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Ok, usually when you pick a newel you go to the lib. and choose one or 5 different ones, wouldn't I have to associate a cad block for each on of those. not sure I follow how it automatic for all the different types of newels.

My update says it failed ,10 times, and everything is updated. I think MS is waiting for some driver, possibly for my SSD drive and Samsung's magic software that comes with it, but no way to know.

Yep, not if the beam has no fill and it also should be dotted. I just put those on a different layer that's dotted

I really don't want to limit myself to one type of newel and I really don't want to create 15 of them. I'm talking post to beam newels, they should also have a cross box.

Not talking about Deck posts, I'm talking Newels in railings in which I use several styles of them. Can't we get a check box for those also.

It would be nice to also have cross boxes on Newels in railings b/c I like to use a railing wall (posts to beam) in a lot of porches and patio covers.

POST A DRAWING OF WHAT YOU WANT HERE.

We always leave the existing sheathing and shear edge nail it at the existing wall or beam.

Use a tablet pen, my fingers are too big also

I think part of the problem is that if you happen to lose room definition, it will sometimes revert back to the defaults, possibly with you NOT knowing.

Chief just doesn't do any valley plates, automatically, the only way is to make them yourself, I would tell the builder to take a hike, if you want them, it's an extra charge to do it.

I would create a new floor system using the 2nd floor rooms involved. You might need to use room dividers to break the rooms up to get what you want. Chief will fill in the ceiling joists in the leftover parts of the garage. The math on heights need to be correct.

You can use a truss base even if you don't have trusses

We call it California tie-in. do it a lot here

I've seen some of his details that would be very difficult to model. He also does very large projects, not sure how chief would handle large projects, is the engine there?

did you use the truss base, look it up.

Jonny does some very nice stuff in other more powerful programs than Chief. I'm not sure its possible in Chief in it's current state.

Thanks guys, I think my point is , there really is no way to drop a separate ceiling into an existing space without a lot of fix up, even the room label ceiling heights are wrong.

Me too, and I already have my 2d details drawn ( have lots) I usually just bring a 2d detail up and modify it and save it as a new detail. very few cad lines if any, mostly for cover-up of sections ,but that is limited if the model is the best you can make it and clean.

You can also create a separate layer or Anno-set to send elevations to the layout using whatever line weight and color you want.

Ok, but my elevation lines are still in color, just can't send in full color. like a rendering

sorry, I don't remember exactly where

I don't know, it's automatic for me and always has been, its set up that way, do you have color on when you send it to the layout Try to have color on when sending. For me everything about color is on including the pdf print driver. It's only when I actually print to paper that I choose greyscale. Colors will automatically go to greyscale, depending on the color, your stuff will be lighter or darker.

no, not the way I do it. everything goes to the layout in color, then when you print to pdf ,you can decide then if you want color or grayscale.

Just going by what I read from Microsoft. Even the generic versions are not done yet and they released it early for back to school.