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Nice Fix Mark .... but that is almost a bug in those Doors isn't it ? who ITRW would want different sized slates on every door ? wouldn't it normally be a panel ( ply/mdf) and the two outer slats would be different sizes as the panel would be centred in the Door Frame.

Did you try the Same Roof Height settings in the Build Roof DBX ?

If you limit the Minimum (Room) size on the General Tab of the Auto Dim. Defaults to 40 or 50 sqft , I have found it is less cluttered ...try playing with that setting and the Undo Button and see if that works....

Check out this thread by Graham Korbey ( KitchenAbode ) , it is definitely worth a read and there are settings to start with ( post 20) which will likely help , but Bathrooms , especially white are tough with all the reflective surfaces.... with Luck Graham will see your Post and Chip in here too with advice if he has time... M.

Yes, when you Built the Front entry you made it with two rooms so you will need to adjust both, that in this case can be done in each Room's Specification DBX at the bottom , see the included Pics. You can either do As i did as an example for you and have a landing by the door and two steps down to the lower area or make them both the same and configure the stairs differently but you have 26-27" approx between the Front Door height and the Driveway to make up somehow. here is my plan too so you can look at it... Bella_Storia_high_ceiling__MHD_2.plan M.

See my reply above Joe..... it is because your Template Plan used for New Plans must have the default foundation setup to do the house at 37 1/2" minimum and the Garage at 24" minimum change that in your Template Plan as explained above and all Drawings from now on will have the garage and house at the same level. This height is usually set at the default Frost-line height where-ever you are , if your jurisdiction has one ? for some that might be 48" and for others there may not be one set by the City/State. you will need to rebuild the Foundation in any current Plans as Auto-build is Off currently. Mick.

The default behavior Eric mentions can also be turned Off it needed ...not sure if it will lead to other issues in the Plan though ? and then you can delete it. Uncheck the Connect Island rooms box in the Pic. You may want to add your own Room Dividers Back to designate the Kitchen , Dining Area , Living Rm etc as CA tends to "remember Rooms" sometimes even if they are no longer there and it should stop any automatic walls returning.... M.

Do a Back-clipped Elevation view of the Island , then you need to open the elevation camera's properties DBX (dialog box) and put a check in the Clip to Sides box , then you will get two extra handles in Plan View ( shown above ) , you can then drag these two handles out/in to the required width and restrict what is in the view. there is a training video actually.... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1944/tradition-ellen-kitchen-sub-project-creating-kitchen-island-elevations.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1944/

Lumion is too expensive for most to own but if you really need a Movie Walkthrough then an Option would be to have one of the people like Jintu (Chiefer) who does this for a living Render it for you. @Chiefer M.

your 1st pictures above have green lap siding and now just above blue Fiber so I am a bit confused as to what the issue is? are you referring to the fact the garage foundation is not as deep as the rest of the house ? that is controlled in the Build Floor>Foundation>Garage Options DBX , your garage settings must be different from the house ? ***They are I just looked...... 24" vs 37.5" , make them both 37.5" and let it rebuild. You will lose the foundation at the front entry doing this as it is setup incorrectly , set both rooms to monolithic slab foundation and lower the floors.... one by the door to say -2" ( porch floor and house floor should not be at the same level due to possible water infiltration issues) and the outer room to -20" and add a few steps or lower both to -2 and have the steps wrap around the whole thing .... that would mean a different foundation though at the garage wall. pic only shows one step but you get the idea.....

Post the plan again Joe , cos it doesn't like like that in my Plan ...did you fix the terrain height? Did you decide to change the siding? you haven't opened an old copy of the plan by accident have you?

good thinking Perry , I was thinking a polyline cos the interior was selected too....

One method ...another in the full thread... Whistler Builders Thread https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/13653-fascia-mount-railings/#comment-116446

The new X9 Tutorial Guide , along with the Reference Manual and User Guide would be worth a download too , if you don't have them. The Tutorial guide isn't available through the Help Menu like the Ref, Manual and User Guides but is pretty good , at least for what I have checked out so far. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/documentation.html M.

