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Bill, A good way to get familiar with the shortcuts is to look at the tooltips as your cursor runs over a toolbar button or menu item - the tool tips give a description of the tool and the shortcut. Or better yet make the shortcuts so logical that you really don't have to remember them (as in my previous post). It's really not that hard to run things from shortcuts and turn off the display of the toolbars altogether.

Rich, I think the default shortcut for Camera Spin is Ctrl+Alt+S. ( you need 3 hands and a Twister mat do execute shortcuts like that) I use the simpler SX. X6 makes it a lot easier to use shortcuts because they can now be sequential key presses (1 to 4, 2 is ideal) unlike the previous simultaneous key presses which were really a pain to use (they are still available). This now means that shortcuts can be a lot more logical - which in turn means that you don't have to put as much effort into remembering them - take a best guess and you are probably right. Like: ZA: Zoom All ZI: Zoom In AD: Active defaults CS: Capture Screen CC: Current Cad Layer LD: Layer Defaults RL: Reverse Layers etc. etc. Remember that these are 2 letter SEQUENTIAL key presses - not simultaneous. I use a few 3 letter shortcuts along with a few of the default simultaneous shortcuts because I usually don't use then anyway and I haven't got around to changing them yet.. Anyone who grew up with Generic Cad will be familiar with this feature and will know how easy it is to use. I have attached my hotkeys list which is still a work in progress. You can import a hotkey list. I am happy to share mine if anyone is interested.

It depends a lot on the structure - is it only one floor, how did you draw the wall, etc? My best guess: You dragged the wall up from the floor. Leave the wall as a normal wall - don't pull it up from the floor. Make it Invisible. Chief will take care of the rest. If not - post the plan.

Christina, Are you looking in a plan view or rendered 3 view? You don't get a Default sun in plan, only a 3D rendered view.

Here is a stretchable downpipe that I have been using for years. It may be of some use. You can add more stretch planes if you need them. I think this was an older Chief symbol that I added stretch planes to. If you use it and stretch it, you can regenerate the 2D block.

M, You aren't dragging the one camera from inside to outside or visa versa are you?

M, I can't explain why the Default Sun won't stay toggled off. It stays toggled off for me. Can you post a plan in which this happens? Or, try this. Open the Adjust Lights dbx and select the Default Sun. Click Adjust (bottom left corner). Turn the Intensity down to zero. This has the same effect as turning the Default Sun off.

Lew, If you toggle off the Default Sun, you can save it to your template plan so that it will be the default.

Toggle Sunlight DOES toggle between day and night. Toggle Sunlight is not the same as turning off the Default Sun. 2 different settings that give 2 different results. Why can't you turn off the Default Sun?

Lew, Just turn off the Default Sun to get the effect that you want.

Bob, Joe is on the right track - it is shading from the default sun. In a 3D view, go 3D...Lighting...Adjust Lights. Uncheck Default Sunlight. If your scene is too dark, go 3D...3D View Defaults and turn up Daytime Ambient. The problem with turning off the default sun and losing the auto shading is that you get no definition of the same color on different planes. The means that you won't see any edges where 2 planes with the same material meet.

Well then, that's your problem. The gable wall is on the upper floor and won't display with the Floor Camera - which will only display items on the floor the camera is on. You need to use the Full Camera and not the Floor Camera.

It works OK on my machine. Maybe something you are doing wrong. Post a plan?

Are you using the Floor Camera to generate the internal view looking back at the main house?

Gene, Framing the ceiling planes should work. It would help if you posted a plan.

Jonathan had the correct answer - it's your wall definition.

You should be able to create a new anno/layer set with all the layers set to a line weight of 1. Use the normal anno/layer set for the layout and the line weight 1 layer set for the plan view. You can use different anno/layers sets for layout and plan. Make sure you leave Line Weights toggled on.

You just need to drag the barge gables out to line up with the main roof fascia.

Are you closing the plan and/or opening a new plan at any stage in the process?

Apply the same tile material to the Rail on the Material panel.

For auto built roofs, you set the roof pitch in the Roof panel of the wall's dbx that the roof is built off.

Looks to me like you have railing walls designated as No Rail. What you are seeing is the Newels/Posts. You can turn these off on the Newels/Balusters panel by setting the Width to zero. Or make the railing wall Invisible.

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Draw the top profile you want and save it to the library as a molding. Use a straight half wall. Rails panel. Select Profile...Top Rail. Select the previously saved molding. In this example I just used a standard fireplace surround molding from the library as an example.

OOB more commonly means the settings that are shipped with a fresh install of the program (these are usually called factory defaults) which may not be the same as New Plan. A New Plan opens your default template plan - not the OOB settings. If you go to Preferences...Reset Options, you can set preferences back to the factory defaults or OOB settings.