Chopsaw

I would be quite interested if someone comes up with a brilliant way to do that but I would think you would need to create a new symbol from two of the existing ones.

Do you have a picture Johnny? Is this something that you just need to fake the eye with some moldings?

Is that camera open by any chance?

One thing I found quite helpful while I was learning the basic tools was the Child Tool Palette. It does use more real estate on the screen but you get that back when you graduate. If you need the long description of what each tool does hover and press F1. Welcome Aboard and keep us posted with your questions. Chopsaw

Not so sure there is a setting for this but if you want to you can custom frame all your wall details after you are sure there will be no more revisions or auto framing. I think is saw a thread on this subject a long time ago but I have not been able to find it. I might have been incorrect, check this out: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4082-add-disclaimer-to-material-list/?p=35388

Rich Text 95% of the time and Regular text for charts and Hyperlinks.

One thing you may want to check on is your local building codes for wheelchair access as there have been a lot of changes for that recently and it can drastically change your design criteria for a new modern building design.

Soo Sorry Diane, I did not know you were X7, I can recreate for you if you like? Question 1- Go to Foundation Level and adjust from attachment 1 to 2 Question 2- Beam is not part of wall definition. See railing DBX attachment 3 6" Single Layer Wall Definition. See attachment 4 Don't worry about railing footings that I mentioned, somehow they were created when I accidently imported the file into X8. I just updated to W 10 and the options for checking versions are not the same. Welch DRAW PLAN swap m bed and bath fix X7.plan

Maybe that is why my arrow keys get all screwed up. Sometime they are completely reversed, I never know which one to use.

Looking pretty good. Have you decided how you would like to hold all those chairs up yet?

Assuming that this might be new for you, here are a few threads discussing the process: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/9483-how-to-explode-or-ungroup-imported-skp-models/?p=83028 https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/7173-break-apart-library-items/?hl=%2Bedit+%2Bsymbol#entry64065 That entire collection is just one stone in different orientations so if you would like to learn all that stuff it is great experience but I thought I might as well share. Armor Stone.calibz

I found one collection on: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=uf1c77176-c97f-4a4d-ae89-16a481f3735f that might work for you if you can make some improvements to the materials and increase the size. Edit in Sketchup or Chief.

Hi Diane, I had a go at your porch. Hoping you like how this looks . Building with the Mono Slab gives many more possibilities. I have attached your fixed plan file, and this is a summary of what I felt was required. I Set up a new Single Layer 6" Railing Wall Type. Made your beams 6" to match posts. Removed Railing Footings. Increased Mono Slab Footings by 4" for post inset. Turned on Attic End walls for porch. Removed Ceiling for more open feel. Dropped Roof plane 4" for more window clearance and full birdsmouth. I would also recommend moving the whole porch a foot or two to the right. Hoping this Helps. Welch DRAW PLAN swap m bed and bath porch fix.plan

Rod, I had a chance to take a look at your plan and once you have the roof elevations corrected as suggested you might want to look at the carport door walls and their non default heights. For some reason we don't build that way in Canada but I like the way it looks, possibly because of the amount of snow we get. There would likely be quit a few benefits to having room definition in the area of the carport and porch by using railing walls in the open areas and including your millwork posts in the defined railing wall.

Johnny, That would be great but I don't think it is an option. For now just make sure you have a terrain before you start drawing things outside the house perimeter or when you do set it up adjust it to 0" and all will be fine.

Thanks Perry, That could work ok for a ground level porch like Eric and I have illustrated without a railing and then use a blank line style for the railing wall but I had not thought of that since most designs in my area are elevated with railings which it does not work for since the rail and balusters stay in the center of the wall. However this is an excellent way to have a rail offset to the front or back side of thick Newels/Posts. Still not sure exactly the nature of Diane's design but I tried to find a solution that would work for all.

Eric, Thanks for the schooling, I will experiment with this until I understand it fully. I was just experimenting with the psolid arched beams while I was waiting for you to respond as I suspected that would be the only way to make it work. This may be a little off topic but the submission I am working on is for the "Square Half Post" (at Wall) function that has never worked for me. However I usually do not get the opportunity to use decorative columns and design mostly rustic stuff with posts, but have you ever seen anything as crazy as this for a "Square Half Post". Now I am not sure what that setting is at all. I always thought it was for Square rather than Rectangular but maybe it is for Rectangular rather than Round, but would anyone design that way? Seems strange to me. Attachment #2 is what I understood that function to do or at least what I would like it to do. Chopsaw

Thanks Glenn, I think that is part of the reason that Scott said what he did during the Terrain Workshop. Funny that both things came up in the same day: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10436-items-moving-after-terrain-added/

Eric, You have used a fairly straight forward workaround here but I am curious as to why it was necessary? Workarounds will always be necessary for unusual custom situations in Chief but unless there are other factors here I don't understand the need for what you did as Chief has the settings to control this and they are fairly simple to use. I would also like to know how you did your custom beam that looks so good. Pictured is a Porch room with a 12" column in a 20" single layer Railing Wall. If you have questions, please post, or contact me if you have time to talk this over as I am working on a Tech Support Submission for Railing Walls and would like to understand this before submitting. I struggled with this for a long time and figured it out myself so maybe others don't know about it and I should make a video??

Rod, Hard to say for sure, but you could take a look at your soffit settings or your roof baseline elevations.

If you would like me to take a look I will because if you have understood and done this correctly it will move you wall center back from the outside edge of the porch. Is your wall a Railing wall set to be "Post to Beam"?

You could post your plan so I could take a look but I think you need to adjust your railing "Wall Type" thickness to the size of your Columns or a little larger if you need to recess them.

Johnny, What does the Z value display as on your Status Bar when you zoom in on an elevation view and place your cross hairs on the line vs. the top of the psolid?

Ray, There may be some fancier way to do this but here is a quick sample of a polyline solid quoin that with the proper materials could look better than an auto quoin. Just stack 4 psolids and block then transform and replicate up. If you are looking for something more complicated, here is a tutorial I found a while ago that you may find interesting: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00797/creating-a-soldier-course.html Polyline Solid Quion Corners test.plan

Larry, When time allows please mention about the Square Half Post at Wall not functioning as these problems are quite likely related to each other. Many Thanks, Chopsaw