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Ok, I am NOT a fan on how invisible or railing walls work in Chief, lets get that out there, I fill the cuss jar quickly when working these items. I have a concrete slab front and rear porch. On the floor plan (1 floor) we define with invisible walls, then when I go to put a cmu wall underneath (0 floor) with rock veneer, I get these "thingy's" on my slab. It looks like its part of a invisible wall, but I have no idea how to fix or delete, will not pick... any ideas? NOW, they are NOT there when there isn't a foundation below. But if it was the foundation, then I would think I would have these pop up all around.

That's just a PBR camera view and not a RT Graham? I do like how the stainless looks for sure. I could never get SS to look like in a RT. Sorry I missed the responses.. but it made it to mid 60's here, and sunny... had to go for a bike ride.. SPRINGS coming, yes! Daylight savings next week too..

Thanks Graham. Well what I read, you (and many others) are the expert in this. A lot of time you've invested and appreciate yours and the others advice and suggestions. And the examples of settings, it's going to help A LOT.

Right forum, I don't know.. But I've been hesitate on making the update to X10 (until two big projects are completed) because what I keep reading above, but X9 is eating the Hades out of my C drive. There are some great comments and examples above for sure, but going to to this PBR, is this going to knock me back a while until learn all the new settings and techniques? You guys have been in it.. how much time have you lost playing with it all, to get it right? Do I say to my clients, sorry I am a week (or more) late because of X10? The designs are done, just completing CD packages and renders. Of the two projects (attached X9 renders below), I expect about 40-50 renders of the white ranch, with walk through videos for ads (builder request)... key selling part of CA. OR SHOULD I JUST WAIT and start fresh with new project and X10. I am leaning on the expert advice's (you all) before I move on. Side comment: CA is the only thing I am running, bedsides OS and small misc background files. I have moved all my other project folders off the C drive to Dropbox (smart move anyways), yet I am at 98% of using 224 GB. The 1.81 TB is 100% available. My ram is 16 GB, the video card is great, so the issue is C drive. Will X10 program files load on D drive? After I post this, will look on forum to see if it has been mentioned.

Holy cow.. your right.. I learned something new today... thanks Michael. I always been saving as a new item to change anything.

Exactly, it thought I was connection another switch instead of a light. And they too said what you mentioned was another work around, beside what I mentioned in my BTW. But don't you have to copy that part into your users catalog to modify the setting you show? I guess If I start using a bunch of these lights via Wayfair I will do that, at least until the updated catalog gets corrected. Don't think that would be top of the list, so you.. :-)

WAS THIS X10 BETA? I SEE THE LINES TOO.. BUT OTHERWISE, LOOKS REAL.

follow up.. support has duplicated this error and will be correcting.

This is a weird one. I loaded two "Belltown 1-Light Mini Pendant" lights in my model (these are in the Wayfair catalog) with one switch, and it changes the the switch to a 4 way. ??? I then loaded another plan just to see, and I put just one of these pendant lights in the model, with one switch and when connected, it turned to a 3 way. I tried 6 other pendant lights from the same catalog, with one switch, and sure enough they all turned to 3 ways. Other pendants from the core or bonus catalogs work as planned. I guess I never paid attention to this before, since most of the time it is a 3-way situation.. a bug in the catalog maybe? Anyone else duplicating this? BTW I know how to override (unchecking option to auto change type) but thought it was crazy to mention..

I typically just put a ceiling a plane (zero pitch) in a room that I need a different height.. esp when there is a room above. Just did one for an example below...

