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Sounds like a wall definition issue. Try a different wall type and see if the problem remains.

You can create a line to your liking and convert it to an elevation line.

Not much of a debate.

Close ca & reopen it. Go to your archives folder and load your plan from before it got messed up. You will then know if it is something odd about that particular plan.

As an answer to your question. Yes, it can be done.

Nice looking building. I don't know if you want to start into this with a $99 design product. This building may need some elaborate construction documents to get through the building department for permits. Most of the forum members here use the Chief Architect premier software. You may be better off turning it over to someone that spends all day using this software.

I'm curious about the op. Have you built one of these buildings and are you an actual business or are you just playing around with it?

Do a forum search on retrieving an archived file. I think it has been covered a couple of times.

You can do that with ceiling planes that are curved. Select a side edge, hit #2 and click on the other side edge. The software will seam it together for you. You can then cut and paste it to the other desired areas or make more ceiling planes and repeat the process.

I think this would be a job for a civil engineer. You would have to start with a topo.

Try making the roofing material thicker. It looks like some other material bleeding through.

You can also draw very detailed things directly on the plan view.

It looks more like a plan problem than a wall definition problem. It could be an intersecting floor platform. Maybe you could post the plan.

Change the material on your upper wall from foam to framing 16 oc and the sill problems goes away. Not a fix, just an observation.

Your wall definitions have almost everything on as main layers. Move your siding, building wrap etc out of main layers. Thats as far as I got for now.

I believe this has been answered for you the other three times you asked how to do it.

30-40 mb is not uncommon now. The file size is made bigger by live views, pictures, renderings and placing fixtures with many faces and parts. Notes will hardly change the file size. If file reduction is important to you, change the live views to "send to layout as image".

I'm going to agree with Glenn on this one. If the client wants to relocate the house on the lot, move the terrain, not the house. It has the same end result. If you use a symbol for the house in a different plan with only the terrain and something changes on the house, you would have to re-create the symbol.

You might want to mention some more details, like where you are located. Is it one time thing or a full time job etc.

Open a different plan (one with a mirror in it). This might help determine if you have a plan problem or a system problem.

I just loaded it up in x9 and it looks reflective on my system.

I did not load plan, but could it be the mirror material. It may have something not quite right. Try placing a new mirror.

So we went from something funny, to dissecting dogs in just 6 posts.

Convert "view to cad" then you can export it.

I saw this post on a builders forum about Chief Architect power users. The quote may not be exact but you get the idea. It really made me laugh. "The experts say "what's the big deal? You just pull up the ALT/F9 hit repository, browse over to rendered images, pull a convex linear dissuader on the b31996-lf chair, , blend it into the alpha stream and do a 3 point anchor referenced on the initial x/y minus the incline of the betamax and there's your patio set - here see how easy it is?" And of course they go right on ahead and demonstrate - and when they leave you are left looking at the screen and thinking "WAT THE F DID HE JUST SAY!?!?"