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That work also.

DJP I think the difference between yours and his ,is that he made a symbol and you used a window.

You can add an invisible layer to your upper wall definition to stop it at the lower wall.

No you don't need to check "No room def" if its a railing wall, are you using a p-line molding? Using a railing wall, you also have the center tool to use. There is a difference.

You can also just do a room molding p-line for the molding and remove all the automatic molding in that room

Todd Do you have your cad block mnagement set to purge automatically, lot of unwanted cad will also slow down Chief. Those old cad blocks will remain in the plan if not purged. There is a checkbox in the cad block management DBX.

I like the Alienware computers. a bit pricy but mine has lasted a long time now, with a few changeouts (video card and went from standard hard drive to an ssd.) plus they look cool.

Just remember this is an old forum link and may have been fixed in the current versions.

Yes, Chief has said that large undo's will slow down the program in the past.

make the railing wall a "No locate " wall and slide in place

I noticed you have a 1gb video cards, that's the min. Chief recommends. Also you might try to adjust your video cards in the NVidia control panel, I know it helps me get a little faster.

Hi Jim welcome I personally just do single family residential and Chief is the perfect software for me. It does everything I need to create full working drawings complete with structural,and 3d renderings and raytraces. Some people here that come from AutoCAD aren't happy with the 2d drawing tools, but if you build your model correctly you really don't need much in the 2d tools area. IMO Chief is more than ok for 2d detailing. The idea behind Chief is really to eliminate 2d drawing of anything. You can just bring you details into Chief from AutoCAD and put them in your lib. Chief is a completely different way of thinking, and I love it. I would think if you do multi-family and high rise you might ask some here how that's working, and you might need a monster computer for that.

Ok, very nice Joey. I remember back in the day, you use to cad embellish them , prior to annosets. You can get very nice elevations if you work at it a little. Either way you have turned out some good final views.

Foundation pony wall should work lower wall 12" upper wall 6" adjust the lower wall height to what you need

shelf with crosshatch light color transparent . it should print out ok

Here is a way, little extra work but possible

I do it similar, using an elevation layerset, its automatic, and no slow cad work needed. Is that what you show?

I think the idea of Auto dormers is really just to get the walls where you want them, then explode it for further changes. I really just use the auto dormers just for a start, and adjust from there.

Do you have a drawing you can post, I'm not sure what you want.

Explode the dormer to select items

Normally , when a garage is attached to a house the wall between should not figure square footage to the middle of the wall, ever. We never do that.

Tommy, if your just looking for the Credit- go ahead and take it, who cares.

The Room divider wall turns into a regular thickness invisible wall if it needs to frame anything above or below. It's automatic. if you are just using it to define a room then it stays thin.

I ask myself, why do I sit here and interrupt what I'm doing to try to answer these questions, its like a game, and first one who answers wins, even if its the wrong answer. I can't help myself, am I sick? Please don't look at me ,I'm hideous.

I did too isn't that great.