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Window spec dbx "lites" try to manipulate the the number and shape of lites there. You may also need diamond grid window! You will find it there too.

I gave it a try to create a corner window symbol. Thought it could be an alternative way. Attached the pictures

Actually, a lot of ways may work, my method works not only for your specific case but more generaliatic. No molding,posts added manually. Simply the above steps gives such result.

I would use ramps as a virtual bed for raising and lowering railing bottom heights. Try this simple steps. 1. Draw a ramp some were outside your drawing area, set it open under side, thickness 0 and its top and bottom height set to a figure equals the desired bottom height of your railing. 2. HERE IS THE STEP WHERE THE BIG TRICK LIES. YOU HAVE ALREADY CREATED A THIN(zero depth and small width) HORIZONTAL(0 SLOPE) SINGLE SEGMENT RAMP WHICH IS IN ANOTHER WORDS THE VIRTUAL BED OF RAILING HEIGHT CONTROL. 3. Select the ramp and make curve, then convert it in to a number of segments equals to the number of sides of your deck. 4. At this step you have to see how much flexible it is to edit by dragging each vertex to the nodes of your deck edges. So you have a bed running along your deck sides that can be raised, lowered or offsetted from the sides as you need. You can use the railings of the ramp it self in your case, or make railings that "follow stairs" by Making the ramp "no rails left and right" This way you can make fancy railings of different kind. Wait , wait... one more idea . ... Your case can be solved by simply assuming the waste depth of the ramp as the lower wall and its railing as the upper baluster rails as I can see in the picture you posted by making the deck walls invisible.

You can also create this kind of skylight symbols using chief's roof and skylight.Not a difficult task.

Well, if the two roof planes have similar pitch, simply using cad lines extend the two base lines and find the point of intersection. Then using that intersection point draw an arc that connects the two baselines, snapping the mid point of that arc draw a line to connects it with the center point of the arc. It is that line is where the two roof planes will join.

It is better to use cad poly lines since it allows you to select any irregular shaped selection. For example when you need to mirror L shaped part of a building that has common area at the middle that shouldn't be coppied , simply draw L shaped poly line around it, select the poly line, while selection is active go to edit menu and select edit area all floors then mirror it as usual. This way is more broader way to do it.

Very nice joe! Nice+ Thanks

Or you can use this method to create custom windows that can not be achieved by any means in what chief provided us in window settings. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3777-custom-window-symbol-made-from-roof-skylight-video-by-yusuf/

I would try curved roofs to achieve this. This would be the 1st option comes to my mind. But nice one is done by Greg outside chief.

