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Coralie, What you show is different from the plan you posted. ie, the original level zero external walls were concrete. What level is the terrain drawn on? Maybe post another plan if it has changed. This is a perspective floor overview of level zero.

Joey, Fencing Specification dbx...Rail Style panel...Build From...choose from Step Terrain or Follow Terrain.

Coralie, When I opened your plan, there was no terrain in the basement. Is Terrain...Terrain Specification...General...Clipping...Hide Terrain......checked - this is the usual way to control this.

Perhaps you should go to the Home Designer forum, this is the Chief Architect forum. In Chief, we have an option to Follow Terrain. It is here: Fencing Specification dbx..Rail Style Panel...Build From...Follow Terrain.

Glad you fixed that one. As Joe said, with a custom Ruby script, you can report the area to any number of decimals you want.

I have been trying to think of a setting that would effect the decimal places in a schedule, but I can't think of one. Anyone else? Maybe it's a quirk with the trial version. I recommend that you call support and ask them.

I am not sure why it is not showing the decimal places. It is working OK for me. Maybe post the plan so that we can have a look at your settings.

Same answer as in the other thread.

Specify the Rail Style as Panels. Then on the Newels/Balusters panel, specify the cable rail under Panels

Have a look at Preferences...General...Unit Conversions. These are all the conversions you can do OOB. You can even create additional units if you need to - although all the included ones should cover just about any situation unless you require furlongs, chains, etc.

Sherry, You shouldn't need to specify any additional angles. Just check the 71/2 Degrees option and make sure angle snaps are on. When you drag a wall, check the status bar to make sure you are dragging at 221/2 deg. You should never have to set any of those angles as additional as they are all on when Angle Snaps is on. Or I don't get what you are saying.

Bob, I will be sending you my invoice for a large revision fee! Bob is a user who I really like helping because I can see that he has invested a lot of time and effort in learning Chief and pushing his skills as far as possible. He is quite prepared to jump in and bite the bullet. What he has created from what was originally a limited understanding of Chief, is truly amazing. Sure, he has been frustrated (very!) at times, but he has created something truly amazing and I know that any future projects he gets to do in Chief will be a breeze based on what he has gone through on this project. Maybe when the latest round of amendments are finished, Bob could post a pic of what he has achieved.

Edit...Delete Objects...Framing...Wall Framing. Can't select - are the relevant layers locked?

Alt+Q Resize about...Outer Surface Then change the wall definition and the walls will rebuild to the outside dimension.

Try the Auto Exterior Dimension Defaults and/or the Dimension to Exterior of Layer in the Wall Type Definition dbx.

Ah, I think what you mean is that your internal walls are connecting with the outer layer of the external walls. I am guessing that your external walls have their outer layer defined as the main layer. Walls want to connect to the main layer. You need to redefine the main layer of your external walls so that it an internal wall layer, not the external wall layer.

Sharon, I have it in the back of my mind that .pdf's, or more particularly, rotated .pdf's contained in a layout caused printing problems at some time. Maybe someone else can add more detail. Do you have .pdf's or rotated .pdf's in your layout?

You can do the fascia mount railing with 1 wall definition. No invisible walls needed. Define your railing wall definition with an additional external layer with Opening (no Material). This will offset the whole rail by the wall layer thickness. Check Generate on Low Platform (Rail Style...Build From...) Convert it to a no railing wall and drag the bottom down - you can't do that with a rail. Convert back to a rail. The main drawback of doing it this way is that you get a single corner post that would be difficult to support.

Joe, That is what I said back in post #6. Thanks for confirming.

Joe, On my system, they offset the pattern using a Custom Pattern File or Use Material Type as the Pattern Source.

Joe, If what you say is correct, then what do these Offset settings do?

Rob, Not quite correct. Assuming that you can find/create a suitable hatch pattern it is not too hard to locate/move the pattern in an elevation. Admittedly it is a little difficult to do it precisely - but you can get quite close - probably good enough for what you want. There is no point in using a hatched Polyline because you can't move the hatch pattern - it always relates to the origin. BUT, if you use a Wall Material Region and assign it a material with your hatch pattern, you can nominate the Horizontal and Vertical Offset for the hatch pattern. One problem though, this will change those offsets for that materials hatch pattern throughout the whole plan. So that if you use that material and it's hatch pattern in WMR one area, any changes to the hatch offsets will be reflected in other WMR using the same material. That's easy to overcome just by copying the material to a new name with different hatch offsets for each instance where you use it. Find or create the hatch pattern you need for the thin random tile pattern and the rest is easy. You should have no problems with sizing or offsetting using the standard brick pattern, stack pattern, etc. tiles. Don't forget that you can always change/add the hatch pattern for a material and then size and offset it as needed. You can easily add a hatch pattern to those materials that don't already have one. I am not sure if you need both the pattern and the texture to coincide, but it is possible to set this up.

I think you still have 2 floors there.

Alan, Wall definitions are stored in the plan. This includes the default template plan - which is really just another plan that loads on startup. Individual plan files can contain there own wall definitions including the ones that loaded with the plan and any that have been created or amended in the plan. You can also store wall definitions in the library that are then available in all plans once the library is open. You can amend wall definitions stored in the library as I indicated above. The beauty of storing wall definitions in the library is that if you add or amend wall definitions to the library, they are available to all plans which means you don't have to store them in your template plan. You can't store wall definitions in the Core Catalog. You need to store them in the User Catalog.

Check the Floor Structure for those rooms. You have 1/4" of Concrete over 4" of Fir Framing. That doesn't look correct to me. You still have a double slab in the garage.