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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....

It maybe a Fascia Board if all the Roof Planes are not Connected properly at each facet of the round , letting it "pop out" best idea is to post a copy of the plan though in these cases....

Would be interesting to see what you come up with and of course pics of the Final Product too when done. M.

You can find a STL File Format Converter online Sherry , eg Autodesk has the free MeshMixer , it will import STL and can then "fix a file" and then export it in a number of other Formats apparently check this page .... https://www.mmmanual.com/export/ The program download http://www.meshmixer.com/ ** word of caution ...I know nothing about 3D Printing I have just read about MM in the past.... M.

Eric is right Help question should be on the Q&A forum really... But a 17" thick material Region (in Concrete I assume ?) will do it and raise the Rooms Molding by the same thickness If you need to Show structure that is another Story...... but you can raise the floor 17" and turn off monoslab ...see the drawing below. . . . . Peterek.Bala Da Platt Development_MHD.plan

Nice solution Mike... useful for other items too I'd think. M

Don't dimensions lock to the Wall dimension Layer OR the Surface automatically? which means you need to change the wall definition to dimension to the Sheathing or the Dimension string just ignores the Sheathing. @Alaskan_Son personally I was referring to the outer surface of the Sheathing ...the back of the sheathing would be the same as measuring to the Framing.... M.

You can change the Dimension Defaults to make it do it , but that would cause CA to dimension that way all the Time ...though you could change it back after working on a particular area if needed I guess but it's not usual as Chopsaw alluded to , as it would be physically hard to actually do this Onsite, unless you are talking about a Deck joist? - you need to change the the Wall definition Dimension Layer to the Sheathing (OSB/PLY) - and set your Dimension Default to the Wall Dimension Layer ( in each Scale eg 1/4", 1/2" 1/8" etc as needed.) -and possibly do the same for your Temporary Dimension Defaults depending how they are set up.

Click on any layout box border and in the ALDO ( Active Layer Display Options) uncheck their display just like any other Layer you don't want to see in a particular view. sounds like you need/want to use the Backclipped elevation for the Island , you can also limit the width of the view and get it close ... in the view , instead of doing it with the Layout Bounding Box in the layout , by opening the Backclipped View DBX and Checking "Clip to Sides" so you get the two Handles appear in the p[plan view , so you can set the width of the View. this does not work for Height wise though

Try zipping the file , it has to be under 25mb to post here ..... delete interior item like furniture or cabinets if needed in a copy of your main plan 1st if needed. M.