I get the same message that dhurt gets and I mentioned this issue a month or so ago, and I am on a stand alone. If I open a new template going thru chiefs pull down menu and pick ANY temp-plate, even the ones out of the box I get exactly same thing. It opens a temp-plate that has nothing attached. No wall defs, no dim sets, nothing. But if I go to my C drive, (see below for path), and pick a template and open it that way, it loads correctly. My preference settings are right and have always worked before, so to me this means a bug. I was thinking it might be linked to a Windows 10 upgrade about the same time. Because I have other issues too, like most of my catalog parts are black and white in the preview browser whereas they always showed a material type before. And all of my background views rendered purple.

attach a picture Mark of the actual wall, not the wall specification dbx

Any Detroit Tiger fan is a fan of mine, but what your wanting to do will take a lot of trial and error.... if its even possible. Its all about the plane. Once you get the plane correct, I think you can then convert to a molded poly. Do you have access to Autocad? Might be able to make a rectangle polygon on the correct plane, then bring it over to CA and covert. IDK..

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT IN THE PLAN VIEW?

Have you tried to extending the roof plane to the attic wall. Do this by being in your first floor plan, and turning on the Reference Floor Display (F9), showing the walls above. This should allow you to snap the roof plane to the attic wall. Shouldn't have to tweak

I missed all this today? Still wonder why I get timed out of the forum..? Anyways, all great stuff here, with Chops method, by using the air gap for the soffit, it gave me the exposed rafters. However I still needed the fascia, but like K bird noted, the rafters aren't painted. I set all the fascia thicknesses to 7 1/4", then unchecked the Gable and Eave fascia and left Eave Sub checked. This gave me the tail at the right thickness. This still showed the OSB of the sub-roofing material, so I covered that with a thin shadow board (1/16 x 1-1/2") to cover the OSB and the gap that was on the gabled end. Finished off with frieze board with a vertical offset..(because with a soffit roof blocking is not automatic. Is it perfect, nope, but it gets me going in the right direction. Still has that weird birds mouth cut like what chop showed on 18 and a little "point" sticking out there on the gable end.

R U SERIOUS? That's exactly what I've been trying to do. I noticed that when I had soffit's in, it did the cut... Never would have thought insulation air gap can be used as a invisible plane. That's thinking outside the box. Thanks for helping with this frustration of mine. I will hit it tomorrow Stay warm Chop!

Hey Eric, Chop.. and Charles. YES, I am back on this, after I updated all the planes this AM. Had a review with builder, and he has informed me that he was not wanting rafter tails after all, but exposed rafters. Almost the same thing, but not to Chief. Yes, Chief will give you exposed rafters, but not at a different size than the main rafter. In this case, my roof rafters are 2 x 10's, but the exposed rafter is to be a 2" x 6" with a vertical block. I created a little test model, because I didn't want to mess with main project model anymore. On this test, the only way I can get this to work is two different planes of the same pitch, butted up to each other (can't join) and it is ugly on the shingle side (see below). I also tried making a custom rafter tail, but can not scale it to be a 6" (5.5") piece of lumber. Any other ideas, or thoughts... ugh! Any other training vids besides the ones via CA?

Never mind... the Y was in the positive. Geez! Thanks!!!

Eric, I tried that too, but it won't let me set a negative Y. Did you get it to work?

Working a master suite on a beautiful Saturday... I am trying to put in a recessed outlet (like what you would see behind a flat screen). Chief does not have a model of this, nor could I find a descent one on-line to use. I tried (see below) a niche, 2" deep, and it looks great in the plan view when I offset the fixtures -2", but the camera view is another story. I thought, I will just put in a room divider line (like how we used to have to do on islands), and all that did was open the wall up. Any ideas with all you experts?

Per Eric's suggestion, I tried a ceiling plane for the underside of an exposed roof plane (used with rafter tails mainly), and it worked great (see attached). Figured I'd let all know for future questions on how to do this.

damn genius.. will come in at same pitch too..

That's what I think Eric was mentioning, and I thought the same thing too, two planes, same ptich. I'm going to try a couple of these other options you all mentioned than the one I did, and see how it goes. Maybe need to suggest again to Chief Eric? Thanks all.

Adding the 3/8" thk layer is what I just showed. I will have to work around the sections. Better to do this way than a poly solid.