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As far as the extra thick wall, what I did was to create a new wall type in the dbx, framed and drywall on both sides, with the gap you are needing. Might be a little PITA for the different areas you have, but this worked pretty well, and it framed like the builder wanted. Re: the 45's, you just have to keep playing with it. You might have to put in 12" flat section then an angle piece... if that takes, throw a dim on the flat and just keep widdling it down till you know you can't anymore. At least that's what I just did. Just be thankful your not using a pony wall here, CHIEF's pony and railing walls don't work the greatest.

I need someone to refresh this old memory of mine.. looked around and couldn't find my answer, but I know I've done a while ago. Client has a tight space for a custom vanity (like the one attached). I can get this modeled, but when I place it, Chief wants to add the fillers on both sides. Where do I turn this auto filler off for just this one cabinet? I found it in the defaults, but then it turns the fillers off on all cabinets throughout the cottage. Thanks...

Hi Robert, Mine looked pretty much like yours, until I realized your layer display was floating on a separate screen. Didn't know, (didn't try actually) that we could do that. I can with Inventor, Mechanical Desktop and do, just never thought about doing this with Chief as well. Now it does simulate yours :-) Beautiful house BTW...

I had a project that had an exterior stairs as well. I did not create the stairs it in a room however. I had a slab (porch) on main level, then a deck on the second. I connected the stairs to these two levels. No room creation was involved. I had an issue of the stairs not showing on the second floor (because I did not use a room definition of "opened below). So what I did, per a suggestion on this forum, was to create another Reference Floor Display set, turned everything off except the stair layer (and changed to black) plus added a couple cad lines to clean up, and showed that on my second level plan view. See attached. This was in Chief Premier X10, I don't know much about HDP.

Now that's funny Alan... Going to have to look this up.. I am confused also on the vegan egg thing. Your houses look nice, have you tried the Ray trace or Physical Based Renders yet? Make's it more realistic. I'm glad your keeping the artistic juices flowing, very important.

I really did think about doing that, but with almost 60 interior doors, would have hard for me to narrow it down for you all to look at. And the file size is 204500 KB, before a zip, didn't know if that would be an issue too.

That would make sense if it was a different door. But it is an exact copy of the door to the left, just a switch of the hinge side. And I used this door throughout house (in 11 different bathrooms with different lighting), and this is the only room it does this in. I fixed though by toggling sunlight. Thanks for your input Graham. I was reading through this forum last night for a solution, so many tricks and settings that everyone suggest.. was mind boggling and a lot of "huh's?

I am with Larry on this. I design houses, not a lighting specialist for renders. I have a glowing casing on one door in the same room as another. UGH@! There is a roof, there isn't any "sun" coming into this bath, two exact doors.. but one the casing glows, the other doesn't. I just want to PBR without having to spend more than 10 minutes trying to figure this out. Deadlines to meet.. going to Raytrace. Before I submitted the above, I tried one more thing.. I turned the sunlight off.. and it fixed the issue (kinda). WHY???? Like I mentioned, there isn't any natural light in this room, so? Since I hadn't heard much on X11.. is the PBR getting these issues fixed?

Never thought of that Michael. I do use the saved plan views, for the obvious stuff... floor plans, electrical, roofing..etc.. just didn't even think about setting up a reference as one too. Thanks...

Hi Chris, Try fixing the ceiling height of your basement, for starts. Right now you have 33.5" rough ceiling height. You will have to change the height of all your doors and windows too, since the short ceiling height shortened them. I attached where you change the height of the complete floor.. but you have to be in the basement for it to affect that floor. Also, you need a floor under this room.. look at the "floor" setting on the same attachment

Sorry, had training all day, so just now seeing the experts replies. I attached a couple views.. I thought of showing the reference floor plan also, but that shows everything from the first floor. I know I can turn those layers off in the reference set, but really didn't want to. Maybe at the end, when I create dwgs, I can do that. This is the beginning of a small 2 unit building design, that's why I am needing a exterior stairs.

Maybe I missed it.. but I looked through this forum and Chiefs Knowledge base on how to display an exterior staircase from the second floor plan. Do I have to create a "open below room" with invisible walls???? Thanks in advance

Hi Chiefer's Not on here a lot.. try to figure things out on my own. I do come here when stumped though.. because I know there is a lot of knowledge to be shared. And I am sorry that I don't come on here enough to share the things I've learned as well. 2019 resolution.. :-) You might get tired of my face though.. I have a house that is long in the north-south direction. That's how I modeled it, for many reasons, and it just made sense at the time. I put this model on a horizontal layout, rotated all the labels... (PITA, but that's what I did), so the drawing is easy to read. The one thing I can not get rotated is the detail CALLOUTS. I played with the setting, tried rotating with the grips, "rotated with plan (whatever that means), but cannot get the text to rotate. (See attached). Any ideas, besides leaving blank, and putting in a separate line of text? Thanks in advance

That's exactly what I did.. placed a rendered view on layout sheet, with a CYA note for home owner to verify.

I knew you all had ideas.. :-) A picture is worth a thousand words, and that's what I will do. And if you have Joanna's number, pass it on, the misses would love to call her. YES, there is ship lap in this house and now the one I live in....

This is not a CHIEF question at all, and sorry for using this forum in advance, but many experts on here. Client wants a German Smear facade on her brick.. the modeling part is easy, but how in the world would I communicate this on a drawing? The 2D pattern is brick. Would this just be a note to smear the brick with a mortar compound afterwards for the German affect? Attached is screen grab of model exterior.

I SENT TO LAYOUT WITH FILL CHECKED.

Will do... glad it wasn't just me. :-) How are you tagging your message to Chief? I will do the same.

Never mind.. I think I figured it out. Kinda dumb on the steps, but oh well. After you have the view on the layout sheet, open the view again via double clicking. Then close that view and say "NO" to updating. At least that worked, don't know if that's the right way or not...

I am trying to figure out how to get the ghost beams and rafters to turn off, past a "Clip To Sides" view. In the actual view, you do not see the framing, but as soon as I put on a layout sheet, the framing appears, well past the clipping window. Any idea on how to turn this off, with out actually tuning off the layers? thanks in advance.

I love that feeling too Rod, of when the house is ready to move in and the client is so happy. Its like our creation has come to life. Love the house warming parties too, get to pass out cards. :-) That blows Perry!

A curiosity question for all you Chief professionals. How many of you enter Chiefs contest on Facebook or haven't you? When I first got into Chief (back on X6 I believe), I entered because I thought what a way to get my name out there, and be judged by my peers. But I found out its more of a Facebook popularity contest. NOTHING against the participants and winners (I was one myself), nor for Chief to have. I saw some beautiful-talented work. And as a winner, I did get great clients and a builder whom I've designed 6 homes for (they saw the postings). But think about it, most of the votes are tallied by friends and families. THAT BEING SAID, Please keep the current contest method, because it is cool to show our peeps, but does Chief ever have a more defined contest, with a couple of our fellow peers and CA being the actual judges? I love that my mom likes my designs, but I want Eric, Chops, and many of you pros to like my designs or give good constructive advise too. Just thinking out loud here...

Ted Pretty much what Chop said, I add a 3-way from the library at each floor, with a poly line and a note...

I'm already done with the updated sheet size.. easy!

so basically on page 0, redo the temp-plate to an Arch E size, adjust paper size, etc..... ? not bring in a Arch E existing layout? Genius! Thanks Chop... I was thinking I had to delete the D and insert an E... this makes sense, the layout is not a block as it would be in a dwg file.