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Print to PDF and then Print it at 135-150%? on the Larger Paper . I used to Print to PDF on 12x18 at 100% and then have it printed at 200% on 24x36 if needed and it worked fine....

The program has a materials list but it only contains exactly what is in the model ,check out the Reference material for help on how to use it ....knowing that it is not perfect or infallible , should work for basics though.

You are in a Vector view (orthographic camera?) in that pic , which means you left the Pattern colour as white and didn't assign the Pattern to be Brick either It also appears as if your Standard view texture (pic) needs to be rotated 90° to work as a Wall Brick in a standard Brick pattern. ( brick looks like it runs up/down in DBX pic above not side to side) easiest way to get it right is to copy a brick from CA's Material Lib. to your User Lib. the Open it and see how it is setup correctly.

Did I not see a video on you doing this Yusef ?

I had noticed that too actually , and like you am not sure what the difference is....

Temporary dims don't show IF you already have a manual or other auto dim already in the same place , and I can't explain it but what you are actually seeing is the Dims you put on the plan while in Plot Plan View , delete one or two of them to check as I did and then they don't display while in Plan View Set as Temp Dims. Your plot Plot Dims are off in Plan View , so I'll have to let someone else give you a better explanation and the fix .... M.

looks like time to turn your Full Editor Options back on again D. M.

Correct ........ I missed the "elevation" part of the request after reading just the title ....

In Plan view (Or a 3D view) you can just open the Camera (not the view) and set whatever angle you need too. M.

grey is the default selection color ,(which can be changed eg pink works well) so if you get it you have a closed polyline assuming you are talking about a CAD circle? for whatever reason in CA if you use the CAD circle, box, etc Tools ,although they are closed by default , you still can't add them to the library , but draw a box out of CAD lines and when it closes you can add it to the Library. However, the pre-drawn Tool items you can add by --- convert to polyline solid --- then convert to plain polyline in two clicks and then add them to the Library , but as Joe and the others mentioned for columns etc there are easier and better ways. M.

This Theme addon may help with some of it Joe , I hate the all white look too.... http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7935-color-window-borders-title-bars-change-windows-10-a.html

I was thinking like Perry , that's a dumb dumb place to put that default, Rooms are not Floors... and Decks/Porches etc are never at Floor level at least around here.

All you need to do to add the footing is open's the Walls DBX and on the Structure Tab at the bottom check "create wall/footing below" ( don't check bearing wall unless it is, as it may change your joist direction unexpectedly) if Auto foundations isn't on you may need to Rebuild the Foundation to get it to show , if that isn't possible as you've got work you don't want deleted then , use Glenn's method above. ( you may need to setup your Defaults for Slab Footing 1st under Walls)

Solids and the Transform / Replicate Tool will work , it will copy ,raise, rotate etc the 1st one you make.... Hard to see the Stringers but a solid maybe the only way for that too. M.

I'm thinking it's WAY more than imagination ...more like a talented Engineer , that looks at everything (and understands how it works) as an Engineering challenge You might be one of 6 ? people who could make Chief do that , and I am not sure any of them Work at Chief ... they might have to hire you to be able to Push CA forward into the realm of VW , ie. can you program something you don't understand ? Not of course that there are many residential House's with "Flower" style Roofs of course so perhaps CA just doesn't have the resources to incorporate stuff that isn't needed in their target market especially when there are other "simpler" issues to deal with like Stairs and the Structure DBX to deal with 1st . Personally I'd be happy if I could use my $3000 Software to design a simple piece of custom furniture , with joints etc like you can in SU , which I really don't/didn't want to have to learn too. M.

Yes Mark , it is a setting in the Defaults>Plan.... about 3rd option down ? near "ignore casing on resize" I actually have it set in my template plan just incase.

Changing the size of the System Partition will destroy Win7's ability to Boot as you are moving the Start point of the Boot Partition on the HD, so make sure you also know how to do a Startup Repair with the Win7 DVD , you may need to run the startup repair 2-3 times before it works properly...don't panic if it doesn't work the 1st time you run it , it should auto attempt repairs once it locates the existing installation of win 7 and then reboot but may take more than one run through before it works. (remove the dvd between tries or it will boot from it again) M.

I'll have to watch that myself as Win 7 only makes the 100mb System Partition if the Drive is unpartitioned when you install Win7, if the Drive is pre_partitioned it doesn't alter the existing structure. Only trouble I've had so far was on two computers I had rolled back to IE 10 from 11 , one was fine after reinstalling IE11, the other was a bear but a 2nd required Update also needed uninstalling and reinstalling before I finally got the Get Win 10 App to Work and was able to reserve. M.

Yep , I understood what you wanted , but am now wondering if the Beam wouldn't block the cross block's view ? would depend on the cut height perhaps?

Tanya , you could try Sketchup's 3DWarehouse seems to be lots of hits on Kraftmaid, the symbols can be imported in to HD ,though I am not sure what your version is capable of. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=KraftMaid&rsi=sbis&backendClass=entity

That is one PITA I am finding on my S3 too as you have to use the on screen keyboard and it doesn't auto popup (at least for me) when you have a text input box which means having to open the taskbar and click on the keyboard icon 1st ....everytime Does Chief only work with Disto Lasers ?

If you use a custom newel (post) as Bill suggests Perry instead of the Auto Newels, it should work fine but Yes I guess CA should do this auto like other posts

Did not know this was possible .....surprised they aren't pushing it more along with the Room Planner App ( which is Android now too) Hopefully someone can report back how well it works etc , might be worth it for us Windows Tablet / laptop users.... M.

I did something similar in this thread but Perry is likely the one to help since I think that's what they call Cali Framing https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5784-porch-roof/page-2#entry50811

Couldn't find Perry's old Post to bump up but If you haven't updated in a while there are refreshes of a few catalogs available today, maybe more for you depending on what you have installed but some of the Core Catalogs were updated too