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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:

Glenn, Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try tomorrow! Have a great day. Jim

Seems like it. See help section:

Thank you!

Anybody having problems loading their models? Jim

Curious how someone would go about modeling these windows below. Window openings in masonry wall with shallow arched lintel, but with rectangular retrofit windows. My first thought is maybe arched pass-through window on top of a standard window, but just a guess. Thanks again, Jim

Ok - idea #2 -- on my porch (below) I offset the shed roof -6 inches in Z direction. Result is the front porch beam drops but side beam stays put. Do you think your roof is lower than the porch room plate height?

One possibility (but kind of doubt it) is you have a vertical offset for the railing beam...

Not sure. I suppose you could turn off for all and then go back and manually add the fillers where you need them? Maybe others know a better way?

I think you need to turn off auto cabinet fillers in cabinet defaults:

Thanks Mark for the input. In the end I wound up making a 3D face as roof infill. Can't say the endpoint snapping was easy though. Jim

Alan, I took a stab at it. Attached. 1) I put a break in the level 2 exterior wall (at corner where the split level occurs). 2) Full height exterior stucco wall here. 3) You had a gap between roof plane edge and stucco wall. I moved roof in. 4) Changed wall type here to be Interior-4 if roof plane abuts (wall with pony wall). Jim RHK DD V1a.zip

Greetings, I'm trying to model an existing roof that has some funky roof plane infills where a bunch of dissimilar roofs come together. You can see it below, sort of sloped triangular roof planes: Here's where I'm at. So far so good... So, I want to fill in at spots (1) and (2) below. I thought I'd use the 3D face tool for the first time and call it a day (seemed easier than trying to do it with roof planes). But, I'm having trouble snapping to the right 3D points in 3D view with the 3D Face tool. Any tips? Is the 3D Face tool the right hammer for this nail? Thanks again, Jim

Very clever - thanks for teaching something new! Jim

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.