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In the wall specification area under wall type where you make the pony wall just below that select show upper wall they you have to put a box where the brick area it doesn't show the upper wall and the lower pony wall hatching

put an invisible wall wherever you want the gfci and then put the recepticle of choice on it

School of hard knocks, started out in the field building and know designing for younger builders clients, and busy busy busy

make your sub fascia the size of your facia or if you want it recessed a little make it shorter

you don't show where you are which means a lot of what your state, county, of town might require

Maureen I had some training by Steve Blake also, when Chief had where others could sell I use to buy off of Steve he had his wife were great to deal with, haven't heard that name in a long long time, thanks for taking me back in time

47 minutes ago, Electromen said:

I think that was the original release in 1992, right?

Greg yes 2 was released around then could even put a roof on the drawing been so long ago that I can't remember what we could and couldn't do, I have to look downstairs I might still have the disc for that version, I know I have a bunch of old disc and books stored

7 minutes ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Dan Bauman of Chiefexperts says he started with version 1

Perry you win the prize yes there was a version 1 and I do believe Dan started with that version from our conversations

version 2 for me 

Thanks Chopsaw I will give it a try

Thanks Chopsaw, are there settings for the walkthrough path you like better then anyother that you use, mine always seem so fast and choppy

What have been the best setting for doing a walk thru and can a default be setup, I have played around with it a little but would like to use it more

Also if you are manually building your roofs the porch roof could be blocking part of the wall you might have to select it and drag it back some

your welcome and we all have done things like this and have gotten brain farts, hope the rest of your day goes well

Michael are you talking about the lines on the first floor that show the dormers if so in you active layer display uncheck roofs, openings

what version are you using

did you check and see if your roofs were locked

Michael you have the roof planes locked or if you used auto dormers you might have to explode them, the fastest way to get an answer is to post your plan all answers are just going to be guesses by everyone so that is my guess

Mick I did mine from scratch since the Andersen lib doesn't give you any of the window numbers, like tw3046 which I put on all my plans along with weather they are egress or have to be tempered and the Andersen lib doesn't do that for you, unfortunately the Pella lib does a better job of doing these things but not to many of my contractors use Pells

I haven't found Andersen window lib very useful as far as having what you need I use them a lot and have made my own Andersen 200 and 400 lib to use 

Sometimes you have to take your attic wall and drag it to move it over

are you looking for something like this, I am in Pa also and the builders I work for use these for long spans

http://bluelinxco.com/files/StructuralFramingProducts/EngineeredLumber/onCENTER AFL Floor and Roof Product Guide_sm (1).pdf

Like Chopsaw said it all depends on your local codes if you have any where you are located

Marc another suggestion is to rent premiere for the time you think you need it for your project since Chief has a rental option

Change the foundation wall to a pony wall with the top material to what you want then in a wall detail select the foundation wall and break it where you want and adjust the walls to the grade desired