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Lots of ways. As Joe said, you can use molding polylines along with simple molding extrusions and 3D molding symbols, but you can also use a custom newel symbol along with a stacked molding applied to the rails themselves. Or, what I would personally usually end up doing in a scenario like this...just build it from scratch using p-solids and/or framing. The automated methods can be great, but typically I find that once I get everything modeled and configured for the "automated" method I end up spending close to the same amount of time if not more time than I would have had I just modeled it all independently. Plus, chances I'm going to re-use the custom modeled components are between slim and none. And then, we have a lot less control of independent placement and display of each of the little components if we use moldings, railing settings, etc.

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There are several convoluted ways to do so, but nothing very intuitive. We really just need a lot more options with regard to which objects get placed into which schedules.

Just a quick tip, but don't limit yourself to simply searching the Help files. You can also: Click the Help button in any one of the dialog boxes and it will typically take you straight to the section regarding that specific dialog. Click Help with an object selected and it will typically take you straight to the most relevant section on EDITING that particular object type. Click Help with only a tool activated and it will typically take you straight to the most relevant section on USING that particular tool. Help is by far the most underutilized resource at our disposal IMO.

Default Settings>Schedules>Custom Object Fields

Import into Plan and then Copy/Paste into layout.

Usually shutting down Chief completely and then re-opening fixes this type of problem. If not, open Task Manager and make force the shut down of any other Chief Architect related processes and then re-start Chief. If that doesn't work, then I would re-start my computer.

Hey Kristine, just sent you a PM

I believe it was changed to more closely resemble how files and cells are selected in other processes. I suspect a lot of people were expecting a certain behavior, getting confused by how Shift and Control work, and then costing Technical support a lot of time. I can sympathize to a certain extent, but I maintain that better documentation/education is the answer, not taking away functionality for the sake of so called continuity. We’re not selecting from cells and lists here. We’re selecting from a virtual 3D environment where there is commonly a jumbled mess of objects stacked on top of each other. The more refined and intuitive control we have over what we are selecting and de-selecting the better. I feel like our options in this regard were already pretty limited and that we only lost some of the little we had. To be fair, MOST of the functionality is still there...it’s just far more complicated and a whole lot less efficient now.

I detest this particular change more than any other Chief has ever made. Shift used to simply be restrictive based on the active tool and Control was non-restrictive. Either could be used to add or subtract from the selection with either a marquee or by single clicking. Now it’s a goat rope trying to remember which combination of keys (Control or Shift) and actions (single click, marquee, or right click) to use and when to use them (before or after an object has already been selected), etc. Very messy and hard to describe. I could easily teach a person to use the tools to efficiently select groups of objects in busy areas in X10 and prior. Now? Not so much.

I could set one up for you. Sent you a PM.

It is. Here's a quick video I made on the subject 2 or 3 years ago. A few of the settings might look different (not sure) but the basics remain the same...

Materials can only be made invisible in vector when used in the structural layers of roofs, ceilings, walls, etc. Even glass is not invisible in Vector Views unless its part of a door or a window. And as Eric pointed out, it has been requested many times. Maybe add your support to one or more of these threads...

Pretty sure I would just use a ceiling plane. That's really what it is anyway right?

A lot of various ways to go about this, but the key thing here is that you need to set your garage floor to have a negative elevation (this is how you tell the floor to drop down).

This is the "edge" of the roof baseline polyline that is controlling that pitch... It's just a little tricky to access. What you have to do is first drag the roof on the right either up or down (doesn't really matter which)... ...then select that edge and change it to 10/12... ...and then drag the polyline edge back where it was...

2 key things: 1. Chris and I are using Pattern Line Defaults. This is a setting at the bottom of the Send To Layout dialog and it must be set when initially sending the view to layout. When this setting is selected, the patterns no longer get their definitions from the material definition; rather, they use a single generic pattern line definition that you can set right in the layout box dialog. 2. In Preferences, you need to go to Appearance>Display and make sure your Color Off is setting is set to Grayscale.

Break and reshape wall and/or footing polylines in a 3D or elevation view.

I have a custom macro tool that I created a while back that makes pretty quick work of this. It needs to be tweaked a little to work more efficiently with X11 but it wouldn't take me long. Shoot me over an email if you're interested and we can take it from there.

Here's that one I was thinking of. I'm not sure where I got it or whether or not I tweaked an existing material or what, but I can't seem to find it in the library anymore. It worked really well for the last walnut job we did, but do be fair, that job was walnut stained with a walnut stain so it didn't need a lot of grain variation. HighRes Walnut Sheet.calibz

Looks nice Chris. I do very similar except that: I don't typically add any plants myself...Might look better, but it's just not something I do. It's extra work and I tend to be super picky so I would end up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get them all positioned just so. Just not worth it to me personally. I don't use Edge Line Defaults. I prefer to have a little more control over the lines being produced for the various objects. I don't necessarily want them all to use the same line weight or color. Pattern Lines? Yes, usually...but not the edge lines. I've taken to just covering everything underground with a semi-transparent filled polyline. Nothing fancy, but it does what I want it to...

I am away from my computer right now but as I recall there is a Hi-Res Walnut Sheet in the core catalog that actually looks pretty good... Or maybe I had to tweak it. I guess it don’t remember for sure. I’ll check when I get back to the computer if I remember.

Absolutely. ...and a much smaller hammer will breach a window. Heck, We were working for a client years ago--changing out windows and doing a handful of other things--and she was really paranoi...er...concerned about the security of her daylight basement windows and wanted us to ad bars on them. I had a conversation with her explaining that there were various code issues to contend with and that if someone really wanted to get in it was still easy enough to get in. For example, yes, you might add bars to that little window, but what about the sliding glass door 15ft. to the right of that? Anyway, fast-forward in the project...We had a lock box on the house and she took the key out one day and forgot to put it back in for us. We showed up in the morning to get to work as scheduled after she had already left for the day and no key. No problem, it just took us a few minutes to completely remove one of the windows we were planning on changing out anyway. I think it was pretty disconcerting to her to see firsthand how easy it was to break into her little fortress. I still feel a little bad about that one because she was obviously already a little paranoi...er...concerned, but it went toward further proving my point. Its really not very hard to get into the house if a person really wants to and knows how. We do what we can, but stressing about this access point or that isn't really worth all the fuss if there's another easier way in.

Ya, I've thought many many times over the years that it would be really nice if we had a quicker way to specify that any given extension line should be marked as a center line. I use center line markers a lot myself and its definitely a pain to have to go in and out of dialog boxes to get one. The Centerline Dimension tool works okay, but what if we want the functionality of one of the other dimension tools? What if we only want the automated centerline behavior for one or 2 specific objects? Or what if we've already dimensioned something and need to add a center line marker later? It could certainly be made easier than it is.