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I can't get a skylight to build a square shaft when placing a skylight into a roof plane when the room does NOT have a flat ceiling. In my A-frame project, the ceiling is supplied by the roof and part of the skylight dbx is greyed out. Skylight works fine when its over a flat ceiling. Has anyone else run into this before?

You don't do a railing like that. I hear you, but that's not the look we're going for. Something's going to be cut by somebody to fit to something else...it really doesn't matter which person cuts which object, does it? And I do believe I have the least number of pieces to cut! So there

The room divider between the kitchen and the living room isn't connecting to the interior wall. Make a copy of the room divider wall and give it a thickness of 1/2". Align it with the drywall when connecting walls. It will give you better control over short wall segments, so you can still have your room display even interior dimensions.

What is your invisible wall type? Is it neatly lined up with the normal wall? If you post a plan I'll take a look...

It's hard to tell in my first sceenshot but the newels do trim to the u/s of the roof...right at the center of the top of the newel. And my original problematic interior rail did not have newels.

Oddly enough, I took one of Chief's railings from the library and used it, then changed everything about it to match what I was already using and it worked as well, so I have no answer as to why it didn't work, but the problem is fixed. Thanks to both of you for chiming in...it was enough to point me in the right direction. @HumbleChief @DavidJPotter

One relatively simple way...use 2 stairs. replicate the stair make the copy 2" wide (that's as narrow as chief will allow. place this narrow stair flush with the drywall paint the stringer with the drywall material remove the railing from the original, main stair. reduce the original stair by 2" (butting it up to the 'railing stair'

I'm working on an A-frame cabin and I have a situation where the exterior deck railing will stop at and follow the sloped ceiling, but interior railings will not. Does anyone have experience with this and know what button to press before I have to build the interior railings manually? Both of these screenshots are from the 2nd floor, while the roof plane is built on the first floor. Exterior Deck Railing: Interior Railing:

Can you increase your foundation wall thickness to 8"? It's heading up to the roof because it is 'outside' of the wall above. Take a section view through that wall, and auto detail. Then change the foundation wall to 8" thick. take another section view and auto detail. Note the difference.

For a column, especially a square column, I'd suggest using the 'Post' tool which can be found under 'General Framing'.

Yes. https://3d-viewer.chiefarchitect.com/go?share=705752943482554 https://3d-viewer.chiefarchitect.com/go?share=170850252294042

I gotta admit, I draw my share that are similar as well. And in my neck of the woods, I buy food for the kids with the money other people give me to draw what they like. Sometimes they care if I like it as well, other times...not so much.

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Rescale the CAD block to 1 and 1, then you can explode it.

The only reasonably quick solution I can think of would be to use 2 windows in the same place, and alter the height and properties of the 2nd window to display the sill only and interior casing only. This will solve some problems but not all. I use a default window, copy it, make a passthrough with the interior casing and no frame (reduce the height by the default frame thickness, then copy and center on the original window.

The walkthrough camera is controlled by the Full Camera defaults. Set your backdrop and layer set there.

To avoid the railing issue, it helps if you have the rails displayed in plan view and align the handrail of the stairs with the handrail of the deck. Rarely will this mean that the stairs themselves align with the outer edge of the deck.

For this look, you wouldn't need anything other than the addition of a separation or blank area to your cabinet front. Doors / drawers could be set to 'slab'.

Wall Definition: "Foundation to Exterior of"..your most exterior layer.

It also appears as though the stair may not be in the correct position butting up to the deck. You can see the stair nosing but it is inside of the deck floor surface. Also, the vector line for the top tread butting up to the deck is missing...another clue as to the top connection.

While Alan's point is definitely valid, I will mention that the amount of concrete that would be duplicated in Chief's materials list using my method would just barely be enough to prime a concrete pump and as such for almost all projects would be an inaccuracy that is insignificant.

Do you have a pattern for running CMU's? If not, can you make such a pattern? If you're planning to show the blocks in plan view (which you shouldn't FWIW) will you have them all correct? If not, what's the point? This has come up before, not sure if there's any simple solution yet.

It is possible, but not through the wall definition. You'd need to use distribution path to distribute a CAD block of the CMU. However, this will probably not work well at the corners.

Sounds like you need to turn off 'Auto Rebuild Roofs', OR change the settings that control the build of the roof in the wall specification dialog box for each wall.