Joe_Carrick

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.

I used a Soffit.

Alan, Is this what you are trying to do? The 1st pic uses a Divider Wall and a Half Wall. The 2nd pic uses a Half Wall, No Room Def moved into the opening created by a Doorway.

Have you considered using a full width doorway and a half wall inside that? There are several ways to accomplish this - that would probably be my choice, but you could also use a divider wall and a half wall.

You need to use a "Panel" Railing Wall. Solid will not work.

Rob, Use a Railing Wall for your toilet partitions. Put a doorway in that wall and convert it to a hinged door. When you raise the door it will not generate the panel below.

I make my own. It's just a matter of putting together the Furniture & Fixtures for what you normally use. Then just group them and add to your User Library. Make sure to put them into a Folder Structure so you can find them later.

Rob, Open the Symbol dbx. You can change the material names in that dbx.

Alan, That's one you can't change. Almost all of Chief's Labels are assigned to a fixed layer that is related to the object type. If you create a symbol you have a little more flexibility by selecting the Symbol Category. The other thing you can do with a Symbol is to add the text to the 2D CAD Block - which works for the Plan View but for Section/Elevations you have to add the text manually.

Cheryl, I think you could fairly easily create that and make it a "Millwork" Symbol. Then it could just be positioned in each corner.

I've compared one of my more complex plans with exactly the same settings in X6 and X7. I can't see any difference.

If you are doing full log homes rather than log siding.......... I use a single layer wall (transparent material) the thickness of the Logs. If you want chinking you can make the original wall 3 layers with only the outer layers being transparent. I place all windows and doors in those walls which provides the casings, etc. Then I stack Log Symbols just as if I was building the log home in the real world. This is the most realistic method I've found.

Tim, 1. You need to have "Wall Labels" layer on for the Label to be displayed. %wall_id% -> 1,2,3,..... %automatic_label% -> Wall Detail - 1, Wall Detail - 2, Wall Detail - 3, ...... %wall_type% -> The Wall Type Name. 2. Don't forget the underscore character "_" as it's part of the macro name and without it you'll get nothing.

For what you're describing, I would add a Material Region (don't cut the wall surface) and then apply a "Hole in the Material Region". That's an icon on the Edit Toolbar. IOW, it's easier to add a Material Region Layer to the Wall Surface and then cut a hole in that. If it needs to be deeper than that I would use 2 walls back to back - pretty much like it would be built.

Sliding Barn Doors in "Bonus Content" online.

This one is real simple. 1. Exterior Wall has Drywall on inside face 2. Second Wall has Drywall only on inside face 3. Put a Pass Thru (no casings, no lintel, no sill) in the wall and make in "Not Through".

Rod, I'm not seeing that in X7. Did you ever have that problem before?

No problem here. I upgraded and installed the library successfully.