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OOPS! Thanks for letting me know.

Thank all. David you helped with your answer. I did have the ceiling off on the rooms below, but I went ahead and turned off the roof above this room setting as well and that solved it on my laptop.

Thanks Greg, Eric and Joey for trying to help. I was working on this project on my laptop in x5. I have always been able to see the open below on from the upstairs when I work on similar projects on my usual PC. I took the project back to the x5 on my PC and the open below works just as it is supposed to. I wonder if there is a 3D camera setting that controls the open below view. I have attached the picture that I took of this project from my PC. I made no changes, just opened it up and took the overview shot. Any solutions ideas. I want to be able to work on this and similar projects on the laptop, but I have to get this solved before I can. Thanks everyone!!!

Solver, yours looks the way I want mine to, but unfortunately it isn't' turning out correctly. I wonder if there is a setting I am missing. Thanks!

Greg, Thanks for trying to help me.In these pictures I added a washer machine on the first floor in the living area. (Not where I would have one but just to have something there that should be visible from the open below area) The 2nd floor seems to just have flooring for the second floor showing. It isn't open below and I can't see the washer I placed on the 2nd floor.

I am trying to have an open space above the kitchen, dining, and living areas and it shows Open Below on the floor plan. However, when I take a 3D dollhouse overview and remove the roof planes or use the camera views, It appears this area isn't open below. Anyone have hints to offer. Thanks!!!! French remodel elizabeth ideas.plan

Thanks Graham. Weird, I went to check on the setting and the 3D elevation came up right on the overview. I don't know what made it start working correctly.... Guess it was just putting it out there to the Chief Universe. Thanks guys for your help.

Thanks Robert! Well that lets me know the problem may not be in a Chief setting, maybe it is in the Graphics Card??? I have a new HP Envy x360 with Core i7 Processor Intel® Core i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

I am working in x7. I have a project that has the texture patterns when you look at the cross section elevations of the home, but a 3D overview doesn't have the patterns. I turned on the layer 3D patterns. No change. Lloyd asbuilt.plan

Perfect! Thanks a bunch!!!

Such an easy fix. Thanks!! Any way to have the freize removed from the brick gable but keep in on the siding gable that abuts it? In other words, the left roof plane would have part with and part without the frieze.

Sorry meant boxed eves. My construction guys call it bird box.

Saw I mistakely added the .jpg instead of the .plan file. Thanks in advance for your assistance! 1850- basement plan for Thomas Homes 1864-3.plan

Can anyone help me figure out why my bird box isn't forming and the roof plane looks like it is dropping down about 1" past the eve? I work in X5 full version Chief Architect.

I will have to look into that. Thanks for the insight!

Is there some way to create a navigation pane on the file selection dialog box? I have attached pictures of what I would like to see. It would make opening my various clients drawing much quicker.

Solved called NVIDIA and the nice man helped me get everything set back to where it needed to be. Don't know why I didn't think to do that 2 days ago.

Does anyone work with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 video card? If so, can you tell me what you have your 3D settings on. I tried to change mine to run x7 and didn't take a screen shot of the original settings. x7 didn't work and somehow I changed the global settings when I added X7 to the program list in the NVIDIA control panel and changed its 3d settings. I deleted the CA x7 and tried to remember the settings that were on the global. My system is totally lagging down when I do 3D views now in 5X, which was working just fine before I added CA x7 to the Nvidia control panel. It is taking 98% of my CPU to run the 3D view. The attached .pdf shows my current settings. Thanks for any assistance you can give me. global settings.pdf

For real!!! I want to do this. How do I do tell it to run Chief X7? I have the Nvidia control panel open. I have two categories to select from, 3D Settings and Display.

You had it right. I am working in x5 but have the subscription for all since then. I work from a Sony VAIO all in one computer. I love its compactness, but the video card is integrated with no way to install a different one. It is a update video card driver NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400. I will try to update the driver on the video card as you suggest to see if that helps. I think I tried to do this before and the video card driver is no longer supported. Either way I have plans to upgrade and have a better backup system in the near future. That way I will be able to keep up with the new upgrades that CA has to offer. Problem is that I need to have windows 7 to run the older version of AutoCAD which I still need to use for other CAD work. It works fine for my needs and I don't want to spend the thousands to upgrade to the latest version. Cool that you found a tablet that works. Are you on the Surface 3 or Surface Pro 3? Is this your only system? I need a usb for my external hard drive backup (which also is backed up on Carbonite online)

Okay this is what I am going to do. Until I can get information from the truss company that explains how they have the left, rear and right roof planes fascias all at one level when the garage is at 8' and the rear and right of the house are at 9'??? I will get the truss layouts from the truss company and share them and perhaps we can revisit this dilemma in the future. In the meantime, I will just fudge the elevations in CA and take it to AutoCAD as a last resort. Thanks everyone for trying to help me get this right.

pazzfam Sounds like you might have what I need to learn. Unfortunately, I am in x5 at the moment. Although I can open x7 I can't see any camera views (just plan view) because of my system not meeting the requirements. Could you please give me more guidance on what you did and I will try to recreate in x5? Could you attach pictures of the various elevations?

Looking at the thumbnail, this looks promising but it needs to be hipped in the rear and it needs to have the porch connected across the house. I tried to open it but I am in CA x5. I downloaded and installed my SSA upgrade to X7 but I don't have the system requirements to see the camera views only the plan view. I will try to duplicate in X5. Thanks for you help!