Alaskan_Son

That can't be true, my method works fine. I know it does. I use it all the time and I tested it on your plan too when I got back to the office. Maybe I'm missing what you're trying to accomplish?

A couple ways to deal with that that come to mind: 1. Remove the fill from the beam(s) or increase the transparancy. 2. (What I think is probably the better solution). Put the beam(s) back in the Default Group and then Move To Front Of Group (as opposed to just placing in the Front Group...2 different things). For anyone who doesn't know how, there are 2 ways to do that...

Hey Tim, I'm not sure I would be using wall breaks for what you're talking about; however, you should be able to accomplish what you're doing in at least a couple different ways that come to mind... Method 1: Place the 2 breaks wherever they land, select the wall section in the center, open it, click on the Wall Type tab, click Define, click Copy, rename if desired, click OK and then OK again. Now you should be able to resize that center section freely by dragging the longer wall section. You can resize the shorter section too but it will probably separate from the other wall when you do that. In other words, its better to push than to pull. Method 2: Place a short section of Room Divider at the location where you want the break. This will cause the break to snap to your room divider. I personally prefer the first method, when you make the extra wall type copy it keeps the wall from "healing" when you try to make any modifications.

You know what I use for a microphone? My iPhone along with a simple app called Megaphone. Works great.

I'm away from my computer right now, but off the top of my head, the first thing I think I might try would just be to place a break, select the little wall and change the wall type to a copy of the existing wall type. I'm sure there are other solutions but that one is usually pretty stable.

Which commands are you missing? EDIT: I looked it up and I think the one tool you're missing for that sequence is CAD Detail From View unless there are others that I missed. That's okay. You can still go through the same steps. You just won't have the snaps to work with and will have to do the necessary adjustments right in the elevation view. You'll just have to zoom in and visually try to get things really close... OR, you could possibly achieve the same thing by placing an elevation camera so it's cutting through the section rather than just looking at it. Doing that you can use the cross section lines to snap to instead of the CAD Detail.

For what it's worth, I have had zero problems recently using Firefox so it seems like something must've been changed/fixed during the last couple weeks. I've spent in inordinate amount of time on a couple posts recently too and they posted just fine.

You can be sure you're building in the same area by simply drawing a polyline box around the room location before deleting the walls and re-saving the plan. Either that or just remove, break, or re-define a single wall to remove the room definition.

Dan, I've been running into this problem on a regular basis using Safari. Have to clear my browser cookie data fairly often. Happened this morning so I know it's still an issue. Chieftalk is a bit of a hobby/addiction of mine though so I'm in and out quite a bit, usually closing the website every time I leave. Not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. One thing I do know though... I only seem to have the problem when using Safari and it only started happening sometime during the last couple months.

I think I'm with Kevin in the Move Roof Down camp.

A little bit of a hassle, but one thing you could do is use a doorway/pass through the size of your RO and then add a standard framed no room def wall resized in elevation to fit inside that pass through. Your door would be placed into the no room def wall.

Yep. Good tip Glenn. As with a lot of these wall connection issues, the solution is often in the smallest details of the operation, the order, the sequence, etc. Here's another take... If you use the right wall along with the right movement method it works fine... The more difficult problem in my mind is (as Chopper pointed out)...the outside layers in situations like that...

Justin, You're right, it took more than a couple minutes, but it's those extraneous lines that are the problem...at least in my mind...and addressing those was one of my main goals. Sure there are easier ways, but most of them don't look very good especially in vector views, and in the case of the plan you posted above, I would double check that if I was you because those settings are misbehaving too. Bottom line... I'd rather spend 5 or 10 minutes and have it look right than 2 or 3 minutes and have it look half-right and behave unstably. You're right about those height settings though for sure. Not sure what's going on there.

I think it depends on the needs of the specific plan, but seems like a perfectly valid method to me for some situations. Just limits some of your automated features a bit (flooring, moldings, wall coverings, wall mounted fixtures, etc.).

...and I agree with them.

Here's a quick video going over the steps above. I'm sure there are all sorts of other methods we could use (especially when structural accuracy is important), but for interior renderings this method is pretty easy. NOTE: I included some unnecessary steps but those steps lend themselves to a lot more potential and flexibility than some of the other solutions do.

Tools>Reference Floors>Reference Floor Display (F9)

Alex, if your plan is too big to post, you can do one of 3 things... 1. Try zipping it first (right click and send to zipped folder) 2. Do a Save As and delete all the unnecessary stuff from the plan (this particular step can sometimes lead to helping you solve your own problem or narrow things down a bit) before posting. 3. Send to Dropbox and just post the link. Whatever you do, always close the plan before trying to upload.

Thats just the way it works. If you want the interior walls in addition to the exterior walls do this instead... Build a blank floor, go back to the floor below, switch to a wall tool, shift select all your walls and then Copy. Go back to upper floor and Paste Hold Position.

I had to leave the office, but I did take a look at your plan. Try this (assuming it's only for interior renderings)... -Delete that roof plane and instead... -Draw a small ceiling plane that ends at the interior of the surrounding walls. -Copy and adjust the wall type for that little wing wall (the one in line with the sloped wall area) to delete the finish layer from the interior surface. -Take an elevation view of that angled wall area and create a CAD Detail From View. -Trace that triangle area in your CAD Detail or just select the necessary lines and Copy them (lines will be used for snap points). -Go back to plan view and create a single layer wall type (1/2" drywall) and slide it up against that wing wall. Make it long enough to extend from exterior wall to just beyond where your custom ceiling plane meets ceiling. -Go back to elevation view and Paste Hold Position the previously copied linework and use those lines to cut, resize, and reshape your 1/2" thick wall to cover that whole face in one piece.

This has been happening on my iPhone quite a bit lately. One time it was a Chief issue (happened on my computer at home as well), but more often than not, it's specific to my iPhone. My solution is to clear my browser history when it happens.

Not something I recall having ever had happen. Might be a good idea to post the plan along with steps to reproduce the problem.

Hey Chopsaw, here's what I think works best using your plan. Multiple walls but otherwise very similar to what I did in the post and plan above along with a few other minor modifications. My conclusion... It's easier to use a NON-WINDOW symbol like in the first example. The window symbol comes with too many automated features that just make it a pain to deal with. 6015 Window Creation b-1 MODIFIED.zip

Away from my computer but if I remember rhe correct path, it's... Edit>Default Settings>Cabinet>General Cabinet...uncheck Automatic Fillers.

Alex, haven't had a chance to make any kind of video yet, but I did get a chance to open your plan and Chopsaw was correct. You skipped the last half of Step 4...under Symbol Category select Window. Having said that, you CAN use the symbol as-is if you apply a material region to both sides of you wall (in elevation views) that are the same size and shape as you window RO, set them to Cut Finish Layer Of Parent Object, put them on their own layer, and turn that layer off. Then Build Framing for that wall, manually modify it as necessary, and check Retain Wall Framing. You might also want to manually place a CAD block for that window. Here's a very rough idea of what I'm talking about using your plan. Note how I made the window schedule work by using a place holder wall and window off to the side and just dragging the window label over. Also, just FYI... I didn't spend the time to actually get the wall framing correct, just deleted the necessary studs to give you the rough idea. If there's one thing I would probably do differently it would be to create a CAD block of the plan view associated with the original window before converting to symbol and then use that instead of using the automatically created CAD block that I used. BYRONE AS BUILT 2 (MODIFIED).zip