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I couldn't find a setting to do this. As a workaround, you could use a bottom rail, make it smaller, and then offset it so that it is hidden inside the stringer.

Use the "horizontal offset" to move the railing outward. Turn off the bottom rail and use the "raise/lower bottom" to drop the balusters down. Use the "bottom offset" to drop the newel posts down. There are lots of other settings in the railings that you might need to adjust to handle the rest of that railing style. For example, you will need to change the size and offsets of the top railing to get that look and you might want to use a symbol for your balusters and newels if you want the tops and bottoms angled.

Are you using the "export picture" tool? Do you have "retain aspect ratio" checked? I think if you don't have retain aspect ratio, and you turn off "use active window size", you can accidently squish or stretch the picture. If you need the image to be a different aspect ratio, then either set your window size first or edit the picture in a photoshop type program to crop it after exporting it.

I wouldn't bother with a "down" ramp. Just use a normal "up" ramp. Set the width and length to the width and length of of the room and turn off the railings. Turn off automatic heights, check the box for "lock heights", and then set the base height to 0, the bottom of the ramp to 0 (or to the floor height), and the top of the ramp whatever you need it to be. Ramp should then sit on the floor and slope up as much as your need to the top height. As for the room heights, just treat it like a normal room with floor height set to the lowest value.

Ramp should work if the room is rectangular. Would probably want to use a poly solid for any other shaped room.

I think there is a way, but it will be a bit of a pain because you will need to do it for each unique roof plane. Start with an orthogonal full overview. You will need to turn off everything you don't want to see. You can do this by putting each roof plane on a custom layer and turning off all of the other roof planes and any other layers you don't want. So the tricky part is setting up the camera angles so it is looking at the roof plane dead on. If you open up the camera dialog and go to the "positioning" page, you can enter the camera angle and tilt angle manually. You can figure these out using math, but hey, who really wants to do that? Camera angle should be pretty easy since it is just the plan view angle looking at the roof plane from perpendicular to the wall. If you have any walls that are at odd angles, you might need to go into your plan view and use the make parallel/perpendicular tool to make the camera point at the wall perpendicular to it. The tilt angle is a little tricky but you can just open the roof plane dialog and check the box for "pitch in degrees" to get the actual roof angle. Now if you set the tilt angle to (roof angle-90), I think it will always be dead on. Now you should be able to print out this view to use for your model. Just make sure that you use the same scale for all of them otherwise you will have a hard time putting together your model.

You can always try using a new wall type that is only 1/16" thick. Might not be structurally accurate for all situations but would look how you want in a plan view.

I couldn't figure out a way to do it automatically. I tried playing around with the framing reference marker but it didn't seem to make a difference. Might be something you need to submit a feature request for.

First, I would encourage you to give your posts better titles because I almost ignored this because I thought you wanted to hire a draftsman instead of ask a question about the program. Second, making a railing symbol (like Joey suggested) should always prevent the railing from affecting anything else in the model so technically it will work and there are some situations where this is the easiest way to get what you want. In your situation, I'm not sure it's needed and would be less flexible than just using a normal railing. This is what you should get if you just turn off "flat ceiling for this room" and turn on "use soffit surface for ceiling" for the porch room: Not sure how you have things setup but if you post your plan someone can probably help figure it out.

Is that a real "note" or is it just a text object or callout? I played around with the notes and it looks like there might be a bug in X17 because it doesn't work like it used to in X16. As I move the note around, the arrow end is moving in strange ways. So it might not be anything that you did.

I assume you mean "stretch to fit" but basically it sounds like what you are doing should work. Could either be a problem with the image you are using, or a problem with the way you have setup the material, or maybe something else? You could try posting the image on the forum but it would probably be best to post the full plan (and include the image) if you want someone to dig into more.

At the bottom of the dialog box in your picture above it says "currently active dimension defaults". These are the dimension defaults for the view you are in. The other place you can find them is if you use the "edit active view" tool and go to the "selected defaults" page. This will show you all of the defaults that are being used for the view you are in.

As Chris said, you need to make sure you are changing the "currently active dimension defaults" for the view you are in. If you use the "edit" button at the bottom of the "saved dimension defaults" dialog, it should give you the correct ones. I updated my picture above to show this. If changing the temporary dimension defaults still doesn't work, you might need to give us some more information about what you are trying to change. You might want to also post the plan you are having the problem with.

Try this:

What's the error message? Are you using the latest update? These are usually problems with video cards (or the drivers) but it could be a program problem too. You really haven't given us enough info to make better guesses. See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If not, then you might want to contact tech support.