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Try going down to the foundation level and double clicking on each foundation wall. Should be a 'height' setting you can change. Make sure auto rebuild foundation is off. " It still shows the original 16" width in section no matter what I change the width to, or how many times I rebuild and refresh. " You may have typed this wrong but won't the width show the same in section matter its size/width? Did you mean depth? If so check above for one method.

Worked a treat. Thanks again.

THANKS, I'll get to it shortly.

Sad but true. There is a way to do almost any 3D shape you might want but the methods are arcane and take a lot of guess work and learning to do so. Some shapes there are no short cuts and need to be created using Chief's tools. If you are committed to Chief it might be wise to dive in and learn them, but again, no easy task.

I've got a couple of windows that span vertically both the first and second floor but only display on the floor they were drawn on. Is there a way to get them to display on both the floor they were drawn on and the floor above and or below? (yes there are structural concerns but I'd like to get the floor plans correct for the contractor's review.) Here's a 3D shot below is the second floor ..and the first floor. Neither floor showing the windows on both floors they span.

I see an options drop down with a delete button.

Lew, Can you get some relief with the cntrl and - key?

...me too.

I fight extra lines in elevations constantly and a lot of the time I give up trying to figure out where they come from and edit them out as suggested. The only problem is that any refresh of the elevation and you have to edit them out again, and again.

The answer is yes of course they could. Will they? Another question entirely and one that the answer has been no to for a very many years. It would take a lot of programming effort no doubt but it would fundamentally change Chief into a modern, 21st century software application.

That's called a modeless dialog box and it's needed through Chief IMO.

Last post I promise. Glenn was helping trying to figure out the problem with this plan and with input from tech support it turns out that a thick (29") wall that was used to create a deep niche was too deep for Chief to deal with. Glenn discovered that 21" is as deep as this plan would tolerate. Anything over that and Chief built double slabs. Who knew?

Tried it 4 or 5 times and kept getting black on white, double checked your send to Layout dbx and I had "Use Pattern Line Defaults" checked. Unchecked that and it works great. I know these posts can get really convoluted sometimes and again I really appreciate your hanging in there with this but the video did the trick. Never really knew we had this ability in Chief. Thanks.

Thanks so much Chop, That looks like what I'm trying to get done and I think your suggestion in post #16 and Glenn's affirmation of Color Off might do the trick. Really appreciate you sticking with this and I'll try it in the morning.

Sorry for not being clearer in my original post but the picture in the OP is of an elevation sent to Layout using plot lines. These lines seem to always be black on white unless the pattern lines are set to a different color in the Layout Box, which changes all the pattern lines. The material definitions also seem to have no effect on the pattern line colors, again when sent to Layout using Plot lines (no color). Individual lines can be edited in Layout or you can place a trans. mask over the patterns but I don't think any other setting will change those material pattern colors in Layout.

Yes, as mentioned a couple times in previous posts but a good reminder.

Just heard back from tech support regarding the double slabs being built on the plan attached in the thread below and it turns out I had defined a wall as a 29" thick wall that Chief could not resolve. They recommended 2 walls instead and I am not sure how large a wall can be spec'd before Chief doesn't play nice but in case someone else runs into a similar problem look for a thick wall and either delete or create using smaller walls. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/11638-disappearing-flooring/

Yeah that's it Robert. When I send any vector view to Layout using those setting (no color selected) I get black lines on a white background. I can change the color of the 'pattern lines' but all the colors of all the patterns change. I would like to change the color of the chimney pattern lines only as shown in the OP. Decent chance I'm missing something but I can't find a way other than a trans. mask or edit each line in Layout.

Yes that works for a vector view, as I just posted above, but the elevation is a plot line view sent to Layout. Can those lines' colors be changed? Or in this case to a shade of gray? This feature would be awesome and asked for a couple times in the suggestion forum where parts of a Layout view can be changed to show different parts of the plan in different shades of gray but the only way I know how is to use the Edit Layout tool where each line can be changed or use a transparent mask. Would love to find out I am wrong. Forgot about the pattern line colors, but it changes all the patterns' colors, roof pattern, brick pattern etc.

You probably need another stucco material of that different color. When you go to edit the stucco material click the 'copy' button and name/define your new color stucco and apply that only to the wall(s) you want that color.

Thanks but I was looking to change the line colors in the elevation view posted. I've never seen an option to change pattern line colors for the elevation view in the material dbx. What am I missing? I can see where the line color can be changed for the vector view in the general tab but a plot line elevation seems to always show black unless edited in Layout as Joe suggested.

Same here. I think Alan mentioned in another post he was on the X9 Beta team - perhaps it's an X9 file?

Yeah that's what I thought Joe - thanks

I want to gray out just the lines of this chimney pattern. Is that possible?

It's historically been most important to shop for software first then adjust your hardware for that software, not the other way around. Today, probably not as important. Nothing worse than being uncomfortable with your computer no matter PC or MAC. Find a system that fits your brain and technical skills/know how and build from there.