It is difficult for me to say chief Engineers doesn’t know how chiefs tools work, And sometimes feel the contrary when I see people asking questions (can chief do….?) or suggesting a lot of things that they feel should be fixed or added as a new feature, and the ca staffer’s answer is mostly seen to be some open ended statements, clearly showing that they can not exactly tell how to do it. While the problem is easy pissy as scott would say directly using chief’s tools or needs a little tweak to solve it. I can say it has been a long time that they realized they have produced software that is much smarter than its founder’s intended scope or the engineers themselves. That is why they took the apparently obvious procedures to answer the questions asked regarding the ability of ca. Which is first wait, if some user would solve it and if there couldn’t happen that some power chiefer comes up with an answer that satisfies the op, then after some defined waiting time is when they respond. Most likely telling us it will be done in the future developments…or it is a bit difficult to do it know, since it needs full cycle redone and blab la bla. It has been almost a couple of years I understood chief could be the most wanted software in the world and having some unseen powers that could boost the software, if given attention by Ca Company. I have been signaling this, expressing chief as mysterious software. That is even difficult for their engineers to comprehend. By saying this it doesn’t mean to offend, but rather a compliment that their product is extra ordinary power full program(if program basics reworked and full scale analysis made) compared to other cad applications. I have no doubt they would be happy if the number of users abruptly increase. By providing many of the converts easy transitions, obviously we now most of us were using at least AUTOCAD before trying chief and would learn chief easily if there was similarity of its tools with known cad software interface. I am strong ca defender when it comes to the critics that are usually seen coming without knowing how to use it. Regarding chiefs cad tools I believe there is nothing that autocad does and chief cannot do, but it does it differently. And this part(CAD CONFIG) was the potential area at least chief should adopt the cad interface so that any one that uses autocad and just give a glance to chief would be easily convinced that it has the Autocad+++++ benefits to him. The reason why chief is not went through dramatic changes in my thought is that probably there are strong parts of the chief program that are still not understood by the variety of personalities that are manipulating the core program scripts. I can dare to say chief was complete and much powerful in the ART(advanced relational technology) era to do the things we want. And much of the things we use now have firmly set foundations in earlier versions. For instance we use to draw stairs in the 10th version of chief and had internally(automatically) rails that follow stairs. Therefore making independently drawn railings to follow stairs is nice addition but not core change. We have seen a lot of things like the helli-coil type smooth curved railings were there in the art era, while it was being suggested for years to fix and ca couldn’t do that. i have been playing with the current capability of chief simply because I have seen a lot of things that raised my expectations from the software unseen powers, hopping it can do a lot more. At least it solved few problems that were not seen to be there. And other users used to do useful things and it continued for years by some long time users using some words like “what works, works” and “work-around”. I say chief needs independent researches to be done parallel to your process that I thing is functioning much lesser than it should. Sorry to say this but I see ca in a big magnifier and shows me it is the most wanted tool. If someone posts some odd thing and says ‘ I did this in chief” and you can’t tell exactly how it is done or say yes or no, then accept what me and others comment about your team and its process. We sometimes get emotional and might have said things that you may not like about you, but you have to know our ultimate goal is to see ca on top of others. No matter how hard it was to learn, for myself I can do what I want. But ca should think of the customers it would get if some of the tools have compatible interface with other cad systems. Finally the most important point is, that I suggest chief could be more powerful than its current status if some program parts redone. I like chief!!! thanks

Make the plan containing trusses( not the symbol) in a new plan view it in 3d. Sellect all off layer then display only trusses. Go to symbol create wizard and you will get it not greyed. Convert to a symbol. Then place it back to the plan and see it done. Note symbol conversion is done in 3d view not selecting in plan.

Bob nice accomplishment!I see your timber frame has combination of rafters and purlins. We use purlin on top of trusses in our area while chief does not do purlins perpendicular to the truss top chord. And that is the area I see your plan has the 1% left to accomplish the 100%. And not actually user error. Chief fix this type of framing please(I don't know if x7 do this). Any way I do it with the roof and roof framing tools with out using any other thing to get this look, may be it helps a bit in your plan. Keep up the good work. It is nice really

Perry that is also my question, I think all including me was to show the ways to do that, in actual cases only windows(curtains) may have the angled slope of the wall, me too I don't see the need of such door.

There is a lot of ways as said. An other alternative to do this is creating the wall with its windows and doors and converted to a door symbol tilted the angle you want. By putting that door back in plan works good. It needs only adjusting the comers by using p solid triangle At corners.

Roof are the most suitable tool to create this. I use roofs for any thing with irregularities that chief can't do. Can't see the attached file.

https://www.google.com.et/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=1HXRVOmLIcT8UrjEgsAH&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUNVaIKEfllA&ved=0CBsQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNGkxQisAMBrB9NhX8LC_xF68WW8rw&sig2=k1H8oszWo16HCcCzesCYzA

Hey Scott your method is nice one. ca should document it...kk

Glenn yes, but the ramp railing is not smooth as you now. I have posted how to get perfect railing here https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/3706-smooth-curved-railing-video-by-yusuf/

OK thanks, I got it right now.

Glenn I got OK. But the curved thread edge how, that is some thing that I didn't understand. But as you see landings could solve it also easy.

Joe what does it mean opening no material? I couldn't figure out how to make the curved threads automatically. But I have used the landing to create the curved thread which I think it easy control and get any shape one may want. The railings are created as we have seen in my second video last and hope this could work until ca fixes, of course there are a lot of things they could fix in side the current program status.

Thanks Lew.A lot more unseen powers.... in chief.

Lew this is pretty simple in chief according to my video on smooth railing and still not out of the stair and railings. Simply the threads are landings here.

Agree fully with Joe. And the object local coordinates(xyz) should be visible and some more clear in the symbol create dbx view. If I am not missing some thing,some times I get confused rotating about an axis and fixing origion of objects.