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Agreed

After thinking of this question. It is really not a big issue to me. I just select a color from the color chart in the library. Not expecting an answer.

Michael, I understand what you are says but the silliness seems mostly to be in the part of the programing team. I would like a direct question answered but I'm not getting it. Can what I'm asking for be done? Can CA make it so when I select a room (without using poly lines) that it will generate all the materials for that room? Or is it to complicated? It tells you the ceiling drywall, why not the walls? Also what about the electrical? It calculates the plumbing, doors, windows and everything else. Doesn't that seem silly to you?

Does anyone know if there are any stucco manufacturer libraries available anywhere?

I realize that there are work-a-rounds but you should be able to select a room and get a complete materials list otherwise whats the point in even having a rooms materials list? I can calculate the materials list on paper faster than doing poly lines or other creative Ideas. I guess I need to post another suggestion in the suggestion box but I thought we had all covered this before in a earlier conversation and I assumed that CA would come up with a fix in X8 but they did not.

I thought it might get fixed with Chief 8. Its not like we haven't had this discussion before.

Using CA version 8, When I select a room to calculate the materials the correct amount of drywall does not come up. It doesn't appear to be calculation the walls (only the ceiling). Am I missing something here?

I never notice the "Help" at the bottom I guess I need help to find help!

The rainbow tool was the save of the day for me! My customer really like my design presentation! Thank You!

Yes, I ran into most of these similar situations. I like the lintel and sill option the best but like Ben said you need to build that bottom profile and them it works great! Thank You for all the input

I bet Joe Carrick could do it with a cabinet. That guys does amazing things with cabinets!

This may be a stupid question but can that be built as a room with windows instead of poly solid?

Because I only want top and bottom and casing doesn't give you that option from what I can see.

That worked Great!!! Thank You!

Can I change the texture of stucco to smooth?

Thank you Joe! I was using the poly line solid and things were not working right. I rebooted my computer and the program and now its all good. Not sure what happened. Thank you for the tip on using the lintel and sill to do my trim that I need. I don't know why I didn't think of that in the first place.

Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to add Architectural foam trim at bottom and top of a window? It seems like everything I do seems awkward to use. I would like it to look like stucco when I'm done. Seems like this should be easy and a very basic thing to do so I must be missing something! Any help would be appreciated.

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.