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Have you ever wanted to have a polyline where some edges are NOT displayed? You can accomplish this by using a molding polyline, turning off the molding display on the desired edges, then converting the molding polyline into a plain polyline. If you need to add a segment, you can break the invisible line to add a joint and the resulting segment will remain invisible. Perhaps there already is a CAD tool to make a polyline have an invisible edge...

Now that is a true statement! Chop's still pretty sharp this late in the day!

I assume it's a 'door', correct? It'll need to go in a wall that is specified as a fence. If you want to use it as a freestanding object, you might want to convert it to an exterior fixture.

You can do that in Chief as well. You'll lose a bit of photo quality but not much and the only editing needed will be cropping.

Not that I know of.

Than everyone else? Yes!!

that one took me a while...cause I was relying on my own wits

Oui! Mais là encore, moi non plus.

Magnifique!

I had no fascia and the skylight shaft is controlled (partially at least) by the fascia. See my earlier post

That part might be more difficult than dealing with the skylight!

Its all good now, but dang its a lot of work. Especially if you'd like a cased opening!

I figured out why the shaft won't appear. It's because I have no fascia. And the reason I don't have fascia is because Chief won't run the wood grain direction correctly for fascia but it will for shadow boards so I was using 2 shadow boards instead. If I add a 'zero' fascia the shaft builds! Sweet Fancy Moses! FWIW, my skylight frame is also a 'zero' so I can use a proper model of a skylight instead of whatever that thing is that Chief produces.

Just how the pic looks. I get a hole in both surfaces but no shaft liner. And holy geez, could skylights be more painful?? In a section view, you can't just slide them up and down the roof. Ridiculous.

I'd suggest turning off all the extra layers that can be included in a room label except for ROOM LABELS so that the name only display in plan view.

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.