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If you post the plan and an indication of what you want, you may even get it done for nothing. :-)

Scott, Count me in if you want to do a GTM on this. As long as it isn't in them middle of the nite for me. I will be back home from travelling tonite.

I think you could also use a primitive pyramid with a truncated top.

Alan, I haven't got access to Chief at the moment, so I can't open your plan. But, to get the rail to setback from the edge of deck, you can change the railing wall definition to include an invisible layer (use No Material), the thickness of the setback.

Bruce, Did you change the Pad Elevation in the terrain dbx?

I have said it before, but it is worth saying again. Rotate Plan View does not rotate the plan on the drawing sheet (although it appears to) - it actually rotates the whole drawing sheet, and the plan with it. That means (among other things) that the coordinate system also rotates. It's easy to see that complications can occur! Better to use one of the other rotation methods instead.

Kelly, Use Rotate Plan View to rotate the plan 90deg. Now use the imput line tool to draw a line at zero degrees. Zero degrees should be at 3oclock. What happens?

You got it Rich. Don't use Rotate Plan View. I have just got back into civilisation after having travelled across the remote north Australia by 4 wheel drive. It's nice to sleep in a bed for a change.

Way to go Alan. Exactly the same as mine - logical and easy to remember. Even if you forget them, they are easy to guess.

Rich, Off the top of my head, without access to Chief.... Can you use the Delete Surface tool to delete the end "caps" and them convert to a symbol with appropriate stretch planes? Or, you could make your moulding a double surface " C" shape with the open part of the C just about touching. The join goes against the wall. That's similar to how they are actually made in Oz.

Thanks Joe, my mind is definitely not on the job! - I was close though! Scott, we are off to northern Australia - the "outback".

I am travelling and don't have access to Chief, but I think you can use one of the cad modes to fillet the corners of a layout box. You can then drag the corners in to make the circle.

Rich, That can be done easily with a 3D Molding Polyline.

Dennis, I have never seen that. Can you reproduce it? I assume you were in the Rendering Technique Optins dbx on the Watercolor panel? The only other thing I can thing of is that you toggled into another rendering mode. That is normally done by selecting the mode (or panel) with the mouse. BUT...this can be easily done by hitting the first letter of the various modes - V for vector view, D for Duotone, etc. It can also be done by using the up and down arrow keys. Changing to that panel changes the mode and redraws the screen. But that doesn't explain why the preference was changed.

Terry, Use the Imput Point tool to place a point at absolute 0,0 in your template plan. You can either leave the cad point or delete it after getting a suitable screen size and saving the template plan. Next time you open Chief, the location and zoom size will be remembered. If you start your plan anywhere on screen, it will be close enough to 0,0 to not cause a problem. You can drag the drawing sheet wherever you want in relation to the plan. Select the drawing sheet and drag it with the center drag handle. Bear in mind that the drawing sheet in plan is only useful if you want to print directly from plan view. More often than not, most users would send the plan to layout and print from there.

Did you hit the Toggle Textures toolbar button or the hotkey for Toggle Textures?

Mick, I have attached a vid explaining Yusuf's method. I hope you don't mind Yusuf - it's a good tip. http://screencast.com/t/y2wb28Rx

Here is a stretchable downpipe that may come in handy. Downpipe.calibz

Here is a stretchable downpipe that may be of use. Downpipe.calibz

Kelly, Those would be very thick lines. I think you meant to say that the pen thicknesses range from .15mm to 1.2mm. The OOB setting for line weights is a line weight of 1 = 1/100mm. So that a line weight of 25 = .25mm. Steve, You don't really say exactly what troubles you are having with line weights. OOB line weights work fine. Exactly what troubles are you having?

Mick, yes, I did notice the slowness. Terry, The slowness with the plan is caused by the Custom fill you are using in some of your wall definitions. Get rid of the custom fill and change it to a Solid fill and things speed up.

Adam, I can't duplicate your problem with a 0 - I only get the 0 prefix for single digits. Try using a space for the prefix and you don't get a 0 prefix for single digits. Maybe this is controlled by a system setting?

Terry, Your garage has a 8" wide stem walls. Your house has 12" wide stem walls. Both footings are 12" wide, "Center Footing on Main Layer". You need to change this to "Align Footing on Outside". Just delete the footings around the Porch if you don't want them. Chief builds the footing between an internal and an external (Porch) room, so if you are doing an auto foundation, rename the Porch to Unspecified or an internal room name. The footing around the Porch would be the correct behaviour as there is usually a step down to a Porch for waterproofing.

Kirby, Do you want to adjust the overall size of the bay or the individual windows in the bay?

Alan, All I am suggesting is that until we get a Find and Replace in Chief, it may be possible, with a bit of sculldugery, to use Chiefs Spell Check tool to do what you want. It just means that you have to edit a couple of system files to do it. This would be worthwhile when there are a lot of instances to find and replace in a large drawing. This works pretty much the same as you describe for AC.