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Make the hallway space complete by closing off the wall at the top of the stairs. Then make that room Open To Below.

Yes, get Premier. But, in the mean time what I would do is to not try to make something look real for a ground plane. I would make it look like a flat block to not distract from the element you are really trying to show. Just give it a pleasant neutral color that will not draw your eye.

On my latest project I used Henry BlueSkin for the house wrap. That is a peel and stick full air and water membrane that is self sealing . On top of that I used a layer of material to ensure a rain screen type gap. http://www.benjaminobdyke.com/products/slicker-classic-rainscreen-6mm On a previous project I had used the product by Benjamin Obdyke that is a house wrap with small rubber bumps. I was much more confident that the gap would be maintained after the siding was installed with the rainscreen material. It is not yet a requirement to have a rainscreen for walls in California but I suspect it will come soon. It is already a requirement in Washington and Oregon.

The key adjustment to get the speckle pattern is "Spacing".

@Perry, grrrrrrr, jealousy

Polyline solids, converted to solids then exploded will give you face control for the texture. If you are putting something on with wood grain and need to get the look right on flat grain vs. edge grain I would go with the solids.

My primary is a Dell 30" with a 27" off the side for Library, ALDO and Project Browser

Depending on the zip code he left out 2 zero's.

That is a standard item for listing local to me. After the crash I did this a bit but it was too time consuming to do in CA for me if I have design work available. I was charging $125 main up to 2k s.f.. I would add more for complexities. I have stopped doing it but get occasional calls for them. I have helped out a few when the house is too complex for the guy who does it locally. I actually just produced one last week for a buddy who noticed I had done the remodel drawinks for the house. That was pretty easy since the floor plan was done and I just hid the notes and changed the walls to a solid fill with one layer.

That is a standard item for listing local to me. After the crash I did this a bit but it was too time consuming to do in CA for me if I have design work available. I was charging $125 main up to 2k s.f.. I would add more for complexities. I have stopped doing it but get occasional calls for them. I have helped out a few when the house is too complex for the guy who does it locally. I actually just produced one last week for a buddy who noticed I had done the remodel drawinks for the house. That was pretty easy since the floor plan was done and I just hid the notes and changed the walls to a solid fill with one layer.

I store them in a .plan file. I have them organized on a grid that fits in my sheet. I have organization grid lines that I don't print.

Sometimes you can fix that by resetting the Default Wall Top Height or Bottom. A lot of the time I can not get this to work when I have high and low spaces like you appear to on this elevation and then I go to Photoshop.

Without a doubt I can say with complete confidence that the reason that wall is there is because you did not post the plan.

http://www.houzz.com/CRAN2016?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdKak1tUmlOVGRtWkdNMyIsInQiOiJqK3dIbEJWU25sbEpoWlIzSzFHdHpPaWFNRWhQTlBYdWRuM1QrM1hySFgzb25LMnZDRFdTd25zbURFWGN6UDZSUFZFMFwvSGZ5K0ppSlVuQndPWEJFajIyY0JsOW8rbFJLM09YVHZJbmlKT0U9In0%3D

The most mysterious thing about this post is why you did not post the plan?

Sometimes, when you are dimensioning it is is helpful to turn on the wall layer "Main Layer Only" so that you are only seeing the framing lines.

The white boarding program was dismantled shortly after Obama took the oval office.

Harry, U-P-G-R-A-D-E.

Bump up your exterior ambient with shadows on and see if you like it.

The Live elevations are fickle. I have had to delete and resend sometimes.

There are too many variables. Post your plan for an answer without guessing.

A solid with a curve in one or two directions is not a big problem. I have done this sort of thing with solid subtraction. What I see in that image is a shape that appears to be a hyperbolic paraboloid. Yusuf will likely prove me wrong but I don't think we can make a hyperbolic paraboloid in CA. Also, I got to use the term "hyperbolic paraboloid" in a sentence and so I get extra credit in my architectural dweeb account.

Thanks for starting this thread Jere. So far I have reached out to 2 planning directors in Monterey and Carmel. So far, they have both responded with "we are aware and unsure of what to do yet" type of answer. I encourage everyone to reach out and ping their local planning directors so that this is getting the attention it deserves.

Those shapes are not what CA does. Those are something that needs to be created in a program that does NURBS modeling and then imported into the program. Rhino, 3DS Max, Maya, etc. for making those shapes.

Here: use the wall break tool (Ctrl + and click at the wall intersection. Then you can change the closet wall type to a 6" wall. For your other end walls. There is recent thread speaking to this. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10802-wrapping-wall-finish-at-edges/