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Can you get the room to be shaded (selected) with an adjoining room? If so it should show any walls that the room definition is going through and thus is set as no room definition.

That is generally the issue when something is missing in one view and not in another. That item is turned off. Sometimes it gets put on some layer that doesn’t make sense in your head. Best way to find it is to change to all layers on select the item to find out which layer it is on and then go back to the previous saved plan view and turn that layer on.

Just set your Ceiling plane manually as well as set your rafters to the right height. I do it all the time with timber framed porches just without the rigid.

If I am understanding the request properly you can set a custom ceiling structure for that room with the rigid foam and the tongue and groove.

Don’t recall where I got this (pretty sure from another post). And I don’t think I actually ended up using it so I didn’t mess around with it much. But maybe this will help? Roll_Up_Garage_Door.calibz

Have you tried doing a regular wall with an opening with no jambs casings or threshold? Sometimes on those stepped ceiling floor areas room dividers mess up the 3d

The schedule is fitting to the 2d or 3d symbol height. If the large lines bother you I believe you can change your text size to a little larger so that it fills it in a little more. But of course if you get it too big it will look funny when printed.

Chief is just trying to fill in where walls are needed according to what is input. If you are trying to do a roof over the stoop and you want it open to the rafters above select the room “porch” and unselect the radio button of flat ceiling above. Occasionally you will need to delete the ceiling structure member as well but that is rare. The attic walls will only be created where they are needed on the side. If your trusses or rafters sit right on your top plate of your wall below then no attic walls will form as they are not needed. But if you use a raised heel truss as many do, or your truss base is siting up above your wall top plate then chief will fill in an attic wall above it.

As far as the other issues a plan file would probably be best in order to figure out what’s happening.

I saw this on Facebook but didn’t have a chance to respond. I believe you are asking for the support knee walls in your foundation crawl space to support the joist floor system? Chief builds rooms even in the foundation so I believe your solution is to set your ceiling height in your foundation to the bottom of the joists and then build the walls. If you have auto framing on if you adjust the wall framing you need to open that wall in structure and select the radio button for not to auto generate framing for that wall to keep it from resetting to what it thinks you want it to do.

Haha no I live in da campo of Panama so my internet is always slow 9/1 so when windows updates it takes a long time because of the speed. yup I try not to get into the os debates other than maybe when sitting in the pool with my Dad in Mexico. I was just trying to help the OP see the differences and still understand what makes Apple a great product. Speaking of, I am in Mexico next to the pool... I think it’s pool time!

Yes I realize that. My intent with that comment was to help the OP in his decision as he is going from an Alienware laptop to a Mac mini. Two different style of machines.

I agree that with Apple products it just works. The absolute only time I have an issue with my computer is when I try to run one specialized program that I use for BOQS that is absolutely only windows and I cannot find a suitable replacement for and have to run windows with parallels which in that case it will always have a stupid update that locks the computer up for sometimes hours while it downloads with my slow internet! But basically what was stated is the truth. Apple just works because it is controlled with the hardware and software. It is not quite fair to compare an Alienware laptop to a Mac mini. And yes you would need to run apples to apples (forgive the pun,) to get a fair comparison in which case the Apple equivalent will most likely cost more because it is balanced properly. In my life experience it generally costs more to have more convenience and quality. That is what Apple does best. Just my two cents (free of charge) regarding Apple products. Everyone needs to do what is best for their circumstances but please don’t ask me to go back to PC because I won’t ever. I am happy with the cost and the quality and product I get. For me the extra cost is worth it to not have downtime worrying about my drivers and ramping my fan because it needs to run faster when I do x, it does it automatically. It just works... I hope this helps the OP in his decision making.

The new Mac pros start at $6k and go up to north of 60 so yes they are extremely capable and able to be upgraded completely. My Mac pro is 2 years old (previous version) and runs GREAT. It is difficult to upgrade the GPU on those models but it comes with dual capable units so I should be good for many years. My laptop for travel is a pretty good unit and is probably similar to the new Mac mini but I always bring my Sonnet breakaway puck travel E-GPU (external video card) which gives me the higher capabilities. If I was looking at upgrading to a new unit I would probably go with the new MacBook Pro 16” laptop hooked up at home to some much larger high resolution monitors, with maxing out the ram and GPU option. Probably a good $3-3,500 computer though.

That is a very good friend. All of the Minis I have used or seen come with a built in GPU not a dedicated and are not able to be changed. A newer one may be different but either way Chief will work with enough power and ram behind it but will not be amazing for PBR or regular rendering. There are external gpus that can be added and make it a very good system. They are really more like a laptop for power in a small form factor but they are great little machines and if you give Mac a chance you will not go back!

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I believe the OP was trying to figure out how to add it to his library. Unless I misunderstand his question.?.? Has definitely happened before.

Same answer for the walls. Export and import from your template.

Was the floor manually changed leaving a double floor thickness? What is the ceiling below set at? Could it be 8” joists and 8” rafters?

In times last it was pretty reasonable $99 per year. Just FYI if you do end up hoonh to premiere they generally give a good discount towards the upgrade.

Probably an easier way to do it but add one of each to your library. Unblock and adjust words.

Put a an invisible box around the text (change line style to the blank line or change the color to background). Reselect both the hidden box and the text box and block them together and add to your library.

Did you designate the rooms as porch and deck? Sometimes if it’s set as unspecified it will drop it down to the foundation “room” below.

Yes Michael I think you are right he was specifically talking about the title label. I do the same thing for each page. Set it up on my template as I have pages for everything there with the labels all centered as yo mentioned.

Yup best way to do it for renderings. But note that will not copy the plan rather it makes it a 3d symbol so once you have done that it is not able to be adjusted like a regular plan. Make sure you have a saved plan of the garage. if you are good with the house and the garage and are just trying to do a 3d rendering you can do it with both the house and the garage in a separate file to keep it streamlined in size when you add lots of landscaping/hard scaling details.