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Thanks to all for the help. Mark

nevermind....just figured that one out.

Thanks! Worked like a charm. Now how would you add newel caps? Mark

Joe, The railing height can be changed but the Newel/Posts height box is greyed out.

I was talking about guardrails. Didn't see anything in the dbx box. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

Is there an easy way to have newel heights different than the railing heights? X9 user. Thanks. Mark

Now why didn't I think of that!! Thanks, Wendy!! Mark

I created dormers using the automatic dormer function. It comes out fine except that the section of wall under the sloping ceiling appears as a solid wall in plan. Is there any way to hide this? I have attached the plan noting the problem and also included the interior view, Your thoughts? X9 user. Thanks. Mark

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Mark

Does anybody have any symbol/material for the old 1"x 8" or 1"x10" knotty pine vertical boards? Can't find it anywhere. Thanks. Mark

Is there an easy way to prevent overframed roofs from cutting into existing roof planes? I have this condition often when doing an addition and I would think there was an easy way to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mark

ok, thanks.

Michael, Thanks for the info. I'll give that a try. Robert...I hesitate to make the foundation on level 1. Then when I do the real level 1 ( the first floor), things could get weird.

Michael, Thanks for the info. So did you first make the outer foundation walls and then add the interior ones and then adjusted the heights? Mark

I'm trying to figure out the best way to show a dig out or dug out basement. The original house was on a crawl space and then a basement was created, leaving the original foundation walls, creating "shelves" which transition from the old to new basement depth. I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about. I just don't know the best way to show it. Any suggestions? Thanks. Mark

Thanks. I'll give it a try and see what happens. Mark

Can I just scan it, including the stamp with my signature, making a jpg file and then importing it into chief and putting in the seal box on the zero page on the layout sheet? Mark

Hi All, It looks like the building departments here in NY are now accepting digital submissions for building permit applications in lieu of paper submissions. I was wondering is any of you have experience with this. Specifically how do you include a digital signature and seal?...if that is required. It's easy enough to create a pdf file but the rest of it I don't know how to go about it. I know there are companies out there that do digital signatures but I'm not sure that's what I need. Mark

Thanks, Kirk. Mark

I'm working on a contemporary house and I would like to use a cable railing for the stairs. I see that there is a "cable railing" in Chief under "fence railings" in the chief core catalogs but the cables run in the wrong direction. The cables should run parallel with the railings. Anybody have anything? Thanks. Mark

I did try that but it didn't work. I sent them an email to their tech support. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ray, I went to the WinLine site and I see that they do have a version to support Windows 10 now and I installed it ( version 9). I just don't know how to configure it....or am I supposed to configure the plotter?? It still doesn't work but I see that the new plotter driver is set to "Manual" for the paper and I am using a roll plotter. Any thoughts??

Ray, WinLine doesn't list Windows 10 as a supported system

I did try plotting it out from the saved pdf file but that won't work either. I have an HP Designjet 500

I spoke with technical support from Chief this morning and they told me HP does not have a driver for my old HP plotter designjet 500 that will work with windows 10.