GeneDavis

Thanks! That's it. Wonder why it is considered an interior wall. I could not find any Chief traning vids about clerestory windows and walls.

Three pics attached. Exterior view, wall opened for spec (note it is checked as attic), section. I am unable to specify different casing, sill, and apron trim for exterior and exterior.

I thought I liked the setup whereby you "store" the images in the project, until I ran into this. The hack I just did was to export the image to my desktop, from where it is readily "importable" to a layout page. To keep the desktop clean, I delete it from there after importing to the Chief layout page. I tested saving the layout, then going to desktop and deleting the image file, then reopening the layout, and the image is still there. But this sucks. Chief should have thought this through. Look at all the images they have in any of their samples of layouts. One should be able to send any image in the project file directly to layout.

Before 17 I sent any pics or screencaps I wanted to use, to my project folder created by me. It was easy to email images to clients, and easy to import pics to layout. I cannot see how to import the pics in the project to layout. What is the secret?

It was a Windows issue and tech support Brian walked me through the fix.

Here is what I see when I try.

I wanted to try this and at first thought Chief might have such a thing without needing to get too creative, but no. I never had the need to do one before, but was surprised at how easy Chief makes it. Thanks, folks. Draw glass wall placed right atop the tub rim after setting tub, and place a slider bypass door centered in the glass wall. Open a window alongside that is the wall elevation, and edit top and bottom of wall so it's sitting on the tub with top where needed. I used Kohler's spec for one and my door is 54" tall. In the plan view window, edit the door so its extents are at the walls. Open for spec and size the head, jambs, and sills to your preferences, edit materials per your prefs (I did mine in polished chrome), and decide how you want to accessorize it with hardware. Finding no elements in Chief libraries for the bar handles and the track rollers, I did them using p'line moldings and solids. The only little thing off is that since I built up wall thickness in the tub alcove with material region wall tile with built-up thickness like it would actually be built, the side jambs appear embedded in the walls a little. I'll doodle around and find a way to fix it.

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