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Joe, I just tried your idea and reversed the walls so that the exterior wall layer was to inside of porch room. Did not seem to make a difference unfortunately, i.e. did not force deck plpanks to build to inside. My guess is Chief has it so that deck planking builds to the exterior room boundary rather than exterior layer of a wall. Thanks, Jim

Well, I think I figured out a workaround. Not sure if this will lead to issues down the road... A Deck Room is an exterior type room and I believe I read somewhere it is designed to generate deck boards to the exterior edge of the deck walls that are not adjacent to interior rooms. So, I created an adjacent Open Below room next to the Deck room to get rid of the exterior space and it seems to work. The interior deck boards now stop at interior wall surface.

Sorry Michael - not sure if I understand the question.

Hi Gary, Thanks for looking at this. Seemed promising, but it still generated a border plank within the walls. Jim

Is it possible to have a deck room's planking stop at the inside of a wall instead of running to the exterior of the wall / floor platform (e.g. w/ a deck offset value)? I have an existing enclosed screened porch and I thought I'd tried to show the flooring with true deck boards. I know deck rooms are supposed to be exterior, but was wondering if this can be finessed as a deck room type w/o resorting to manually adjusting deck board widths, etc. Thanks again, Jim

Switched over to X18 and noticed I often get the blue spinny Windows "circle of lag" when I try to drag and drop a Library Browser item into my plan. Don't remember this in X17. Any fix for this? I think this was brought up in a previous thread, but couldn't find it. Thanks again, Jim

I think so. Tech Support followed up with me today. They weren't able to replicate the problem and neither could I. If it pops up again, I'll send it in for review. Thanks, Jim

Good idea -- I'll look into that for the long term. Just curious about possible loss of this copy/paste ability. I might report to Chief so they can review. Seems to work with text objects, but not notes.

I used to be able to copy notes (keynotes) from older Chief versions into newer versions in order to quickly populate my note schedules. Does not work anymore. For example, I could open an X16 project, grab all my demolition notes and copy / paste them into a new X17 project. Just tried this X17 to X18 and it does not work. Anybody notice this? Jim

I like to share my models with clients using the Chief web 3D viewer. Does anyone know to what extent using 3D cladding affects the 3D viewer model size? Does it increase it dramatically? Just curious as I know there is an upper limit on the model size for the viewer to work. Thanks, Jim

1/2-way through watching your video. Thanks for taking time to do this! Your comment about Chief needing to polish the product resonated. That's one thing that has been on my mind since moving to Chief from Autocad. Overall I find Chief a better product, but ACAD is in general more polished, which makes for better user experience. Glad Chief is working on this. Jim

Thank you for your feedback! - Jim

I saw X18 was released today. Looking forward to using. Question to the beta testers: any big issues with crashes or bringing forward X17 drawings? Or, is it ready enough to download and start using? Thanks! Jim

To follow up, I got a reply back from Chief about this issue. They were able to re-create it and are going to look into it. Jim

You might consider a landing-sized skylight above with a sloped shaft toward the stair. This gets you the headroom clearance and looks intentional. The truss mfg. can design for the roof opening.

I sent in to support for their review. I'll reply back when they answer. - Jim

Thanks for confirming Dianne. I may send in as bug report. I'll see if others chime in too.

I noticed the outside corner lines of my bay window are not generating in vector view... Plan: Vector view elevation: As a test, I wondered what the result would be with exterior walls. Same result... Shallow angles (1) do not generate the elevation line, but 45 degree walls angles (2) do: Anybody know why? Is this a bug or is there a setting that controls this? Thanks again, Jim

BTW there is an Autocad equivalent, which works very well and solves this visual problem. I'd think Chief could implement something similar.

OK, I think this is a better solution: I created a fixture symbol designed to cut the wall it hangs off of. It is placed on its own dashed layer, so looks graphically acceptable in plan. Credit goes to some past forum posts (Alaskan Son et al). Updated PLAN attached. See clouded area. Jim ADOBE TIMBER LINTEL TEST.plan

Joan, I took a stab at this. I modified a Fixed Door object to serve as a timber lintel that you can manually place above a door or window. Looks good in 3D, but has a big graphical problem in plan display -- the lintel shows up and cuts the wall where it preferably would be hidden or dashed in plan display. I imagine someone smarter than me can figure this out! But, maybe this is a start. PLAN attached. Jim P.S. I was really into adobe architecture in college so this brought me back. ADOBE TIMBER LINTEL TEST.plan

Very helpful. Thank you! - Jim

Hi Shane. I believe a material. PLAN attached if you are able to take a gander. - Jim SCREEN PANEL TEST.plan

Greetings, I've created a porch screen panel millwork symbol with stretch planes. When I resize the panel, my screen infill material "stretches." I would like the grid hatch to not stretch and remain at 1x1. Thanks again for any tips. Jim

You can create a terrain perimeter hole that you can manually edit to follow the stairwell. Select your terrain perimeter object and then click this option: