glennw

Firstly, I think you need to clean up the geometry and get things accurate. Your cad guide, walls and stairs don't appear to be snapped to each other correctly. The joining of the stairs to other stairs is controlled by the Allow Rap setting. The extension of the stairs at each side is controlled by the Winders setting. But...to get the winders setting to work, the stairs have to be in a room So you need to create an invisible room. But....I can get the winders to build on one side, but not both.

Firstly, I think you need to clean up the geometry and get things accurate. Your cad guide, walls and stairs don't appear to be snapped to each other correctly. The joining of the stairs to other stairs is controlled by the Allow Rap setting. The extension of the stairs at each side is controlled by the Winders setting. But...to get the winders setting to work, the stairs have to be in a room. So you need to create an invisible room. But....I can get the winders to build on one side, but not both.

I believe that Dermot is asking if any of the upper cabinets are actually base cabinets.

Create an Open Below room on the upper floor, around the stairs, with invisible walls.

I think your big problem is going to be finding someone still running version X6 - let alone on a mac. That is a very old version.

Something like this? It started out as a bifold door, converted to a symbol, rotated, etc, etc.

Do the library filters apply to the user library?

Adding to what Eric said. You can leave auto roofs toggled on (if it is building the roof correctly), and check Ignore Top (2nd) Floor in the Build Roof dbx after you have added the 2nd floor.

Probably too late now, so just a heads up for next time. It is easy to do this sort of thing with the Regular Polygon tool. There is also a similar tool for the walls.

What is it that you want differently that the auto bay window doesn't provide. Are you aware that you can access each window individually and you then have full control of the windows properties? This is an auto bay window.

It sounds like you can't see the widows when you click the tool icon? If so go here and click Reset Side Windows

Window/Door Specification>Label>Label Options>Height/Width

Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties>Object Snaps>Intersections?

You should be able to use the fact that we can place 2 doors in the one location. That coupled with the Show Open option for 3D Display. You then need to place the 2 doors in the one location and place them on separate layers so that you can toggle one of them off in the different views.

You can't specify a height for a Raised/Lowered Region, or Flat Region - they modify the existing terrain height data and do not control it. If you want to specify a height, use an Elevation Region instead. I very rarely (never) use terrain modifiers - I always use Elevation Regions.

As far as I know, this is incorrect. As long as auto roofs is toggled on, you can change the roof info in any wall at any time and the auto roof will reflect those changes. I don't understand why you are saying that you have to start with the lowest pitch. Am I missing something?

Yes, you can only have one terrain in a plan file. Make a symbol of one of the terrains - to the original levels. Then the final terrain and landscaping can be the dynamic terrain.

I don't have time to have a detailed look at the moment, but you may need to also create a room under the cantilever in the sunroom to get more control. This may be as well as, or instead of the room on the upper floor.

Rene, Not that I am saying it is the best way, but... It is very easy to change the cutoff angles on the top/bottom of a 3D molding polyline. You can control the cutoff angles by adding an extra section to the end of the polyline and uncheck Molding On Selected Edge. You then rotate the end sections of the polyline to give you the cut off angle you want. The cutoff angle is half the angle of the polyline. Here is a 3D molding polyline with a circular molding attached. Tip: It is a lot easier to manipulate 3D molding polylines in a cross section than the 3d view shown here.

Use a Cylinder primitive. You can easily get the top/bottom horizontal by using solid subtraction.

posting a plan would help

Not a bug and it is behaving in a totally expected way. That is how I new what to do - not so much by the invisible walls themselves, as gene said - but by the room they create.

You need to create a room on the upper floor and define the cantilevered area with invisible walls. You can then prevent any changes in the sunroom on the lower floor from changing the height of the main room.

If you are going to post a video, please do some narration to explain what is going on. It is just too hard to follow the cursor without narration.

I am on a mac so things might work a bit differently for you. You can access the color chooser and get the RGB values from within Chief. In a 3D view, select Adjust Material Definition tool (the rainbow tool) and select any object. Open it's dbx and click on Material Color. Your Windows color chooser will open. There will be an eye dropper somewhere there that will allow you to select a point on the screen. This will then display the RGB values. This works pretty well anywhere you need to select a color on the screen - places like choosing a color in the layer properties, dbx, etc. Or...if you just want the RGB value of the Chief material without opening the color chooser dbx, just hover the pointer over the Material Color box, and the RGB values will display as a tooltip. This also works pretty well also in all cases where you need select an objects color. This is what it looks like on a mac: