Alaskan_Son

Do this AND check Separate Trim And Materials On Each Side

How so?

Select the Box Window, hit tab to select the actual window, open that window, and then check Separate Trim and Materials on Each Side

I would likely be modeling that lying flat. Then it would be much easier to use moldings, extruded faces, or solids. Then once you're done, rotate back up into position. Very quick down and dirty example.... Sloped Soffit Test 2.plan In the attached example, all I did was: Convert the original scene to a symbol Rotate the newly created object so that it was no longer at a pitch Draw a molding profile for the soffit Draw a molding polyline shaped to fit the flattened roof Converted the molding polyline to a symbol Rotated the new soffit symbol to match the original roof pitch Dropped the new soffit symbol into the original plan and re-positioned as necessary. If this was my own project I would have taken a little longer perfecting things and would have likely used solids instead of a molding polyline, but the basics remain the same. I would have worked on a level plane and then rotated. It's not totally necessary when working with solids and extruded faces, but its a heck of a lot easier.

Its the only automated option I know of too. You can quickly create all 15 pages by just using the Duplicate Page tool. As long as you leave the pages blank, they don't have to print or show in the Layout Page Table either.

No, but I wouldn’t do it with my cabinet labels either. I CAN however see why a person might like it for labels. Its clean, consistent, and conveys a sense of functional orientation.

I sense that it’s less of a circumstantial thing and more of a personal preference. Some people just prefer the label to rotate with the object.

This statement raises some red flags to me. Assuming you decide to go forward with using containers, I would strongly recommend you change course with your preliminary modeling plans. You can't just stack and reposition the 3D room once you model it once. It doesn't quite work that way. Instead, I would recommend just starting with a symbol, solid, or architectural block and then copy/reposition that as necessary. Once you have a rough idea of what you're doing design wise, then you can model walls, windows, doors, roof planes, etc. around those objects. I would personally very seriously consider just making myself a primitive solid shaped exactly like the shipping container. Copy, paste, and reposition that around as necessary. Then, model around that, aligning walls, windows, doors, floors, ceilings, etc. to those solids using boolean operations as you go for all cutouts. This will help keep things as accurate as possible. As you're modeling you'll be forced to consider the actual container structure, and all the cuts you'll be making.

For an object like that, I would abandon the PNG idea and model in 3D for sure. I offer custom modeling as one of my support services, but you can have this first one on the house. Just resize and reposition as necessary... Mobil sign.calibz

I don't think that's what the OP is talking about either. As Rene explained, I think he was talking about this (from X13)...

No. I was talking about these 2 walls that were causing your problem at the exterior corners... You could even change them to the Siding-4 wall type for that matter. There are several wall types you could use actually. It's the thicker (and unnecessary IMO) exterior layers that's causing the undesirable automatic intersection issues.

By and to the way, some of our in house processes require flattening with a professional grade PDF editor and it’s something I do all the time. The reason we do it actually has nothing to do with security or changing text to images though. It’s so that annotations become a part of the document itself as opposed to a separate editable annotation entity and so that they appear the same regardless of what device they’re opened on. Text is still text, vectors are still vectors, and images are still images.

Ya, even the court document Mick posted above contains instructions that will still result in a document with text entities that can be edited with any good PDF editor. Shoot, I can even edit the text if a PDF was converted to an image for that matter. It just takes a little bit longer.

Ya, that’s really a different thing. That’s the point of my first post. Standard flattening is one thing. It sounds like some jurisdictions might be looking for a step further though. The results can look and print pretty crappy when everything is converted to an image though.

Pretty sure almost (if not) every PDF editor leaves text as text during the flattening process.

“Flattened” typically just means all the “smart” stuff has been removed (form fields, annotations, links, layers, etc.). Most good PDF editors can quickly flatten any PDF but I don’t know that any of them would make any difference to PDFs produced by Chief since there’s really nothing to flatten.

I was thinking the same thing as you. Chief produces a flattened PDF out of the box. Maybe some jurisdictions use “flattened” to mean a single OBJECT page as in images only (no vectors/text).

In this particular instance, you could also make those little knee walls Invisible, Partition Walls, or Pony Walls.

I know why you put it there. I'm just saying it wasn't necessary. Just adjust the floor heights instead of trying to adjust the ceiling below. Also, just FYI, if you upgrade to X13 you could simply adjust the ceiling height below even if your floor heights above are different.

I’m not sure I’m following what the problem is, but it seems to me like all you need to do is lower the 2 floors. The air gap seems entirely unnecessary. What am I missing?

You're not missing anything. It's a capability some of us have requested. Please consider sending in a request to Chief as well.

Okay, ya, that's not how it works. It sounds like you're referring to the Replace Molding icon. That tool will only replace the molding if there is already a molding to replace. You need to actually open the Countertop, click on the Moldings tab, and then assign a molding.

I don't believe I've ever actually used the tool for that purpose. That's a good idea. I can confirm though. It works in X12 but not X13.

How are you attempting to apply them to your countertops?

In X13 you can control this at the Default level.