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glenn not sure I understand that cut away process This is what I am working on, see attached. Mixing the wall types is ok but when I need some fine adjustment the walls want to snap together when I don't want them too. Can you control the wall snap distance? When I create the 6" wall and add the window, pull the wall very close to the window edge then I can drag the 12" wall up to it & it behaves. But you need some working room or getting too close to another wall & it snap together before you want it too. I need to learn to cut away materiel regions too as that may work as well. Last picture is a material region before the cut away.

Material Region is working. Thanks The seams still show but that is true of a lot of wall sections.

Oh I like that idea. I'll give that a shot.

Jim, send me a PM to explain please. Thanks

PS I'd load the plan but it's x8

OK got the 1st floor wall with 6" aluminum wall But the 2nd floor wall, pony wall with 12" wall on top of 6" aluminum wall CA generates a thick wall at the floor area tried the "no Material " to pad out the 6" wall but no change.

Good tips, I'll get on this one this afternoon & report my success.

My next project is 3 story building. first two stories have a mix of thick & thin wall types in the same wall. The will require pony walls. First floor will have 12" CMU maybe 4" tall with the balance 4" thick maybe 6" thick, not sure yet. The second floor will need to be pony wall with 4" thick bottom to continue from the first floor & 12" thick to finish off the second floor, This wall will have a full 12" thick wall on both sides of this pony wall. And to complicate matters a large window, store front type fixed glass with 3"x3" aluminum frame will cover the 4" wall. See photo attached. What advice can I get as to making the window go to the edge / end of the 4" wall & keep the 4" pony wall from JOINING with the 12" wall and making one wall type. Thanks

Bill, that's pretty good. Did you draw one in elevation view & the other in plan view?

I need to add ADA railing to steps with hand rails, steps with cable railing & ramps with & without railings. What is the best tool for this? Some straight but most sloped at varying angles.

From tec support. This is controlled by the dimension defaults in the layout. Open dimension defaults and on the Primary Format panel edit the smallest fraction value.

Where is the accuracy or round off set for the tape measure tool? While in layout I want round off to 1/64 or better but not while in PLAN or Section View.

Just submitted a Bug report.

Well there is no good reason !@#$%! I'm just laughing a shaking me head. Just can't believe it.

Because I want to trim between the two lines. Like this. I did this in plan view.

David, I draw a tic tac toe with 4 lines. Select one line & see the trim icon appear Then I shift select the second parallel line and the trim icon disappears. You get something different?

I am trying to use 2 lines as a trim fence & trim between them in section view. Works fine in plan view but not in section view. Is that normal?

Oh I see I was trying to adjust the sides of the stair, not realizing you could adjust the center line. Thanks

I'll have to try the stair tool tomorrow. Thanks

OK the molding was fairly painless. I'm getting better at moldings. Thanks for the help

Molding, I forgot about that option. I was trying to do one solid with an extrude operation but no way to do it with a path object i guess. I've done straight stair with a solid but editing it if the heights change is impossible I think. Yes, radius-ed stair would be nice but I remember a thread not too long ago on a deck where only segments were doable. I'll try the molding approach. At least it can be edited. Thanks

I am trying to create concrete steps both curved & straight attached together. My first thought was to do a section view, create a face & extrude along a path like I would do in ACAD. But I don;t see a way to do that in Chief. How would you do this task. Working in X8 so no plan to attach, sorry.

Thanks Joe, I've been able to use CA stairs so far. Mine have all been outdoor or patio stair so metal has been fine. If interior it should be a fancy stair.

Now if CA would add a "User Select" button to the "Match Properties" dialog so the user could marque select that items & not All on the floor. That would be a nice additional selection tool.

Wow, works a treat. Thanks