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A little guidance here.. please. I have a ramp wall that I am capping at the stairs. I have a couple issues with this method... was wondering if there is a work around or setting to correct the items I mentioned below, or do I just need to finish using 3D Polylines. My first attachment I was wondering if there was a way I can delete the post at the wall? Just like we can do with railings. On my second attachment (2-pronged question here), I am assuming I have to manually model the stringer (red) or is there a setting I am missing? One creates at the wall.. but not the ramp. The second part (yellow) involves offsetting newels, banisters and the railing. Ramps put two railings in, and you either have to turn both off or leave one on. In this case I left the right on. This hangs the newel post over the "tread".. what I call the "wall cap". So I offset this in the newels/balusters dbx. The post moves, but not the railing or the balusters. How do I get these to move also? I will be out of office most of the day tomorrow, so hopefully when I return I can hear from all you experts :-) THANKS IN ADVANCE.

curious... whats a .rar file?

nothing ruins a great day of work than a major issue like that... sorry!

In most cases there are areas I want to show that divide, so I usually create a new layer, "Invisible wall to turn off".. and then as Chop mentions, turn off that in the model.

Told all my kids this as they entered adulthood... It is GREAT ADVICE. After all your going to be working for 50 plus years, do something you love.

Been a long day, thanks for the help both of you. I totally forgot about the arc centers toggle.

I'm guessing the radius and diameter dimension is still not an option on X10? Will it be there on X11? Shouldn't this have always been a standard thing in dimensioning? I can fudge a circle dim., but how many actual circles do we build? I need to dim many arcs.. Any shortcut ways to dim. a center of a arc? I can see the point when I pick the arc, but not in dim mode. Back to the drawing board and locate centers with cad lines is the only way I can think.

I did exactly that.. worked great.. I added legs to the bottom and thought, I need to make it a symbol, once I did, the fill disappeared. Thank..

Hi Mark.. I thought that too.. but when its check, the vanity becomes just a front, meaning no longer a box shape. A front and top. Attached is a checked and unchecked view

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.