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Johhny The times you encounter the inconsistent fills is probably because walls that are different in type, if I am not mistaken. It means one wall type is checked to show insulation in wall dbx setting and the second is not, so the later will automatically pick the color of the fill in plan view. Chief is actually showing the color fill in section, but it is actually a polly line that allows you to set any custom fill you may want. BTW. In our area we build hollow concrete blocks with R.C structural framing and truss/purlin roof framing. Thanks to Chopsaw, he has helped me to have live sections with correct truss/purlin arrangement. sect.pdf

The other issue with section view is that of the auto detailer does produce section fills for the cut plane areas, but it doesn't auto update when you update the model, rather it puts the newer section fills on top of the existing ones, so before you click on the auto detailer make sure you have cleaned up the former section fills in that section. Just a thought, in case not aware of this.

Overlapping framing members in section view can be cleaned up by using layer display options. Mostly I create a layer that contains the spescfic trusses I need to show in section view.

Seems that foundation walls are not properly aligned to fit the walls above. That could cause the program to think there is a room under.

I don't know any conventional way or place to get those project specific symbols. But I usually place any symbol in the user library by assigning a unique name/style related to the parent project. I remember once I created a folder containing all the custom windows and doors respectively in the user library and giving it the name of parent file. So I quickly go to library and access those symbols directly in that folder. Some sort of naming that references the parent project/file is good to locate where to find it for future use. Hopefully I am not misunderstanding the gist of the OP.

Post plan ....post plan...please. Without posting plan it is waste of time by guessing. Any way, if all fails to work, you can set the stair top/bottom heights manually through the stair dbx.

Cool!! Thanks for sharing Justin.

Thanks Michael for the clarification and speeding up the process. Very helpful as always.

Yes! Chief givis you the center of the tan tan circle automatic. The only difference is AutoCAD does the circle for you, while in chief you have to draw the wide circle manually based on the auto center it gives you. The concept is there(shown in video above) and the same, but Hey that is AutoCAD and it is primarily for Cad works, Machine drawings etc...

Here is a crappy video. Hope sound is is OK this time, though English isn't my default language... Any way, I hope that helps.

Yes sir, chief has make "arc tangent" tool once you "lock centers" of the two arcs drawn over the two circles you want to locate their tangent arc. 3 clicks only!! May be I have to make a video, though I am sure you understood the point I am trying to make..

Hope you don't mind. I just put those thumps up on behalf of you..

Michael Very nice work, thanks for sharing.

Michael Well said brother. Thanks for being so much honest and helpful person to all in theIs forum. You are the greatest.

An other silly question, did you check it (light dbx) to show for both render and raytrace views?

Great work Chop. That looks very nice, please explain how that works in chief, were you able to join all roofs without file getting too large?

I don't do cabinets most often, but I have just given it a try. Just walls, doors, countertops etc.... And that looks like it. Right? May be a material regions could also add some effects. Just a thought.

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Well thanks chopsaw. This is the most challenging type of roof plane in chief, that I ever seen. Of course I knew that biaxially bent roofs was impossible to go with chief. But gave it a hard try and achieved a result that is one step down to what the OP asked. Attached is a picture showing the results. This is one of the toughest ones to try in chief. I have been working with the Chopsaw(one of the best power users), I was just curious why chief was going so slow when I try to join those roof planes, so I tricked chief by manually dragging the roofs so close to each other and actually look like they are joined. I have done it by making use of base line angles as the pitch of the roof planes, pitch = 0 while the Curved roof angles has helped to bend the roof. Chopster confirmed me that, he also has the slowness behavior his side when roofs join to form actual ridges. The file had bloated to 757MB after chopsaw has joined those roof planes. Chopsaw will be better in explaing the details of what we have found and post the test plans of the technique I used to get that look in chief.

Yup Michael, X9 yes. Thanks for the remainder, but you must update your's too. you are running thousand miles ahead of X9. X 10.. right?

Nice work again. Thanks for sharing.

Chop I don't clearly get your point about the occurance of bad things Any way don't forget to check the native railings of the ramp to be off. I am assuming that you already defined the deck using invisible railing. Then follow this simple steps. 1- align your ramp around the periphery of your deck. To easily get it done, you can break a ramp in to a number of connected segments bydrawing one straight ramp and converting it to curve, again revert it back to "n" number of straight segments as usual, so you are able to hold the vertexes of the ramp and drag to snap with corners of the deck. 2- once you have successfully done step #1, then put a railing wall that is checked with no room definition and "folowi stairs" check box in dbx marked 3- for accurately positioning the railing(guess you are having problems here) wall with out interfering with the deck sides, though not sure. Simply copy the ramp to the upper floor once you set its height manually. 4- draw your railings on the same floor that you have copied your ramp to. I think this way you have no limits.This way I am sure you can draw precisely where you want it to be! Hope that helps solve the bad things you said to happen.let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

Here is an other technique of doing this side mounted deck railings. The method applies the same way as erric explained about the use of invisible walls to define the deck, but no need to mess with an other room definition as it may cause complications you mentioned. Rather simply put a ramp(0 slope) around your deck and lower its elevation after you place it in plan view. So there are two alternative railing applications here. Ether use the railings of the ramp it self(since ramp with 0 pith is already placed around your deck perimeter) or simply make the native ramp railings off in ramp dbx and use an other railing wall that is set to follow the ramp. The later method allows you to easily control the level of the railing in relation to Z axis and further more it allows you to automatically interact with stairs by auto creation of the doorway as usual. Here is the topic that contains the test plan and a video. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/5306-deck-railing-post-fascia-mount-tip/#comment-46137

To cross check the situation Johnny was encountering, I my self seen very small gap arround attic walls. So I am going to agree that there is diffinitly a gap created due to program miscalculating length of the attic wall. I do not commonly see this type of connection messes, but at least this situation can not be associated with user error. Again I am sure that most of connection problems are happen due to user errors. The roof configuration posted by Johny and similar one shown in my video clearly proves that, connection problems can occure. I could be missing some thing and would be glad if some one else could help or tell me that it is fixed in x9 Sorry about sound clarity.

While raytracing goes on, manipulate the intensity versus contrast in image properties. Mostly I<=50 & 50<C<100, so they usually give a value of 100. Like if I=30 the contrast will be nearly a value of 70 to get rid of that glowing center effect.