Joe_Carrick

Insert a Floor below the current Floor 1. Create the Basement walls there - the Foundation will always build on Floor 0.

Glenn, There's no pic. If your detail is what I think it is - I do that with a "Stem Wall Foundation". With the "Mono Slab Foundation" I only get a Thick Footing without a Stem Wall.

Let me reiterate what Alan said: 1. Display you site Plan 2. Send it to Layout at 1'=40' 3. In the Layout, select the Site Plan and drag each edge until just the area you want is displayed. 4. If it's not in the location on you layout page that you want, just grab the center handle and drag it where you want it. That's the way this works. You can't send just a portion of the Plan to Layout. While sending a View to Layout you will be presented with a dialog that allows you to select "Current Screen". This simply sets the Layout Box to only show that portion of the Plan - but you can still make the layout box bigger or smaller - everything in the Plan is still there.

Mickey, In case you didn't get the nuances from Scott's video..... The objects must be placed in a blank plan and displayed in a 3D View in order to be converted to a Symbol. .

Use Wall Material Regions for the Brick Portions.

Jon's answer is definitely the way to go. I only use the standard room moldings as a starting point. In many cases that's all you need - but an many other cases you need more.

I think I'm being picky but.... I would really like it if Chief would cut away the Exterior Wall Finish Layers when an Attic space abuts an exterior wall. We don't really stucco or put siding in the attic.

So I just set up my Stem Wall Foundations to detail as if they were Mono Slabs. I have no use at all for the current MonoSlab Option. But of course I don't get the chamfer using Stem Walls.

That is exactly what I am talking about. Basically, it can make a big difference in the amount of concrete is used in the foundation. If the foundation trench is 24" deep and full width you have a lot of extra concrete (about 1-1/2 cu.ft per lineal foot of wall). For a 40'x50' building this would be 180 x 1.5 = 270 cu.ft. IOW, 10 cu yds of concrete extra.

I was listening, but you kept saying that it worked. Since I couldn't get it to work I gave up. Maybe now's the time for CA to fix it.

Scott, One thing you can't do is offset the footing of a MonoSlab Foundation outside the face of the Wall. To do that you have to use a Stem Wall Foundation with a Slab on Top. Go ahead, prove me wrong.

Mickey, It works because you used a Pass-Thru which blocks out the Wall at that location.

MONOLITHIC SLABS S**k!!!!!!!

Lower the Porch Slab a Couple of inches and unCheck it as MonoSlab. You might have to move a couple of Foundation Walls in Plan View but otherwise.

OK, I figured out that on the 1st Floor the Garage Room Structure was specifying "Monolithic Slab Foundation". I un-checked that and it rebuilt correctly.

OK, so I have my foundation set with 24" Stem Walls, 8"x16" Footings -3" offset. Why can't I get the Garage Foundation Walls to go down the way they should? I need the Footings to be down into Natural Grade the same distance as the rest of the Footings.

I understand. Wall Fill cover's everything else. The only way to avoid that is to change the fill in the Wall Type dbx to either "None" or a pattern that can have a transparent background. That was one of the reasons that I suggested using a Cabinet for the Half Wall. Of course with the cabinet you also get a Counter Top which is an added advantage.

Alan, One thing you might want to try is making your "Half Walls" using a thin Cabinet (blank front and back) with materials to match your walls. The Panel Symbol will automatically sit on the top of those cabinets.

I don't think there's any real easy way to convert a PDF into a Plan File. It would really need to be recreated. IAE for the Home Designer Software you nee to ask in that Forum. Anything created in Chief Architect (this forum) would not be usable in the Home Designer App.

Working here in Southern California most of our homes are built using Slab on Grade Foundations. I have struggled with "MonoSlabs" since they were first introduced (X5 I believe). The Exterior Footings didn't offset outside of the Slab Edge which is the typical way they are built. In addition, they are difficult to edit in 3D because there's no "Wall". Eventually I went back to Stem Wall Foundations with the Floor Structure being a 4" Concrete Slab. However, this results in a Stem Wall Centered on the Footing but in the real world the inside edge of the Stem Walls isn't formed and so should be like a MonoSlab Footing. There are some settings in the Foundation dbx that allow the Stem Wall to be thicker (an additonal wall type) and the footing to be offset. This has allowed me to get my Foundations properly defined and detailed. But it's a bit of work to do it. I Think this can all be fixed by Chief programming with a few extra options in the Foundation Defaults dbx so that Interior and Exterior footing walls would be created the way I need them in the first place. The changes should be made for MonoSlabs so that there are options for different Interior and Exterior Footings. There should be separate depth settings and for Exterior Footings the Footing should be offset to the Exterior.

Alan, Try this one. It's just a single section but it can be stretched both length and height. You can superimpose multiple sections so the columns are co-incident as needed. Glass Panel - Alan.calibz

A programming trick I learned a long time ago - make something happen on the screen and the user will not think the system is slow. It all a matter of perception. Interestingly, a process that might take 3.0 seconds will appear to be fast if there is a screen update every 1/4 second - while in fact, the screen updates might mean that the process is now taking 3.2 seconds. The screen updates actually take some extra time but the user thinks it's much faster - and if asked might say it took less that 2 seconds.

A couple of Options: 1. Panel Railing on a Pony Wall 2. Molding Polyline with 2 moldings (one Molding Profile for the glass & and a 3D Molding Symbol for the posts) 3. Make a 3D Symbol from a set of Primitive Solids (Interior Furnishing) with a Stretch Plane at x=0.

Mickey, You have to open the Symbol dbx by right clicking on the item in the Library and selecting the little chair icon. Set the Z-Origin there. After that, any door you place will be raised off the floor. While you can't do this directly in the Chief Library or a Manufacturer Library, you can copy those symbols to your user Library and make those edits there.

If you use a "Library" Door with the z origin set to .75" if will have the gap. There's no way to do it with a standard Chief Door - it has to be a Symbol.