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I don't think that you can draw a roof plane lower than about Chiefs zero floor height by default. Although you can draw it on level 0, in 3D it will display at about the level 1 floor height. Select the roof plane and use Transform/Replicate...Move to move it to the desired height.

Larry, I wonder if you typed incorrectly or you actually meant what you wrote - huh, I assume you did. In which case..... You don't actually open another layout in the same Chief session, you open another layout in a second instance of Chief. So...instead of trying to Ctrl+Open Layout, you need to Ctrl+click the Chief shortcut, or however you open Chief. Once the second instance of Chief is open, you can open another layout. The process is different on a Mac. I hope I am not stating the obvious, but I know that sometimes the simplest things are missed.

Mick, No, didn't use cad views or details. Just a manually drawn 3D Molding Polyline. Pedro, You have been using the wrong tools. A 2D Molding polyline will only allow you to draw the line in a single 2D plane, if you want to be able to draw the line in more than a 2D plane, you need to use a a 3D Molding Polyline. Be warned that they can sometimes get a bit weird to edit, depending on what view you are in.

If I understand the prolem, you want to have each molding on it's own molding line. You are then having problems when you want to select a particular molding line because they are all drawn on top of each other, in the same location, in plan and 3D. You have drawn the molding lines and used the vertical offset to determine the height of the moldings. Doing this will leave all the molding lines in the same location and it is then hard to select the one you want. You can use Tab to change the selection, but you still do not know which molding you have selected. First off, no need to use a 3D molding line. Just use a normal 2D molding polyline. I think the best thing to do is not to use the vertical offset for the molding. Instead, change the height of the molding line and make it's vertical offset zero. This will make it very easy to identify which molding you have selected by using a 3D view. But, unless you really want 3 seperate molding lines - one for each molding, it is much easier to use a single molding line and apply the 3 moldings to that molding line. Then, when you open the molding line dbx, you have full control of all the 3 moldings in the one dbx.

If I read this correctly, do you want the gutter profile to run up the gable roof like this?

And what about the over simplified door jambs that is the only one possible. We need the ability to define a door jamb profile with a cad profile or molding shape. We need things like a simply rebated jamb...double rebated..or any shape that we want to define.

Scott, I have had another look at your fence problem. I believe it is being caused by your floor definitions in the garage. There seems to be some conflicting information with the garage floor in the foundation and the garage floor on level 1. Can you tell me what the various floor/ceiling absolute heights are meant to be for the garage and the foundation room below. What is absolute height for top of stemwall meant to be - zero? Is the garage slab a mono slab provided from the floor below? I assume that you built the slab/footings manually?

Scott, It has something to do with the fence abutting the garage wall. If you pull the fence away from the wall, the Aspen things go away. I am off to bed now but will play a bit more if I get time tomorrow.

Scott, Ken is correct, the material is Aspen and it is assigned to the interior and exterior faces of the wall. The fences are obviously screwy. If I uncheck Follow Terrain, they disappear off the floor plan.

You could also use Wall Coverings on the external room, but you won't get the true 3D effect as with MR.

I just read these posts very quickly as I have to run out the door. There is a setting in 3D View Defaults called Always Display Active Cameras. I'm not sure that it applies in your situation or not - but maybe worth a look. "Check Always Display Active Cameras to turn on the display of active camera symbols, even when the “Cameras” layer is turned off. When unchecked, active camera symbols obey the layer setting."

Mick, Materials are still counted in the Ml even if they have a 0.00" thickness in the wall definition I believe that the wall layer thickness has no connection to the materials defined thickness.

You can always control the top and bottom heights of a staircase directly in the dbx without any reference to floor or landing heights.

Can't we set the elevation of the terrain to anything we want? I still don't 100% understand what is being requested or what the problem is.

When you say "benchmark elevation", I assume you are talking about the zero height level as indicated when you generate an auto storey pole dimension. So, it seems like you need to change your stem wall as required. Before generating the auto storey pole dimension, open up the Auto Storey Pole Dimension default dbx. Go to the Locate Elevations panel and make sure Elevation Reference is set to Grade Level Marker. Then, just above, you can set the height of the Grade Level Marker. Or play around with these settings to get what you want.

You can't change Chief's hard coded floor designations. ie, Foundation, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor, Third Floor,......, Attic. But just because a floor is named 1st or 2nd Floor doesn't mean it can't be used as a basement. What is the "floors list" you refer to? The Project Browser? If so, the client will never see this on the layout sheets. The only time they could see this is if they were looking at Chief on your computer

Your hardware should be more than adequate for your project.

Or, you could probably use the "Display On Floor Above" tool.

I am not at my computer, so Iam guessing. Cant you select the line and Add To Library in the Edit toolbar? Also, once you use a line type in a drawing it automatically gets added to the dropdown line type list box.

Larry, I have posted in the past on how to do this type of railing. Almost exactly the same. It involves using a single molding line with attached mouldings for the horizontal members and a 3D molding symbol for the pickets. Try searching under my name. I am away from my computer until the weekend, so if you haven't figured it out by then, let me know. I remember that when you are creating the 3D molding symbol, you need to create the 3D picket itself and also a blank "spacer".

Use a Distributed Path instead of Multiple Copy? Just a guess as I am not at my computer.

I would be looking at the mouse instead of the plan.

Did you create at least 1 closed room and then the Plan Footprint before opening Cad Detail Management? If so, can you go through the steps you used. If you don't have a closed room, you should receive an error message. Posting the plan might help. Drawing the lot has nothing to do with the process.

That looks like a user library to me. I don't think you can hide a user library in the library filter.

Creating a Plan Footprint does so in a Cad detail window - not in your plan view. When you created the Plan Footprint, a Cad Detail window should have opened with your Plan Footprint displayed. To check, go to Cad...Cad Detail Management. There should be an entry called Plan Footprint 1 which you can open.