Joe_Carrick

Dru, I actually don't like to use the material eyedropper at all.

S*** out of Luck

So, the solution for now is to use "Edit all Roof Planes" and make the change in the Structure Tab.

Ok, so you need to go into the Roof Defaults and edit the Structure to the correct materials. Then delete all roof planes and rebuild them. OTOH, I agree that the "Materials Defaults" don't do the job by themselves. This is a bug IMO and I'm not sure why there are 2 places to specify when one of them obviously doesn't work. Report it to http://support@chiefarchitect.com

Then you need to go into the "Material Defaults" and change the Roof Material.

Dru, Doesn't "Edit all Roof Planes" work for this?

For the floor in the attic, just add a new blank floor and set its height to 1/16". Draw the walls for that area and you should be good to go. If you don't want the roof to change make sure you "Lock" the roof planes before adding the new floor.

Ditto!!!! Now I just wish the size (diameter and/or width/depth) could be specified in the same tab of the dbx as the shape.

Here's a link to my Glass Shower thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4257-x7-glass-shower-video-by-joe-carrick/?hl=%20glass%20%20shower There's a video in post #1 and Library Items in post #27

Thank you Dermot. This is a very important detail since it results in incorrect dimensions for building the stairs. Granted it's only when the lower floor is a slab - but that's a lot of homes.

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Dermot, Please look at the following pics: Note that the top of stair height is 109-7/8" and the risers are 7-7/8". Then note that the 2nd Floor Elevation is 109-3/8". Both Floors have a 1/2" Floor Finish thickness. There are 14 risers total. That should result in 7-13/16" risers, not 7-7/8" risers. If this was being calculated incorrectly in X7 then there needs to be a fix so that X7 Plans will be correct in X7 and in X8 as well. I checked the stair attributes and find that the top_height is still reporting the elevation of the top tread even when the "Floor/Landing" is selected in the dbx. IMO that should also be corrected. I have rechecked this and am finding that even in X8 New Plans the values don't match. Usually, the stairs are actually constructed "Rough Floor to Rough Floor" with the assumption that the thickness of the floor finish will be the same (or very close) at all "Floors/Landings". The other option would be to make it "Finish Floor to Finish Floor". BTW, if you increase the Floor Finish to 2" on each floor then the stair height will be 2" more than the actual difference between floors. It would appear that the finish floor thickness of the lower floor is being ignored in the calculation. Please fix this. ps: If you would like to go over this with a GTM let me know. After further testing I find that the Floor Finish seems to be ignored only when it's a Mono-Slab Foundation. The problem is that the calculated Stair Height is going from the Slab to the 2nd Floor Finish instead of the 1st Finish Floor to the 2nd Floor Finish.

Excellent videos Michael !!!!

Dermot, I reported a bug with the Stair Top Height to Kirk and sent a Plan that he said he forwarded. This was an X7 Plan brought forward to X8 and the Stair Height is 1/2" higher than the 2nd Floor (the thickness of the Finish Floor). It doesn't seem to be a problem with new X8 Plans but we do need X7 Projects to work correctly in X8. That bug has not been fixed.

Bill, I would never do that. IAE, with X8 it's no longer a problem. In addition, since we now have Labels for Polylines there is only one Chief Object that I can think of that still needs to use a "referenced macro" because it doesn't have a Label - STAIRS.

Perry, Leader Line speed was fixed.

The X8 public release is now available. We can now rename wall types. I'm not sure what other fixes have been made yet. I've just started to search and test.

Good luck. That's something you should have backed up.

Harry, My recollection is that v10 had a Content CD. If you have the original box and CD's you should be able to load it from the CD. I'm not sure what CA's policy is regarding a version that old.

Right, with Imperial Units it's a 2" minimum width.

Essentially yes. You create a rectangle with a solid fill (background color) and then select that polyline and click on the "Create Hole" icon on the Edit Toolbar. This will allow you to create a rectangular hole in the original rectangle. That hole can be shaped anyway you want.

Michael's video was very good - not crappy. The one thing he didn't mention was that you could actually create a new "Custom Toolbar" with only doors on it and then dock that at the edge of the screen. Then you can set it to be visible in any of the "Toolbar Configurations".

Or, you can just put a filled rectangle with a shaped "Hole" over the layout box. - That's know as thinking "Outside the Box"

I would try using the NVidea Control Panel PhysX setting to put the NVidea in control instead of the CPU or Intel. The Intel is what's causing the crash.

You need to make sure the NVidea is in control. Sometimes the Intel GPU is what's being used. I had that problem. Once I had the NVidea GPU in control the problem disappeared.