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There have been a couple of excellent videos on this topic from some power users to check out:

If you want to the Ceiling non railing wall Less than full height equals railing and you can set the height by setting the railing height which is on top of the pony wall height so if you want it to 80” and your pony wall is set to 42 80-42=38”

All kidding aside. I am interested about what people are mentioning about the vertical second monitor. I use a 32" curved oled Samsung for my main monitor (jealous of those 43 & 55's, might have to consider a wall hung one in my next office (hoping to move after this mess with Covid is up and will hopefully have more of the office space at the next location.) My secondary monitor is an LG 25" ultrawide which I have always used on the side which is great for takeoffs (another portion of my business.) and obviously I use that for my other necessary browser, email, etc. windows as well as my project browser, Library, and ALDO. My desk mount allows me to rotate it easily so I just tried that and I am going to give it a try for a little bit and see. But was curious as to what people have seen is the benefit in portrait vs. landscape mode on these ultrawide secondary displays. Great thread @Hammer7 Sorry to kind of hijack it, I almost started another post but thought this part kind of goes with what you are looking for of the different techniques of what to use for optimal workflow.

That is the excuse I use with the wife too. I really needed that new TV...

Just looked at it and your exterior wall has the exterior material set to drywall. Most likely you were using the paint materials tool on accident? Go to the wall (or use the paint tool) and set the exterior material to default again.

Thanks for this post, I learned a little tidbit I had not come across yet, it is good info to know about the different materials and makes sense why chief models it that way. Just curious as to why you are using polyline solids to frame that instead of actual framing materials?

Try F1 for help on this there is several selection on what the area is.

Although there are some similarities between the two versions with this particular part of the software they are done differently. It is highly recommended to look for your answer in the home talk forum so you are not spending your time with answers that don’t work for home designer pro.

Slight tweak is to use a saved plan view with the railing turned off after taking a cad detail from view, copy and paste the adjusted section of railing you want in place on the view with no railing.

I do lots of them and everybody has a different style. mostly if I have a double stack closest to the house is bottom and upper is farther away. If three or more the lowest goes on the inside of the wall and the uppers are stacked on the outside.

Could be that on the page information tab the include in schedule is not selected? If that is not the issue this is your best bet to get help.

It has to have been manually adjusted (dragged in a 3d or elevation view. As Erick wrote let chief work for you. 99.9% of the time the walls do not need to be adjusted manually.

Try clicking on and opening the wall and go to structure tab and make sure default wall top and default wall bottom are clicked. Looks like it was manually adjusted in an elevation mode.

Is it by chance your window was manually moved over and is barely sitting on the laptop screen as well as the monitor? Try full screen or fit to size window adjustment???

It almost looks like the Frieze board trim may be causing the issue in the first pic... Is the settings for it normal?

True as well as when using pdf takeoff software such as bluebeam’s REVU it is “clickable” in that it is easily measurable from different points.

Not at computer but try raising your rake wall slightly so the wall caps align.

I saw this on a clients file yesterday where there was some glitch that was not allowing it to show properly either even with setting elevations level correctly. He had started the drawing way away from x/y so I te entered the house model and I suspect that has something to do with the glitch. Didn’t have time to Reconstruct the whole terrain but a quick fix was making the center section a garden bed feature changed the elevation by half an inch and made it grass. It worked in that situation. As @Chopsaw mentions usually it is not an issue but something in this clients template I believe had it messed up. (There was something like 35 errant dormers between the four levels on the project so not sure what he did with the terrain.

Jared is highly recommended!

By chance did you adjust the shape of those manually drawn attic walls in an elevation view? If you manually edited them you may have pulled them up above the lowest layer of the roof system cutting it off? Hard to tell exactly what the problem is without seeing your plan.

You can save these in a couple of ways so that they are not filing up your template plan file and bogging it down. Method 1: Block them and save them individually in your user library and place appropriate notes in each plan. Method 2: Save a Misc. notes template plan with them in Cad Details (not the same as your regular plan file) and then reference them to your final layout file. These two methods help you keep your file size small in your plan. BTW nice easy to read plans.

I did get it to behave finally. It was cutting off my exterior walls before but I think the key was the no floor part. I had already removed the ceiling. It still showed a couple more glitches with some molding lines and corbels I had on mine but even though I didn't have a flat ceiling selected it was causing a weird gap so when I deleted the flat ceiling definition it took care of it. Figured there must be a way to make it work correctly. Thanks for the mental exercise everyone!

So did you do them as an attic wall? or just on the 2nd level? Maybe that was my issue as I think I tried it on the first level.

Care to explain? Did you do the roof baseline first?

Are you able to keep the auto roof feature on somehow? I know how to make the roof but am trying to get it to automatically create after manually adjusting that roof baseline.