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Scott, I must have a doppleganger somewhere Thanks for the tips. If I put the wall on the attic floor, it still leaves a triangle gap below. Having a separate layer for those walls sounds like the best idea. Pretty easy fix.

I have never known how to resolve this situation. You have a second story dormer drawn manually. The walls for the room below do not extend as far as where the main and dormer roofs intersect. In an exterior camera view, there is a triangular gap. Now, if I add a wall section to close in that gap, and do "roof cuts wall at bottom", and indicate a room divider for the lower wall type, it shows accurately on the camera view, and also on an interior camera view, but on the floor plan, the wall still shows up. I've attached a picture. In the past, I've just extended the wall to close the gap when I'm doing exterior views, then pulled it back for the floor plans, but that's a royal pain. Any ideas?

I've had to deal with this situation for a particular builder who combines a special CMU wall product with sections of regular framing. The windows and doors go in the regular framing, and the sections are often barely wider than the window. Chief, being a smarter-than-the-average-bear program, assumes you can't possibly want to do what you are trying to do, so it forces a certain distance for framing. So, either my windows won't center, or Chief makes them narrower, no matter what I input. The workaround I've found is to begin with all the walls the same wall type, the CMU block. Once I've positioned and dimensioned the windows and doors, and as far into the work sequence as possible, then I break the walls and change the sections to framing. And hope nothing changes.

Checked the referenced plans dbx and it is clean, so it's all good. Thanks for the replies.

I am using X6. And I want to remove any links to existing plan files so this is a clean layout template. I deleted all the layout boxes and so far, so good. I was just wondering if there could still be "ghosts" of formerly linked plan files.

I modified an old layout file on the fly while doing a project, but if I saved it as a template before beginning to link files, I can't find it now. So, what is the best way to delete the links in this layout file so I can save it as a template?

Thanks, Joey, that sounds worth setting up.

Thanks, I'll try these suggestions.

I could use some help on this. I use a light gray for entities that are for reference. An example on a current plan is showing the plumbing fixtures on the wall and floor framing plans, or showing skylights "above" on plans other than the roof framing plan. However, when I turn off the colors in the drawing file, or when I send it to layout, everything becomes uniformly black. What do I need to do so that in a monochrome print, entities that are supposed to be "background" will show up as a light gray? I'm using X6. Appreciate the help.