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You're welcome. Hope it works out. Always frustrating having to redo work you've already done!

Joshua, See attached. There were some missing assets (image files, etc.) and I did not see any floor plans in the layout file, so I printed them as separate PDFs. Jim NOPAL - FLOOR 1.pdf NOPAL - FLOOR 2.pdf Nopal_V2_FINAL_2026_10_31.pdf

Think so - I have all these versions installed on my PC and have not run into any problems.

Joe, There's the bonus catalog you could download, but you probably have that already. For more flexibility you could create a toilet partition wall type and similar door. I gave it a try (in blue below). Here's what I came up with in about 5 minutes. Mixture of full height walls and railings. Actually, back to the topic of the Chief catalog symbols -- it appears they have stretch planes built in, so I think you can stretch them to suit your plan. Jim TOILET PARTITIONS TEST.plan

Lee, This icon:

Thanks Shane for your input! - Jim

I have the Plot Lines Color Fill option turned on for this elevation layout box in order to show solid fill material backgrounds (black roofing, black fascia, etc.). (X17) Is it possible within Chief to print to PDF with this color fill option turned on but have the final PDF output be greyscale? Thanks, Jim BTW, this is what I'm looking for below... I was able to do this by converting the Chief PDF to greyscale with a 3rd party app. Just wondering if I can do this within Chief without resorting to workaround.

Christopher, Does this setting get what you want? Looks like it's on a per-wall basis.

If you have a later version of Chief you could look into the Material Builder tool:

You're welcome. For future reference, it'd been better if you had posted this to the General Q&A forum section. That's the right section for something like this and you'll get more eyes on it and a quicker response! Jim

Try an exterior bifold door Type. Go to Options and make some changes:

Yes - recently having issues with Adobe Reader. It would freeze up with larger PDF files and I'd have to close down with Task Manager. I figured an Adobe issue or maybe Windows. Jim

I think it's under the "Edit Layer" option:

Thanks for the insight and tips!

In addition, you used to be able to quickly turn off a room label by simply selecting it and hitting the delete key. This feature has gone away... Bummer.

You're welcome Larry. The X18 room label changes have been discussed on the forum. I think the room labels were given more features, hence the UI change. One feature that was taken away was the ability to easily pull a leader from the label text. I found that pretty useful in X17 and previous.

Larry, Select the room label and then the icon circled below:

Autodesk has a free DWG viewer that allows you to view Acad files: https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg-trueview/overview

Possible workaround: I did a pass-through window with shutters in a room divider wall then set the wall as a furred wall. Lastly, I moved the wall up against the interior face of the exterior wall. Seems to work. X18 Plan attached. Jim INTERIOR WINDOW SHUTTER TEST.plan

Very nice and good job! If you're willing, post more photos. They would be great to see. Jim

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