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I am not a fan of these... no matter the version. I just grab the grip on each one and pull it tight so its not as noticable.

@jacpdx I think DBC should get the "solution" nod....

Oops.. I see DBCooper already called this link out. Great minds I guess.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00344/modeling-a-subdivision-or-lot-with-multiple-structures.html This is what I used to make this subdivision...

If all else fails, try building it manually.

Are each one of these houses symbols? This is how I would have done this from the start, model the houses, have one of each style, turn them into blocks, then then bring them into your contoured lot plan. Adjust each one accordingly in their x, y, z. Obviously, you'll still need to learn the terrain tools to level areas out. Seems like a huge project that your learning on....

Ah man... wished this wasn't in the middle of the week. Orlando is 4 hours away, and too many things going on this week up here in Tally. Enjoy Florida.. maybe you'll be the next famous Californian to move here. Millionaire Row in Miami would suite you well.

Nvr mind... got it. and WOW. See you went with creating the second floor. Just calc'd, a full circle walk on the main floor is about 110'... 48 laps is a mile.

Which Chief version is this?

Yeah that's good. You can try sending via a zip file too, that's what most peeps do. More secure that way too, I believe, but I could be wrong. Be sure to be out of the file before you do either. I won't be on here much longer tonight, but others will.. and they all like challenges. I get that!

Floyd may have done it, but I remember Aerosmith doing it too. I was more of the 80's hair metal guy.. so Aerosmith would have been more in my brain than Floyd. After watching The Wall, never watched them again.. lol.. L-O-N-G time ago. Back to your roof.. yeah, I'd def make a second floor for that. That's nuts. Boy you stepped in with both feet on this huh. I may be asking you advice in due time when you master this.

What are you doing in the attic? If your adding rooms, etc, the easiest thing is just make it an official floor. This might bump up your roof (if you have it modeled), but you can bring that back down. BTW, your subject made me think I was going to hear an old Aerosmith song! :-)

Hello INH You can disable the attic walls, and delete them and their phantoms. Go to you defaults, then to Walls, then to General Wall... uncheck "Auto Rebuild Attic Walls". Then you can go delete those phantoms. But keep in mind, there is a reason there are phantoms, the software thinks a attic wall is supposed to be there for whatever reason. I wouldn't just go crazy and deleting these walls without a good check. Tread this road lightly especially since your new here.

As Joe has stated.. 99% of your time will be in the model, but to answer your question, it tracts them separately. Keep in mind, if you have them both open, time will be charging to both (I believe) even though you can only work in one at a time.

I had no idea what the title should be.. What I am asking is when we have multiple windows side by side, framed individually, what determines the casing material in-between? I have a brick wall (both sides), and I want 6" in-between windows, but since the wall is brick, I get brick casing on two of my windows, the third is what I want. Even adjusting to 4", I get the same result. Exterior is visa-versa.. so.. I'm a little confused. Thanks,

@scottharris @Rich_Winsor @Renerabbitt @robdyck Thank you gentlemen.. seriously thank you. I took what you all said to heart, made some adjustments, watched videos.. and these have turned out better than I could have imagined. Are they the best of the best, probably not, but for this guy they're perfect. The camera views were so great, that I ended up redoing most of them throughout this cabin, even the ones without the views. Everything looks so warm, natural and real. Night and day...

@Renerabbitt And whomever else are good at these kind of views. There's a few of you out there, names are not coming to mind. I usually don't spend a lot of time on PBRs, basically OOTB settings. They usually turn out good enough for presentation sakes. HOWEVER this one house I am doing, I just cant get the PBR to show the mountains through the glass. This is why the lot was sold to my client and why they want a house that they can see those mountains from inside. The least I can do is give them a representation of that view, right? I have spent a good hour on these few views, and I played with every setting that I know of, every sun position, sun intensity and even turned the glass to air insulation.... it just isn't coming through. I even tried Chat GPT.. looks cheesy IMO. Is there a setting or two that I need to adjust.. Thank you in advance.

I am glad these fellas are helping you... I 've been away ALL day.. then to see this is metric, not a pro at that. I blame 39. :-)

@IRDesign What's the plan view look like? Can you show a large elevation view to see what's going with the whole wall?

@decorators3 I really couldn't tell by the screen shot of the cad line being that I couldn't zoom up on it. But it looks like it had magenta and cyan lines.. representing your project lot lines and buildings, correct? Were you able to measure these and compare the dimensions to the pdf? This looks like a model space drawing to me, where the views in paper space would be scaled and that is where dims and text are placed. I always draw 1 to 1, but I've noticed some survey groups don't when I received there cad files. This is where you do a few distances measurements in the CAD file, then see how it compares to the pdf. You might have to scale the CAD file up I don't mind looking at it for you and give you my $0.05.

WOW! Do you do a elevation of every wall in the home, no matter if its a blank wall just with a few outlets? I'm curious for sure. Not sure 100% I understand your question besides just simply renaming in your tree.

I thank God I have not had to do one of these. Take plenty of notes Rob, might hit you up some say. This is why home with stairs always get a surcharge.. that's where I pretty much start most projects.

Hmm, al I can think of is you may have a reference grid on.. Have you tried just changing the tolerance of that one dim to one? Uncheck "Use Default Formatting"

That does look pretty good Dustin. I wonder how the crack in the concrete got there.. pretty cool affect, however a new garage shouldn't a crack yet. lol.

@CA_Russell I have to totally agree with DBC, but I am anal on details. I have over 130 different walls I keep on a library drawing to drag and drop on my projects. It really is easier to do this the right way than to have more work for you at the end. Just for example, a typical con doc set, is you dimension to the studs. A nom wall your dimensioning to the sheathing, the trades probably wouldn't want that method. Are you doing this for brochures or something? And good luck, welcome to the club. Lots of knowledge here, I've been using Chief since X6 and I still learn something new everyday.