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Thanks Jason for your input. I'll need to study this a bit. Jim P.S. thanks again to all for taking time out to look at this. I appreciate this forum!

Rene, Thank you for the video. I did not know about the extend slope downwards setting. Jim

Thanks Mick. Jim

Doug -- confirmed! I guess I'll just do manual roof planes and cut my losses. Thanks for the input and giving me a better understanding of auto roofs. Jim

Brett, Thanks for the tip! I tried this out briefly and that seems to be the solution. By generating a roof baseline polyline and then cleaning up the plan jogs, the roof reconciles itself into one monolithic roof. I'll dive in further tomorrow. Jim

Good afternoon, I'm trying to model an existing rancher. It has one big monolithic gable roof that covers the many jogs of the exterior wall below. So, the eave depths and wall plate heights may vary accordingly: I thought I'd try to make this happen with Auto Roofs. (See below). I can see Chief uses a uniform plate height and eave depth. The result is staggered ridge lines and upper gable end walls. Not the desired result. My question -- is it even possible to model this condition with auto roofs? Or, am I better off just doing a manual roof? (I know how to model this manually, but am trying to improve my understanding of auto roofs. But, don't want to pursue a lost cause!) Thanks once again, Jim

That's an interesting idea. Thanks for the tip! Jim

Good afternoon, I'd like to add a column to my window and door schedules that simply states if a shutter is present (yes / no). Is this possible? Thanks again,

I believe the easy solution is allow snap to objects in the layout box. That would make it easy to grab the CAD detail border and then position the layout box precisely on the layout sheet. Autocad (my frame of reference) does this easy. I wish Chief would do this. Interestingly, I recall Revit, like Chief, not having this feature and being a source of annoyance to me. The annoyance being we go to great lengths being precise with the model and then we have to monkey around trying for precision on the layout sheet.

Larry, glad it worked out! Have a good one. Jim

Thanks Eric. Jim

Anybody else ever get this error message? I would get this before in X15. Happened again today when I installed X16. From what I can tell, this is Wall, Stairs, Railings catalog. Perhaps a name mismatch? Does not happen with any of my other catalogs. Jim

Larry, Maybe adjust your top/bottom schedule margins to add some space? Jim

Thanks! Jim

Have people been using the new release with success? Just wondering if it is stable enough. I'd just as well migrate my older X15 projects and start using X16, but I thought I'd ask first before I take the plunge. Thanks again, Jim

Mark - Thanks much! Jim

I created a simple pony wall symbol out of solids with a stretch plane to lengthen the wall. However, when I stretch it the stone wall material does too. How can I keep the stone material from distorting? Thanks again, Jim

I have a framed railing wall with... 1) Stone veneer below 2) smooth paneling above Question -- Is it possible to have 2 wall caps? I currently have... 1) wall cap at top 2) would like to add a stone watertable midway. I am having trouble adding this watertable. Thanks again, Jim

Ron, Download the Wayfair Trade library catalog. There are items under "Patio Chaise Lounges." They look pretty good. Jim Edit -- whoops - several people beat me to it. I guess I need to pay attention! Jim

Tested one workaround that seems okay. Select and make all project walls non-schedule-able. Draw some full-height sample walls off to the side that report to schedule. Seems to work, but unsure if this is worth it in the end... Result:

Thanks Brett. Appreciate it and have a good weekend. Jim

Brett, That's 100% true! Came across that today and have the walls I want ticked: I'm just looking to have my dynamic wall schedule not display pony walls below, which is distracting / misleading IMO. To confirm, there is no way to have the wall schedule ignore pony walls and just display full-height walls only? I tried Doug's solution, but seemed global. Thanks, Jim

Doug, thanks for looking into this. I gave it a try, but might be missing something. If I change the pony wall plan display, it affects the display plan-wide (globally) including the schedule. However, I'd like to change display for schedule only. I think the schedule gives priority to displaying walls with pony walls if they exist over full-height walls (?). Jim

Good morning to all, Putting together a wall schedule / legend and have a couple of questions: 1) Is it possible to turn off the dashed footing shown in the schedule? 2) I noticed the 2D symbol is displaying some walls as a pony wall graphic -- essentially displaying 2 stacked wall types. I'd rather just show as full "pure" wall and turn off the pony wall below. Is this possible? Thanks once again. Jim P.S. Finally exploring schedules (windows, doors and walls) after 2 years of Chief (slow learner). I'm diggin' it and appreciate what I'm seeing.

I looked at the 3 different "drywall" materials I had in a plan. 2 were identical and 1 different as far as I could tell. Allowing multiples of same material name makes things a bit confusing. Jim