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I absolutely 100% agree with Micheal. After you finish the plan you are working on, I think you should take a break for a short while and take some training classes that either Chief Architect offers, or another user offers. I'm sure your father would understand. After all, I'm sure he wasn't dropped in the field one day and told to "go at it". I'm sure he had to study and practice his craft of general contracting. It would be a little foolish to jump right into another plan blindly. David J. Potter offers training classes. He comment on this post already, and has already shown you how to manipulate 3D polylines in a video. Look in the "Offering Services" section of this forum. Joey Martin is a great guy and he sometimes has positions available. There are plenty others. Good luck bud, I hope you finish your plan in time.

I've had similar problems with roof planes in the past and the only way I could get it to look right was to just re-draw the offending roof planes.

That's a great idea! I usually use polyline solids. I might give this a try.

I thought we figured this out on a previous thread?

No problem. Now STUDY STUDY STUDY! Some day you might be in a position to help others like all the fine folks that take the time to get on here and do it.

I think Joey and Rob answered this thread. I just provided you with some information on how to achieve your goal. I really can't take any credit. But thank you.

Rich, your settings did the trick. If I ever get around to doing that raytrace, I'll post the results. Thank you again for your help!

You don't want anything on page zero that you wouldn't want on every page.

Whatever you put on page zero is going to appear on every page. Start your drawings on page one.

https://video-cdn.chiefarchitect.com/421ceb5b5ec9102b54c049a86a8ac46c.mp4?Expires=1454569354&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJTIA4XHSXCDALTGA&Signature=bjtXiy6GeVaeWWsJQFiAAf8VTXScIv9joBIgcp-TnbAC114T10ugOBzmJ018~iLiKUzMnSBCVR4NhKNFfzVRn0pDye5FJP~HhlSVbHNVPHBHDza-nQ7cwYujIvh38IC7S-sYJK9tfWTubF0fkOCHFQqbhkh3Lt2XN72tDpZdUg8_

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00650/creating-a-curved-barrel-ceiling.html

Do you have SSA? Are you using X7? I really don't feel like going back through all of these posts to see if you've already posted that information.

You're going to need to watch some of the tutorial videos. Not to sound rude, because I'm a nice guy and I don't want to come off as being "mean" or uncouth, but you really have to help yourself. You need to learn the basics. Please Please Please watch some of the tutorial videos. They will explain how customize-able you can make cabinets. Good Luck! column.plan

That looks custom. I didn't see anything that looked like that in the libraries. Try making that column with a cabinet. It will be easier. Or you could search 3D warehouse.

Thank you Rich for taking the time to help me out, I'll try it out and let you know my results.

It's the same principal, just do it over your entry and follow the steps he's supplied. You can also use a polyline solid to do this. Sounds like you're pretty new to Chief. David J. Potter offers training, just check out the Offering services section of the forum. Also great places to start are here... http://www.chieftutor.com/chiefx1.html Here... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTWTw42JnhnfH08WovDBBw Here.. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jB5YPuzy5utIP1tF3w2mQ and here...https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wIJDMZNyghLQ03SnAiwBA. Reading the manual is also highly recommended. Some Most of these users have studied this software for years and busted their butts to get to the level they are at. They are also very busy men and women. It can be frustrating when someone asks a question many users believe to be common knowledge, that can be answered by searching through the manual. I can't begin to count the number of times a video or the manual has answered a question I had, saving me the time of posting here on the forum and waiting for someone kind enough to take time out of their day to answer. A little homework never hurt anyone. Good Luck!

Was the column "custom made" or imported from an outside source? Do you have a picture of this column you'd like to share with us? There was a bonus catalog you could download that was titled "Columns and Pillars" but that requires SSA. At this point we don't have enough information to help you. It's only guesses from here. Please attach a picture/screenshot of this column.

I've never done a nighttime exterior shot before, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I placed can lights in the eaves of this home like you see attached in another house we built... When I view it in a camera view, only 8 lights work (as allowed by my graphics card) but when I ray trace it, I get no exterior lights on. What settings am I missing? This was done in X8. The ray trace settings are out of the box settings on "high quality". See attached pics and plans. Hopefully this made since. I have one heck of a head cold and that's probably why I missed something. Thank you in advance for taking time to look this over. Gypsy.plan

The only time I do this is when we build a spec, and the builder specifically asks for it. I'm not asked to do this all the time. We don't have "Stock Plans" like most builders. We are a very custom, luxury builder. If that were the case, I normally wouldn't do anymore than 3 elevations (3 Files) and you can bet I charge for my time. Lol

I do what Michael does as well. I usually will create a folder and place the extra files that I "Save As" 'd in them to easily find them. I usually name them whatever the file name is with "Elevation A, B, C, etc. And then I render different elevations. Good Luck Sir!

Please post the plan and I bet we can solve this in no time. If you're uncomfortable posting the plan, then feel free to contact customer support. See photo below.

OP, if you post the plan, and a little more information about what you need, other members could take a look at your plan and help you out. We're going to need a little more information that "." Thank you.

If you change settings in the Exterior Door Dialogue Box, every time you place that door, the settings you input into that dialogue box will be applied to the new door you place. If you save it as a template, all the exterior doors, or doors leading to unheated area, such as a garage, will have these exterior default settings already when u place them into a new plan. Hopefully this helps.

Also wouldn't be a bad idea to attach the plan. They might start harping on you to do that sooner of later...

Well, the reason you're are getting the room divider is because Chief doesn't (or at least didn't) like you to have "island rooms" I'm unable to look at Chief right now, so maybe someone else can give you a solution before I get the time to get back to my desk. Good Luck!