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Chopsaw, Have a look at this. Draw it in an elevation view. I think the fastest way is to draw the shape with straight lines and then convert them to curves. http://screencast.com/t/6PqGADBW

Adam, I think you have used Rotate Plan View AND you have the Text Style for Callouts set to Rotate With Plan. My advice is to NEVER use Rotate Plan View, and/or uncheck Rotate With Plan for the callout text - either in the Text Style or Use Custom Text Style.

Is that a floor overview camera? If so, try Defaults...Camera...General Camera...Options...Show Lower Floors In Floor Overviews.

Johnny, Try defining the solid raking wall as a No Room Def before drawing your railing wall. You should then be able to draw 2 wall in the same space.

Johnny, You have moved the goal posts. Didn't you have a closed polyline in your OP? You now have an open polyline.

Johnny, If you have other objects that are conflicting with your selection process, you will need to isolate that particular polyline so that you can select it with Edit Area. There are many ways to do that. Drag it out of the way, work on it, then move it back. Lock all other layers except the one that contains the polyline.....create a layerset specifically for this purpose.

Johnny, You can also use tools like Point To Point Move, Transform/Replicate, Drag/Tab, etc, in conjunction with Edit Area to further control the edit placement.

Michael is correct. The tool is called Perspective Crop Mode.

Todd, Can you explain further or attach a diagram of what you are after. I am not 100% clear about what you want.

Or...have a look at the Garden window at Architectural...Windows... Window Units...Protruding...Garden. It may be a little easier if it suits.

Johnny, Try this for a start. Note that you need to use the Length Towards Marked Object on the Extensions panel and not Gap From Marked Object. dimensions FIXED.zip

Johnny, It's a combination of: Setup panel...1st Line Offset and then in conjunction with Extensions panel...Length Toward Marked Object. In the Auto Exterior Dimension Defaults, you can specify an Overall Dimension or not.

Johnny, I think you will find that setting only applies to how the interior dimension displays when it locates an exterior wall - it doesn't apply to interior walls when you use an Interior Dim. You can do what you want by checking Primary Wall Side and then using the normal Manual Dimension tool - don't use the Interior Dimension tool. The auto exterior dim tool won't dim windows that are placed on a Vertical Stacking Level greater than 0. So change the Vertical Stacking Level.

Johnny, I think you missed the point right back in the first post. The tool is called Slab Footing. It is for drawing footings for MONO SLABS - not foundation walls with footings. With the Slab Footing tool, you can draw perimeter footings to form a mono slab with thickened edge footings. You can also use it to draw internal integral footings under a mono slab. You can also use it to define a kerb (or stem wall) above the mono slab. To draw thickened mono slab footings, Chief uses a footing and then a foundation wall on top. The height of the foundation wall (stem wall) is normally the same as the slab thickness. The footing height is the height from bottom of footing to underside of slab. This was the method used by Chief when they introduced slab footings way back when - it defines a foundation room forming a mono slab. So...I think that you are trying to use the Slab Footing tool to do something that it is not designed for.

Johnny, I don't understand the technical term, "wonky". Don't forget that you can spec the wall as Attic Wall or No Room Def if it helps to fix any problems.

Johnny, Why not just use a thin wall for your plywood/siding and then a truss behind. The wall should auto cut to fit the roof.

Lew has the right idea. You first need to start with a complete floor plan. Then, when you separate the rooms into their own files, they will remember their position for when you want to recombine them into one plan. I just had a play and this seemed to work. Start with a complete plan file with all the rooms. Separate your individual rooms to their own plan files by selecting the room. Make Standard Area Polyline - this will include half the internal walls and all of the external walls. Edit Area. Copy. Paste Hold Position into a new plan - ideally a template plan with the same defaults as your floor plan. Do this for each room. Then, when you are ready to recombine all the rooms into a single plan, use the same method - Edit Area, Copy, Paste Hold Position into the new plan. The rooms will locate accurately and reform as the original floor plan - Paste Hold Position is the key. There are probably a few things that could be improved upon and refined, but that was my first try and it basically all worked.

Or...making the White wall material Emissive should do the trick. But be aware that what you want to achieve is really "faking" it. In the real world, the white walls probably wouldn't appear white.

X8 has been stable enough to install since the public beta. Chief will ALWAYS be working on issues as they arise and issuing updates - same as any other program. If you wait for it to be "cooked", you may as well wait for X9. But wait......you will have the same problem with that.

My Roof Overhangs display from the fascia to the Roof Baseline. This is what I am seeing with roofs turned off. But I could do this in X7, so I don't know what has changed. Joe, I am not getting this.

English, There are some great 3D climbers in the Bonus Catalogs...3D Plants...Climbers. They look good in raytrace, render and vector views

Johnny, I am not sure if you can do that directly. But once you have placed a wall from the library into the plan (just place a short length anywhere), it will become available in the Wall Type Definitions dbx. You can then select all the existing walls that you want to change and then change them to your new wall type from the drop down list in Wall Specification dbx. We probably need Replace From Library to apply to walls as well as other objects.

I think the problem is that the brick joint color is the same color as the bricks once the Shading Contrast does it's magic. This results in the brick joint disappearing in the shaded areas. So, either change the brick joint color, or as Chopsaw said, change the Shading Contrast.

Mark, The floor above the foundation can provide it's own floor if you want it that way. The foundation doesn't HAVE to provide the floor for the floor above. You can do ir either way.

Newell, You are not explaining yourself properly. Can you have another go at explaining what you are trying to achieve. Was Chopsaw close to what you want?