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Working on a plan I did in 2006 in Autocad I am recreating in Chief for another project. The extra lines on layer Picture are the CAD lines so turn them off if they get in the way. Several problems and questions have come up so you advice will be appreciated. 1. I created a 3D molding using a CA bracket & a 3D box. The intent is to get the 16" high band (1" thick) to be the base of the molding and the bracket to self space at 24" on center. The problem is the at the outside corner part of the brace is shown. Should I use a different approach to this molding? Or did i do something wrong in creating it? I would also prefer not to have the vertical lined at the 24" interval. 2. Trying to place a railing (no room def) on the front False balcony at the second floor. The molding bottom needs to be between the ceiling & floor platform & I can not get it to move there. I used some millwork objects to fill the space but they do not match the railing I am using on the front porch. How to get railing between floors. I guess I could create a room at that location but my experience has been this come with a new set of problems. For me the p-solids are easier to work with for the front pop out. 3. the p-solid at that location does not want to form through the wall. So with the porch with arches are you folks finding a better object type to build them Especially when they turn the corner like this porch does. 4. Something going on here with the wall surface. Should I have created another room above the 2nd floor to get the tower to build correctly? Thanks for your time. Omar.plan

Thanks Perry, the slab tool worked without changing the stem wall next to it. It does leave extra dashed lines next to the stem wall that will not be there in the real world. The Slab Footing tool looks better in plan view but leaves gaps in camera view like the photo in post 1. Solver's 3D view is best & like real world but I could not reproduce it in my drawing. Thanks for everyone's help.

Solver I can not reproduce your results. On the foundation level I check mono slab in the room DBX & CA replaced the garage foundation too.

Thanks for your time David. If I change the porch room foundation to monolithic CA changed all 4 sides of the room. Only two sides get mono foundations.

I apologize for rehashing these foundations again but I can not seem to get this figured out. A simple porch which most houses have, with monolithic foundations that should butt to the house stem wall foundation. How do you get this to clean up? The house foundation should be stem wall and the porch two walls should die into the house foundations. Wyoming.plan

Gurrrr, so easy by why the problem?

I have a balcony in side a screened patio. It was correct at one point but my fiddling with the first floor room I messed up the balcony. The balcony railings are no longer attached to the floor system below, see picture. River House.plan

Ok, Thanks for you detective work Glenn. That worked

I had to revisit this plan for some framing details I needed & somehow the exterior wall of the tower has been cut like there was a ceiling plane or something. I can't figure out why it is being cut? MacDill TH-Unit A.zip

More on the subject: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3493-wall-under-stair-disappears-when-railing-is-added/#entry29933

Thanks for the input. The 2nd floor wall is cantilevered out 24" so the floor system is automatic & the wall will not be OVER wall below. If you delete the material region the unwanted horizontal line at the 2nd floor wall to floor system is still there. but the expected horizontal line at the actual cantilever is not there. If you look at the side elevation another set of lines define the floor system at the cantilever. If you paint the square forming the cantilever the lines change,

Thanks David but I'm tired of removing all the errant lines every time I have to update the elevations. There are some at the stair on the side of the house too. X8 file attached. Ybor Townhome.zip

I have some unwanted lines in the elevations. The one shown on the attachment is the joint between the wall (2x6 frame over the generated floor which is 24" overhanging the first floor. So why is that line being generated. I have to erase it every time i regenerate the elevations.

Oh I see it now. Wow it laterally makes it invisible. Don't like that so much. Why oh why can't we have a non plotting line style that is visible?

Thanks for all the tips, setting size to 1 or 1/2 helps a lot. Looked but did not find Line Style "Invisible" ?

Can you resize the style so all are small?

When using point to point dimensions I do not want the cross to print. Can this be done?

Thanks for the info. So did they give us an off button?

Sending to layout I get a fuzzy images unless I use plot lines. They print OK but viewing is not pleasant. This behavior just started. Any ideas?

I auto build ONE time only, then nothing but manual adjustments. I do place my notes in blocks & save to catalog.

How would you model this structure? I have been using 2nd floor with no ceiling and adding a slope ceiling plane. I guess there is no hope for sloped steel bar joist. I will do the section in CAD but wanted the CA section close to actual. Any tips?

<Wild guess> Block all the notes & save to catalog<Wild guess Off>

I would guess a room divider I railing below and a p-solid above. You would need to be in section view to create the solid so you can get the angle of the stair. My 2 cents.

LOL, it's happy hour here in Florida. Signing off

Just sent support request before I saw this thread. Same problem in X8, not a problem in X7 unless I blocked the text. I too use Arial. Don't care for the Chief Font.