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Well, I really struggled with this very same problem today and came across this thread on how to break a straight stair run into different widths. What I discovered is first use the break tool (hotkey 3) and then select the further refinement of "make complete break." All I can say is "give me a break!" This is probably old news, but thought I'd post in case it helps. Jim Screenshot below showing straight run with staggered widths.

Jason, I'm still learning the ins and outs of Chief. It's only been a year... First time adding a cap like this and was "stoked" by the result, until I saw this weird condition. Just trying to be accurate and have the cap appear on the elevations. I will look at your wall material region suggestion. Thanks for the tip. Jim

I submitted and got a quick reply. See below. Looks like it's normal behavior, but they might try to improve it. Jim Hello Jim, Thank you for contacting us regarding wall caps on stepped pony walls, and for sharing a link to your ChiefTalk post. As noted in that thread, there isn't a way to suppress vertical wall caps, and the best solution is to remove the wall cap from any stepped walls you may have in your plan and model separate wall caps using Molding Lines. I will submit a request for a way to suppress vertical caps on individual walls to our Software Development team, and I will also bring to their attention the way wall caps build on collinear pony walls with different heights. Thank you for bringing both issues to our attention. Regards, Anne S. Chief Architect Technical Support

Mick, I took your advice and submitted it to Chief so they can take a look at it. We'll see what they have to say. Thanks for the tip on creating the brick sill profile. Jim

Thank you Tea Time for your insight. Jim

Good morning, I'm working on an as-built set and am trying to model this brick condition (circled): I've got it looking pretty good with the exception of the brick cap snaking vertically down the wall. Is this expected behavior? Thanks again for looking at this. Jim

Thank you. Jim

Thanks Steve for this tip. I tried Mick's suggestion, but might try this next time. Jim

Thanks Mick for the suggestion. I gave it a try this morning with good results: Jim

Gene, Thanks for your insight. Jim

What's the "least painful" way of modeling this elaborate applied pilaster / crown trim around these existing windows? Thanks again for your help. Jim

Huh - go figure. I used your solution and seemed to work quite well as a "true" 3d solution w/o CAD linework. There's just no pleasing people I guess. Jim

If everything flows downhill at least you'll always wake up in the living room!

Thanks for the other option. Yes, I used room dividers. Still trying to understand how Chief does horizontal section (i.e. plan) display/view ranges. From what I can tell it's mainly hard-wired and does not allow user override and sometimes you just need to know the best technique for what you want to show. Jim

Joe, thanks for quick reply. Will do. Just to clarify, Chief will not represent step down in plan view on its own and CAD line needs to be added? Seems a bit strange but now that I know I can live with. Agree it's an "ankle buster", but it's an existing house I'm drawing up. Jim

Good morning, Quick question - I have a 6" sunken living room. I've managed to model it with the step down: . But, shouldn't Chief show the step(s) down in plan view? Do I have a certain layer turned off or should I just draw CAD lines to represent? Thanks again, Jim

Gene, Thanks for the info. Can you quantify the cost difference? I do a lot of additions to older houses where ceiling height is critical and therefore often call out shallow joist size. Actually, I guess I could take a look at Menard's website to get an idea... (Also, I found your input re. room plate height based on drywall sheet size to be good info. too!) Jim

Got it. Thanks for clarifying! Jim

This edit tool is available for a Cad box in plan view, but I'm in a CAD detail view and it does not appear for me... Unsure why. Jim

Getting into using the detailing tools and digging it. Quick questions - possible to convert / explode cad box to polyline? (I believe the answer is no) I read a past post that you can convert the cad box to a 3D solid and then to polyline. But, I can't figure out where the convert to 3D solid tool is when I select the cad box. Thanks once again, Jim

Thanks for looking into this. Jim

Thanks for this tip. I had a similar cricket problem last week and this is helpful. Jim

I'll report this and see what Chief says. Certainly a "small potatoes" item. Jim

Yes, I'm sure too! Thanks for the tip! Jim

Not sure if this is correct behavior or a minor glitch that I could report. I typed in "+/-" as part of a schedule note without any spaces. I noticed paragraph word wrap does not work with this letter combo and push it to the line below. See screen shot with highlight below. I would have expected any letter combo without spaces would be treated as a "word", but maybe punctuation or special character combos are different. Any thoughts? Thanks again, Jim