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I think I can do that for you if you would like to post the pdf or send it to me. It will mess up the text though. Also I can convert to .png that will import better if you like. Not the drawings, just the pdf conversion.

Looks great Michael, just beware when they try to recruit help to lay all those. Then it will be hard labor !

Make each row exactly 8" or adjust the material to suit your size in the Texture tab of Define Material then adjust Offset as necessary. Looks good, Nice Job.

That or just a Terrain Break Line if you have issues hiding the wall.

If you need to accurately model the step back and the curves, maybe a spline distribution path would be the way to go. A little demanding on you computer but it looks like yours is up to the challenge.

Right click on symbol in User library and Export Library ( Item ) then post .calibz file. Putting the symbol in you User Library is a little more complicated but will allow you to drop it into a new plan with just a few clicks.

The best way is to let us know what software you are using and post the plan file but you may have a Wall Covering set to display without knowing it. Likely the refrigerator is on the Fixtures Interior layer that is not turned on in Camera View.

I think your answer will be No this is not advisable. It would be an interesting exercise to see how far you could get but there are a lot of tools in Chief that are just not designed for this purpose. Importing the model should not be a problem and creating elevations should work fine but you will run into issues after that. You could make some pretty Top View Orthographics with the cross section slider but they would just be pictures and dimensions and scale would be a challenge. Try importing the DWG and trace over it so you can use the program to it's full potential. You may have to treat the time you spent on the Sketchup model as though you are dealing with a client that just provided you with a great amount of detail on exactly what they want in 3D.

Austin, I gave Ray's Idea a try and no luck with the material regions but if you create and extra file you could do a pretty good job of a illustration with the manual roof planes and switching the roofing material and then just add a molding for the seams. Oh and find a better material than the one Chief provides.

@Joe_Carrick

Your Reduced Gable truss will likely have to be manually drawn with p-solids in elevation view, that can be converted to solids and exploded if necessary for material application for 3D rendering of wood grain patterns, or just left as p-solids for Construction Drawings. The beams sitting on the rafters at mid span will need to be p-solids or you can edit a lookout to fill that purpose in a roof layer set to opening no material or insulation air gap. Auto Roof framing should give you the rafters you need. Have a go at it and post your plan file if you get stuck.

Yes that is a major issue. Try attaching the fence to a room divider that joins it at 90 deg. and then use your arrow keys to carefully inch it into position.

Apparently the 25MB limit to file size has been lifted or changed with the latest forum update. Not sure exactly what it is but quite possible a plan file of that size could be zipped and uploaded now. If not please let us know what tech has to say.

I believe you will find that defining the DPI will have the effect you are expecting if you set the width & height of the pic in inches. If the width and height is in pix then the total number of pixels is not affected, just the physical print size. Thank you so much Graham, I have been struggling with this for years without any help from tech support. It is still a little unintuitive but it seem that it must have been fixed at some point without me being aware. Just have to find out what that warning about the 200 MB limit is all about for all but .bmp and if it is wise to override or not.

The Material Region needs to be draw on the elevation level that you want it to appear on in plan view. If it covers more than one level you may be able to make a copy to move it to another level in plan view. Not sure why it would not show in plan view if the layer is turned on. Are you using the new Saved Plan Views ? Have you updated to v. 20.2.1.1

Yes there are two schools of thought on this topic and it seems like about a 60/40 split but I am not sure which way it leans. Really just depends on your needs. Nice to have it live and also sometimes beneficial to show terrain features in combination with some cad.

Did you draw your plot in Plan View or a Cad detail ? Cad detail is just cad, but in plan view you can use all the terrain features and the floorplan that you have already drawn.

Dermot, Could you explain this a little further or direct us to a resource that does as I have checked with tech support about this issue several times over the years with very little helpful feedback. I just created two identical Exported Picture files. One saved at 72 dpi. and another saved at 6000 dpi. The properties report does indicate the recorded resolution but the identical file sizes would suggest that this is not true and visual inspection confirms it. Can this be explained or fixed please. v. 20.2.1.1

Yes that is about the extent of it and I was able to get Joe's ( Post to Beam ) settings to work properly by reducing the railing height by the thickness of the beam. Using the ( Post to Railing ) setting seems to do it automatically.

The most accurate way I have found to print in high resolution from Chief is to format a borderless PDF paper size and print to PDF. I also talked to tech last week and they really were not able to give me positive advice but I was able to create a Meta File ( .EMF ) and set the width to 10" and the dpi to 1800 and it was not properly formatted but seemed to work ok for printing purposes. Meta Files are copied to the clipboard and then saved in another program such as paint.

Joe I found that ( Post To Rail ) seemed to build a better wall. I made a copy for ( Post to Beam ) and moved it to the foreground. Is this a bug in the new version ?

Ok I think I would just build it as a railing wall with custom panel and then fill in over the door with p-solids and send in a suggestion to Chief Architect that unless there is a better solution then maybe some improvements could be made.

David, Is this the wall type you are after ? If so I have an Idea about the door I will try.

Here is the other option. Granted it is a little more advanced. :

Yes go to the Structure tab usually under surfaces and edit the OSB or add something below it.