge Smoothing setting in Preferences...Render. Try setting that to High. Or maybe Dermot can chime in and tell us in more detail if these setting should have any effect at all - because I am not sure.

What does "look wonky" mean. Doesn't setting Minimum Display Size to zero fix that? I would support a request to separate Minimum Display Weight and line type scaling - they should not be linked as they are 2 completely different parameters.

You can do what you want with layer sets. Leave line weights toggled on. Create a new layerset (Copy an existing one), select all the layers and give them a line weight of 1. As long as your line styles are set to by layer, you will get the static line types when zooming with all line weights displaying as 1. If you need to see line weights (with static scaling), change your layer set.

Polyline Solids drawn in elevation/section

Alan, There are several options to achieve what you want. Try these. If you want to delete all your wall framing, use the Delete Objects tool - you have the choice to delete from a single room, current floor , or all floors. Then, if you want to build the framing for only one wall, select the wall and use the Build Framing For Selected Objects tool. If you want to delete the framing for only one wall, select the wall, select the Open Wall Detail tool, Marque select all the framing and Delete.

Did you look for roof returns in the manual?

That would make too much sense. Delete and recreate the camera. No need to redo the camera. You can use undo if that will work - depends on the undo sequence. Auto Detail is just cad work over the section and as such can be selected and deleted. So if you haven't drawn any other cad (dimensions, text, cad, etc) on the section, just do a big marque select or a select all (only cad work is selected) and Delete. If you have already drawn cad on the section, you will need to use a selection method that only selects the auto detail cad and then delete. You can then do another auto detail.

I think that you will find that this doesn't only apply to your beam. Same thing happens with most objects that come from the library like cabinets, fixtures, fittings, etc. I believe that functionality is hard code into Chief and can't be changed. The are not really Temp Dims as you can't use them to change the object's size or location. They are really just a reference dimension.

Defalts...Floors and Rooms...Floor/Ceiling Platform...Floor...Floor Structure...Edit...Selected Layer...check Auto Detail As Insulation. OK. While you are in the Floor Ceiling Platform Defaults, delete the concrete floor finish - this is where your concrete topping is coming from. You will get 2 instances of auto detail hatching if you auto Detail twice. You will need to be a bit more specific regarding the cupboard problem.

There is a Flemish Bond hatch pattern in the ChiefBrick.pat file. Look for the 20-BRK_Flemish pattern. You get there by going to the Fill Style panel...Pattern...Type:...Custom (down the bottom) of the list. Select the above .pat file with the Browse button.