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Looks like it might be ceiling planes from a second floor room. If it is, find the room and check 'no ceiling' for that room.

Nice work Mike.

I'm afraid you'll need a 10 year old neighbor kid for that...

Your efforts and energy are very much appreciated Wendy. You are a true asset to this community. (And yes that's a blatantly transparent attempt to encourage you to post more tutorials and helpful information)

Very well put Wendy, appreciate your input.

I agree Buzz, Some of the techniques in Chief are way too complicated including, if not most especially, Anno Sets. The good thing is that once Anno Sets are learned and set up, they don't have to be changed very much in the future and their usefulness is undeniable. It's also good to remember some of the posters on this forum represent a very elite user group and can sometimes forget about new users and the steep learning curve Chief possesses. They also forget that the percentage of users who even use Anno Sets, let alone understand them, could be a very small percentage of total Chief users. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a large percentage that doesn't even use Layers effectively but that's the nature of all of this kind of software - it's complicated. Is Chief more so? Maybe in some regards but there's no short cuts to learning any of the design software and as has been posted above Anno Sets, even though complicated, are a very powerful tool and once understood will save tons of time.

Nice Bob, Keep us posted on progess please.

One of the best parts about Chief is how flexible it can be. You want your text on the active CAD layer? Why not? Should it be there? For you yes, for others maybe not, Use the tools the way they work best for you.

Here ya go Randy. Quite a few other issues but keep on stroking, you'll get it figured out.

Another good method is to increase the thickness of the roof material. It defaults to 1/8" (I think not at my machine) and a sinple increase to 1/4 or 1/2" solves the problem too.

I don't think the field set up would be that difficult and if your crew had a lot of experience it would go fairly smoothly I would suspect (soil type would matter as well it seems), but for a one off situation I would think it would come close to a break even situation with the over dig and additional labor versus concrete costs. I work in San Diego and have designed/remodeled a few really large homes and have never seen this detail on any house ever (talking about the original as-builts) but still nice to have in one's tool box.

The tech folks at the last UGM warned against using DropBox for file storage. Backup no problem, but they described a scenario that could corrupt a file. Just sayin'.

Michael gets the credit me thinks but these exersizes are great reminders.

Never come up against the same parameter. Actually never had to pour a 3 ft. deep perimeter ftg. nor have I ever seen one spec'd even on the most complex house designs, but again nice to know and have in the tool box. And of course that's not the way all mono slabs are designed or poured guys, really, but I can see it for larger more complex jobs. My remodel jobs never need a design like that but they might benefit - not sure. Joe, what do you do with that design using Chief's tools, just add a detail? Or too complex an answer to go into here.

Cool, just never seen it and I think on my smaller jobs will not use it but nice to have in the tool box if ever needed.

Never designed, nor have had built a mono slab with an offset like in the above detail - in 15 years. Just sayin'.

Eric, select the room>materials>select materials>check Use Default Material in lower left of dbx. fixed. The room material was over riding the wall material. EXACTLY as Michael described above. I misread his original post.

Michael, this didn't work when I tried it. I tried it wrong DOH. I selected the wall not the room. Nice.

I think that was the method I was searching for. It works with the method I described but I think this method is faster/better.

Eric, I think it's the 'default' material and the wall might have gotten painted at some point. If you change the interior and exterior wall material from default to the stone material csv...it works perfectly as it should. Not in the wall dbx, but in the material tab. Learned that about many moons ago from that would be smarter about such things. ...and did you define a new wall, in Brian's plan, by copying the/an old wall that had the same default material? Sometimes the default setting will mess things up. And wait, I'm pretty sure Glenn is awake and he can set it straight.

Brian, Try changing the interior and exterior wall materials from the plan's 'default' to your csv2021t. Sometimes if a wall gets painted there's no retrieving it, not saying that's what happened, but if you change the interior and exterior wall materials in the materials dbx your stone texture returns. Only tried the fireplace but might work elsewhere as well.

Mike, It's a good question and one a lot of us face. I talked to tech support about a PDF issue I was having and their opinion was that printers have not kept up with enough memory to handle a lot of the bigger files we send to be printed. Yesterday I was trying to print an 8.5 x 11 page of 3 pictures to my HP 110 and it was choking and printing only 2 and 1/2 images. My usual cure is to print to PDF then print to the HP but I had the same problem when trying that. The problem as it turned out was that each picture was really large as I did a screen capture from either my 27" or 32" screen, creating picture files much larger than I needed, and much too large for the printer's limited memory. I then reduced each image to 800 x 640 (or thereabouts) and everything printed fine. The HP was choking on the image size because of its lack of memory. Just a thought for the future. EDIT: ...and not the 'size' of the image as you shrink it on the page with its handles but the actual picture size in pixels, altered in a photo editor.

Curious. How do you select another roof material with the material painter if you don't have another roof material defined that you can select?

Create/copy a new roof material and apply to the areas you want a different color.

That seems a great/better solution, is there a down side?