PitMan71

I get your sentiment BUT you only have to create them once. Just right click over the custom object and add to library.

You might try creating a new user account on your computer and opening Chief Architect from that new user profile to see if the issues persist. My guess is that only the necessary catalogs would be installed, which could be a good way to test Rene's theory. I would also recommend starting fresh on the new machine and installing only the catalogs you actually need at first. Once you're confident everything is running smoothly, you can install the rest of your catalog library. I'd hate to see you migrate the existing problems to the new machine. By staging the migration, you'll have a much better chance of identifying the culprit if the issues return. Something to think on anyway. Good luck.

Check your wall definition settings under wall properties tab.

Is this roof set for the framing to auto refresh?.... I have run into similar situations before but framing refresh had been turned off. Stretching the hip out and back in again usually fixed it. post your plan if you can so folks can have a look. ALSO, make sure your roof objects are set to "Trim Framing to Soffits" on the structure panel.

That's a great question. AND yes, we don't want to lose all of your work. looking at this again..... Open your foundation view, click on that far right foundation wall, Open Specification dbx, Structure Panel, Check the box at the top that says "Default Wall height".... looks like somehow the top of that one foundation wall object got changed. I should have checked that to begin with.

The space on the right under the room designation structure panel doesn't have monolithic slab selected and the other side does. You could check that box, delete your foundation and rebuild and that fixes it. You could probably just rebuild foundation without deleting. I usually just leave the space/room settings as is and build the foundation how I want when I get to that point. in my case, its conventional (monolithic slab NOT selected in room settings) and when I build slab I choose block up or slab on grade and sometimes conventional.

To break things up like you are wanting you will probably need to use polygons with another schedule to report their areas. You could maybe even use it in conjunction to what you are using now.

looks great! Well done.

Use two doorways beside one another set the opening/half wall the height and distance off the floor that you need and use the mull tool to mull them.

This is good to know. Thanks.

No magic. Just grit ..... A combination of wall and roof intersections. First you have to identify why you are getting the behavior you are getting. Chief is just responding to its objects directives. Sometimes I delete things to see what specifically is causing the behavior. After finding the offending object and undeleting it I adjust it to get the outcome I am looking for. When you work with roofs and walls intersecting the directives are pretty basic, but sometimes like in your case there are multiple walls and scenarios creating a complex situation requiring a multifaceted solution. In your case it wasn't one thing. It was multiple things that I needed addressing.

Attach Garage 6-2.plan.zipi was able to get it looking a bit better.

I am trying to export jpg images straight from chief floor plan. Anybody got any suggestions to make the image sharp? No matter what resolution I export to the image is grainy.... I am able to get a sharper image by exporting to PDF first and then using preview to export to jpg. Seems like there should be a more direct way. Thanks

No problem bro. Happy to help.... I have been where you are.

Yes... I saw that before. More than anything I wanted to make sure I understood your request. Regarding the pieces of wall poking through, that will be a bit tricky. There is combination of moves here that will yield the desired results. Figuring that out will take some finagling. I will take another look at when I have a minute.

Is the what yo are trying to accomplish?Attach Garage.plan.zip

I will say 42" feels safer to me, but only on second story and above.

That's strange. It's almost as if the railing doesn't exist when the dimension is outside the railing wall. It may have something to do with the fact that you can't snap to any of the objects in a rail wall on plan or in elevation view. I played around with it on my end and its does the exact same thing.

Is there a stretch plane in the railing panel? I looked into chiefs railing and I noticed that it would only stretch those panels that had a stretch plane.

Alright. I found a solution. For the pony walls that bisect the rooms creating the return above, just create a pony wall with the change occurring at the ceiling, 109.125. brick above and interior below. Then create the front wall as a pony wall at the same height with brick 4 above and below. this will allow you to move the upper and lower parts f of that wall independently. the get close to what you want to accomplish. Then using the edit wall layer extents tool to pull the drywall from the bisecting wall forward to cover the face of the brick coming through the wall from the front wall. this should be done after pulling that lower portion of the front facing wall out of the room as much as you can. clear as mud, right. Things should not be this mysterious to fix. There must be a better way. Even though I fixed this, the chances of me remembering these exact steps the next time its encountered is unlikely. Lewis.plan.zip

I have never had any success at getting the stairs to look right when protruding through the floor like that. they seem to be bugs in the software. The only thing I know to do would be to use 3d solids instead of wall objects to close it up. Having said that I never have even wasted my time on it. As far as turning the brick like you are wanting to do, because there are two roofs over there that you must trim around, you will manually need to adjust the roof planes (be sure to turn off special snapping in the roof plane objects) and then adjust the bottom and top of the pony wall to be where you want. these little details can be a head ache. I will say that you might want to adjust your roof to where you only have one roof edge to connect with on the sides of that return. Not sure you want that small dead valley there. only other thing is you have the brick of the front facing wall extent ending into the bedroom which is not desirable. The wall object is just following the intersection directive which in this case is not what you want. This is where I wish we had a bit more control over wall object intersections. There is probably a work around that I am unaware of, but nothing comes to mind right now. I will keep looking at it to see if I can come up with a solution. Shane

Delete the gutter from the roof object and that will take care of the gutters.

You will need to draw walls in the attic manually above those gables and contour them manually. In the elevation add a break point in the middle. Then pull the middle and the sides down.

Would an emissive poly line work for what you are trying to do?

Been there bro. Glad I could help out.