Rich_Winsor

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  1. I used a Chair Molding and a Base Molding to establish the top and bottom rails and then used Wall Material Regions and the Multi Copy Tool to create the wooden panels. I'm not proficient enough with Cabinets to use them although the wainscot in Chief's Library uses them.
  2. Well... For a quick workaround you can get a pretty good rendering by just sticking a bookcase into a doorway. You will need to position the bookcase in whatever orientation you need. FYI here is a nice link from @Richard_Morrisonif you are looking for the actual product. https://hiddendoorstore.com/product/secret-bookcase-door/
  3. Was curious to see how hard it would be to model a flexible version of the solar tube since in the real world you almost never get a straight shot from your roof to the spot on the ceiling where you want the tube to terminate. Used a spline in the shape of the tube and converted it to a Molding Polyline. Applied a round tubular molding profile to the polyline and attached the dome and lens from Chief's Exterior Roof Attachments Bonus Catalog and voila, you have a flexible Solar Tube. Now if you can get the spline in the correct orientation in the attic to make the proper connections on each end, well, that's a horse of a different color. PS. Any similarity to a bent carrot is purely coincidental.
  4. If you really want to model the cylinder you can use a 3D Solid Cylinder. Create a second cylinder slightly smaller than the original and use Solid Subtraction to remove the second cylinder from the first to leave a tube. If you need to angle the top of the tube to match the roof pitch you can also use Solid Subtraction to cut an angle on one end of the tube.
  5. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but if you change the 2 front walls from hip to gable walls I think you will get what you want.
  6. One easy way is to use 3D solids or slabs to create the elevated tiers. You can change the Material to carpeting to suit your needs.
  7. The good news is that it's doable. The bad news is that I probably couldn't repeat the process. Just keep in mind that the "Join Roof Planes" tool will be your friend. I attached the plan I used for you to poke around in. Untitled 1.plan
  8. Got 6 bucks? Why not Got 6 bucks? Why not get a thumb drive from Walmart and transfer the files there. That way you get the freed up disk space and still have the files should you ever need them.
  9. Chief's Tool (such as it is) can be located in the Core Catalog. It's ok for a one wall installation but Chief doesn't know how to handle the intersecting rods if you have closet shelves on adjoining walls.
  10. Not sure if this is what you are looking for? Try: Chief Core Catalogs / Materials / Roofing / Tile
  11. Is this one of those trick questions? Don't we call those skylights?
  12. Wow! X12, seems like it was just yesterday but I could hardly find my way around. I didn't see anywhere to create purlins but for a work around you can use Rafter Lookouts for purlins. I just deleted the lookout on one end and extended the lookout from the other end the length of the roof. It's a bit tedious but you can adjust the dimensions of the lookouts and set their bottom heights as needed.
  13. The question is why not? I requested this feature years ago and all I heard from Chief was crickets. This would be so useful to users of all abilities that I would think it would be at the top any kind of list prioritizing potential improvements to the software.
  14. Best posted to the General Q&A forum. For a quick hack you can use a 3D Solid but you won't get an open space above the windows in an interior view.
  15. Don't think you will find it in the library and if you do it will be 2D as Gene mentioned, but if you are a glutton for punishment you can model your own 3D siding panels. Create a closed Standard Polyline in the shape of your panel cross section and save it to your library as a molding. Here are a couple of samples of 3D siding that I have modeled.
  16. I think you're selling Chief short.
  17. Sorry, didn't mean to leave you hanging. Don't you just hate it when real life impinges on your message board experience? Here is a sample plan for you to peruse. Curved Roof.plan This is where "modeling it to suit your needs" comes in. This is a sample of what Chief is capable of. You need to tweak it to suit your situation. Hope some of this helps. If you need someone to step in and model it for you I would suggest listing this over on the Seeking Services forum.
  18. The inside structure is there. You just need to model it to suit you needs.
  19. I had a quick play with this. Experiment with the "Curved Roof" tools and you should be able to get the roof shape you want.