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Did you know there is actually a pergola already done and saved as a symbol that looks almost identical to this in the library? Very similar anyways if I remember right.

Very Easy to do. Do one side set it up properly then copy and paste about to mirror to the other side.

Sorry you have totally lost me at least with your description. I would say reattach your plan file.

Open below. btw that is just showing drywall on the side of the joists that you are not showing in that picture.

Delete your ceiling finish

Best advice I received when I started. open the dbx of the item and hit that help button. Huge resource of information there. While there search for just crosshairs or cursor and see what it says. F1 key is magic!

You have 7 floors setup in your plan. Every time you added a floor you selected blank instead of allowing chief to autobuild the walls. If this is what you want then go draw your walls where you want them (hint use reference layer to see where the walls below are as well as the align with wall below tool.) If you want them to autobuild go delete floors 3-7 and BUILD a new floor but look at the dbx that pops up when you do it.

open the stairs dbx and look around about connecting sections.

You can also grab the little diamond on the plan view and just slide the door all the way open in plan view which will do the same in 3d view. Of course the open door tool in 3d also works but will only open it as far as you have it set either way.

Just to note what Erik is showing here is a section with auto detail which will show the two different wall heights as two walls, so you can just delete the polyline with concrete fill above and pull the one below up in section view and it will look right.

Turn auto rebuild roofs back on.

Yes in a way. You would need to open the wall description and input the R-value of the wall. You would set your material list to report in area for insulation. This is where it gets tricky and would be best to do with just a cad block for sections. If you are showing in 3d even more work but still doable. When you do a section you will have to manually place a symbol indicative of rigid insulation (I generally use the same color blue as chief natively uses and set as solid with a note calling out r value/thickness. Otherwise the auto detailing will place the standard batt insulation in the wall cavities. These can just be selected and changed to the solid fill instead.

Did you do this drawing using a metric template?

Uncheck the box that says automatically regenerate deck framing.

Many will use a custom cad line symbol and arrow setup saved in their library and place over the cross section camera and turn the camera display off. But it’s not dynamic obviously so you need to do it once you are sure of your cross section locations.

Deck auto build is to build that certain way like you see. Anything outside of that will need some manual adjustments. First once you have your deck how you want it,build the deck with auto tools and open the dbx and click retain framing essentially turning the auto framing off. Second open the beam and move it to the right x y or z coordinates you want or if you turned off the beams you can manually place a new beam or as many do with flush beams is copy and paste, move existing joists to double or triple as needed. Place posts and footings manually or move the auto generated setting heights apppropriately.

What has me really excited about the m1 is that there is a rumor by a particular mac enthusiast that has been quite reliable in the past. He recently put out an article about a Mid-grade Mac Pro that will most likely be a m2 or m3 chip with an AMD GPU that supposedly will be on par with the "Highest level high-end GPUs on the market" in a form factor similar to the 6,1. at an intermediary price. - From what I glean from that it sounds like a mac mini pro version??? Anyways, I think my current setup will last me a couple more years as I don't do that much with renderings other than vector or an occasional basic pbr for clients to visualize only. If I need a good one I will hire @Renerabbitt. So hopefully that rumor will come about and I can upgrade when it does. Also allowing apple to work out any of the ARM M chip issues that I am sure will pop up.

Can be a little tricky but try this tool: It's name is "Edit Wall Layer Intersections"

That was not well written by me. We had a major power outage today so that was on my phone. What I meant was I would guess it has something to do with the driver on the GPU causing the issue.

Have you tried plot lines with color fill if you want color instead of live views? Lot less taxing on your GPU which would be my guess looking at that.

Sounds like you might have an issue. I would recommend calling chief on monday with your key number handy so they can help you resolve your issue. @Dermot

Chief works quite well with a large model on the wife's m1 MBP 13". Didn't test it extensively but works well what I did test. No real lag for 3d but again did not test extensively as it is her work computer and I have been busy. That being said I still would recommend waiting till later for m2 and other more robust computers to come out if you use this professionally or as your main computer. There is a rumor of a lighter weight Mac Pro desktop version which might just be the perfect version for Chief???

By chance is your Sun setting set to a Grey color?

Certainteed vinyl collection has that look but the pattern for it is not right for the vector type views as it shows as just standard lap.

Assuming you have rooms and floor surfaces layer turned on in THAT camera view then possibly you have lost room definition meaning one of your walls is disconnected or marked invisible or no room definition.