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How many of you have ever had a client/builder say something wasn't to scale on the dwg? I have at least 1 person a year say this. Now, here is the thing, how in the hell is this even possible? Especially when I am notified of it and I go and check the layout view and it is indeed to scale. It is always the floorplan view and when I send the view over to the layout file it defaults to 1/4"=1'-0" which is the norm. I do not print the drawings out when I am done anymore. We wait until the engineering is done and then send off for a couple prints for the client to pick up. So I never really go behind myself and check every view with my scale. Every one of my drawings get printed on 24x36 border. So, it is my assumption that just maybe, someone is printing off another copy on a smaller border, ie. 18X24 or something. I shouldn't have to not trust in chief's layout views and them being to scale when I send them over. I asked a builder I work with the other day " over the past two years we have worked together on your homes and reno's, have you had any issues with my work on the job sites". He said only once. It was an addition we did 2 years ago and nothing was to scale on the floorplan so we just had to do the best we could. They never notified me so I was clueless. I get back home and open the old file and sure enough, there it was when I right clicked on the view and went to "rescale", it was set at 1/4"=1'-0". Long Story for one topic but it just boggles my mind when I am told this. I had a guy 6 years ago say that none of the toilets were to scale. I had to laugh at that one.

Very odd but glad it has been figured out for future situations.

I am going to rename it to "porch railings". Thanks guys.

I found them with the "find object in plan". I know what happened. Those are my porch railings (-11.0000) which I gave a wall thickness to match the column thickness's which has been discussed here several times. Apparently that is when chief generates a particular name??

Track them down in the working plan file. Every wall I click properties on doesn't pull up with that name. I found -11.0000 in the wall dropdown but you can't delete it because apparently is used somewhere lol. I will try solver's idea and see what happens. Why does chief set up those names? I didn't use a custom name for any wall types.

Is there a way to keep certain walls out of the schedule if you can't track them down to change their names? I have been getting some weird names lately that I know I didn't set up.

It took me a little while to do the same thing and that is delete the wall fill. I couldn't understand where those polyline boxes were coming from until I investigated it.

thanks again guys for all the input.

I see he had the same issue with his wall end.

I was just thinking. If I widened the treads I simply extend the wall to the bottom tread and essentially answered my own question if you look back at my first post. "Let chief angle the wall". duh! Thanks for the help guys. Of course now the damn wall stud is exposed lol. whatever!!!

Thanks guys, adding a complete break in the stairs worked, which broke it into two stairs basically. I mean if it works it works I guess. lol. Now onto the wall breaks. I will be glad to figure that out since dormer walls can sometimes be a pain in the same sense.

One thing I have have not yet mastered is manipulating wall breaks in elevation views. Aren't we supposed to be able to add a break, grab a grip and pull to the desired shape? It has never worked for me. Also, Can you add a break on stairs in plan view and pull grips? The pic below shows what I am trying to do. Bring down the wall to an angle leaving some exposed treads and then extend the tread widths to be flush over the angled wall. I normally just add a wall flush under the stairs and chief angles it for me. I don't want to do that on this home though.

chop to the rescue as always lol!

Is there an update for X13? I opened the program first thing today and it said there was an update. I clicked too fast and bypassed it. Now it is not asking if I want to download upon closing and reopening. Is it in the digital locker somewhere?

I also found an opening in your file in the area you are talking about and it was a "slab door" that didn't belong there.

Good info chop!

I deleted your newels and the landing disappeared. Then I remade the outline of the old landing with railing walls, thus created a space and name it a deck.

Not sure how you built your railing wall but I just deleted what you didn't want and made the landing a space and named it a deck. (I turned the railings off)

Yeah I thought about that. However I tried different tolerances before and it just won't slide into place. Just once less step to hit in in 3d when I am doing a walk through.

Sure do wish I could get walls to slide into place in X13 in 3d view. I have to go into a plan view to get this command to work now. Anyone else notice this?

Thanks guys! I will try your methods.

Would you guys use a Molding Pline or Frieze Board set to the proper dentil molding for this? Dentil Molding is not common on my homes I do.

I hear ya......a lot times I build the posts and beams manually because of the offsets.

Thanks chop and rob. Both ways worked. The beam is even centered too.

So, I have the posts offset at 4" but cannot figure out the option to offset the balusters too.