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Hey all- does anyone know of a way to set Chief up such that you can run it in the cloud and then access it from a laptop? I ask because I will soon be working remote part time. It would be great if I could leave my pc setup as it is at work, but still have access to CA at home, or use a laptop at both locations. I know that similar things are possible; when I was in school I ran REVIT on my slow mac that was already a few years old at the time using a virtual desktop. Someone suggested using a cloud gaming pc as an option. If I was to try that, how would you handle backups and software liscenses? Excuse my ignorance, and thanks for the help!

Yes, I replaced the door area with a double door and that solved the issue. Thank you!

Hey all, I'm trying to model this full height cabinet with pullouts in the bottom. I can make the pullouts just fine in one half, but they'll only display on that side of the cabinet when I show it open, because the shelves are associated with each door in the front. How would I make the program understand that I want to make the shelving as if the two doors were one area without a separation in the middle?

I turned on and unlocked all the layers, and turns out I had a puck light way far out that was causing the issue. Thank you!

I have a weird problem I haven't run into before- every time I open an elevation window, there's a ton of space on the right of my building, as if I have an object way out there that the program thinks I want to see in my elevation. I can't see anything that would be causing the problem, and if I zoom out in a plan view and try to find the object by marquee selecting the area, nothing seems to be there. It would mostly be a minor inconvenience if I weren't trying to send elevations to layout at the correct scale using the plot lines option. When I do that, it shows up on the sheet with a huge amount of empty space on one side, and when I crop the empty space out the image is very low resolution. Any ideas on what could be causing this and how to fix it? Thanks!

I did take a look at that, but didn't see that it explained how to do quite what I was after- change the pitches of multiple shed roof planes based on the same wall.

That could work. Out of curiosity, do you know of there would be a way of doing that, but then changing the pitches of the roofs?

My thought (which may be dumb) was to keep the wall heights on the back the same and only alter the pitches of the planes. I don't know how to change the pitches while using automatic rebuild- I've tried breaking the wall and defining different pitches by wall, but they change the whole roof, not just that portion.

Hey everyone- I'm trying to build a roof like this, but don't know what its name is, so I can't look up how to do it. tried to use google image search and it told me it was a shed roof (duh), a monitor roof, and a clerestory roof, none of which really fit. Does anyone know the correct name for this style or how to build it without resorting to manual planes or cheats? Thanks, much appreciated.

Both of those options fix the appearance of the wall, but when I delete the wall and make another wall of the same type I have to do it again. Is there a way to make that setting permanent?

Hey all- I'm trying to define various wall types- both interior and exterior with either T&G interior siding, or drywall. As far as I understand it, there are two locations where you can modify a wall's materials- the wall type definitions, and the materials panel on an individual wall. My problem is that those two sources of information aren't matching up and are resulting in an incorrect appearance for my walls. For example, I'll create my default exterior wall (2x6 with lap siding, OSB, and T&G), open it in the wall definition dialog, make a copy, and change it to drywall. Then I go to the materials panel, and it still says that the interior finish is T&G, so I change it to drywall there. Now it looks correct in the plan, BUT if I delete it, create a new default exterior wall, and change it to the wall that I just defined correctly, it will show up with T&G on the inside. The wall type is the same way I set it, but the material in the material panel is back to T&G instead of drywall. If I set the new wall as the default it'll appear correctly when I re-create it, but I don't need it as the default, just as an option in the wall types. And as soon as as I set a different wall as the default it won't appear correctly. It seems like the material panel should be taking information from the wall definition unless I change it, but it doesn't seems to be communicating with the wall type information...? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, I'll have a go at the material lists.

I've been looking all over trying to find a simple way of finding wall area for use in ordering interior siding material. There seem to be a lot of methods and workarounds, but no simple, standardized way to find it. Why isn't this something you can just add to a wall schedule? Am I missing something? And if not, why hasn't Chief added a way to do this, and is there a way to request an upgrade like this? Thanks

Does anyone know how to do either of these trim details- the arched top or the clipped corners- within the window specification instead of building the cases with 3d solids? That's how I've been doing it, and it does work, but is very time-consuming. Thanks!

Okay, good to know. I had thought I had deleted the additional files, but evidently not. Thank you!