tommy1

No I'm not. That's ridiculous. I was just saying that I have already mentioned that in other words trying to explain about the old invisible wall and the new room divider.

I thought I already said this (in other words).

In all previous versions (prior to X6), all invisible walls are actually a wall type of Interior 4 made invisible by default. So, if you want an invisible wall like the previous versions, place an interior 4 wall and make it invisible. In X6, they have the room divider instead of an "invisible wall" type already made. If you use the room divider, it has no thickness, but if you change the structure one side of the room that has a room divider, then that room divider gets the same definition on the old invisible wall which is actually an interior 4 wall invisible. BTW, for doing porches, I prefer to use a railing wall (wall type).

How about displaying the auto dormer or roof plane to the attic level in plan view or floor above? If you do this, you might have to turn off the roof hole in plan view.

I have been waiting for that comment. This is why I do all my cable railing manually as well as my posts(newels). Yes it's a little time consuming to do it manually but it's the only way I can get it to do the way I want (or at least make it fairly close).

We always print in greyscale but our pdfs are always in color. It works great doing it this way. If it doesn't do good for you then maybe it's a printer (plotter) setting because ours look good.

If you use point to point dimensions and you don't want to see the point markers, select the point marker, open it and change the diameter to 1/16" or something.

Todd, as you're finding, stairs I believe is the weakest part of the program. Someone probably warned you about stairs early on. It's not quite so bad once you figure it out but yes, stairs do jump often when you open them especially when you have multiple stairs and with walls under the stairs. It's most frustrating (putting it mildly). Even the best of Chief users have problems with certain stair designs. We have been asking for better stair control for years but no luck yet. Maybe Alan can give you a hand. I was just working on a plan that had 3 flights of stairs on top of each other with different floor heights on each floor. It was a big time major PIA trying to get it to work. Once I got it, you don't want to select anything for any reason for fear that a section will jump or screw up walls.

I would draw it from an elevation using a polyline solid and shape it how you want. Set depth.

David is correct but you will also have to make a copy of the brick texture you're using for the wall (rename it if you want), change the pattern to strip and rotate the texture OR use a soldier texture of that brick and assign it to the molding.

That setting is in the window DBX.

Have you tried doing a search for this topic?

The only thing I can think of is to select a roof plan> transform/replicate it and move it so that you can see which baseline is moving. If it's one you want to delete, delete it, if not hit the undo and select the roof plane again and tab to get the next one. Kind of a process of elimination.

Have you thought about using a flitch beam instead? It may do fine and easier to use. Just a thought.

Have you thought of going to Chief's website and looking for sample plans under sample galleries?

Todd, you're going to need to have your stair pass over the wall. This will cut the wall at the bottom of the stair. If you're wanting to do a cable rail like shown in your picture, I don't believe Chief has a panel to use that will look like that. You could however make your own panel but I still believe the best way to get that look is to do the cables manually and maybe even the posts. That's what I have to do to get the right look I need. I showed an image of a cable railing done manually in another post this week where he wanted the deck railing to match the stair railing.

Todd, I haven't looked at the plan but if you're not seeing the wall on the stair, then select the stair and open its dbx and make the stair have a fill of transparent. You need to have your cursor over the wall when you tab to select it.

I do mine manually using molding polylines. This way I can do my cable railing and posts any way I want.

Make your own custom crown mold profile if it is a 2 piece or whatever and add it to your library (if you want to save it for future use). I have to make custom crown molding for about 1/2 of our jobs. It's easy to do. If you want me to show you, call me or email me and I'll show you online.

You can customize your plan view to look anyway you want. Try downloading the trial version and play with it.

I suggest you post the plan.

There are many posts about this. Do a search.

Open the cabinet dbx and select the appliance, then hit the delete button. Sometimes you can click on the cabinet in plan view and tab to the appliance or fixture and delete it. Most appliance though I think need to be deleted from the cabinet dbx.

In the core library, look for Architectural>Molding.

This is what I typically do.