Alaskan_Son

You bet.

Can you attach the plan and perhaps a screenshot showing your issue?

At step 6 try to click "Generate Block".

It was actually already in a custom countertop.

Newell, This is a tough one because its hard to tell exactly what you are trying to draw, how you got there, and what some of the different structure settings are supposed to be. It would probably be worth while for you to take some training (specifically one on one to have someone walk you through it) or spend a little more time reading through the manual, guide, and/or help files and consider just rebuilding that from scratch. The plan is a mess and has a lot of things going on that were modeled incorrectly and so I'm not even sure it CAN be fixed. Honestly, if you can't get it sorted out in a couple hours or so, it might be faster to just redraw anyway.

I was working on a bathroom design yesterday and I ended up needing to replace a cabinet with another one (before you ask, the cabinet had been highly modified using the Split Vertically and Split Horizontally operations and I could no longer make the changes I needed to make so keeping it wasn't a viable option). The problem is that I had set a sink into the original cabinet and had then proceeded to spend some time re-sizing it and changing materials to get it just right. I guess I've never really noticed it till now, but once a sink is placed into a cabinet, it becomes part and parcel of that cabinet...If the cabinet is deleted the sink is deleted (even if that sink is dragged away from the cabinet), the sink cannot be cut or copied, and the sink cannot be selected and added to the library independently of the cabinet. After trying for probably 15 minutes to keep my customized sink, I ended up just deleting it and making those changes all over again. Is there something I'm missing? Is there a way I could have kept the sink or added it to the library?

Good job. That's what happens when you have the plan to look at ;-)

Can you please attach the plan.

And then just submit the post. You just need to actually write something in the post first is all.

Because you have not attached a plan, this is just a guess, but I am assuming you expected the moulding to go to the top of the wall but "to top" is setting the moulding in relation to your moulding p-line...not the wall. To get that moulding to the top of the wall you would have to adjust the height of the moulding p-line...or offset the moulding by the height of the wall. In other words, if you have a 96" tall wall, you could either set the moulding p-line at 96" and set the moulding at 0" "to top" or you could set the moulding p-line at 0" and set the moulding to 96" "to top".

Eric's solution might work for you, but I would encourage you to reconsider the way you drew the plan in the first place. I would have essentially... 1. Drawn first floor walls and deck 2. Built second floor and just dragged the exterior walls out for the cantilever area (no extra rooms or ceiling planes) 3. Drawn the roofs. Unless you have some other reason for doing things the way you did, I tend to think you may have just over-complicated it a bit.

I don't know what exactly you are trying to draw, but I personally see no reason for the extra room definitions at the cantilever areas. It looks like you've purposely created those "rooms" using invisible walls, extra ceiling planes, etc. which is causing your problems and I don't see why it was necessary.

Sadly...this is sometimes true :,(

...or you can do as Joe suggested and use the delete surface tool to create a new symbol.

Right click or bottom of screen in the edit bar. "Move to Front of Group". Looks like a couple pieces of paper...one black and one white.

Not sure if you were reading the little pop ups or not, but it answered your question right in the video. It said that functionality may no longer work with newer versions.

Agreed...except that in this particular instance I'm not even sure the solutions we have should be considered "Clever Tricks". Putting a camera outside a deepened terrain skirt just seems like using the right tool for the job... and I don't even think using a CAD mask is a workaround. I think if we were given the exact same polyline tools we have now under the heading "Layout mask" (or some other appropriate term) that some people would think we had a cool new tool. As with many things its just the way you look at it.

Why don't you try another symbol first. I still can't figure out for the life of me why you are having such a hard time in the first place. Maybe you just picked a bad symbol to start with...or maybe a major detail is getting miscommunicated in translation. Importing SKP files shouldn't be too hard to do. As long as you are using Chief Architect version X7 and are actually importing SKP files, and are getting them from the 3D warehouse there shouldn't be a whole lot of variables. I've had minor issues in the past with textures and sizing, but never anything like what you've described.

All jokes aside, there has to be some sort of balance. If we're given independent controls for every little thing we think of, Chief could become a bloated monstrosity pretty quickly.

Mmm hmmm. I know that's right!

What language do you speak fluently? Maybe there's another user that can speak your language and may be of better assistance. The troubles you're having shouldn't be so difficult to sort through and I can't help but think a big part of the problem is the language barrier.

Do a final view with shadows first.

It would be best if you could attach the plan, but the first thing that comes to mind would be to lower the roof pitch.

I still do all my take-offs old school. Pen and a piece of paper.

I don't think I would go that far, its not like the program is doing anything wrong...Which direction the material should be is totally subjective. It would be nice to have independent material control over the 2 different areas though.