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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.

Sounds cool Rene, link? Sounds like something I have done before chopsaw but not with actual walls just pline solids. Cool idea though. Roof planes, never thought of that.

Sometimes you can get away with pline solids for chimneys. In this case I don't want to do that. I have a 2 story home with attic space. What are some techniques you guys use to transition the exterior 1st floor walls to the 2nd floor tapered walls for he chimney?

So that's what the wall covering does. Now I know!

Very interesting guys. I never knew that. So, I added 1/16" to the color and it worked/ I did a molding pline for the island wall. Why doesn't chief recognize the end of the wall and let it expose the wall stud?

I actually do rgardner

Sometimes I can add these type walls and they come in fully enclosed in drywall and molding and sometimes not. What determines this? Shown is a kitchen island with a half wall (plumbing) with no molding and then a simple wall closing off a fridge.

Hello guys, I'm back in town and reading these replies. So, it turns out, my issue was the driver. I posted the thread on 7/28/21 and with SSA on the phone we looked at the AMD site and they had just released another update on 7/27/21. I had to turn off a setting in windows to allow the new driver update and what do you know, problem solved. Vector views are crisp and sharp and standard view doesn't have all these colored lines shooting everywhere.

I got off the phone with Chief about an hour ago after having your issues. My vector views were horrible. Apparently there was yet another upgrade to my driver we found and now I am back to crisp and sharp renderings.

I do mine similar to this and use the caps provided in the library......

Good feedback guys. I was gonna wait till December to upgrade my PC but I may be having to do that earlier. None of this was to hate on X13 but when you do this for a living, I don't need these headaches.