Couple of old videos by Dan Baumann on Roofs which maybe worth a viewing for you, since the Roof tools haven't changed alot since then.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5Y4OAfQQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxd2CsGw9sM&t=8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8vwRQ1L2g and one by David Michael of DMD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDre96W2ic

It looks like it maybe the Exterior Room outline which you converted to a polyline with fill perhaps unless the blue is just your selection colour?

In the Home Products the Railings are mostly determined by the Template you choose to start the plan with eg Arts and Craft or Cottage etc , someone else asked a while back so I posted some images I had here.... perhaps you can buy a particular Library you need though? eg the Arcways full Library

Quite often you can reuse exiting Roof Plane by using the Copy and Paste in Place tool and then dragging the new Plane to another location , then locking the Pitch and using the Fascia height to raise it up and down to get it close , then you can use the Roof Plane Joining Tool to get them perfectly joined back together. If you don't see a Ridge Cap it is usually a good sign the roof doesn't have a perfect join. You will see in the 1st pic I messed with your Roof as I didn't like the large roof plane slope from the front view personally, so I added a gable wall using mostly the method above eg to copy the garage small roof plane to other places.... and knowing the CAD Tools and how to break a Line ( not a wall ) is useful too. You can tell if a roof plan has been manually edited by checking the Measurements section of the Roof Plane>General Tab....see Pic 2 below. Added the plan file too so you can see what I did.... M. Bella_storia_high_ceiling__MHD.plan

do a search on fascia mounted railings and you should find one where I and Glenww are discussing this and he shows a way to do it and another by WhistlerBuilder i think it was who had the same question...

sound like you just choose the wrong wall type for the lower part of the pony wall ...try Brick-6 and change the brick to the Grey Ledgestone.... select the terrain and open it and uncheck automatic height and set your own say 28" since floor is -26 in the garage ... the terrain DBX assumes automatically a negative value since the main floor height is 0"...

might be worth watching to if manual roof planes are new to you.... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/25/drawing-roofs-manually.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/724/joining-roof-planes.html

Sounds like you have the X8-2017 Library , I may have the X9-2018 one? both are free , Maybe Buechel updated their catalogue to currently sold products?...... https://3dlibrary.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?r=site/detail/1020 actually it maybe related to the fact you "painted" the stone on instead of changing the material to that stone in the Pony Walls Definition ? as it says it should be red brick ...once I changed the ponywall to the correct material it turned up okay in 3D views , but you will also need to change the ponywall to the 6" type , as there is a 6" wall above a 4" wall now and you can see the issue that causes in the garage by the door. one other small quirk in CA you likely don't know is you MUST have an interior Casing , even of garage doors in the DBX (dialog box) normally if you don't want a casing set all the sizes to 1/16th inch or the Door Jamb and Casing don't show properly in 3D.....(looks like it flickers or is too thin/see through) BTW either the garage floor is set too low at -26" or the Terrain is too high as your Drive way is cutting into the Garage doors about 6" up the door... easily seen from inside the garage if you set the main door to show open in 3D M.

Looks like you got it I agree with Eric , the Roof looks a bit strange.... looking from the Front or Curb view ......the added advantage of the "Cricket" he shows is that it will help slow the water down during heavy rainfall , so the small gutter at the bottom is not overwhelmed ...that is a large piece of Roof, coming down into a small 2' foot Gutter and it is right at the front door , so you don't want it overflowing. you will likely need to use manual roof planes to change it around..... you seem to be using a old Buechel Stone library I don't have that in my Library.... or maybe i have the old one? M.

it is a gutter ...... turn off roof planes in the 3D view to see it ....see below.... and you need to re-join the roof planes on the RH side of the round..... I Need to dig a bit deeper to find out which roof plane it is that is causing it.... ***EDIT.....OK I found that you have maybe 10-12 little Roof planes at the Apex which you need to delete.... I would make both the Dutch Gables the same size as well , ie match the house one to the garage one....

close the Plan in CA X9 1st and then you can just drag and drop the Plan file right into the bottom of the Reply window where it is light grey. saving a copy to your desktop 1st ,with a slightly different name , is maybe the easiest way to do that....