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Nice Steve , should help someone, you should put it over in the Tips Forum too for other Users.... M.

In my Plan or in the 2nd KB Tut? Trusses ALWAYS build between the Roof and Ceiling plane so my guess would be that your Ceiling plan is at the default 8' or 9' Ceiling height for the Floor but you have raised the Roof ? just a guess cos you didn't provided the Plan or even a pic or two... edit: that KB tut is over a year old ( oct 2017) , so some of the settings maybe slightly different in X10 than in X9 , something I have come across before , eg in the Elevated Structures Tutorial which hasn't been update since 2015.

Forgot to mention , you may want to check the box for "no half post at wall " too so you don't get double Post where you don't want them....

All railings in CA are Walls , so use the Wall break tool and change one immediately so it doesn't join back to the other....eg set the newel height to 72" for part of it.

then make sure to do your Sig. as in particular the Version of Chief in use is important to many questions.... your name is always nice too ....

The Core Content is critical to all Chief built in Materials except some very basics which come with the Original Download. No worries we all start somewhere...... get the X10 Tutorial Guide ( see Help Menu) and work your way through it , when you have time , it is a pretty good Walkthrough for the basics.

Have to agree NEVER paint exterior Walls , just noticed your Foundation wall is a 8" conc. wall but appears to be the same Siding 4 ........ so try making a 8" concrete wall with a Siding layer instead if that is what you need or use Ponywalls for the Siding part. M.

Just noticed that your foundation walls are not aligning to the 1st floor either ..... so you may have other wall definition issues too

The walls do not change for me automatically after applying the gray B&B from the Library to them either for some reason , so I deleted them, change the default exterior wall to Siding4-Vertical, and redrew them them and it works.... ( might be a Plan brought forward issue I am not sure?) When you upgraded did you Install the Core Content on the Library menu? if not you may not have the B&B n the X10 Library Under Materials>Siding

Ahhh you don't have signatures enabled then..... *** to fill in your Signature like this .... go up to the top RH Corner above and click on your UserName> Account Settings> Signature.... and enable Signature (will Turn Green) then add your Hardware Details and Chief Software Version, as different Version require different Answers. ***To add Pics to your Posts please use Windows Snipping Tool , found under Windows Accessories in your Start Menu, Save the Snip to your Desktop and Drag it into the Light Grey Area of the Reply Window.

found it see above...... is it the Siding 4 Vertical you are trying to make/ change too?

You got it. **** but plan is empty? it's there plan just opens way off house..... others ....use fill window icon.... looks like you did your Profile ( i see your pic) but not your Signature , see mine below in Blue for how to do yours....

Make sure the plan is not open in Chief ( it locks it) and drag the file into the light gray area of the reply window... Edit: I also posted a Board and Batten Library for others in the Symbols and Content Forum if you want real 3D B&B

Hi Rod , it has been suggested to me that you need to move this thread to the Suggestions Forum otherwise the CA Team will NEVER look at it.....(and Also make a Formal Submission to Tech Support for a feature Update with Plan.) This and the Sloped Slab are two things Chief needs to address for garages specifically...... *** I think showing dotted lines , similar to how the footing shows to indicate a wall under the slab would work fine.

Turn off colour for elevations , don't send as current screen, and use Plot lines... would be the 1st 3 things I think of..... please do your Forum Signature when you get a chance , thx.

The Integrated or Built in PDF Printer tends to make much larger File Sizes , which may or may not be an issue ? instead of Microsoft's Print to PDF Printer I use BullZip PDF Printer ( Free Version) and have not noticed this but I may not have the fills and hatches you use either. M.

With barns there will always be Manual Framing to do too, so while you wait you can do some reading on the KB , there are couple of tuts. on it about Barn structures : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01069/designing-a-traditional-pole-barn-structure.html and https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00598/creating-a-post-and-beam-structure.html This Test plan of mine may help you get some ideas too... Metal Barn_X10_MHD.plan M.

Chopsaw has the Wording correct..... and you should see this.... assuming Chief Architect Premier X10

When you installed the program , did you download the Core Catalog libraries when asked? if not goto Library >Download Core Catalogs.... Mick.

Add them to the Roof Surface or if the Wall , then add them to a new Wall type as the outer Layer.... their is a selection in the Sheetmetal library.... M

It is , the images below where done by johnny from here on the Forum and are also very nice. There are Cheaper Renders around like Blender and Indigo Render ( I think Thea may have stopped development? Rene would know he uses it (used it ?). https://www.indigorenderer.com/indigo4 If like me you are limited to CA and PBR then the best thread to check out and make notes from is the Lets PBR one started by Graham (TheKitchenAdobe) who has shared his settings and discoveries through experimenting with Everyone here : https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/16912-lets-pbr/?tab=comments#comment-142170 Chief made a Video using many of the settings found in Graham thread , which might be a good place to start at least , the tread has much more in depth material. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2426/physically-based-rendering-technique.html another good thread is the PBR Goodies Thread started by Jintu: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/16932-show-your-pbr-goodies/?tab=comments#comment-142321

Chiefer (Jintu) has been doing it many years and is an Expert in Rendering and also uses other Rendering Programs such as Lumion and Thea Render, most of his current X10 Work is labelled with PBR if that is how he did it , like in his Chief Album/Gallery....... M.

Graham's double Staircase Method may work ?

Those are the 3 fixes for z-fighting that I know too , setting clipping to 300' can help , but these days I have my Roofing material set at 1/4" or thicker by default too. there is a KB article which more or less says whats already written here too: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00107/troubleshooting-why-materials-appear-to-flicker-when-a-camera-view-is-rotated.html

please do your sig. as different versions need different answers , but building the Floor at 9' , then turning off Auto Roof rebuild and resetting the Ceilings to 7'6" should do it I think. Note you cannot turn Auto Roof back on with this method though...ever....