glennw

There are various "Ironwork" fences available. What style are you looking for?

Chopsaw, Draw order seems to be working here OK. Although I am not sure what you are talking about with regard to the fill.

This one was done using a Material region with the texture given a transparency

Draw your polygon for the whole roof area on the right hand side of the ridge (twice the area you want). Make sure that Midpoint Snaps are toggled on - it's easier if it is the only snap toggled on. Grab the top side of the polygon and drag it down and snap it to the midpoint on the side of the original polygon. Or... Draw the polygon twice the size as described above. Select the top side of the polygon. Select the temp dim and after the size type in "/2" - without the quotation marks. The polygon will reduce to half the size of the original polygon. This will eliminate the top half of the polygon. If you want to eliminate the bottom half, select it by the bottom side and divide by 2. There are probably several other good ways as well.

If you end up with a dimension that is not perpendicular to the lines, you can always use Make Parallel/Perpendicular on the dimension line.

Alan, Depending on the situation, there may be alternatives to what you are trying to do. Can you explain in more detail or draw a quick picture of what you are trying to do.

Place all your images into a single folder and sub folders if you like. 3D...Materials...Convert Textures To Materials. Select a folder and Chief will convert all the textures in that folder ( and sub folders) to your library in one go. It will also create the materials with the same folder heirachy as the original textures.

Are you aware of the 2 roof settings Retain Manually Drawn Roof Planes and Retain Edited Automatic roof Planes? Are you trying to mix manual and auto roof planes?

Why not set up the roof defaults to do the whole roof automatically? You can break the wall in 2 locations - one on either side of the proposed gable. Mark that section of wall as Full Gable. If you have auto roofs on, it will build the gable.

Or you can use Terrain...Feature...Terrain Hole if you want to start from scratch.

Open the terrain dbx and uncheck Hide Terrain Intersected by Building

That happens when you build the terrain on the same floor level as the cantilever. There are several things things you can do. Build the terrain on a different floor than the cantilever. Uncheck Hide Terrain Intersected By Building. Uncheck Hide Terrain Intersected By Building and use a manually drawn Terrain Hole.

Pedro, Most of your problems are very simple and are due to your unfamiliarity with the program. You just need to get more practice and think like Chief Architect! You need to drag the rear wall into the corner a bit further. Select the basement room, open the dbx, and on the Structure panel, select Floor Under This Room. Open up the room dbx, change the angle, but up at the top of the Deck panel, check Automatically Regenerate Deck framing.

Select the Cad Block in plan view on the third floor and open Transform/Replicate...Move...Z Delta. Enter either an Absolute or Relative To Itself height for the block.

Select the symbol. Open the Symbol Specification dbx - (the chair and pencil icon). 2D Block panel Check Generate Block

Yes. For a roof or closed polyline, grab the break point and drag it along and snap to a corner or break point. Or you can use the Intersect/join 2 Lines tool. Walls are a little different, you will need to manually delete any unwanted wall sections. Or, if it is a colinear wall you can use the drag/snap method.

Suppliers like Lysaghts have libraries of things like Colorbond roofing. The paint companies have libraries, brick companies, roof tile companies...... depends what you want.

Edward, There is a setting in Preferences to change the toolbar button size that requires a relaunch, but as far as I know that has nothing to do with the text size you are talking about.

Draw your 2D using cad to represent the socket. Select all the cad and Make Cad Block. You can open Cad Block Management and it will be there. Rename it as you want. Place an outlet in plan. Select it and use Open Symbol - NOT Open Object. Go to the 2D Block panel. Your cad block will be listed there - select it. Save it to the library for future use or create a new toolbar button for it for fast access - look up Place Library Object.

Doesn't that depend on the current dimension style default?

For plain text you can zoom the text in and out in the preview pane using the mouse wheel. I don't think you can change it in the text entry pane. You can also make the preview pane bigger if needed and zoom all. With Rich Text you can do it to the text itself with the % scrollbox. Use Rich Text instead of plain text?

Andy, Yeah, Paddington and Manly are still there although they have probably changed a bit over time. I don't know how old you are, but you weren't born at Crown Street were you? Long gone now though. I am just up the coast from Manly at Avalon. The added benefit of only adding cad in the elevation itself is that if you move the layout box, all the added cad moves with it - unlike if you draw the cad on layout.

Just a small tip in regard to cad edits on elevation views. I make it a habit to add cad to the actual elevation and delete cad in the layout elevation. At least that way you will not lose the cad you added to the actual elevation view.

Yes, a 3D Molding Polyline is a CLOSED polyline right from the get go. Either do what Chop says or start with a 3D Molding Line instead of the 3D Molding Polyline

Bill, You seem to be doing so far. The area between the floors is not solid. What you are seeing is the OSB (in elevation) on the external wall where it runs down below floor level to cover the floor structure. If you don't want to see forever in cross section/Elevation view, use the Backclipped Cross Section camera. Chop, You just beat me. You can also turn on the Back Clip After setting in the Cross Section camera and it will change the camera to a Backclipped Cross Section camera.