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Elliot, Your interior wall surface was overriden to Artic White: Change it back to Default Drywall: The result: Jim

I just submitted to Tech Support. Will see if they have any input. I bet you're right. Jim

Just upgraded another project X15 to X16. Again, manual dimension value placement is affected: X15 (before): X16 (after): Anybody else seeing this? Jim

Doug, All that did was create dimension leader lines to the dimension values, which were put out of position by the upgrade. I'll see if Chief chimes in on this. Unsure if it is a "glitch." Thanks, Jim

Chief, Please look into and correct if possible: One thing I noticed upgrading older X15 projects to new X16 is my manually adjusted dimensions get screwed up and I need to readjust. Seems consistent across projects. Perhaps others have noticed too? Here's before: Here's after: Thanks again, Jim

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: