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I started using Chief when I think it was version 8. So long I cant remember. Love it!

I'm a little taken back. That's the best we can come up with on this one. Anyone can use a poly line! Not that I don't appreciate the help but I really thought there would be a better way or just more creative.

OK, I figured out most of it but now I need to figure out how to get handrails on the top the the railing walls. Any idea how to do this?

Don't mean to redesign your roof but Is there a reason why you don't make it a hip roof over your patio and where the two roofs come together you just put a little cricket? Seems like it would look a little better. Respectfully

Hi Guy's! Been out of the loop for a while with Chief. Busy life! Hope everyone is doing good and its good to be back on the drawing board again. I'm having problems trying to get my stairs to work the way I want them. The on line videos aren't much help. I could use some advise and/or a video that would help. This is a two story and I'm using half walls to follow the stair slope and I would like to mount the hand rail to the top of the walls. Here is a picture of my mess and a picture of what I'm trying to achieve with the hand rails. And a plan attachment from Chief Version .Plan Template Single Story X8.plan8

I know this is late in the game but these two answers were correct and easy to fix Newell's problem. My question is to ask Newell if this is the way you fixed it or did you do something else? You said you figured it out but you didn't say what you did. Respectfully

Apparently the default goes to matching the garage stem wall top to the top of the living space stem wall and ignores the setting for the garage stem walls that is set at 6" above top of garage floor to top of stem wall. So I just set the "Stem Wall Top ©" where I needed it in the dbx and it fixed my problem. How ever, it would be nice if the default followed 6" above the garage floor so I wouldn't have to change it every time I rebuild or build a garage foundation.

Thank You William!! That was exactly what I was looking for. Easy Fix! Sending your DBX setting along with your picture is what pointed me in the right direction.

I feel a little silly now! Thant was very simple and I have more control. Thank You Tommy!!! Once again you are one of my hero's in the forum.

Good morning guys and gals!!! I built in a "Section View Annotations" into my annotation sets so when I do a section view I can change it to that annotation set for editing. Is there a way that when I open a new cross section that it will automatically pick up my new "Section View Annotations" that I built? Right now it just go's to using active defaults. Thank You

Posting the plan in this case would not help. I just need someone to tell me how to adjust the top of my garage stem wall down without moving the living space stem wall with it?

I set my garage floor at a -18" and my garage stem wall height is set for 6". So I was expecting my garage top of stem wall to be lover than the raised foundation top of stem wall. It doesn't seem to matter what I do both stem walls from the garage and the raised foundations are always in line with each other. Anyone know why this is happening?

I agree but I really appreciate the passion that Terry has for this subject! Everybody cant know everything and have the time to analyze everything. We have to pick our poison and be an expert about it so each one of us can share what we learn in a nut shell to get it all to work together somehow. Anyway to answer the original question. I don't like the window to be up so high but sometimes we don't have any other options because of money or limited space. Only my opinion.

I don't know why anyone would leave a window open for a long period of time. Weather/Sun changes on anything is hard. Lets not make it difficult; You open the window, take your shower and close the window. That's just 31 years of experience talking. I appreciate all the studies and believe that they are needed but sometimes I think we over study and just waist time. Window in a shower or not, exhaust fan or not, moisture sensor or not...... When it comes down to it the person using the bathroom is in control and he or she is going do whatever they want. All we can do is give them the tools to help them and move on. We cant make them flip a switch or open a window. I have a lot of respect for the smart guy's that can do these studies and write all these reports with all the big names that I cant understand. I'm just a contractor following the rules and obeying what is in the code book and I leave it to them. One of the bathrooms in my house was built in 1950. It is in great condition and it has a window with no exhaust fan. Respectfully

If money would allow it I would do something like this (maybe because, oh! I did do this!): Bathrooms need windows if at all possible to help avoid mold and moisture damage in my opinion. If people don't open it during a hot steamy shower than they pay the price of repair sooner than later. I drive my family nuts about opening the window when they take a shower. Pet Peeve (I have too many of those!).

It’s pretty common to put a 3010 XO window above a fiber glass shower unit in my neck of the woods. They sell them in stock at Home Depot with obscure glass. The problem with the window above the shower is that vertically challenged people can’t open it without a step stool. I prefer a window in a bathroom because the exhaust fans don’t work very good to get the steam out. That’s why when a window is preferred I try to sell a customer a tile shower verses a prefabbed unit so we can lower the window.

Great video Scott! Thanks for putting the time in to help others.

Thank you and Joe very much! This is the outcome of what you just taught me. Just have to work on some nice colors now.

Here is a project Im working on. The drop in bathtub I used a base cabinet but im having trouble puting the tile on the face of it. Is this the best way (with a base cabinet) or should I be doing it another way? Also, should I be using the base cabinet techniuqe with the shower seat?

Thank Joe! That worked great. Not sure why but it worked.

Please Help! Having problems with this glass shower wall. Please review video. http://screencast.com/t/aESBd5eYY3zg

I just spoke to an HP sales rep and he said if your HP110 is still working good that he wouldnt replace it with the T120 or 520 because its not that much of a difference in speed and the print quality. I know I have been real happy with mine. He also said they were having an issue with the display screen going blank when there was an error. I guess its not the big of a deal but still no need to replace if you existing printer is working fine. I think the newer models may not be a durable as the older models (just a hunch).

Takes me about 2 min. to print on my 110plus. I may be intrested in the T120 printer. Does anyone know what the main diferences between the T520 and the T120?

You will see what im talking about in his video. The fractions dont show but only when I click on the dimension http://screencast.com/t/t8SMiA9xX

My dimentions are rounding off to the nearest inch in view even though I have 1/2" typed into it. Not sure what I changed for it to react that way. Anyone know?