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Nice Trick! So you "paint" the wire mesh to the glass? And that allows you to set the transparency?

Not sure of this but the idea of making it a balcony room comes to mind and makes me think that it may fill it in below? Or possibly just a wall material region?

I do quite a few screen porches but we never do two sets of panels. I usually have a solid (sided) wall below then posts going up to a beam but the posts are hidden in the wall below so it is not modeled. To do that, I use the method Steve did above, however instead of using solid and painting it I use a 1/8" thick panel with the wire mesh as the material. Very clean.

Definitely comes in handy sometimes. Random example is I was working on a faux victorian style home and they wanted a decorative railing above a small non-parapet roof trim where putting an actual railing would not work correctly due to the actual roof placement. Distribution line and a molding line for the railing, quick and simple.

Just to clarify when you have the 'T' turned on the dimensions are not there till you select the wall correct? If this is the case then I am pretty sure what they are telling you about the layer being turned off is the case. Maybe turn your dimensions on and see if they look about the same location? Basic Example: No Manual dimensions placed at all w/ temporary dimension on: Manual Dimensions placed and layer turned on: Manual Dimension layer turned off: Temporary Dimensions Turned on but the dimension layer off which shows the manual dimensions which over-ride the temporary once placed because chief thinks there is a reason you set them where you did and it is the information you want to see:

No as far as I know I don't believe you can set it separately. I guess the procedure would have to be to go to any rooms you changed manually check them back to default, change your dynamic, then readjust those rooms. Kind of a pain but I am guessing there are many who do not change their balcony and deck heights either.

Glad it worked out. It seems to me that when you changed the balcony to -4 that would overide default floor height so would not change when you changed the dynamic default height. Either way glad it worked.

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.