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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.

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

Yes, layer locking is the way Chief handles this. Pinning is unique to Revit I believe. I think it's been suggested before, but you might make the request under the forum suggestions category. After all, the squeaky wheel gets the grease!

Yes - dealing with this right now on elevations. I reported this to Chief a few months back and they acknowledged it as a bug: Jim

Actually you can set the radius to zero and the marker will go away (X17):

I suppose you can turn off the toe kick for the whole unit, reduce the unit height by 4", float it 4" above the floor and then build 4" separate bases (3D solids or cabinetry?). Similar to some cabinet installations that I've seen where the base cabs do not have an integrated base.

I was able to get the vaulted ceiling framing to build by checking this box:

Thank you. Got it to work!

Thanks John for your reply. I'll give it a try!

Good afternoon, I'm building a curved pergola and want to distribute some purlins radially across the top of the shaped / curved beam below: Is a radial copy even possible with Chief? If so, could someone point me towards a video or forum thread that explains the process please? I had trouble finding this. Thanks again, Jim