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Dear Graphaphobe, So you posed a question full of words, numbers, relationships and other miscellaneous information and the first response asks you to post some images and the plan file, why? Speaking from personal experience, I am not the best mathematician in most rooms unless we are doing geometry. Geometry is pictures and shapes. I like pictures. Either drawing them or looking at them. When it comes to buildings and architectural elements words don't do a lot for me. When I see a question posted on this forum that is highly detailed with 24" overhang here and truss heel there, with some room elevation change 46" away from zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. This takes me to Algebra class and I am not sure if it is south west style or a train headed south west at 59 miles per hour. In conclusion, when it comes to describing an issue while working with a visual representation tool (Chief Architect) a visual representation of the issue is good. Algebra is bad. Alan ( X * 2/Y = Z+4) Lehman

I would use a door and make the door swing zero (in Chief, CA). In (CA, California) I would call my Sierra Pacific window and door rep for the real door. mulling.zip

X5? Larry, Larry, Larry, why no X6? Since I installed X6 I have thrown away the Viagra, lost 20 pounds of belly fat and I have bangs again. People stare at me on the street with jaws agape. I wink and whisper "X6".

Hello Deco, It is really hard to determine what you are looking at without looking at it. Please post some images and the plan file and it becomes much easier to troubleshoot. If your plan file is too large to attach via the forum upload to some service like DropBox.

These are the Room DBX views showing two adjacent rooms with different heights. 2000 words.

I estimate about 275 words above. One picture and you get 1000. Give us a picture. Sketch. You must have a napkin nearby?

x2 was fairly broken but workable x3 fixed a lot but did not add that much x4 made some radical changes that make huge changes to workflow x5 did a little more but not that much more x6 revamped the system again and made some significant improvements and additions

Way too many variables. Where do you live? What is your experience? What are you doing (drafting, designing, coordination, submitting plans, planning commission meetings, extended research...)? Who is your clientele (builders, home owners, developers, the internet)? Are you experienced with the software? How hungry are you? Do you own a boat?

Even escape does not seem to work for me when using the water color with line drawing technique. I thought I was alone with this. I felt really alone. Distant. Like a designer on an island and there were boats all around me but no one saw my signal written with seaweed on the beach. l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness

Check your 3d settings for your ambient light levels. That could be the culprit.

If you have moved the ceiling plane object to match the ceiling height it will be buried in the ceiling plane. Cheat the ceiling plane an inch higher and then your slab, solid ceiling object should appear. Then you will need to make another for the rest of the room. You could also define the rooms as separate with an invisible wall. Posting the plan does help in recommending out the best solution (and not ruining Scott's golf game for the first 2 holes as the steam clears from his eyes).

Depending on your price I have someone who is probably interested in purchasing the license. P.M. me and I will put you 2 in touch.

I like Kevins approach. I tried to make casing work and it does not look happy. The attached image shows a cheat with molding but the texture file lines differ from the vector lines. The polyline solid approach seems like it might be more flexible in adjusting for the texture offsets.

I have no idea how to get either of these to work without getting an extra line in vector view. You can probably do what you mentioned and get a rendering to work well as long as you don't use the technical drawing or water color with lines. For the window, if you recess the window that depth and make the casing with the radius it seems quite doable to get that look. You may need to do the same with a lintel that has the shingle texture in order to get the square profile at the head.

I don't believe there is a way around the dashed line with the Chief garage door. With doing what Joe is suggesting you need to think about your goal. You can keep the garage door on your schedule by isolating in a dedicated layer. Then, for your camera views you need to create different display whether it is using a door opening in plan and then displaying the garage door for elevations.

See attached image for 1000 words.

Nicinus, that would be rather tricky as the software would need a lot of if statements based on various factors. Is it an even distribution based on centers? Where do the ends start? Does the group stay a fixed distance but move towards the center? It is very easy to make temp cad line guides to snap to for adjustments but it does need to be done manually.

Hopefully you got a properly scaled .dwg file. Generally when I import I guess wrong as to whether to import in feet or inches depending on how they draw. I generally import in inches and find that I should have chosen feet. Actually, I think it is every time and I just don't learn well from past mistakes. After importing and finding this out, I grab everything and then just resize by 12.

@Dennison, show us some pictures of what you are referring to. Without pictures it is a lot of guessing. One guess is that what you are seeing for stone is a texture not a pattern. Only patterns will go to Layout in Vector view. Are you sending Vector views or Images?

Scott, with Fava Beans?

1000 words...

Here are 3 that I found. I don't remember if one of those worked better. funky siding wow 2.zip

But the file does not have an accurate Pattern file so you can keep your name. I don't know how to do an alternate pattern file. I just paint. "Once rockets go up who cares where they come down. It's not my department say Werhner von Braun".

You must now change your name to Mothra.

I attended one of these classes after about 4 months of using the software. We were on X1 then. I found it very valuable at that point in my learning process. If you are proficient with the program, you will definitely learn something in the class. The thing that about Chief Architect is that you don't know what you don't know until someone shows you a really easy way to do something. I wish they were doing one of the specialty classes at the show like the Kitchen/Bath class.