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I've had computer and browser (Firefox) crashing this week related to a recent Nvidia GPU driver. That would be my first thought on this. You might try to roll back your driver to see if it helps. Otherwise, I find Chief pretty stable.

Christopher, I'm by no means an expert on this but I gave it a quick try. Might point you in the right direction at least. I drew up the polyline profile for the top built-up rail and then added to library. You can then replace the standard top rail with this library object. By sizing it right and messing around with the vertical offset, seems like you could make it work. I assume this can be done for the bottom rail too. Jim

Thanks Chris - Good workaround! - Jim

Hi, I have an exterior wing wall condition with brick both sides. I've created the new wall type but the sheathing, air gap and brick layers don't wrap correctly at the wall end. Any help greatly appreciated. Plan attached. Thanks again, Jim Existing condition: Plan: 3D with gap shown: WALL END PROBLEM.zip

There's a "Seeking Sevices" category of the forum. You can post a request there.

Yes, there was a forum discussion about this not too long ago:

Looks like the Brockway is already available in a Chief catalog:

If the steep lower part of the mansard roof is in fact part of the second floor construction / perimeter then maybe it can be interpreted as "wall" rather than roof? This would be a discussion with your planning / building officials. I would contact them and see if the planning code can be flexibly interpreted to help your design. Just a thought.

Immediately thought of a mansard roof. I'd imagine there's precedent for it in Poland. Perhaps it can work in your case.

Shane, Could you do this with two layout boxes stacked with different plan views? One plan view with standard walls (all layers) and one plan view with black poche' and main wall layer only? Here's a test: Jim

I've struggled with this too. One thing I've done is first draw the wall with a larger offset -- say 36" -- then move the wall into place. I've found this can keep the short segment from deleting. Jim

Thanks Michael for confirming. I think I'll post this as a suggestion to Chief. Jim

Good morning, My default CAD box has no solid fill, but my CAD Cross Box has a solid white fill: Where can I change this? I.e., when I double click on the tool icon, no default settings appear. Can't quite figure it out. Thanks again, Jim

Robert, Super cool! I learned something today thanks to you. It seems the process is sort of convoluted... Do you think it's worth a suggestion to Chief to allow these patterns to be automatically available if the materials are already part of the project file? If so, I'll make the suggestion. Seems like material and cad patterns are pretty much the same animal unless I'm missing something fundamental. Jim

Hello, I'm doing some quick and dirty elevation cleanup with CAD boxes and I'd like to I have my stone fill pattern "Mill Creek Country Squire" available as a fill pattern for my polyline box. In other words, I'd like 2) CAD fill pattern match the 1) material pattern: I'm confused that the material pattern is not available in the polyline box fill pattern pull-down list. How do I make available? Are these material patterns different from CAD patterns? Thanks once again, Jim