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Thanks to everyone for the very responsive and detailed help. I will work through all this! P.S. I went to the grocery store and came back 1 hour later to all this good input. Really a helpful community. Jim

Tried that but didn't work.

I thought it was automatic too... Plan posted. I clouded the area on Floor 2 so you can find it. Thanks DB. KELLY - PROPOSED (2).zip Jim

Good morning to all, My mulled window unit is not suppressing the room's wall base / molding. You can see the 4" base running through the window unit below. Is there a setting somewhere for this? As a test, I deleted window unit and replaced with door. The wall base stopped at the door as expected. Thanks again for help, Jim

Looks really great! I think I read in a previous post that a limitation of a single stair flight is that it cannot overlap or cross over itself in plan. Is this why you stacked 2 sections? Jim

I just looked at Newegg and they still have cards with Cyber Monday discounts, but ending soon as it's now Thursday. (act fast!) I'll let others recommend a card, but I have a Nvidia RTX 3080, which works well for me. Jim

Thanks Mark. Looks pretty cool. I'll try this tomorrow. Jim

Thank you. Jim

I've been following this discussion as I've also shared Kristjan's concern about the clarity of OOTB standard window and door callouts. I personally think inches underscored is a classic and clear format. Don't think superscript would even be necessary. But, I suppose getting the underlines to work would be a macro job. Jim

Thanks DBC. Jim

Brilliant! What a cool tool. Thanks!

This is maybe out of curiousity and for my own education... I added this fancy circular window from the core catalog after I could not create a circular window with a muntin pattern from the window DBX. However, I see that the library window seems to be a "true window" according to its specification. It got me wondering: how come I cannot create fancy muntin patterns for a "regular" window? Or, shouldn't I be able to recreate a library window using regular window specs? how are these library windows different -- if at all -- from regular windows? Are they leftovers from older Chief versions? What are these creatures? Thanks, Jim

CAD and BIM software can be complex and trying. I've been doing this since the early 90s and I always felt that it takes a minimum of 6 months to get familiar with a new CAD program. Longer if it's 3D. I bought Chief a little over a year ago and I finally feel it's starting to gel with me. I hope you persevere. Keep your expectations reasonable and stick with it! Good luck, Jim

So... what's the mystery program??? Curious!

Not sure if this is your scenario, but if the overlapped lines are duplicate lines on top of each other and if you have Autocad, you could do cleanup in Autocad before you export to Chief. Use the "Overkill" command. It's a handy command that deletes and consolidates duplicate linework. Jim

As a newish user with a newish perspective influenced by the software I used to use, I'm pretty happy with Chief. Very good customer support, tutorials, user forum, etc. I definitely appreciate that emphasis. And, the software is robust. I sometimes feel the software could use more spit and polish. Kind of hard to qualify. But maybe that's something we need to live with given that it's a smaller company... Lastly and with regards to priorities, I would always prefer improvements to basic architectural features and tools over any new 3D content (furniture, fixtures, etc.) and maybe even cabinetry tools. Not complaining, but to me that stuff should be secondary to the basic nuts and bolts. Hope Chief takes this as "constructive input!" Jim

Is it this one?

nothing like a little office drama, right?

Rob, can you clarify what you're looking for? Jim

touche'!

Conceptually, it seems like the option to exclude an individual object (window, door, etc.) from dimensioning would solve this, no? Similar to including / excluding an object from being scheduled.

I googled "PDF to PNG." There are a number of online tools you could try. Jim

thanks!

Super - worked like a charm! Chopsaw, just to confirm and that I'm not taking crazy pills -- Chief does not have basic perpendicular object snaps and that this is instead handled by the make parallel / perpendicular tool? Jim

Yes, good solution and probably cheapest for short parapets. I wonder if there is a point where the roof mfg. stops warranty on product where it stops being roofing and turns into siding? Another thought for general parapet detail - I'm inclined (pun intended) to slope cap flashing inwards to drain toward interior roof. This helps avoid dirt streaks down facade from grime build-up on top of parapet.