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Now that was painful!

Scott, We have already had a couple of sessions. Let me know if you want to do some more (gratis). You have my Skype address.

No, not really - where did that come from? The best tool looks to be setting the drop ceiling details in the Ceiling Finish section of the Room Specification dbx.

Jim, This is probably not much good as it is metric. You should be able to find something similar in the US. http://cowdroy.com.au/media/Exposed_90_web_Sept16.pdf

Ah, yes, I thing that's what I was alluding to when I edited my post #49

Michael, I don't understand. There is no material attached to the Joist Direction Arrow?

Michael, I just amended my last post as you were posting. There are a few weird things going on here.

Michael, I'm not sure if you are aware, but you can open up the Joist Direction Specification dbx that controls the ceiling joists and change the spacing and depth there and those values are reflected in the Joist Direction arrow label. But it's a bit weird because when you build the ceiling joists, the ceiling joist spacing obeys the setting in the Joist Direction Specification dbx, but it doesn't obey the joist size. The joist size comes from the room ceiling default.

Michael, I think we use different methods. My way: http://screencast.com/t/OYLlNqF6YXS .

Michael just beat me to it.

Following on from the other thread that covers this topic. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/12444-how-to-drop-a-single-rooms-ceiling-height-two-story-building/?page=2#comment-107039 In the lower floor room where you want to have the drop ceiling, you need to use the Ceiling Finish settings (with a framing layer and NOT the Ceiling Structure settings.

I would call that a bug.

Scott gave the correct answer back in post #3 by making the point that you don't use Ceiling Structure - you use Ceiling Finish with a framing layer. Dropped Ceilings and Raised Floors The structure of a dropped, or suspended, ceiling can be specified in the Ceiling Finish Definition dialog either for a room or the defaults for a floor. SeeFloor and Ceiling Platform Definitions. To create a framed dropped ceiling 1. Select a room and click the Open Object edit button. 2. On the Structure panel of the Room Specification dialog, click the Ceiling Finish button. See Structure Panel. 3. In the Ceiling Finish Definition dialog: • Specify Layer 1 as the plenum space. • Specify Layer 2 as the horizontal framing. Framing member spacing and width are set in the material definition. See Define Material Dialog. • Specify Layer 3 as the drywall. • Specify Layer 4 as the paint color. A dropped ceiling composed of a metal grid requires only two layers: one for the plenum and one for the tiles. and also it is worth remembering:

I don't think you will have muck luck displaying the sun in a camera view or showing what you want from the owners position. I would forget about seeing it from the owners seated viewpoint. I would place an object, or 3D person at the correct location. You can then take a camera view from outside looking into the patio. Through the Adjust Sunlight dbx, you can dynamically adjust the sun for date and time to see the shadow movements . You can also adjust the height of the beams/roof and see the effect on the 3D person. I will see if I can do a vid. I forgot to do the adjustments to the roof/beam, but you can change them and see the same effect. http://screencast.com/t/jiopiO7Q

On closer look it's not Graphite. It's not Flux either Johnny - check out the upper case W.

Looks like Graphite Light to me. You can download it free from http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Graphite+Light/ I used it all the time but now use Chief Blueprint

Try using a Box, Polysolid, slab, etc, instead of the Landing

Michael, What kind of object do they refer to?

David, I paraphrased the process but you should be able to figure it out.

I would use Edit Area (All Floors), Reflect About Object, Point to Point Move. Edit: Ah...I forgot...clean up!

You are probably drawing them on different floors. The floor you are drawing on in 3D is the current floor. Javatom just beat me to it - you have everything drawn on level 0. I would insert a floor beneath the current level 0. Then select the fences and check Generate on Low Platform, but I think that is probably just a workaround. Redraw the fences on your new level 1 and you don't need to check Generate On Low Platform..

Uncheck "Allow Rap" (at the bottom of the Style panel).

Johnny, If you check the material definition for the "White Board & Batten" material, you will notice that the Material color is white and the Lines color is a light grey. I think that Chief is trying to display your lines as something other than grey (in this case white) where those pattern lines fall within the shadowed areas. If you change the Lines color to a darker grey, they will display better in the shadowed areas.

Johnny, A plan file would help. Does it happen on the elevation screen view or just the exported image?

Scott, There are no framing details there to use.