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The SSA advantages on its own are generally enough to justify it to me but add in the free upgrade to the newest version makes it a no brainer for me. X12 to X11 I would estimate as a whole saves me at least 1 hour if not many more on every job due to just the small changes. That really adds up to me over a years time.

Well put. If you are using Chief as your tool of trade keep it sharp and upgrade to stay up to date. The ssa program is an inexpensive way to keep it up to date, have free access to the latest catalogs, as well as tech support. It’s less than $45 a month for a tool that can make you tens or even hundreds of thousands every year.

I usually stay away from these as I don't see a lot of value in complaining but I do see a value in both the upvote and downvote when used properly. I stalked these boards for quite some time before I started contributing and asking questions. In my case when i was newer to the forum If I was researching a question I had and reading through the forums and came across someone who said "do it this way" and I saw a bunch of downvotes, (usually a couple of declining comments as well) and then someone like @Alaskan_Son, @solver, @glennw or another power user come on and say "do it like this" and I see a bunch of upvotes. It is very easy to see what the general consensus is regarding the best or even the correct method. If you spend any time on the Facebook groups and see some of the advice (granted the advice on chief talk is at a much higher echelon of quality and precision.) you will see TONS of users who are giving completely incorrect advice on how to do something and basically training bad usage habits, such as manually adjusting walls when an attic wall is not showing correctly instead of going to the attic level to find they had deleted it somehow and there is an invisible wall keeping it from building correctly as a typical example. Chieftalk maintains a much higher level of accuracy due to the power users being so generous with their time and advice. If anyone comes on and gives incorrect advice it is almost always corrected and the person researching can see ok this person with 2 upvotes says do it this way or this user with 3000 says this way it becomes obvious which is correct. Now that being said in NO WAYS should they be used for personal vendettas or just because you disagree with their opinion. But I can understand why in this case some of the downvotes were done because the receiver was telling NEWER users to not do something which the general consensus and even Chief themselves (shown by Dermot's comment) are recommending as best practices and how the program was designed to be used. This to many appears to be misleading advice and other users (I did not actually downvote it although I was tempted to do so,) helped to show that with the downvotes. This is the value that I see with the upvotes especially and in SOME FEW CASES the downvote. Now everyone has their own workflow so to an advanced user as many on this thread are it is basically useless to argue changes to their workflow unless they are requesting information as they are considering adjusting their usage. But for NEWER users the more advanced users if they feel inclined to comment to help them should be careful about personal opinions regarding new tools or the generally acceptable and recommended workflow practices. Again my two cents free of charge and I hope it is taken at it's intention as a personal observation of what has gone down on this thread and the other and the viewpoint of how I considered the votes and ratings when I was "stalking" the forums before as a new user. Hope everyone has an amazing weekend, and stay safe!

Thanks for that Scott. We are without power so my cell phone died before it finished but it was nice to hear about other’s workflow when it comes to saved plan views.

If they are set to automatic heights that means there is an invisible wall that is in that same space keeping the attic walls from being built. Go to your attic level, turn on attic and invisible walls and delete them all twice with auto attic wall build turned on. Should clean it up.

Is it possible you manually adjusted your walls in an elevation mode? If so that turns off the automatic wall sizing you want on to fill the "gap". Select all of your walls in plan view, open the wall dbx and on the structures tab make sure the first two radial buttons (default wall top and bottom height). is checked. That should fix the "gap" problem.

Your lower wall is set to the same height as where I am guessing you want your top wall to be. Maybe it should be 0" "height off floor"? So the last 8" can be the upper wall. Also just so you know you probably want to align the pony wall at main layer outside instead of center (just a guess).

yup right there your easy fix.

Try opening this view and selecting that wall that is a half knee wall between your dormers open it and make it invisible (or use the make invisible wall button once you have it selected.). For the other side a picture of the outside of the house may help explain what you need to do for the roof.

Look at the absolute elevations of each and set your ramp to it.

Yes Joey was saying use the ramp tool with railings turned off and a thick base for the slope. I personally dont understand your last question? Do you mean how do you make the base not have a gap??? If that is what you are asking... then... Like your question last week either give it a foundation or give it a thickened floor. Make it a patio room.

Not sure if it is how most use it or even if it is the most efficient or even intended use but it is where I build most of the model in before specializing in the electrical, cabinets, dimensioning phases. Think of the working set like a semi-all (pertinent) on layer set where you build your model going back and forth but it is a messy section where you can adjust your site, your plumbing fixtures cabinets, etc. then you use the other views as your refined (what you send to your construction documents) views with just what you want showing including reference views in different colors/line weights & types to say show plumbing drops on your floor framing plan view.)

Well summarized Steve. I agree plan views are the way to go. Take the time to learn them and get over the annotation/default sets stigma. Only caveat I would say is if you are successful already and have a good system in place where you rock the annotation sets from before and your system is well defined then maybe you don't need to learn saved plan views as it might not save you time. But in that same token newer users who do not know what you do regarding using Annotation sets shouldn't master those first, work directly with the new tools that Chief has put out. But for most and especially newer users take the time to get PVs down and you will be happy you do. My two cents only and free of charge... Happy Wednesday everyone. Hope you have a successful week!

Import your saved plan views from your template file.

Other reason that happens is when you have a manually placed item which is penetrating a wall layer. Make sure no manual p-solid or other item is going through the wall. Other than that probably will need to upload the file to figure it out. none of the power users are going to another site to download it to help you though so I would recommend you post the plan file here if that doesn’t fix your issue.

Do you have a floor below or a foundation? Same question with roof or floor above? Looks like light bleed. Finish the model with foundation and roof even if not accurate and see if it goes away.

Yeah if it is running slow on the laptop screen only something is up. I have run models close to 200mb on that same laptop without much issue.

That action points to some disruption of signal which is also very sensitive to how your desk is setup. But that sparked a memory of something I read in an Apple forum where someone was having some issue. I am remembering vaguely something about the 2019 having some difference with the usb c on one side versus the other. Try something funny and see if you switch to ports on the other side of the unit if it makes a difference. There was something about how some were receiving more power that the others... can’t recall exactly but worth a shot.

Sorry would need more information. Plus remember to upload you need to have the chief file closed down and out plus chief itself closed. If you are just trying to remove an as-built layout box from a layout simply find the box select and delete. But that probably is not your issue. More explanation?

Draw it right on the railing and add the molding and set it to the middle.

Was thinking the exact same thing! Who would know that off hand. Michael thanks for always helping us with these random issues.

Probably best to make a custom panel. But a quick way to get what you want would be this way. This is an 80" paneled railing with a molding line for the middle rail. Took about 90 seconds.

Did you try manually dragging the column size?

There is a way to set it so that chief uses the proper gpu and not switch back and forth if on battery power. Cant remember exactly but I did this with mine. Sorry not with my laptop at the moment to open it up and try. I don't do much traveling right now with covid and all. But if I remember right you go to finder right click the app, get info and it is in there. I also think there was two ways to switch the graphics card and one was with the power as well which overrides the other option if you are on battery power... (fuzzy memory about it all when setting it up.) If I remember right @johnny had this same issue when setting his up and figured it out in a thread.

I was running one with my previous 13” mb pro but it honestly used the same GPU as in your 16”. Which is super capable. I am guessing it is something in your template slowing it down.