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I have to move the sun all around the model as I create the different views, I thought you wanted interior only. That's all different. I have asked Chief to use an automatic sun to light every view as needed

Bill, invisible walls won't have the beam on top. I guess you could just add the beam seperately

we really should have a setting for that so everyone knows what it does.

Use the floor material region for flooring, it works great for that.

Joe, I can't seem to select a room in section view. I use back clipped sections. How do you do it.

If you place an opening in railing it will place a newel post at each end. Use post to beam and adjust beam size. If you place them correctly it will work. You can also just place the post separately as a symbol. For that you need to change the newel to 1/16" and it will go away. I do both depending on the situation.

Joe, you have done so much with macro's, its fantastic. Thank you very much. I don't really understand your conversations with Gerry about the inter-workings using macro's but I do know that it has benefited everyone here, and for the future of macro's in Chief.

You can make walls temporally, no room def. to get what you want.

I actually use 4" for 1/4" text and 3 1/2 for labels, tell them to get glasses.

I would still build real Chief walls and pull up as needed or just set the ceiling room height as needed. In real life that would have to be maybe 12" blocks at least. The roof will attach to that and things like electrical and wall material regions will work. I always say model it as it would be built. If your way works then why not.

Yep, Framing is a kind of, "Let's try that and see if it works " kind of thing, especially the bearing lines, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't and sometimes just moving them works It bugs me too.

I don't ever use sub-fascia's as a real piece of lumber, I just use them to adjust the depth of the overhang rafter but it doesn't work on hips and ridges for some reason.

Joe, have you ever found a way to use room labels in section view?

I wouldn't go with windows 10 until it's been out for 6 months b/c of bugs.

Doug yep, that got me in the past

Not for me the interior will still poke through the ceiling and the hips still poke also.

Funny thing, I've never been taught your way. maybe it comes from the day of hand drawing and we just couldn't show every joist. Now we can ,even though I think the framers won't even follow the plan exactly. Will it work if the joists are turned off?

Add some light sources anywhere you want to the plan views. They are invisible, adjustable, and you can add as many as you want, to lighten any view of the plan, but only 8 per room max. I might have 30 in a plan

Thanks Joe, but I think the arrows really should go in the direction of those jousts and not perp. to them. I'll try to see of I can figure a way to do it. I really don't like to show the joists on the plan even if they are grayscale.

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If you build it out of real block walls , you can insert a masonry fireplace in the wall, or if it's metal fireplaces then its even easier to insert using a pass-thru opening

Todd, if you make the framing sub- fascia's gable and eave 1/16", the exterior surface will go to the top of the beams

I use 5 or 6 different layers for callouts , section, and camera views, then you can turn on a off as you want. The use of anno-sets also helps to get the view you want ,quickly, once set up. The use of plan notes has also helped with all the clutter in a plan. The plan notes schedule is a custom schedule but once set up you don't need to worry about it again.

Cloud storage would also be great, I think Cloud rendering is probably the future of all software NVidia already has something like that where you can run 8 Chiefs all at the same time and ray-trace in real time except they were using another program, it was sweet though. It a bit expensive.

None of that will work until Chief get the framing correct, as we all know Chief will not reduce the ridge/ hip depth at the eaves/ overhang, It sticks out the bottom and it shows on the interior and exterior elevations, so I have to reduce those to be the same depth as the rafters to show correctly in section and elevation views. That alone will make the materials list wrong but there are others also.