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That is already checked off. Is there something else that could be preventing the floor from showing up in both section and 3D views ? Thanks, Mike

When I do section or do a full floor view of my model the floor does not show up. It will show up after I build the foundation. I was told not to build the foundation until the last minute. How do I get the floor to show up before I build the foundation ? Thanks, Mike

Thanks William & Dennis, William, the picture you sent is what we are looking to do. The only difference is the wall will be longer and the glass panel will encompass three pieces of glass and each one free formed with slightly different colors and textures. Did you add a light source inside of the wall to achieve the illuminated look ? Dennis, I'm going to try your suggestion in a few minutes. Thanks, Mike

I am working on a TI project. We are adding a 36" high pony wall with an artistic etched glass panel on top. The glass panels will be lighted from below and inside the pony wall. The pony wall will be 8" thick with a cherry wood cap. There will be a slot cut into the wood cap where the glass panels will be placed. How do I show light lights inside the pony wall and facing upward ? Or is there another way to get the glass panels to appear to be light from below in the 3D model ? Thanks, Mike

Does Chief do T-Bar Ceilings? I have a small TI project where the client would like me to provide 3D drawings. The offices all have T-Bar ceilings. I looked in the library for T-Bar ceilings and found nothing. Does anyone know how to model a T-Bar ceiling in Chief ? Thanks, Mike

Do you think that CA could provide this feature ?

Thanks Gene, That work faster then the "adjust materials definition". Another handy feature would be having the color pallet show up on screen and stay up while you highlighted different colors on the pallet. At the same time your highlighting a color on the pallet your wall or object would change to that color. This way you could quickly go through different color options for your model. Thanks, Mike

I find it interesting that I can easily add a material such as stone to one wall without it changing all of the walls in the plan. But I can not change the stucco color of just one wall without needing to creating a new wall type with a different name. I would have thought that CA would have made it very easy and quick to change the colors of one wall or all walls. I think it would be a good idea for CA to incorporate a way that we could change the material colors on the model in real time. Thanks, Mike

One more thing, When I highlighted the one wall I wanted the color change to take place I just realized that all of the stucco walls changed to the new color. Is there a way to only change one walls color while leaving the remaining walls the original color?

I'm viewing this in a perspective view which is set to standard view. I check the "blend with texture" and that worked perfectly. Thank You, Mike

I am working on a project where I want 2 different colors of stucco on the exterior walls. I tried using the adjust material definitions tool but nothing changes on the elevations. In the adjust material definition dbx under the general tab I clicked on the materials under color and picked a color that I wanted the stucco color to change too. The walls color did not change. How do I change the color of one or two walls in the plan ? Thanks, Mike

What is the best way to draw an arched entry porch with round columns supporting the arches and roof. I have attached a picture of a rendering showing what I am trying to model. Is there a training video from CA showing how do accomplish this type of arched entry porch? Thanks, Mike House with arched entry.bmp

I am working on plan check corrections that will require me to add another sheet to the plans. I want to add a sheet numbered 8.1. All the current sheets are numbered 1 -12. I want this new sheet to fall just behind sheet 8 since the new sheet will be related to sheet 8. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Mike

I am working on a simple room addition project. I am having a problem with adding the new roof planes over the new addition. I have already input the existing floor plans along with roof framing. The existing roof is framed with roof trusses. The new additions roof will be conventional framing. I had a hard time getting the roof planes on the new addition. Half of the roof plane would not join together using the join roof planes tool. When I pulled the new roof over the existing roof planes the new would not stop when they intersected the existing roof planes. With a lot of time I was able to get it to look right in perspective view even though I keep getting error messages when working on the roof planes. I also have a few line sowing up on the roof plan that I can not identify. Could someone take a look at my plan and let me know where I am going wrong. Thanks, Mike 2016-23 Design 1.plan

I have input the floor plans for a one story residence I measured yesterday. The house has a truss roof. It's a simple L-shaped floor plan with the garage sticking out in front of the house. I am running into 3 problems. 1. Where the garage roof California frames over the top of the house, the rafters are not showing correctly. Chief is only showing small pieces of the rafters and are not continuous from the ridge down to a perpendicular rafters below. How do I get the California framing to show correctly? 2. The blocking between the rafters are not sitting on top of the double top plates. They are places off of the wall. How do I get the blocking to be placed on top of the double top plates? 3. The blocking between the rafters is also showing as 2 blocks between each truss. How do I get it to show only one block between each truss? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike 2016-23.plan

Thanks Glenn and Chopsaw. I would have thought that the temporary dimensions defaults for door and windows would also been placed under temporary dimension defaults. I wonder why they did not.

How do I set the temporary dimensions to locate the edge of the doors and windows rather than center to center ? Thanks, Mike

Thanks Chopsaw. I have not clicked on that pull down before. That is what I was looking for.

This there a way to topics that I am interested in my own folder so I can review them again in the future ? Many times I have read the questions and answers asked in this forum that have been very informative. I would love to be able to save them or tag them somehow for future reference. Does any one know if that is possible. Thanks, Mike

Now that is cool. Thank you Joe. Mike

Thanks Eric & Joe. Joe, are you saying that I should type in the macro command for the clg. ht. in rich text box first, set the text height there then copy and paste into room label default box ? Another question. Where do I set the room label text size & style Thanks, Mike

Below the room labels Chief has a string of text showing the room size. Is there a way to have Chief show the rooms ceiling height instead of the rooms dimensions ? Thanks, Mike

That worked. Thanks Eric.

I am trying to rotate my floor plan 90 degrees to the left so it will fit better on the final layout sheets. I have turned on the all on layer set then highlighted the entire floor plan with a marquee. When I do this no edit handles appear to click onto to rotate the plan. I can select individual items in the plan and the edit handles appear. But when I select the entire floor plan no edit handles. I tried using the rotate plan view at the bottom of the tolls menu, but that rotates everything in the plan file even the door and window schedules. How do I rotate the floor plans only? Thanks, Mike

AB, Attached is your corrected roof plan. I am some what new to Chief. I believe I did it correctly. Mike KRAWCYZK-2.plan