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Or...Reverse Plan

A Carriage Return is invisible and adds a blank line - pretty normal behaviour if you are not displaying the formatting characters (which you can't in Chief).

Chopsaw, If it was in a text box, you would see the blank line in the text box. No more guessing for me until there is a plan to work off.

Why can't you just add a molding to the room. The molding will follow the curved wall. Not hard to create a custom molding to do the wainscoting and any trim in one go.

Go to Tools>Project Information>Client Information, and make sure that you don't have a carriage return after the Street text (or any of the other entry boxes). I can duplicate your problem by placing a carriage return after the zip code in the Street text.

Can you post a simple plan?

Or you can display the layout box scale as a label by using %box_scale% macro.

You have the settings correct - making the wall a Bearing Wall and Create Wall/Footing Below. You just need to Build foundation and the footing will build in the foundation. The wall will look like a normal wall on level 1 and you will have a wall/footing in the foundation. Unless there is a pressing reason not to, I would always leave Automatically Build foundation toggled on.

I bet if you posted a plan which displayed the above problems someone here can guide you with solutions as it sounds to me like thee are easily avoidable problems and are not normal Chief behaviour.

You can download the Chief X8 Viewer from the Chief website. This will open the old plans and save them in the new .plan and .layout formats. From memory, it will do multi-floors in one go - ie, open one floor and Chief will also open the other floors automatically and save all the associated floors into the new .plan file.

That is a symbol from the library. Resize it as needed. What type of 2D drawing do you want - plan, elevation......? I am not going to do a video as there is plenty of information regarding the production of a 2D drawing. You will need to do a bit of homework and find out how the program works.

Have a look in Coronado Stone>Irregular Shaped Stones>Creek Rock and River Rock. For those that are not aware, after doing a search and finding some textures, you can locate the textures in the library structure and find out the name of the Catalog by right clicking on a texture and select Show In Browser. Colorado, Rio Grande and Yakima can be found in the Eldorado Stone>Stone>River Rock. River Rock-Multi and River Rock-White are in Chief Core Catalogs>Materials>Landscaping and Roadways>Decorative Rock and Gravel.

There are Atrium Window symbols in the library that MAY help. They have fairly restricted configurations though.

Larry, Just for your information as it appears that you are sorted. If you open the ChiefSiding.pat file you will find a couple of B&B definitions that look like this: ;; CHIEFSIDING.PAT COPYRIGHT(C) 2003, ART(R), INC. *167-SIDG_8-Brd-n-Bat 90, 0,0, 0,8 90, 2,0, 0,8 *168-SIDG_12-Bd-n-Bat 90, 0,0, 0,12 90, 2,0, 0,12 These are probably the easiest types of hatch patterns to create There have been posts in the past that detail how to create .pat files, or there are plenty of places on the web. If the above are not what you want, they are easily modified with a plain text editor to get what you want. ChiefSiding.pat

I am in Sydney and can work interactively through Skype if that is any help.

I don't understand what you mean when you say "I un-mulled all the windows in an entire home". How did you mull them in the first place? You can't mull windows in different walls, so you must have done something else. You can either select all the windows in the plan (various methods to do that) and change them all at once, or you may be able to change all the windows at once by changing the window defaults. You would need to explain in more detail about the wall junctions - what are you doing when they change? You may not have the correct wall definitions in the first place so that the junctions build correctly. It is only in limited cases that you need to change the wall junctions.

OK, I see that it must be my old template plan that isn't displaying a Patio as a room type. ...not to be confused with Room Function. The Patio room has a Function called Slab.

"Patio" it is a custom room type that someone has created. It's function has been defined as a "Slab" room. Maybe that is why you can't find any information on that room type? These are the OOB room types.

I don't think Chief has a default Patio room type. You can find out about room types by do a help search for.......Room Types and Functions

Can you select Add New?

I think you either need to reduce the roof height of the front porch. reduce it's width, or reduce it's pitch so that the ridge will clear the upper floor window. I would also adjust the depth of the covered porch on the left so that the hip meets the upper floor corner - but that is being very pedantic. Roof done automatically:

Are you drawing an Elevation Line behind the retaining wall with the appropriate height? I never use a Terrain Retaining Wall, I use a Terrain Break and then draw my wall manually (it doesn't have to be a retaining wall). I always draw an Elevation Line just behind the Terrain Break at the appropriate height and one in front of the Terrain Break at the lower height. A Terrain Retaining Wall is a normal wall with a Terrain Break incorporated. More often than not, when using a retaining wall, the tops and bottoms will be broken into too many segments which then makes it hard to edit the wall top and bottom shapes. Post a plan for better help.

If you are doing auto roofs (which I would recommend), try making the open end porch railing wall a High Shed/Gable Wall. It looks like you may have it set as a Full Gable. Or...to make things easier, you could post the plan.

In that case, better off sticking with what you have got because learning any piece of new software will entail downtime.

You need to use a Glass Panel door style. On the General panel of the door specification dbx.