GeneDavis

Or give a cloud link.

Looks like the @DefinedDesignpost is about Ply Gem windows. I'd never get into the specifics of window or door opening sizes unless the job's being panelized, and I size windows (not their ROs) in whole inches, always dimensioning to centers.

You need to know the mullion spec for that manufacturer's factory-mulled windows in that particular product line. It might be zero, or maybe a half inch, but whatever it is it is used by you in placing and joining the windows. Those manufacurer's sizing charts are the resource, or a quote can be used as you show. If you really want to get into the weeds, you can go to the maker's site and bore in to get .pdf views or CAD downloads of mull sections.

Get busy modeling it piece by piece using solids. Only two or three parts to do, then it's all repeat up a distribution path. It is an accessory, just like a kitchen cabinet pullout, but I doubt the maker has made a 3D model you can download.

@BenMerrittI cannot open the program at all unless I go the "open as administrator" route. A double-click on the desktop icon results in a little spinning circle, but it goes away, and the program won't open. Same behavior if I right-click and click "open." No open. I've no idea how I can find a data file tagged "owned by administrator." Been a user since 10.08 and never had this issue.

I installed it yesterday and I can only run it as an administrator. Where do I go to change this?

I just downloaded X17, set it up to import everything from X16, opened the file I'd been working on, and it locked up at 25 slow passes into a PBR render. X16 blitzed the PBR which was set with a 50 pass max and lines drawn over no extends no squiggle. Now X17 cannot open the file and shows me this.

I see the diff in the gable and also above below and adjacent the front windows. Have you tried simply eyedropping from good and painting on bad?

If I'm dimensioning lot line to building corner, I'll want my dimension to be normal to the lot line rather than the other way. It's all about the setback, and setback's parallel. CAD's my friend for this dimensioning setup.

Thanks, Shayne. I framed manually, really only to be able to show it in a 2D floorplan detail. I'm told that everywhere in the New England states, builders strap every ceiling, even those when the members they are strapping over are 16" on center. I guess lumber and labor are free in Massachusetts. Interesting that Chief lets you put a layer there in ceiling finish with the "framing" option checkbox, which opens the on-center-spacing dialog box for spec, but then does not autoframe. Maybe I'll write a suggestion.

If it's the switch for the sink grinder, do it with a plunger air switch.

I specified my porch ceilings, which I want to finish in LP panel fixed to 1 x 3 strapping, in the FINISH part of structure, 3/4-thickness framing layer, 16" centers, 2.5" wide, above the 0.354 panel. This is a change. I formerly specified the ceiling finish as a single later panel, fixed directly to the truss chords above. I try autoframing the room's ceiling and do not get the strapping I expect. What might I try next? I've framing built everywhere else and have edited quite a bit, so I only want to frame these ceilings.

First thing I though of was hey would't it be good if we had a way to do material regions on roof planes. But that would be tedious for all the houses with more, maybe a lot more, then two or four planes. They there would be the need for properly raised hip and ridge caps, and a way to properly do valleys, holding the roof ribs back from the valley lines. So I though, OK, Revit must certainly be able to 3D model standing seam. But this video suggests no, because it is by a Revit user doing it with a workaround that uses Revit's "greenhouse roofs" tools.

I was sloppy when creating it, a ten-line schedule. Realized I had two redundancies, 7 and 8, duplicating 1 and 2. Deleted the 1s and 2s and copied in 7s and 8s where they are, and now have an 8-line schedule beginning with 3. How can I make it 1 through 8?

OMG thanks Chief! I recall making the suggestion for this, which is particularly huge for users who do lots of kitchens and need photoreal renderings.

I want to use the schedule for ONLY floor finish, but I want to be able to edit the material names. Is this possible? I looked around can cannot find anything.

I know, I know, closet built-ins are highly personalized. But cannot the same be said, even moreso, for kitchen storage? Or bathroom vanities? Here are a couple of pics snipped from a Zillow page, the larger room being a "her" closet, the other a "his." The arrangements done, are likely not high-end custom, but built using one of the many available kits of ready-to-assemble parts to achieve a hung-to-wall array of modules for hanger bars, shelves, drawers, shoe shelves, laundry basket tilt-outs, and more. Because there is a single separator "gable" or "partition" between the various modules, you build these in Chief with frameless settings, doing every odd one, and filling between with the shelf tool, then popping the rods as symbols, stretched to fit. Arrangments like this can cost up to 25 grand per large walk-in, and somewhere along the line between foundation and final walkthrough, something needs to be put on paper to describe the specifics. Are you doing any of these?

Thanks, @VHampton. It was right there and I never saw it. Somewhere, buried in the "what's new in X16" information, there had to have been a mention. Before posting this question, I searched the training videos and webinar videos for this and did not find anything. But, hey, look! Search the Chief website for "edit newel" and up comes just what I missed, from a year ago. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03195/manually-adjusting-newel-posts.html

I've a need for this right now.

Here is a guy with a couple hundred hours of Revit tutorials on YouTube, and it's about an hour of him showing and discussing detailing. It's worth watching just the first dozen minutes or so, in which he is comparing annotation by manual text and arrow entry, vs doing it using the "I" in Revit's BIM, meaning information. He explains it using a roof edge detail, two of them that appear identical, one done with all the anno done "manually", the other with "I". Since the detail is live from the 3D model, and all elements are modeled and built with information, i.e., their ID "names", and the model knows the sizings, one can extract that info in doing some kind of Revit auto anno callouts, which then require just the manual placement of the arrow. Heck, I just wish we had the auto lines for cutting away the unneeded runaways, by which I mean the line-z-line thing we use to chop. It's tedious in Chief to have to do all the masking and duplicating in CAD to achieve what is done in Revit automatically, without even needing a click.

I wondered what Revit detailing might be like, and the first thing that popped up for me on YouTube was this. Pretty good stuff. Makes me want to ask Chief for some mods.

Thanks to those of you that looked and commented here. I contacted tech support and got walked through some system settings that seems to have solved the problem. You don't simply install Xnew whatever and all works well graphically. I needed to go to System > Display > Graphics and add X16, which had not been done by me when installing X16. In the screen cap, attached, you can see X15 as an installed app, and X16 below it. When I opened this up during the tech call, X16 was not there. I installed it, and now all seems well. Or so far, all seems well.

If you are on X16 with this card and problem free, tell me your driver ID please.

@Renerabbitthow'd you do dat? Don't be the magician with secrets. Your wall build included the top trim horizontal batten, and a base band.

@PitMan71 material region is the preferred way and this has been discussed in earlier threads. Do a search and find some. Then try it yourself. What is nice is that copy and repeat horizontally across an elevation places the battens quickly and trims them to gable lines and above and below all window and door openings.