glennw

Most of your problems are caused by your Attic Wall type being incorrect. When you designate a raking ceiling, you see the Attic walls above the normal flat ceiling level. The last picture looks like you have drawn a manual raking ceiling. To eliminate the newel post from the railing, increase the Newels/Posts spacing until it is eliminated. You will get more accurate answers if you post the plan.

My best guess is that you have rotated the plan in layout (by rotating the Layout Box) and have the Rotate With Plan checked for the text. Better to rotate the plan in plan view.

When you buy a subscription to SSA and keep it current, don't forget that you will get the next version (X7) included.

Lew, "Invisible" has been a wall property as far back as I can remember.

Lew, What dbx's are you talking about?

Lew, What a lot of rubbish. A Room Divider wall is just another wall type with the invisible property checked. Nick, Invisible walls are still available - shouldn't be a problem.

You need to draw a railing wall and drag it under the stairs and check Follow Stairs. This should get you started. StairRailTest BACK.zip

Robert, I think it is because a Level Line Marker is designed to be used in plan to denote heights (thus the use of the # in the label to display the height on the Marker). With Transform/Replicate, you can move the Marker easily Relative to Itself, but not easily with Absolute Location.

I think the problem lies with your material definition for the basement floor. You have your flooring material defined as Concrete, but you have this Concrete material Type defined as a Framing material. Why do you have this defined as a framing material - try changing it to Concrete Material Type..

Bernie, If the problem is where the roof trusses are building out to the fascia line on the high end of the roof, then checking Energy Heel in the Roof Truss Specification dbx will give you just the top cord cantilevering from the external wall to the fascia. Like this:

I don't see any plans posted, just images. Post the plan file.

Perry, Not quite exact. It depends on your "Living Area To" setting in the Plan Defaults. You can choose either Main Layer or Surface.

I think the problem is that you have specified the cable rail in the wrong spot. In the Railing Specification dbx, you have specified the cable rail in Newels/Posts section - this is incorrect. You need to specify the cable rail on the Newels/Balusters panel...Panels and specify Panels on the Rail Style panel. Why do you have your stair rails drawn on the level 2 and displayed on level 1?

Why don't you post the plan so that others might see if there is a problem. My bet is that it has something to do with a room definition or the like where Chief calculates the Living Area to the centre of a wall (as designed).

Adam, Mull a sliding window above a fixed window. Or, Use a double hung and place 2 lites across in the top section only. No lites in the bottom section.

You shouldn't need custom muntins to do that. You can adjust the window component heights in the Window Specification dbx...General panel...Component Options...Bottom Component Size.

If your fascia is 35mm thick you will want it to run on the face of the brickwork bump outs, so, yes, I would make all the fascias 35mm wide.

Perry, As far as I know, the 2 items you can't copy are the Terrain and cameras.

You can't copy a terrain perimeter at all (even within the same plan) - it just pastes as a polyline. BUT what you can do is save the terrain perimeter to the library and then place it in another plan.

I don't believe so. I think you need to use the floor settings to do that.

Use some 3D trees from the library (they cast shadows, just like your image).

You need to move ALL your roof planes out to a 469mm o/h.

Do an Orthogonal Floor Overview. 3D...View Directions...Top View 3D...Rendering Techniques...Standard

If you go Preferences...General...Folders...and click All Program Paths...Show, it will give you the path to User Library Database File. Ah...that could be compromised by the fact that you had a hard disk crash and are looking on a backup. This is my path in Windows, you may need someone with a Mac to give you the address. C:\Users\Glenn\Documents\Chief Architect Premier X6 Data\Database Libraries

Time to stop guessing and post the plan.