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Definitely especially if you just need to model the exterior.

Chad, I'm using a "molding profile". My profiles were made many years ago. Not using 3D moldings, symbols or whatever. I have it recessed to sheathing. I did this in X11.

I understand that. It looks fine in 3D. I'll post something later. Basically I have to do it as Glenn describes. Need to leave to meet an engineer.

This is what I'm using, molding profile via the window dialog. This is why I said I'm having no problems. Just looked at it in a cross section and looked fine.

Thanks Michael. I gave you a point for that. To be honest, I probably should have known that. Brain dead.

That works. She was grateful to have it working again. I wonder what caused that to happen.

I'll find out soon if that works.

Thank you.

I have a girl who started having problems today trying to select a cabinet door from the library and placing it in the plan as a fixture. It worked fine for her until today. She can't do this in any of her plans. She sent me one of her plans and I don't have a problem doing it. Does anyone know if there is a setting she accidently changed to keep her from doing this? I had her try to reset toolbars and reset options in preferences. No luck. Hopefully there's a setting that got messed up. The only other thing I would know to tell her would be to reinstall Chief. I know I wouldn't want to do that myself but... is it possible to do a repair in the program? She called tech support and she said they were scratching their head so they sent her a plan with the door she wanted and she copied and pasted it into her plan to use. Hopefully someone has run into this problem and knows how to fix it. Thank you,

Can also try opening a blank plan, do a save-as and see where it's saving it to. check that location and see if you find your plan.

Brian, if you need more help making the pdf, I will be happy to show you online. If interested, call me at 832-754-6160.

"Z" is up to the sky or down to the ground.

Newell, just got home. I'm totally swamped with deadlines. I'm sure someone here will be looking at the plan.

Newell, if that window is for a bedroom, be sure the new shorter window will meet egress (5.7' sq. ft. clear opening). You might have to go with a casement window. The window will have to be 24" min. AFF and not more than 44" AFF. Usually when I see a window well, it's because they needed it for the window size to meet egress at the right height off the floor. Just something to keep in mind.

I have found that sometimes that doesn't work. Most of the time it does.

BTW Chad, I have several brick ledge profiles that I use for different situations.

The brick profile I'm using is one I made maybe in V10. The profile should have nothing to do with it. It's a molding profile.

No. Just used it.

If you mean the brick ledge profile, yes. Still use it. Made it many moons ago.

Chad, I typed a tutorial on how to do this roof several years ago. Wouldn't take me long to find it and do a practice roof. I could demonstrate this for you online if you like.

Barry, Glenn is right. When I have to deal with varying floor heights, it's a total must for me to tile the plan view and a back-clip section view so I can view the changes as I make them. The back-clip tool is probably the most important to for me to use for trouble shooting things.

Great upgrade. Just got around to play with the new render overlay of existing and proposed. Easy to do. Being able to overlay or reference and existing plan over the proposed is a huge plus and time saver. Very painless upgrade, Good job Chief!

Rich, I generally wait until the final release comes out hoping that most of the bugs are found and fixed. However, starting last Saturday, I've already brought two of my ongoing working plans forward from X10 to X11 and everything seems to be going fine. With that said, I'm now using X11 for all plans.

I usually us a .tiff format.

When you take a "snap shot", you mean you're getting an image right? You need to import that image to your library like it was a texture not a cad block. Maybe some other ways to do it but that's what I would do. Actually, I was able to block a picture, save it to library and then put it in a plan with no problem.