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We’re the balconies set manually and not to default? By chance were the windows that went wonky also sharing the room that didn’t change?

Doesn't really help you right now but did you know Chief is giving a free webinar on this exact topic tomorrow? https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/livedemo.html

Nothing to add to Erick’s great advice but love this part in conjunction to your profile pic!

Pretty sure I did this on a modern plan I worked on. If I remember right it worked fine. I believe the key was ballon frame the wall first and then you can mull them together.

@jbaehmer is local to you and a great technician with lots of experience if he is available.

May be something with those particular symbols. Not sure what. Would need the plan file as Joey mentions. But the two labels are identical so something is up. Maybe just the labels are set manually??

Try the Trey ceiling polyline tool in x12. The bottom portion of your ceiling would be your ceiling height (looks like 8') then you would recess the inner portion 4" up into ceiling.

Erick is right you should be looking for the solution in the Home talk forum, but I believe the method I use would work in hdpro as well. The process is called a CAD mask. 1.) First draw a poly line around the underground area but much wider and below where you will crop it when you send it to your layout page. 2.) Now draw the lines on top of the footings where you want to see dashed lines, and change the line style to dashed. 3.) Select the first poly line that you drew and change it to have a solid white or background fill. It will hide the foundation but since the other lines were drawn after it they will show as dashed lines. One point to make, it is also bad form to hijack others posts so please delete your post after reading this and I will do the same tomorrow so as to not derail this very helpful post for others. You have 24 hours and then this message will self destruct...

It is quite possibly the size of the file or if not that a driver. Have you tried printing to a pdf first at say 600 or better dpi then printing from your pdf viewer program to the printer? That is generally quite a bit faster anyways.

If you want to show the doors or drawers open there is an option. Select them and use the open door or open drawer button at the bottom. It only shows once you have selected a cabinet. It can also be done partially open in the DBX to show it only open a little bit with selecting the item you want and setting the amount it is open at the bottom in the Percent Open box. I usually leave them close but open up certain items like garbage/recycle centers slightly to see them as it feels like things get pretty crowded in plan view.

David summed it up well. Just to add one point in your question is that premiere has every aspect interiors has plus so in no way would interiors be better for your focus. It is a lighter version of premier. So you would need to look at what your workflow entails.

Welcome to the forum. It is just a room like any other but instead of a window you use the window pass-thru tool and set your room to Balcony, patio, or? Just something with a roof. Set your ceiling and floor finishes how you want (balcony & patio oob comes with cement floor and no room moldings so that is why I mentioned that one first.) BTW it is really helpful if you can fill in your signature with information regarding your software and hardware specifications as many times that comes into play with getting the correct answer to your inquiries. Warm regards.

By chance did you add something new to your user library?

I have nearly the same specs and have not seen anything like that. I would recommend talking to tech support regarding the chief failures it runs perfectly on mine on even very large files. Only problems I have ever had with the Bluetooth was a device I had that had a faulty firmware issue that was causing an issue. My sennheiser Bluetooth headset.

Try posting a pic of the wall definitions for each wall.

Just to clarify I put my schedule in a Cad detail and it still worked as how Michael said it should. But I did need to have three seperate schedules reflecting one with level 0 one with level 1 and the third with level 2 in order to get it to number correctly (along with preifx 0, 1, 2).

I tried one time and it was literally the exterior perimeter line in a single line format. I never use it. I use it for reference or if it is a complicated footprint and worth the time (10% of the time) then I will import the pdf as a layer in my drawing to trace my walls over after scaling it in chief to the right scale. The dwg or dxf file was not worth the time it took to import it as usually I can do the perimeter in less than 10 minutes just referencing the hover and sometimes way less.

I use it with a few of my clients to get as-builds of exteriors. One uses hover as a backup to a matterport scam. The hover dxf and dwg files are just single line outlines of the footprint of the house (at least in the past that is what it was.

Only cause you lie about your age!

Just in case Mac OSX also has the screenshot tool which does the same thing. Not sure if shipping is this way (imagine so) but in screenshot on a Mac you can set it so the area you grab copies to your computer’s memory so you can go right to your post you want to place the picture in and Cmd (Ctrl for PC) + V (or right click and paste) the picture right into the post. If that doesn’t work you can just drag a .png or .jpeg file right into your post box and it will do the picture for you.

You are getting some solid advice from the guys above. One more bit that will save you lots of headaches in the future. DON'T adjust wall heights in elevation mode. If the wall is not closing in that section there is a reason and something else is causing it to happen. 99% of the time you do not need to adjust a wall top or bottom height. Try going through and selecting all of your walls>open dbx>Structure tab>Select (first two options) default height for top and bottom of the walls. Think about it this way and it may help as you try to learn more. Chief builds rooms which are boxes Box top gets controlled by roofs (if the roof is 12" higher than that box chief will automatically fill in the gap with "attic walls" so that it models out like you would build it. Box bottoms are controlled by foundation heights, set your floor default settings how you want them built at least before you build the foundation and second floor or roof (unless you leave auto-roof on the whole time ((another suggestion on using auto-roof as much as you can. Chief can do very complicated roofs automatically and you don't have to do it all manually as some will recommend. Let Chief do the work for you.))) Hope all of that was helpful and understandable. Best of luck (BTW read up on Copyrights and Architectural design for when you are working with clients.)

Mull them in sets first then together.

That was my question above. Sorry probably wasn't very clear: I guess I don't understand why it would be set that way since when you manually frame a wall you don't lose the ability to make changes to the materials on it? Correct? Just seems like an oddity. I will have to mull that over.

BTW as I am still trying to figure out macros and writing/tweaking the simple ones. Is there a way to see all of the system macros? I know there are the ones that come up when you click on the insert macro button in a text/label box but it seems like there is a short list there of the most common ones. Is there a list in ruby that I can look at? Or is it you just look for the property characteristics for different items and just list it the same? How do you know to use a period to space vs. underscore? I know lots of extra questions. Trying to soak it all in from you guys! Sure appreciate all your time and valuable input to the forum.

Thanks Michael. This actually helps alot more and I think having three schedules broken apart by floor would not be an issue especially as I organize them this way anyways. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction with this.