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I have a YouTube page (see link in my signature)...and some other Chief Experts have created YouTube pages/videos. You might watch some of these to get a feel for Chief. DSHall has posted hundreds of videos on YT. Chief is an incredible program...you will not be disappointed.

You are skipping an important step. After saving the molding to your library you need to use either a molding line or molding poly line tool...open the dialogue box for the molding line and on the “moldings” tab...add the molding you just created (it’s in your library) to the molding line. then take a camera view...from this view you can then create a symbol.

actually, Eric is right. Just place a doorway into the railing wall and size it how you need to space the posts. 3-4 clicks and - DONE.

After you break the railing...select the center section and reverse it. This will keep it from re-joining the other rails. You could also just change its “wall type” and that would also keep it from re-joining.

Quick video showing how you can simply use moldings to create a custom Range Hood. Experienced users can pass on this...but, if you don't realize how moldings can be used to create just about any "shape"...then this video is for you. Hope it helps!

Just create new “room” types. Such as: Kitchen-1, Kitchen-2, Kitchen-3... assign different molding and flooring in each type...then just rename the room to switch styles. ooops...I didn’t see you wanted to change layouts. My solution won’t help you. You could use “plan views” and draw the plan variations off to the side of your main plan...that’s all I can think of at the moment.

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Make sure “invisible walls” layer is turned on in your elevation view layerset.

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This is created when you are using "Dormers". Check out my (2) dormer videos on YouTube...one or both may help you out. Dormers can be tricky...Good luck!

I don’t think that’s it...the baseboard is showing.

Excellent video and explanation Michael.

Joey knows what he's talking about. This method makes it "easy-peasy"....

I would draw the fireplace wall...on an angle (like 45 degrees). Place your fireplace...I use a window for the fireplace and place a fire picture on the glass. Then...I'd take a backclipped elevation looking directly at the 45 degree wall. Then...I'd use a wall material region to place some tiles...one big region or small individual pieces if they will have different textures. If you want to change the texture on each then you may want to create a Cad Detail from view from the B/C elevation view...then draw each piece of tile using a cad polyline...then, copy and paste these tile cad blocks back to your backclipped elevation...then, convert these cad blocks to material regions. You can't convert to P-Solids because when you curve the wall...the solids won't curve along with the wall. Then...once all the material region tile pieces are placed, select the wall and curve it to your desired radius. The material regions will curve along with the wall. You don't want to try and draw material regions onto the curved wall...just about impossible.

Thanks Micheal. I saw the current temps in Alaska....brrrr....stay warm!

Darn that was easy...thank you! Very much appreciate the quick response. I saw both of these those posts when they were posted,..but, it's been a while since I have messed with "REF SETS" and I just plumb forgot what I needed to do.

OK...sorry for not asking this before. Can you use a "polyline" with a fill (such as shingles) and then reference the "fill pattern" somehow in a reference set? I ask because I haven't figured out how... Thanks. Below in the pictures I have drawn the polyline with the shake fill on Level 1...and I'm trying to Reference on Level 2...the cad polyline appears...but, no "fill pattern". Is the "fill" on a unique layer?

Rene - Thanks for taking the time to help. Dermot answered the question....I had "XOR" turned on.

Is there a way to show the hips/ridges of a roof either above or below using a reference layerset? Am I missing something? The edges of the roof appear (see pics) but the hips/ridges do not. I've tried this with some of the Chief OOB templates...and I get the same result. Thanks...

Here is a link to a Chief Video coving "Cad Details"...https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5477/

Use CAD DETAIL MANAGEMENT... See pic below;

Well, looks like the original topic has left the tracks... So...I'm excited about the improvements Chief has made in X12. Looking forward to using it!

First off...I'm no expert on plan views. However, I believe Chief's intent was to get away from Annotation Sets. You can actually add all your defaults right in the Plan View Dialogue. There is a box for the "current annotation set"...but, you don't actually have to use an anno set to create a saved plan view. In reality...Plan Views are the big brother to Annotation Sets. They do everything an Anno Set does...but other things also. You can't have two plan views open at the same time using two different Anno Sets...this is the first big advantage. Secondly...you can create plan views that use different "ref sets"...(which are nothing more than "layer sets")...so you can see different things below or above...and still be using the same annotations. There are other advantages which someone like Larry could explain I'm sure....

The "Residential Template.Plan" file contains some SAVED PLAN VIEWS. It should be in the Chief X11 Data Folder...in templates.

Chief needs to produce additional videos that explain clearly (and slowly) the power and time saved when using Saved Plan Views as opposed to Annotation Sets. You need to convince the Chief user base to "go into the light"...so to speak. Unfortunately, it appears from the many comments on this forum that SPV's are nothing more than glorified Anno Sets. I realize this view is inaccurate...but, I sense this is the prevailing view of many users.