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Porch header, you can use a railing wall (post to beam to do that.

I don't use it either, but I do know it works on what your default settings are for walls , doors and windows and some other defaults, so those need to be set first, especially wall thickness. Chief sinces wall thickness and gives you the closest one from your defaults. Even after you convert there is a lot of fix up, you might as well just trace it, to me its faster.

Some times the rebate and foundation take extra time to generate.

I like to shut down every night.

Tracing is a good way to go.

I create a special elevation layerset for sending elevations to the layout, that way every time you re-send or change the layout view it's automatic and consistent in every view sent. In that layerset just use the line weights you want for windows, roofs, trim, doors. Highly customizable. You can also set plants to a light color so it doesn't choke a scene. Some of the old videos are wrong for X8, if you use live, you won't get any lineweight options. To get lineweight options you must use plot lines.

If you don't want to see it just put it on a layer like, walls no show, and turn it off

That was one of the top new Chief tools invented.

You had it correct" disconnect selected edge"

If that balcony is a room , just uncheck the ceiling and add a ceiling material in the roof plane DBX.

Larry, not sure what you are saying. Pdf's never update, you have to re-print them. I like using on demand as chief suggests, then you just have to hit one button to update everything in the layout that is set that way.

There are two places to adjust the rendering technic's , one in the camera defaults for new camera views ,and one in the 3d tab / rendering techinec's for existing camera views. you can also change some settings by selecting the actual camera and open that

there is a setting for that.

To fix you can use the "Edit wall intersection" tool b/c a footing is also a wall

I don't have any problems using t-111 over shear walls, you will of course need to shear the whole wall or furr it out to match. Not low end around here.

Depending on the type of t-111 you will have 2 lines or 1, but they are in the lib. You can also change the pattern line color to black to show them better in standard view.

try file /import/ room planner. Your file must have been sent to Chief's cloud from planner to work.

Some siding materials don't come with patterns but you can always add patterns using the edit material button. You can also use a different material that has the pattern included.

Try to keep it all live and not use so much cad lines, Chief was designed to work that way. When you draw something, everything is updated automatically and no fixing. You do need to know how to create a very clean model though. Keep learning all the time, I still do.

Get the fastest "CPU"(many cores) and best video card you can get, even a Surface can handle Chief.

In X8 with automatic updates, sections and elevations are fully automatic, and all I have to do is hit one button and every view sent to layout updates, how easy is that. you can even set it to fully automatic so you don't even need to hit that button.

I always keep all my plans, section's and elevations live, I think that is much faster than generating cad details. I have no problem with any situation except battered walls if needed but I haven't come across that yet and if so I would tell them to go elsewhere for that.

You might just want to use that NVidia card.

Try this, I believe it's the same in X7