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Hello Robert, Do your plans work the same with the X18 release and its new features?

In addition to many of the things mentioned already I really like the added control for when extending walls and not have them snap to an adjacent wall. I also like the scrolling feature for when working in bigger projects.

That's awesome!

Yes, I've had that happen to me. For me usually selecting "balloon through ceiling above" for the main floor wall works. I did it on your TestPlan and that seemed to fix the missing drywall portion. I did have to manually shape the porch wall above the roof the get the exterior wall to build correctly. There are probably better chiefers that can explain exactly why it happens which might be more helpful.

Hello Robert, Yes, definitely would be interested in this and I think this would add value to my current workflow. As for the regional details, I would be interested in a better template for my plot plans and for my elevations better limiting distance calculations concerning the glazing in a wall. Also, I haven't done much material take-offs for my projects as I have not been asked but I have this on my list to add as a service. Not sure if you have that in your templates but if you would have that, it would be an easy way for me to expand my services. Not sure if those are the kind of thoughts your were asking for as the real experts can probably give you better direction but I just wanted to let you know that I'm interested.

Thank you, looking forward to it !!

What has happened to X18? I have not seen a "what's new" video about X18 yet. To me it seems they are later with releasing info compared to other versions.

Is there a date set for this already?

Looked right past it for many times. Thanks!! Gerard

Sorry I don't know what you mean. Do you have X18 already? I'm probably looking right at it but I don't know what tool you are talking about.

Hello Ken, I had started doing that but with the plan I am working on has several cross sections and the trusses do not all go into the same direction so I was hoping that there would be a faster way. Thanks for your help! That is what I was used to but I wanted to try to show more of the rest of the house with the current plan and thought to give it a try but maybe I need to go back to the old ways again. Thanks!

Is it possible to have the spaces in between the truss webbing filled rather than that they are see through? It would make cross sections so much cleaner when you don't see 20+ truss webs that don't align or are different shapes because of the roof outline. Any suggestions on how to make a non back clipped cross section still look clean and not cluttered? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

I added a ceiling finish in the Room Specifications in those rooms and that seemed to have added the ceiling.

Google maps says Spokane is 34 miles away from Chief Architect headquarters. They might have someone that knows a little bit about the program

I feel kind of dumb, but for some reason I never saw your reply till today. Still a belated thank you for your reply!!

To me it looks like some of the foundation walls do not align with your main floor exterior walls.

If you select the "calculate total" for Area (M) then it does.

I like the idea of being able to show the windows open in X17 but is it possible to adjust how much the window is open?

I was afraid of that but thanks for confirming this!

Is it possible to adjust the length of the arrow line as well? When I make the text bigger, the arrow becomes too long. Thank you!

I'm not being asked or paid to write this but I highly recommend the subscription Mailer of Michael.

I copied the roof material and then adjusted the horizontal offset in the "Define Material" so it only moved metal from the one roof panel instead of moving it on all the roof panels.

Thanks for your reply and insight, I would never have figured it out like that!! As to your question, I don't remember 100% anymore as I deleted those columns since then but I believe that for the Bottom Elev. column in that schedule I had selected "Bottom" in the "Available Columns" in the Schedule Specifications (attached picture) and for the other columns it was taking the information from Bottom Elevation or Elevation. Not sure if that makes sense or not Thanks again for everyone's help!!

That's a clever idea but I get a warning when I try that. I think that is because the gable wall (its just going to be a roof truss with an opening for the window) of the dormer doesn't line up with the main floor wall below. I guess I might just have to stay with having the measurement displayed in the decimal version unless there is a script or code that will show it in the fraction version? It seems a bit silly with everything that this fabulous program can do, that although I can have a measurement displayed as meters, centimeters, millimeters, yards, feet & inches, inches only as decimal but not as a measurement with inches in the fraction style version. Thanks for the replies!!

I usually do not give my window heights on the elevation view, maybe I'm weird that way :). This is the elevation view of the project where this came up. Normally the elevation height when given off the particular floor the window is on is good (as in the schedule - column "Bottom Elev.") but in this case it is a window in a fake dormer and no floor so that measurement given from the second floor (actually not sure why Chief reports it as that when there is no 2nd floor, but I guess that is beside the point) is useless. With this plan I did add an elevation marker on the elevation view but that 17-1/16 in the schedule bugs me because it is a useless number so that is why I tried to have it report as the elevation height taken from 0. I mostly got it but I was hoping to make it perfect and get it shown in inches only (with fractions) instead of inches in the decimal way.