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My guess is that you did not select the wall in the 3D view. I think you selected the room instead, and then deleted the room. Go to Preferences>Architectural and check Select Wall Before Room in 3D. Try selecting one wall. Or you can use the tab ket to swap between the selected room and the wall.

What do you mean by this? On one side only...of what? Do you mean a newel offset to one side of a railing? Do you mean like this?

You can do this using Winders. The trick is that you need the stairs to be contained in a room (invisible walls) for winders to work - including a very thin wall at the join line between the flights. Are you aware that if you do the stairs following your attached sketch, the treads on the sides will be smaller than the centre treads because you have made the join line at 90deg to the building. To make the treads the same size on the centre flight and side flights, the join line needs to bisect the angle between the stairs (as I have done on the left hand side). The right hand side is as per your sketch.

Molding Polyline?

Go to Preferences>General>Folders> Under All Program Paths, click Show. Scroll down to Preferences Folder and click Show In Finder. You should see the .ini files for all your Chief versions. Foe each Chief version you should see Chief Architect Premier X11.ini and Chief Architect Premier X11 Dialog Sizes.ini Do you have finder set to show hidden file extensions?

The quick and easy way which may give you what you want is to select one of the walls that form the box and designate it a No Room definition wall. Then drag the bottoms of the box walls up in a 3D view.

You should be aware that with the OOB defaults, if you left click and drag the Back Clipped Cross section camera, you will get a Vector View. If you right click and drag, you will get a Standard View.

Newell, What are the details of the 1 hour party wall. Probably best if you create a new wall type for the party wall and then repost the plan.

Chopsaw, You can certainly create a custom unit and have it available in a Units dropdown. Is that what you are asking? Are you needing to dimension with a greater fractional than 1/128”?

That sounds like an Elevation Line or spline to me. An elevation line is really just a series of elevation points at about 600 centres which is much easier to control than a series of unconnected points.

You probably didn't do what I said. Did you select the elevation data as well as the terrain perimeter?

Cut and Paste (Hold Position) the Terrain and elevation data from floor 1 to floor 2. In doing so, you will lose your terrain definition, but the terrain polyline will still be there. Select it and Convert To a Terrain Perimeter. All your other terrain information should still work.

Yes, this is correct. Roads stay level across their width when placed in a sloping terrain.

What I do is make my Terrain perimeter larger than my plot and then use the Terrain feature tool to draw my plot. You can then place these road objects outside the plot area.

I am not sure about windows, but on a mac, I don't think you can associate a .dwg file with Chief because the .dwg file has to be imported into Chief, not opened in Chief.

Or, click on your picture in the top left of the Chieftalk page. On the right hand side of the line that contains Content Count, date joined and last visited, click See My Activity. That will list everything posted by yourself.

The main thing to remember is that you need to specify a framing material to the main framing layer of the wall. You need to create a new wall type that either uses the standard Fir Framing material (you then need to use the stud configuration mentioned below), one of the included Fir Stud framing materials (which have stud configurations included), or a custom stud framing material (in which you can specify your stud details). When you auto built the framing you can also uncheck Use Wall Framing Material and then specify a custom stud thickness and spacing - but this will apply to all the stud walls in your plan. You can select a wall or walls and build their framing on an individual basis by using the Build Framing For Selected Objects tool on the Edit toolbar. The stud depth is controlled by the main wall layer that has the framing material specified for it.

Chopsaw, Yes, I can see that I probably got the directions the wrong way on the gable and eaves. Same technique still applies though. Sometimes I try and do things too fast.

You could use a very thin rectangular frieze and apply the rotated material. This method keeps the frieze attached to the roof plane which can makes things a bit easier than having a seperate ceiling plane, psolid, sofffit...etc.

Have you tried using a 3D Box primitive?

Johnny, A couple of alternatives spring to mind. 1. Create a new line style using text in the style - use Character Map to select a square character. Or, that may not work, try: 2. Use a Distribution Path and distribute a square filled cad polyline block that you saved to the library. This is a Distribution Path with which you have control of spacing, size, rotation, etc.:

That's the whole idea. You should be able to build that roof automatically and then if you make any plan changes, the roof will rebuild to suit.

You should be able to do that as part of the window. Go to the Shutters panel on the window dbx and have a look. PS. Ah, Dermot just beat me to it.

Is there any reason why you are not building that roof automatically? It could save you a lot of work. This took about 3 minutes (although it may not be exactly what you want) and every roof plane joins properly. I was under the impression that the OP wanted a full roof return. Easy either way.

The roofs over the garage are not identical. Check the settings on the general panel and note the differences like the fascia top height. An easy way to fix this is delete one of the roofs and then Copy, Reflect About Object. Select the centre of the garage or closet to copy reflect about. You may have to then Join Roof Planes at the ridge. As soon as both roofs are the same, the roof returns will work. A good way to tell if there are any differences between objects is to multiple select the objects and open the dbx. Any settings that are different will say No Change, or, if it is a check box setting, the check box will have a horizontal line instead of a check mark.