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What kind of exterior porch railing wall type do you guys use or have made, mainly one that is under roof. I've tried the one out of the box for a porch defined area and I get drywall on the outer edges, I've also created one that had no drywall, but then it makes the wall above the opening concrete. Is there a setting, especially for porches, that a "wall" above isn't created? Been dealing with this issue since I can remember.. just never asked.

I figured I'd need to create a new profile anyways (wanted to soften the edges some), but was seeing if this would even work with OOTB profile. What's 2 CM, about 7/4" of an inch? And I agree, this simple test shows that it does not project to the window frame.

Trying to figure out how to make the interior (complete) sill a different material than the trim. It has to have a frame and trim works. Client request "All window sills - 2 cm black polished Granite/Quartz"

Not architecturally related... one of my buddies and his girl took the day and weekend off to go fishing here in NE Florida, you know, where we are in extreme drought, near the Georgia fires.. I did a quick ChatGPT of his lake...

I really don't want them to do away with it totally. The quick PBRs do work in a pinch, IMO, esp. when I'm just conveying an idea or an approval. I mean I don't need photo quality for every camara view. Do they need to go further, I don't think so, or like you mentioned, team up with someone. There are some on here like Rene who are just geniuses on the lighting and getting their views to look great and natural. Me, however, I don't want to figure the sun exact direction so that things in a bedroom are not to dark or to bright. Or figure out how to make a material look more realistic.. and so on on every camera view. This has taken a lot of time, and I still am not good at it. I want to drop what view I have and tell the service what I want.. and keep moving on. Like the two bedrooms. The first one is PBR, 350 passes.. the second, told Chat to "make more natural and inviting" and mentioned the SW paint number that I had showing in my model.. that's it. All these views you all showed look great to me. @robdyck Rob, I love that style of architecture.. you know its Canada when you see a hockey goal in the cul-de-sac.. "Car".. "Game on"...

A client emailed me and wondered what direction I was running with his house, since the ROW and easements were ridiculous on a small city street. The model is a WIP, but I did a quick camera view, and a screen grab at street level, and had ChatGPT merge the two, and remove trees. First pass was enough to convey the direction.

My camera view placed into ChatGPT.. just playing. I told it to place in the mountains (because that is where it's being built in NC), make landscape more realistic, add snow on the second draft. You guys didn't know I invented a snow proof flag and pole, did ya! @para-CAD I've been meaning to get a second shed, thanks for the reminder.

To the ground, that is different for sure. Can't you grab the grips and just pull it down? Recording 2026-04-20 200545.mp4

@faithmerckel Awesome! Good luck with your meeting tomorrow.

Have you pulled the latest from the archive file? I'm not sure what version you have x16, 17... Assuming your using windows, go to documents in Explorer. There should be a Chief Architect Premier X?? Data folder, in this folder is a Archives Folder. Here is where you 'll find the projects you been working where the autosaves and backups are. I'd try opening the latest as see if this gets you back running again.

Your welcome. It happens to me a few times a year, so I thought it might be something like this.

@SC_drafting Have you just tried blindly erasing by window out in the area? Make sure all your layers are turned on not locked?

I have some minor changes to the elevation after receipt of comments this AM, but the jest is the attached. The lady of the house likes to decorate for the holidays.. all of them, the man of the house is tired of it.. lol. So this is a win-win for them both, she gets her lights and he doesn't have to keep putting them up to take right down... Sounds like fun huh! I don't have this model up to work on at the moment, finishing a small home tonight. Throw this out there, do you think maybe as another frieze board, but emissive like 1/2" tall right up under the soffit? What's a distribution line Joe?

I don't know about where you all are, but here in the panhandle of Florida, having permanent LED lights (like ropes I guess) installed all around the houses soffit is a thing. Yu can change the colors year round, and as my neighbor does, keeps his white for security. Anyways I have a request to add this to a home that has multiple levels with different gables, planes, etc. Any suggestions on how to make this work? It also is considered one fixture..

Your right, that is strange. I have no idea. When I look back at my submittals since this project took back off again, those rooms didn't show up at all. Just the original and the one I just renamed.

@Renerabbitt I had a feeling it was of this nature. Why do you think it wouldn't pull the room type into the schedule being in X17 even though with the old pull down option showed it? Just curious obviously... since I figured it out and assumed it was what you mentioned above. east coast here, heading to bed. Thanks!!

I don't have a question on this, but more of a result of trying to figure out why my Master Bedroom and Master Bathroom would not show up on the room schedule, even though they were checked to do so (this is a FYI in a way). The plan I am working was started in 2023 but I have continued it in X17. The client sat on this for a bit after I submitted approval plans (floor plans and a few camera views). He has since gave the thumbs up to move ahead.. all about the money I guess. It appears back in 2023 we had a option to pick Master Bedroom or Master Bathroom in our Room Types. But since, and I don't know what version changed this, those two rooms do not exist any longer to pick from the X17 OOB version. But since this was a carry on from another version, those rooms still were available, yet would not show up on the schedule. That had me scratching my head. The fix was simple picking bedroom and bath as the room type and manually give the master in the room name. I hope this makes sense. I tried to search on here if anyone had this issue before I figured it out, didn't see anything so here I am to inform the masses.

Had the same issue... looked at all my settings, couldn't figure this out.. scratched a bald spot thinking.. A quick search... wala.. thanks! Using Chief for a decade plus, and still learning something everyday. I never knew that the patterns were on their own layer till now.

@JKEdmo Nice job Jim.... that's thinking outside the box for a solution. @cjanderson66 Nice deck Chris.. I forget how the hand drawn lines make a picture look crisp. Bringing in the Simpson components and bolting, gives it a nice touch for sure.

@AbeLopez Looks like a good spot for a 3d solid. End of walls like you have here, with I am assuming a wall that is invisible perpendicular, does sometimes cause these caps to not come in.

I def charged for this fiasco.. even though the extra $$ was nice, the time could have been used more productively (I think I had 6 hours into this). I understand clients might change their minds, but this still should have been caught during approval. Its a done deal now, but I will keep what you fella's mentioned if it ever happens again, hopefully not.

So besides mirroring the plan, you then mirror the sections, elevations on their own. Using the common mirror line? Do you use the Edit Area Visible tool or just a mirror? With the EAV tool, most dims mirror ok, I still have cleanup. But it also did not pick up the sections. I will keep this mind for sure, if another comes up. I manually redid every section again. Believe it or not, I'm on my second mirrored plan this week (I prob won't have another for a few years now), this one didn't get past the approval stages before they wanted it flipped. That was easy. I like this too...

Yeah I figured... thanks! The only good thing, is this a change order... time equals $$. I was just hoping to be done sooner than later.

The 7/8" is the total of your floor thickness material (you can see this in the room dbx). for example carpet and padding. The 4" is your slab. Just how Charles described.

Ooh, right on Lake Erie, sounds cold. So your looking for someone to be local I assume.