rgardner

Place a bed. Convert it to a millwork symbol.

The majority of the doors in the library are not parametrically setup to make these adjustments but the door tool with chief is. Just a heads up for what you just learned for the future. Looks great btw!

Exactly the point. Doesn’t mean there aren’t users out there that don’t keep up with and can do the work you need. It is just a general indicator.

I personally don’t use the no material in the wall definition as I find it is more troublesome but what is the issue you are having with the method making the wall thickness wider and making sure the newell and rail is not set to use wall thickness?

Not sure what is up with downvote. 1. is correct. I didn't need to open your plan to see it in your pix. 2. will work but I agree that Robert's suggestion is better.

Better technique. Make the wall Wider but don't have newell set to be wall thickness. NOTE you will need to make the Wall larger by double what you want the setback. So if its a 4" wall and you want it 4" back from the edge you will make the wall thickness 12" and the newell 4"... Rough numbers for demonstration only. The wall/newells will be centered in the wall thickness but the deck will build to exterior of wall.

Forward compatibility only. Once a plan is opened and SAVED in a newer version it can no longer be opened in a previous version. But if you are farming out your work to someone who does not stay current and have SSA Personally for me that is a red flag regarding their experience level with the software. Not always but it can be someone who doesn't use it every day like the users who stay current.

1.)Didn't open the plan but you can see in your pic the extra material on your balusters as well. My guess is you are using a flooring texture instead of a seamless wood texture. 2.) Use an invisible wall for the deck edge and then place a railing inside that (you may have to place it away from the edge then precision move it close to the edge (also the railing wall may need to be marked as a partition wall depending on what your current railing settings are.

Sounds like an operating system issue.

Probably a difference in your gpu. That being said, PC, Mac, or anything I don't reccommend sending live camera views to layout... Export them as a png and import them into layout. much cleaner and smaller template file size.

Tips & Techniques is where you share with others your tips & techniques. You should put this type of question in the Q&A section It is easy to make a murphy bed make a symbol out of a bed and make it as a millwork symbol. Use a bottom hinge door and on the back of that door use that symbol as a back of door attachment.

Use a pony wall set to 0 height for the lower wall. Right now the glass wall is building down there which looks like a gap.

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You might want to reread this entire thread.

Without seeing the plan I couldn’t tell you for sure but what I suspect is the walls you were trying to change which set back slightly from the middle section were not aligned properly with a foundation wall below. So, since there wasn’t a wall above the foundation wall Chief was automatically putting one there. Attic walls will shoot through a regular wall and you will have one material that won’t change because it’s the wall behind it. So in your case when you rebuilt the foundation it aligned those walls and fixed the issue getting rid of the extra attic wall that was “hiding” the actual wall.

Your foundation wall was not aligned properly so you had an attic wall there going up to the roof from the misaligned foundation wall.

Search the help files for layers and layer sets and read up on default settings.

You are not placing your windows exact or you are using Metric instead of imperial dimensions to place it. If you are holding control/Cmd. and moving the window in 3d or in plan placing it by not using dimensions then even thought the dimension may show it at 11'-2 1/4" it is probably actually at 11'-2 9/32" or so but the dimension is set to round.

Have you turned it off and on again? Is it plugged in? Sorry couldn't resist the typical IT questions. But sometimes a restart will do the trick.

This has been my go to with this exact scenario. Cabinets give lots of control for Wainscot.

There is one issue that is known and that is an issue when using dropbox and some other cloud services and working on the plan without downloading them to your computer. It was an issue that dropbox had at some point but still comes up occasionally.

Make it with a 3d solid make it a symbol and designate it correctly in the components section of the symbol dbx as a shelf. Just like in the field we have to make custom items.

Try a distribution path as well.

So what are you looking for??? Hard to help otherwise...

Look at the different material options for brick and read up on lintels.