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On opening your floor plan, I do not see the problem. One thing I did notice was that very small hip/valley on the upper roof. My advice would be to change the floor plan and/or roof to eliminate it so as to avoid any water penetration problems (and easier construction).

You can see the full list and change them for any object by double clicking the Accounting Code on the Formula column:

Eric, I believe David is talking about the Smallest Fraction setting.

Can you use something like this?

Uncheck Same Roof Height at Exterior Walls. Chief will move the Baselines out so that the overhangs will be the same - the default Roof Overhang. Before: After:

I don't think you will do that with the stair tool. I would use a curved (1/4 circle) Stacked Molding Polyline. Use rectangular moldings for the treads and risers spaced and offset. This is one I did a while back.

Alan, That was Perry who posted the link. Frameless glazing can be done with a solid glass panel railing. Newels have No Material assigned. Fine tune from there. I have been out of touch for a while but I think glass railings down here have to have a top rail - usually a small aluminium C section. In which case, just add a top rail.

I wholly concur with this statement. Only thing is..I would continue along with that advice and use Elevation Lines/Splines. It is so much easier to control the terrain with elevation lines and splines (along with Elevation Regions, etc) in lieu of points. What I usually do in some cases is print out the pdf and do my own interpolation of the levels - say at 1' intervals - with a pencil on paper. I then use that as a reference and draw elevation lines, or otherwise do it straight in the plan interpolating the lines as you go. Once you have the lines drawn quickly, it's not hard to edit them and drag them around as you fine tune them in relation to the spot levels and other Elevation Data. If it works out for you using elevation points - great, job done. Just use this advice as a backup in case you don't get the required results using points.

What about something simple like this?

I would firstly try placing a Room Divider wall running horizontal across the screen form where you want the walls to meet. Maybe post the plan so we know exactly what is going on.

This may get you going. Railing wall, solid panels, top rail, square newels... To keep it simple, I just used square newels but you could use an I beam with a little more effort.

Rob, No, not quite right. You can create an Orbital Path with a Perspective Floor overview, but it will include the roofs, ceilings, etc., if you click Yes on the dbx you show. So...you can overcome this short coming by using a layer set (or editing the layer set that the orbital camera uses - probably the Camera View Layer Set) that has the layers for those particular items set to not display.

Clinton, I don't understand what you are saying?

dbx = dialog box Double click an object or Open Object on the Edit toolbar to open an objects dbx. The place where you can change an objects properties. What are the "both" dimensions you want - do you want Real and HO scale rather than Projected and At Pitch? Why can't you dimension a roof plane - what is happening?

This should work... If you select a roof (say, by its hip) and open its dbx, go to the Selected Line panel. You can see both the Projected Length and Length At Pitch. Work out the ratio between the two and then apply that to a Unit Conversion similar to what you did previously with the scale. You should then be able to use the Primary and Secondary dimension formats and dimension roof planes showing both dimensions.

Do a Perspective Full overview. Make sure the Perspective Full Overview is the active window. Go 3D>Walkthroughs>Create Orbital Walkthrough Path (you don't get this option in a plan view). In plan view you should now have a full circular path around the model and the Walkthrough Preview window should be open. Open the Walkthrough Paths dbx>Camera panel>Walkthrough Camera Layer Set and hide the layers you don't want like roof, ceilings, ridges, etc. Or...create a new layer set and use that.

If you can get hold of a copy of Chief X10, it had a handy Print Model tool that may help with what you are doing.

I have requested custom door jamb profiles previously. Please send in a suggestion if it is something you would like to see.

Do you want number of sheets or square feet?

It looks to me like you have the upper walls designated as Foundation walls which provides a footing.

Even though the problem is solved this is just for your own edification so that you will know next time it happens. It looks to me like the drawing didn't change to metric - it change to decimal feet. This is caused by user error by going into Number Style (bottom left of the dbx) and selecting decimal feet. It then restored to the default on a reboot because it is a per session setting. No need to reboot to get it back to the format you want - open the Dialog Number/Angle Style dbx (by clicking Number Style) and change the selection.

A bit hard to tell from the pic, but they could be a Fleur-de-lis. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/fleur-de-lis-symbolism-and-meaning

Remove the molding from the room and then use a manual Molding Polyline located to suit.

It might be easier to use a Molding Polyline with a circular molding. Very easy to resize, stretch, change shape, etc.

Mark, Well done with the Style Palette - I forgot about that.