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  1. rgardner
    Search for ignore 2nd floor? Not positive of your issue but that would be my guess of the problem.
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    Well that would actually a separate piece in the way the software works. What Robert is suggesting is that you build a separate symbol to go over the flush mount symbol of the bell shaped cover. That way you wouldn't use a wedge like you said that would be used for the ridge rather a bell that would mount to your ceiling and cover the flat one so it models like it would IRL.
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    Yes, for me I would probably use a molding line or a psolid if I needed to model this but really I don't show this. It wouldn't be worth it to me with all the manual work on the framing. Just a thought of a way to do it with a door that might work if he is not showing floor framing as some don't as they use the joist layout.
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    It is a door that is set to fixed swing out, slab style, same casing as main door color set to casing color and at the end mulled together with the main door. You would have to change the auto label to the door is the only problem since once it is mulled it shows the combination information. The reason it needs to be mulled is to get the casing to show all the way down to the deck and to remove the casing that is in between the two doors. Like I said you would still need to setup the sill itself but maybe someone else has the idea now that we figured out the double door gets it close. Spitballing as I am in the middle of a job maybe making a zero height lintel may help with the non-mulling issue???
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    So I spent like 2 minutes on this and didn't add the metal sill and it has casing below it but for modeling purposes this might work? I think this was the look you were going for?
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    They are trying to help you know what to search. Here is the link for where to find the videos. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/48/creating-layouts-and-construction-documents.html?playlist=105 Since there are many variables on what the issue is and the description you are giving doesn’t help to narrow it down the best bet is to search the database for the answer with your information or post the layout file here if you want help from the pros. Sorry not trying to be rude at all but Chief is a very complex program that has so many uses that they could ask questions for hours back and forth before figuring out what the cause of the problem is and how to remedy it. Best practice is a concise but descriptive question and explanation of the situation, pictures with description of issue, or best yet is to upload the plan or layout file. Hope this helps.
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    Just curious if a custom fixed door set right and below the existing door would model this correctly? Not sure how it would react being placed in the space of the floor system...??? Not at home right now to try it though.
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    I was having that issue on a previous version of x12 and was never able to pinpoint the issue like David mentioned to send it in. But I think for the last two updates to chief I have not seen the issue again. Sometimes simply closing chief and restarting would fix it but other times not. I would have to re-import (???) my saved toolbar setup.
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    yup where it says to the brick in those boxes it should be set to go to your concrete stem wall layer. The rest should be in the exterior portion of the wall setup.
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    This looks like a grade-beam slab on grade foundation which with the amount of grade beams looks indicative of areas with expansive soils. Managed a large commercial project that had a foundation like this in McAllen Texas. Grade Beams were 42" deep and 24" wide with a ton of #5 & #6 steel in them. But in that areas the ground can swell up to 8" throughout the year. I believe that is generally why in Texas ALL foundations have to be designed by an engineer only.
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    Sorry cannot make out from the picture what you are referring to. But yes sometimes frieze boards are troublesome at endings. You can turn them off or adjust them with the roof dbx.
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    Try this: Change your room divider on the porch level to the wall you want to see above then set it to invisible instead of room divider. Btw If you use an actual floor/ceiling beam and posts it is dynamic and the material list is accurate. You can resize it how you want.
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    There is an older mac version which is still supported until the end of the year. They will make you sign an end of life acknowledgment agreement and I think they dropped the price to $149 if I remember right. It actually works identically to the PC version and the main developer told me there plan was to unofficially support it until there web version comes out which at that time their plan is to drop the desktop versions for all platforms. Well worth it to me. Especially if you do some construction estimating/take-off work like I do.
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    I definitely recommend bluebeam revu. Very capable and has lots of great tools specific to commercial and residential architecture.
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    Those are temporary points, in cad tools there is remove all temporary points tool. BTW just to add a tip. In the future draw your north pointer with the property line and select it when rotating the lot lines to parallel with the house and it will be adjusted propertly as well.
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    You don't have a third floor for the parapet walls. I am not sure what that molding is but when I opened it up and saw your walls are "dragged up to position I figured that is probably the issue. Build a third floor with a railing wall set to heights with cap, inside finish, etc. Place your roof system inside of those walls.
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    Read over what Mick mentions here carefully: When you changed the layer temporarily it may have allowed you to print what you wanted but when you swapped them back to the proper layer you will not see it in that view next time. It is much easier to just open the layer set you are using for wall elevations or cross sections and turn that furniture layer on in the place you need it.
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    Are you going to turn on that layer while you have the elevation view active? It uses a different layer set than the plan view.
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    Nothing to really add to your question here, but just a general bit of advice that alot of the power users helped me with when I first started (I stalked this forum a long time before I joined). 99% of the time there is no need to manually drag a wall, and 90% of the time when you do there are adverse affects that you will fight with afterwards. Once you understand how Chief builds things as rooms and boxes that are contained by lower boxes and roofs/other boxes above then you will be able to start figuring out things that happen and how to adjust the settings to model what it is you want. But I can tell you have the bug as Chief is truly addictive! Looking good so far!
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    +10,000
  21. rgardner
    The 2019 Macbook pro 16" works awesome! If you are already a mac user I would recommend it for portability or an imac pro for desktop. Max out the ram and the video if you can.
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    I totally understand. It is addictive! BTW the F1 Key becomes an amazing friend while learning the program.
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    The auto behavior is most likely because you have the OOB setting to adjust for casing and the default casing for the door is not allowing it to go to the corner as it wouldn't IRL without ripping the casing to fit. Either change your casing size or turn off the adjust for trim setting.
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    I agree with Erick it is not 100% clear what you are looking for. Pictures would help. My guess is you may want to look at end to end dimensions though.
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    Once you have the custom countertop selected click the edge you want and an option to “waterfall this edge.” Shows up.