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Thank you for taking time to explain this. I think I tried the dense hatch pattern trick a few years back but did not like how it made the model sluggish. Jim

Good morning, Is it possible to have a material color show a greyscale solid fill in layout box plot line display? For example, I have black painted exterior trim on the garage door pergola (highlighted below). It'd be great to this appear as dark grey solid fill on my black and white plot line elevations. When I go to edit the material pattern there is no solid fill option. Is there a technical reason for this I wonder? Thanks again, Jim

You could send this into Tech Support and see if they will confirm it as a bug or expected behavior. They are usually very responsive.

I believe it's because you had those balcony walls defined as railings with pony walls: I don't think pony walls are necessary here. The balcony lap siding half-height wall starts at the floor level. (The stucco wall is on floor below). So, I redefined the railing walls as solid rail style with newels/posts as post to beam. The post location seems to work now.

Damon, I just manually edited the floor elevations of the Garage rooms only. In this case as -24". (Also, your house does not have a foundation). Does this help? Jim

Thanks for the insight. Your explanation of how Chief schedules things based on text only really explains this scheduling behavior. Jim

Thanks Michael. That's a good workaround tip. I sent this in to tech support and we'll see what they say. I feel this is a bug or at least a program deficiency. Schedules should automatically report these as different windows. Jim

Brett, Thanks for the reply. I think I'll submit as a suggestion to Chief for them to look in to. Jim

Hi, I have 6 fixed broken-arched clerestory windows (1-6 shown below): These should schedule out as 2 types (left vs right arch) with quantity 3 each. Yet, my window schedule shows them all as 1 type, quantity 6. Chief seems them all as one type and does not recognize the mirrored window type. How do I fix this scheduling error? Thanks again, Jim

If a plan, section, etc. is too big to fit a sheet at a certain scale, you divide the plan into separate parts across separate sheets. Usually two parts across two sheets. The match line is just the graphical symbol that shows the reader where the two halves were divided. Here's a common symbol used for it below. It's similar to a double section arrow but with no arrows. On the side of the circle where the other half of the plan would be if you had enough paper you simply list the sheet number where it resides in the set. This site has a pretty good explanation: https://www.07sketches.co/post/mastering-architecture-graphic-symbols-a-beginner-s-guide-to-reading-architectural-drawings

Another thought I'd add is many building departments prefer 1/4" residential (1/8" commercial) standard scales in my experience. Jim

Rob, Arch E (36" x 48") is pretty big. Can you make Arch E1 (30" x 42") work? That's quite common and I do this if 24"x36" does not work. 3/16" scale in my opinion is unconventional. Although 1/8" is common for commercial. Another alternative is do match lines. That said, my opinion is "paper is cheap" and in the end I'm more inclined to go with a larger sheet size w/ standard scale than try to rework stuff to fit the smaller sheet. Jim

I'm new to materials lists, but this could be what you need. It looks like the Components tab controls the material list reporting for an object. I just deleted component items for these 3 base cabinets and just left the hardware. I did this in X16. This is what the material list reported:

Somewhat related to this, but I needed to model a deck edge bench... I got a reasonable representation by tweaking the standard railing wall settings without any custom profile. Top rail is widened for the bench seat, bottom rail is resized and pulled up to just below the top rail and the middle rail is used as the mirror copy of the bottom rail. Thought I'd share:

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.