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Try repairing the install via Windows Control Panel:

Thanks DBC. Super helpful as always. Jim

Tyler, Super helpful as always. Thanks again - learned something new. Jim

I was messing around with the settings and somehow my auto roof got deleted and now won't regenerate. Probably something simple, but can't figure it out. Plan attached. Any insight greatly appreciated. Thanks again, Jim GRADY - AS-BUILTS.plan

It's not normal. I had problems with my first install of X17. You might consider doing a repair installation:

Thanks Shane for looking into this. It did not have a stretch plane. But, I figured it out. I had based the panel on an original Chief "diamond rail panel," which I just resized to make wider. However, the original Chief square shape carried through even though I had resized it (?). The fix was I (re-)converted the panel to a millwork symbol and that worked. Jim

Hello - I have a deck railing with posts spaced 6 feet on center. I have a Chippendale railing infill panel about 72" x 33" in size. I'd like one panel per post spacing (stretched), but for some reason the Chief makes the panel infill square in size with 2 per post spacing... Any tips to correct this would be appreciated. Thanks again, Jim

There's a Knowledge Base article on solariums. Might be useful for this. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00454/creating-a-solarium.html

Discussion between you and your designer. Explain your concerns and have him demonstrate how he calculated these areas. That can be done graphically with a polyline that shows the actual area. He should be able to do that quickly.

My first thought is flip door to other side and do a corner sink. Here's one available at Lowes. They are available and might help in this tight space.

Hard to picture without a photo/image.

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.