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Mick, Why don't you do what you can and then post the plan which I will be able to open in X6.

rlackore has it right. Uncheck Automatic Width and manually set the railing width for the top rail and the bottom rail. Start with a Straight Deck Railing. Main layer is layer 2 - the original wall layer.

Mick, Nothing to do with File Locking. It's an X6 plan. You can't open any Chief plan in an earlier version. Ask some questions if you are having trouble.

OK, Easily fixed. In plan, I needed to draw the rails with cad (has everyone noticed the new Intersect/Join 2 Lines tool?) I created a new layer called Walls, HIDDEN RAILINGS and moved all the deck walls to that layer. Hid that layer in plan and displayed it in 3D. A bit of extra work, but tidies things up and only takes a couple of minutes.

Yup, I can confirm this behaviour, but I have only noticed it recently - maybe since the last update? The top of the LB moves up above the top of the screen. I can't grab it by the title bar to drag it back down, but if I grab the bottom of the dbx and resize it downwards, the top of the dbx moves back down onto the screen. It may have happened before, but I can't remember it happening.

I wouldn't purposely tease! - it's a time thing - I'm off to bed now. All done with railings. Briefly...add a layer to the railing wall definition and make it the same thickness as the newels and Insulation Air Gap or no Material. That spaces the railing out from the deck. You can't drag the bottom of a railing wall down. So start with a normal wall (or convert a railing back to a normal wall) and drag the bottom down. Change to a rail. Check Generate on Low Platform. Use invisible thin walls and break the railings near the corner and use a different railing for the corner pieces - which are really just the top rail. Probably better to have a look at the attached plan with the above in mind. My apologies for the metric thing. As usual, maybe not perfect for this or any other situations, but still demonstrates the flexibility and depth of Chief. PS. Ah...I just discovered a problem with this method. The railing in plan does not coincide with it's location in 3D - I will keep playing.

You do not automatically get floor openings just because you draw a stair. You need to create a stair "room" and designate it Open Below. Or you can select the stair and on the Edit toolbar, select Auto Stair, which will do a similar thing.

Is this a bit closer. Still done with railings - but getting harder!

M, Not necessarily so. Is this the sort of thing that you are after? This can be done automatically in Chief with railings.

Uncheck Select Room Before Wall in 3D?

Make sure temp dimensions are toggled on. In a Cross Section/Elevation view, select the wall. Click on the temp dimension and change it. Or, create a solid rail and enter the height in the Railing Height.

CA should work as you expected it to. If you change the material in a wall definition, it should change every instance of that wall in the plan. Can you set out exactly the steps you are going through?

gotchya.

Hey d dot, On your pic with the Scrollable List option checked, is it actually missing the vertical scrollbar on the right hand side of the Selection Panel, or is the scrollbar just cut off in your pic? Or is this a mac thing where it doesn't have a vertical scrollbar? It's hard to tell from your pic, although I assume you have a vertical scrollbar on the Selection panel with the Scrollable List option checked - like on the pic below.

When are you newbies going to learn to post a pic or plan !!!!

d dot, Please post a picture!!!!! How do you have your Library Browser set up - Vetical, Horizontal, Stacked...... Are you talking about the size of the Selection panel, the Preview panel....? Is it your setting in Preferences called Selection Pane View...Tiled To Fit Window (my best guess for better results - this should display all the items in a library folder ) or Scrollable List (are you seeing scroll bars in the Selection Panel - you need to scroll to see all the items in a library folder)? This will probably go on and on without resolution unless you post a pic or explain yourself more clearly!!!

I believe that what you mean by a "tray ceiling" is a flat ceiling with drop panels or bulkheads. What Chief is calling a "tray ceiling" is as pictured under the description in the help file. It is a flat ceiling in the middle of the room with the perimeter ceiling sloping down towards the walls and (more often than not) following the roof slope down. This shouldn't be confused with a TREY ceiling, which is, I believe, what you want. Do a search of the help file for "TREY ceiling" and see what pops up.

Perry, As far as I can tell, this is the only info available for a roof. Maybe Jerry can squeeze more info out.

OK, thanks d dot. Richards problem is still a weird one.

It all seems to be working for me. No tabbing to the Next button is required. Just click on the button. This is a weird one.

It looks like most of them are roof points. If you select a roof plane and open it's dbx, it will tell you the Ridge Top Height and Fascia Top Height. Any floor heights, you can get from the room's dbx. These heights are relative to Chief's zero floor level - which would normally be (but not always) your Level 1 floor level. You can then make the overall height calculation by adding the Ridge Top Height (or other height) to the floors actual height in relation to your site reference level.

OK, I can now see the "View Auto Save Content" thingy. It is not a button - it is text at the bottom of the reply text input box. It tells you when the last auto save was. Click it and a box opens that contains the saved content and asks if you want to restore it.

Yes, I get the auto save message. To get the rich text options, try clicking the little square in the top left hand corner of the reply message box toolbar. The help for this BB says that the type of editor can be configured in your Settings - but I can't find how to do it.

Andy, I think that you will find that it works like this: Talking about 2D plan view only - not 3D. With all the roof planes on level 1. Build roof framing and display framing on level 1. Select a roof plane and move to display one level up. The roof plane polyline displays on the next floor up, BUT the framing remains on the level 1 floor plan. Rebuild roof framing. The roof framing for the roof plane you moved up one floor, and now displays on the next floor's up floor plan. In 3D, of course, the display of the roof planes and roof framing stays on top the level 1 floor - it is only the 2D plan display that is affected by this tool.

Charlie, The image should be here: C:\ProgramData\Chief Architect Premier X6\Referenced Files\CorePlantFiles.zip#zip:Hedera-helix2.png To confirm, place the plant in a plan, open it's dbx and on the Image panel under General, you will find the path.