Alaskan_Son

If you want to test the Library Browser behavior I'm talking about, try this: 1. Open a blank plan. 2. Open the Wall Type Definitions dialog and Delete All Unused. 3. Inspect your list of available wall types. It should be quite short. 4. Open your Library Browser and HIDE the Selection Panel. 5. Open Chief Architect Core Catalogs>Architectural>Wall Types>Interior Railings. Just select the Interior Railings Folder without opening it. I chose this folder because the wall types in there almost all have the same name which makes it easy to inspect what comes next. 6. Go back to the plan and inspect your Wall Type list again. Should still be in the same state as it was at Step 3. 7. Go back to the Library Browser and SHOW the Selection Panel. 8. Go to the plan one last time and inspect your Wall Type list. You should see a whole bunch on Interior Railing and Railing/Fence wall types that weren't there before. Play with it for a bit and you'll find that any and every wall type that gets displayed in the Selection Panel gets added to the Plan File. If walls are NOT displayed in that Selection Panel, the Library Browser behaves as expected.

@stevenyhof, I don't have the time or inclination to delve to deep into this right now, but a few really quick points: Read my second to last post very carefully.. There's an unusual behavior in the Library Browser that is likely adding to your issue and to your confusion. I feel like you need to make a mental disconnect between the Library Browser and the Plan File. The Library Browser is where you store wall types for future use and really should have nothing to do with the Plan File at all. To both of my last 2 points. The fact you're in your Library Browser so much is exacerbating your problem. My Recommendation: Report your issue to tech support and mention the findings I mentioned in that second to last post. In the meantime, it might be safest to toggle the Selection Panel off if you absolutely have to mess with wall types in the library browser. Stay out of the Library Browser with regard to Wall types unless you're specially adding a wall type to you library or pulling a wall type from your library. No reason to be in there otherwise.

Ya, I tried to include some evidence in my post...

Not sure why you were trying to edit your current plan setting through the Library Browser, but that is definitely not the correct route. Your library is full of all sorts of items that may or may not be included in the current plan file. Always edit your list of wall in the Plan file itself and not through the Library Browser.

Forgot? No, I don't think so. Overlooking? Yes, probably. I never took particular note of it till just now, but it seems that if a wall is displayed in the Selection Panel in the Library Browser, that it will be added to the current plan. This means selecting a specific Wall Type folder will add every wall in that folder to the plan.

Posting a plan.

Maybe not super realistic and didn't take the time to detail lettering and such,, but here's a decent tire modeled completely in Chief... Tire.calibz

As tired as I am after a long days work, I still managed to find it.

Closest thing I can think of is Cut>Paste Special>Text,. You would have to reposition every time though.

Sounds like you must be doing something wrong Alan, it works for me.

See if this helps...

With 3D molding polylines, it's imperative that you draw and edit them in very specific views and in a very specific sequence sometimes. Anyway, I won't go into all that here because I personally wouldn't use a 3D molding polyline for that particular scenario at all or, if I did, I would use 2 or even 3 of them. What I would likely use myself would be some polyline solids or solids.

It actually just needs to be thicker than the wall is all. The wall is 6.76" thick, so a setting of 6.761" will even do it.

Make as Scott has shown using a manually drawn Polyline as a template (to get the required numbers), Convert To Symbol, set Rotation to 180 degrees and rotate once around the Y axis, set symbol to Inserts Into Wall (including appropriate Depth setting), drop into plan, and then use your original manually drawn Polyline as a template to adjust the symbol's Wall Cutout Polyline.

See if this helps...

All you need to do is turn your Foundation layer on and then Rebuild 3D. Depending on the type of change that was made, Chief doesn't always rebuild the model. You can get it to rebuild any number of ways, but clicking on 3D>Rebuild 3D or hitting F12 (Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings) are a couple ways. You can also change the rendering style, make an actual change to the model, click undo followed by redo, etc. etc. The model just needs to be rebuilt is all. I suspect the reason the model doesn't automatically rebuild in this particular instance is because the Foundation layer is a unique layer that doesn't actually control the display of any specific objects (like the Framing, Rim Joists layer for example). It simply controls whether or not anything on Floor 0 is displayed. Anyway, Chief gives us the tools to rebuild 3D when necessary and it's something I personally use quite a bit...whenever I suspect something should have changed but didn't.

It's what Eric said. You have a wall in the attic preventing the placement. Simply change that wall to invisible temporarily, place the window, and then change the wall back.

Just beware that this will add to all walls in the plan.

A few ways you could do that, but I would personally just edit the framing in the Wall Detail.

I’m away from my computer, but as I recall, both 3D DWG and 3D DXF files carry material mapping just fine. They import as a single material, but the various faces still maintain their unique mapping. The key though is that all those various faces need to have unique material definitions assigned before exporting. After importing into Chief you just need to go through and assign the appropriate materials via the material tab or Material Painter.

As usual, your work looks like total garbage Rene Seriously though...as always, nice work bud!

You’re moving the goalpost here. Your question was this.... It was specifically in reference to the ability to copy and paste which is all I was talking about. The materials list does not need to be exported. And by the way, I don’t see why anybody would want to export something that could simply be copied and pasted.

They ARE the same. I use Copy/Paste for both almost exclusively.

Just got back to the office and had a chance to open the provided example file. Not sure I've ever made a video for you before Gene, so here's your first custom tutorial on-the-house...

Just another quick note...We don’t actually have to use actual curved roofs at all. For complex curved roofs, I will commonly use a series of standard flat roof planes with heights and pitches set appropriately. It’s like manually positioning each facet instead of changing the facet angle. Again though, I draw the whole profile in CAD and take all my numbers from that.