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I think so. At least one of those Island room walls need to connect to an exterior wall or another wall that somewhere down the road connects to an exterior wall.

Generally speaking, you don't want island rooms. All interior rooms should connect to and exterior wall or connect to another wall that somewhere down the road connects to an exterior wall. You can place another invisible wall to the exterior wall and then delete the invisible wall you don't want.

Those are island rooms and Chief automatically places an invisible wall to an exterior wall so that you can have room definition. If you don't change the plan for those rooms, just create a new layer and put those invisible walls on it so you can turn them off in plan view.

Try using the transform/replicate tool and move it down on the "z" axis.

As you have found out, you need to have a roof to use ceiling planes. Also, ceiling planes do not create attic walls, only a roof.

Diane, don't know if you're aware of this, but you can also draw a polyline> shape it around the area you want to move> with the polyline selected, you can hit edit area, then tranform/replicate it the distance you want it to move. All of the area within the polyline will move that distance. Sometimes it's very helpful doing it this way.

I do too.

Try closing Chief and reopen. Can you select the rooms in the orthographic view? What version of Chief are you using? It would be best to attach a plan to your post.

I'm not seeing the problem either (X12). Mine looks like what Eric shows if I turn off casing and the jamb. There must be something else going on.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope this next year is great for you.

When I do the screened porches, I generally place the posts and beams manually so you can do what you want. It does however depend on how the porch looks. Doing it manually really doesn't take that long once you get the hang of it and makes it easy to dimension posts.

If you haven't been able to get it to work yet, then please feel free to call my cell at 832-754-6160. I may have a quick alternative route for you to do that may help.

I would first make sure you have room definition for the porch. May not be the problem but I would do that first.

I find a lot of surveys aren't right. I'm doing a remodel in which the survey provided to me was very old and couldn't be read. I had the owners get a new survey from the same company that did the original and found yesterday that it's way off. Off by a foot on one wall. 2.5' off on another wall and 6.5' off on another wall. These wall differences will make a difference on how the roof goes together. The owners are having them come out again ant try it once more. I usually get bad surveys about 4 times a year. Don't know how they get away with it. My site plan needs to match the survey pretty close, if not, the city may question my site plan.

Doug, I did this railing over a roof about 5 years ago using solids (actually, I think I used slabs) and molding polylines.

I do as Joey does. I have my engineer place and size beams in markups. Then I place them in the plan.

Steve, I bought a lot of Jay's libraries back when we had .alb files for symbols. Throughout the years, I just brought them forward with each new version and still can use them...even in X12.

I have that library. Lots of symbols and easy to work with. Wasn't sure if Jay's symbols were still around. I have a lot of his other libraries too.

Take that wall type, copy it, change how you want, rename it. Now select the wall in the plan you want to change, assign that new wall type.

I have a last resort option but try Marks idea first.

If all else fails, you might need to edit the cad block and reassign the new cad block to the symbol.

Try changing the origins of the oven.

The one in the library doesn't cut a hole though in the ceiling.

For structural details like that, I always get a cad detail form my engineer. That detail could vary depending on the stairs.

I usually do cad lines for a reference.