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This has happened to me now on my last 2 or 3 plans.. When I lay out out my roof planes, with the overhang set, all my eaves and soffits line up nice, but as soon as I put a bump out of any kind, the soffit changes shape. I fixed previously my putting in a poly solids and called it a day just to keep moving. Now that it's happened again, I figure I need to share and ask the pros. Is there a setting that I cannot find or have overlooked? I recreated the same issue with a test model... see attached. ROOF SOFFIT ISSUE.plan

LOL. I love your email.. just saying! A sandwich is a snack, a SAMMICH is a meal

Something this small, I would just draw lines to replicate the grout line, and be done with it. I never know what the client will end up using, so I don't show these lines. But since your doing interiors, I guess you need to. Drawing lines is far better than the frustration of trying to offset. My $.02. :-)

Wow.. never knew that.. for years been locking things.. that was it. I knew it had to be simple, and I was overthinking it. Thanks Chris.

Just curious if there is a way that I can set it where my text can be easily picked without having to lock items? I thought by changing the order that would do it. When you r ripping through the model annotating, having to stop to lock a items, like interior fixtures or cabinets, just to move text, is a buzz kill.

can you put the three windows as you want, then mull them?

Just had to do this.. making the railing off to the side and changing to a No Room Def worked perfectly.

Just saw this post, was looking up the bookshelf doors as well. Then I found under the Bonus catalog "Doors No.3 Specialty" there is a inswing and a outswing bookshelf door. Just modify to your liking (the 2D symbol isn't the greatest though). Other cool doors in this catalog; like a star ship door (in case you want to design a Death Star), or the security door folder has hatch doors so you can design cruise ships. Now that's a challenge for someone bored...

Are you converting that picture to a new material? >USER CATALOG >NEW >MATERIAL >give it a name and on the TEXTURE tab, browse for that file... stretch to fit > then you can place in your frame

As you get more experienced Philip, you will find that you will hardly use the auto function. I haven't in years.

Hi Scott... The ad states your needing a design-BUILD firm. Just making sure that's what your looking for. I'm not affiliated with a build firm down there, is why I am asking.

Now that is thinking outside the box Glenn.. Next B&B, I'm trying this.

Called belly bands here too.. Its pretty simple BnC. Pick the outer edge of you build, then select "Make Room Molding Polyline" The height is just what it means, the height you want this band.> OK > The whole area will highlight > Open the object> from there you can build your band with the style you like. Can build on top of others also, to get the stacked look. I use this method also for brick ledges..

That's a good idea Joey.. That's what I ended up doing.. ended up looking great.. IMO Thanks guys for the direction.

That did it.. unchecked full wall width of rails. Watching your Railing - Part 2, to see if it gave me the fix.

Yes they do. I made a sample deck off to the side. The first problem going with a larger sq. column, is it hangs off the edge of the deck, if you use the dbx. So I made my newels 0" in size... placed the symbols of columns. I cut the wall, and where I don't want railing is an invisible wall. How do I get the rails to sit back? If I can figure this out, I should be ok.. just a tedious process.

I save a lot of those vids.. going to watch them now. Wife just gave me a hot chocolate cookie with a coffee...

I have two full decks to do this with, with a lot of corners. This is going to take a little bit of time. This is what I thought I had to do.

Actually was answering to both you and Michael. Yes I did get your picture.. did you have to do it the way I mentioned, or did you have another way Eric?

Well, I did ask huh. :-) Was hoping for a magic button I was unaware of. Thanks for confirming my thought process..

I know, but I need to show that "break" of no railing in between. Railing wall, then a invisible wall back to a railing wall??

Need advise on how to provide a double column (newel) on raised porch, besides drawing manually. I have done the double column before, but did it manually, the difference was that house was one step off of grade, therefore no railing was required. The house I have now will require a railing. I tried to break the wall, thinking that would add a column, sometimes it did, but if you tried to adjust the distance, well.. rail wall has A LOT to be desired for, that's all I'm going to say. Basically it didn't work. I also need to keep the "beam" that chief puts in with the "post to beam" selection, per the engineer for wind load (hurricane winds)

Hey there yupers~! HAHA.. Snow mobiling on the mitten part myself, never been over the Mac.. hard to believe. Now I live where it doesn't snow, and I am ok with that. All the rest of you, WOW, very impressed.. on the talent you all have above just designing houses on Chief. Great job everyone Justin, that is a great way to show the model of the animal cell, put it perspective of what these kids know, and that is school. Love that pinewood car too...

Hey Griff.. I had the same issue with the roof sheathing showing thru the shingles also, but only on one building in my neighborhood. Just so happened to be the middle structure with the shed roof. Some camera angles it was fine, others not so much. The only thing I did, and I don't know if it was the correct fix, was to edit that symbol and made the shingles thicker. It seemed to work, because it didn't do it again. Again, don't know if this was just a coincidence or not... just throwing it out there.

Noted.. I looked on every tab of the window dbx for anything to do with the louver.. and it was on the first tab all along. Ugh, hate asking dumb ?s when its usually right in my face. "Louver Size" Thanks Eric!