Alaskan_Son

That appears to be correct. Yes.

In addition to the methods listed above, you can also very easily use 3D molding polylines, wall coverings, material regions, and/or polyline solids. If you have a situation where windows drop down into the wainscot, the tall molding method becomes an issue. This is where I believe wall coverings or material regions would do a better job for the wainscot itself. And for the panels...you can open an elevation view, draw a 3D moulding polyline, assign whatever molding you want, Copy and Paste In Place, and then convert to Polyline Solid or Material Region. This will give you a very flexible panel and perimeter molding to work with which can be blocked and then copy and pasted or otherwise distributed as necessary. You can also use this method to quickly create a custom symbol to use as Tommy and Joe suggested. Just copy the block and paste into a blank plan, take a 3D view and then convert to symbol.

Tommy, you should read the thread I referenced as well. Go through the steps in that thread and you won't need to run as administrator.

What you are looking for is some pretty heavy duty rendering software and there are a good handful out there. Most aren't that cheap though and will require a lot more learning time. I know one program a lot of the guys use is Lumion.

I agree. This should be handled better by the software. Maybe post a suggestion. I was just giving you suggestions on the easiest fixes we currently have available (at least that I know of).

As Graham suggested, you can drag down the wall to cover it up but then you'll likely just end up with z-fighting. To get rid of the z-fighting, you could slightly increase the thickness of the wall finish material or add a material region with maybe a 1/8" thickness (make sure to uncheck Cut Finish Layer Of Parent Object). OR if accuracy isn't too important, you could make your ceiling finish thinner (its the thickness of your ceiling finish that you're seeing).

Rob, read this thread. I had the same issue and its gone now. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/8519-opening-x7-andor-x8/

I think he was referring to the Custom Backsplash tool. If you're not familiar with it, its essentially a material region that automatically reshapes itself around cabinets, appliances, bathtubs, and other various items that are placed against the wall.

I always just place a text box over the line. You can however also just create your own line style pretty easily...

Hahaha . That's hilarious and totally true. I'm giving you a point for that. Anyway, I think its really just personal preference. I know the consensus is often in favor of one particular method over another, but I also know there are usually a number of us in disagreement for our own reasons. I for one totally disagree with some of the regulars on at least one or two of the items that are generally accepted as "the way to do it". That being said, both methods I'm sure have their strengths and weaknesses. I for one have always put foundations on floor zero and only floor zero, but then again it depends on what you want to show. Even if you want to build the foundation on 2 floors and display it all on one floor, its not hard to use reference layer sets to do that as Larry suggested (not so sure about the "inflexible" part). Not sure that helped, but that's my thoughts.

...at least that is the case with Windows. Do Macs work the same way?

I think some people simply don't realize how fonts work, that they do not really travel with the file, and that in order to use them on another machine they must actually be installed on that machine (as well as every other computer involved along the way) or else they must be replaced (albeit only during edits in some cases).

That tool only shows up in the edit toolbar ( or by right clicking) after an item is selected.

Agreed. To reiterate what was said in that other thread, a Terrain Feature has a correctly functioning (and accessible) thickness attribute, HOWEVER, we lose many the "intelligent" behaviors provided by roads and driveways.

I don't know why you couldn't just copy to a thumb drive and move to new rig.

Ya, I don't think that has anything to do with it either. I operated for a long time with both my rigs without any issues until recent upgrades/updates.

Railing seems to work fine for me...at least with regard to the problem you are describing.

Yup. Without a plan or picture...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...I say a plan is worth a thousand pictures.

Cool. Glad to hear it!!

I've never really studied this much until now. It looks like you are more or less correct though. The i7 offers more in the way of technologically advanced features, however its not necessarily newer tech. I stand corrected. I would still probably go for a newer model and the i7 if your budget allows. More and more software is requiring and/or utilizing more and more of the advanced features (multi core, hyper threading, and other techie jargon.) All that being said, my desktop is an i5 going on 6 years old. I just recently installed an SSD to replace the HD and my machine seems to be running better than ever with no signs of slowing down.

I would strongly recommend you get into the habit of attaching the plan or at least screenshots. It alleviates a lot of guesswork and usually gets you an accurate answer pretty stinkin' quickly.

I think you and I must be imagining 2 different things Perry. I'm envisioning a 2 story box with one room being completely open top to bottom (18-20' ceiling). If you simply make one room on the first floor with an 18 or 20' ceiling height, the walls will only draw on the first floor. If you build 2 stacked rooms and make one Open Below, the walls draw on both floors. Not saying one way is wrong or right, just that it depends on what you want to see.

I've been getting quite a few "Serious Errors" since upgrading to Windows 10 and/or X8 as well, although I'm not sure they've ever resulted in a crash.

...unless you want the walls displayed on both floors in plan view.