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Chopsaw thanks for the complements, and sure you are right 100%, with the same concept of transform and replicate tool, you should be able to do that using plolyline solids. thanks

Twisted structure using the wire frame method.

thanks Larry, I see Michael answered it well. I will post how to model twisted chimneys as the one attached using this wire frame method. I hope that will also explain more about how to.thanks

Thanks all guys, we all have learned a lot from this forum and I am really great full to those who have shared their knowledge with us all tought us what what what we know today. thanks Glenn,Joe, Val and all of you for the kind words.

thanks all of you my friends, I am really happy, if that worked good. Sorry about the sound, I will try to fix it.

val nice one, only Dermot would take the risk, but just to help them see how great their product is. here is a new way that I can take the risk of modelling almost any shape that we may need in construction industry. this method is to be called the wireframe method. it makes use of 3d molding poly lines and chief's primitive tool. this enables us to model almost any shape. here is a video on how to ..... https://youtu.be/SG26vbqyYXg

try this in blank plan. draw a wall and view the elevation camera. draw a cad rectangle on the wall, using the elevation view you opened. select the cad rectangle and from the bottom menu, select the "convert polyline" tool and tick the poly line solid radio buton. click OK, and a dialog box window will pop up, so that you can specify the depth of your created architectural object and even assign brick material using the material tab at the bottom of this same dialog box. hope that helps. I advice you to try viewing video tutorials at chieftutor.com that will help you to learn step by step of the basic lessons.

Chapsaw really nice out of the box solution for the op to go with his design. FYI, if you want to curve a ceiling plane you can draw a rectangular ceiling plane and intersect it with the room polyline, so that you can get the result you need. finally you may need to convert the curved edge of the ceiling plane to multiple segments by " convert arc to multiple segments". but really interesting solution you have posted. thanks

thanks Larry, I understand your point. and agree with this one.

Larry the said improvements do not diminish the as is, by any means! I think chief should be moving forward and be able to fix the broken links, it already does it, but lacks the integrity between views. which isn't logically acknowledged deficiency of the codes. I would like to see that one fixed.

right click on exterior wall, select "open object properties" from the drop down and a DBX will get opened. go to the wall type panel, then change the material types and properties there and see how quickly all the exterior walls change in the plan as well as the material list. there are also an other ways to achieve that others will probably say some.

Thought this would also be helpful.using 3d molding profiles we can simulate this type of shapes. Here is a crappy video

Here is what hapens when you change that angle in the symbol create DBX.

"SMOOTHING ANGLE" should be lower in the create symbol DBX. by default it is 45°, so put a value of 1° instead, and your panels should look like the origional.

OK played with it a little and here is the test plan containing it. hope this will explain it well. And If you have any difficulties, plse feel free to ask .Thanks quoins.zip

Nice suggestion, but I am reinforcing this concept. Create a symbol following mejery's answer above, and add the symbol to library as a millwork. Then go to window dbx and in the window treatments panel, there is an option to attach that symbol to your window. And the merits of attaching the symbol to a window is that, once you set it up, it is part of that window, so you can easily copy, move and resize it easily. You can add to your library for future use. You can also apply it on a curved window in curved walls, since the program will automatically reshape it and adjusts the curvature. This area is really where I believe there has been a clever programmers in chief inc. If those guys are still there, they could have developed chief better in some parts that chief seems to have limits, for example stairs!! , unless they had their brains .....

Thanks Michael for clarifying the issue. I am not sure this one, but I think if the widths he is referring is from the ramp dbx, I am afraid those numbers are not actually exactly equal. So just drag and snap it manually. The ramp isn't accurately programmed because I have seen two ramps of the same rise/run where not exactly at the same height.

I don't think I am exactly getting the point. The red arrow is toward the ramp width? please make it some more clear about the tread width you are asking.

Thanks, I am glad that helped.

Make the stair auto height off, to make the stairs stay where they are, also the landing should be free from automatic heights and depths once you have set your correct stair configuration. To place the railings at the center of your wall, don't use the ramp railings, so simply make them off and use a manual railing that follow stairs/ramp. Just remember to make the new railing wall "no locate" and "no room definition" to let them placed on top of your walls if any.

Perry, if you copy the items of layouts in to one layout sheet, not nessesary to put them in the printable sheet, but rather any where in that "all in one " layout. So this would allow you to export all at once, that would appear in his model space, and that is exactly how AutoCAD guys work on their model space and finally they rearrange to different layouts by creating view ports. Most probably you may have missed to change the version of AutoCAD to the version that your friend uses. I usually export it as AutoCAD 2007 and older versions, so no complaint comes back. The other possible problem may be, if your friend isn't more familiar using AutoCAD, he should click "Z & ENTER" again "E & ENTER" or zoom extents to view the drawings on screen. Just a thought

Nice one Greg!! Thanks

You are welcome Justin, thanks again, You bet... Keep up the good works, that was really helpful OOB Tip.

Justin, very nice work. Thanks for sharing.

Print the layouts to PDF. Similar to auto cad.