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Thanks Eric, It was really helpful, (and fun), to watch how you worked through that.

Thanks guys, just moving the baselines out to the outer edge didn't do it on my plan, the protrusion was still there but much less visible. But I looked at your plan Mark and it seemed to work so... Cutting the wall and making the gable section into a gable wall fixed it for me. I never understood what the gable wall or hip wall types do, they have never really seemed to make a difference when I have played with them in the past so I didn't even think of trying those. I also never paid attention to where the baseline is located, interior or exterior of the wall. I will pay attention to this going forward. Thanks for diving into this and helping me out.

OK, I am back here again with the same problem recreated as I moved through this project. I was watching it this time and it occurred when I changed the 2nd floor room to "open below" and it goes away when I change the upper room back to "unspecified" I want the main floor room to have a vaulted ceiling. I derived the second floor plan from the first floor plan and then sectioned it off using room divider. Then I went back to the areas where I wanted the vaulted ceiling on the first floor, went to the 2nd floor rooms and changed to "open below". Everything is good except this one spot. Roof wall issue.plan

Yes, I did that. The most recent is at least an hour before my issue. I check preferences and I have it set at 5 minutes. I think it had something to do with uploading the plan here, I don't now. Doesn't matter now. I will start a new day and move on.

I don't understand, I have always had my auto-save set at every 5 minutes. I have at least an hour of work that is not in any of the auto archived plan files.

Wow, this is really a bummer. I saved the file and closed it and sent it. Now when I went to open it, I get the file you are showing. Which means i just lost a crap ton of work. I can't find anything in the archives newer than that either.

Here is another one. I just started this clean, i don't know what would be making this happen on one side of this roof and not the other. As built start over 3.20.24.plan

OK but say I have a bunch of wall drawn and I now I change the default, it would seem like there would be some way to select the wall and then change it so that it now takes on the properties of the default settings? This seems like it would be a pretty basic function.

It seems I can take a railing that I have made, and make it so the default settings will be that of that railing, but how do I make a railing change to poses the current defaults? Some things change automatically when you change the defaults but apparently railings do not. It seems like I should be able to click on the railing and tell it to change so that it will be the railing type that I have set in the defaults.

Thanks for the answer. I tried that whole zip thing and couldn't get it to work. So it seems like the easiest answer is to forget about using SKM files and just look for jpegs for my textures etc. Thank you

I have been searching and can't seem to find any information on working with SKM files. I use 3dwarehouse a lot and it is great for the SKP files but if I want to use some of their texture files I am not able to import them to a new material in Chief. I don't have sketchup so going back to that to convert them is not an option.

Thanks, that does help. The thing is, I never drew any extra walls or anything like that. It's hard to know if a drawings has somehow gotten uncleaned up. When I tried to pull that wall back like you suggested, it didn't let me. The wall just kept generating. But I think when I went to a camera view and clicked on that section and deleted it and the rest seems to stay, I was basically accidentally doing the same thing you were saying to do. Here is another puzzle that I assume is related to these walls somehow having become "unclean": Both these roofs have boxed eves but I can't get the one side to build that way. I deleted it and mirror copied to correct one over and it is still the same and the one with the correct boxed in eve the gable frieze board doesn't go all the way down. I think it is like this in that plan I uploaded earlier. So when you say you keep plans "clean", well is there a way to know they are "dirty"? As far as I know I didn't draw any extra walls or don anything unclean. I knew it had something to do with those walls and I was fiddling with them trying to get the siding to not protrude so at that point I may have done something that dirtied it up but the problem existed before that. How did you go about analyzing the problem?

Well, dragging that wall up didn't seem possible, it just kept coming back. I set the ceilings to default and that didn't do anything but then I deleted a wall there, (I think, I was just fiddling around), and it fixed. Still, why in the world would just the siding on any wall stick through the roof? It's a rhetorical question, I am used to some things in Chief being just not explainable. Thanks!

I can't figure out why my siding on this wall wants to stick through the roof Wall problem.plan

I have had problems with squirrels chewing through the ez screen plastic windows so for our current 3 season porch project I found these https://www.monray.com/ glass wall products. I just drew a very simple representation of one in their 81.25x37.25 size and I have the plan file attached if anyone wants it. If you do like Alaskan Son says and save as a fixture and have it insert into wall it works pretty well. Although I don't know if you can stretch it like a regular window. Anyway, it was the first time I had done this and I was happy with how it turned out. It will work for my purposes for this project. Mon-Ray glass wall 37.25x81.25.plan