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I do, a 3/4" separation.

Thankyou!

Anyone know how to quickly and easily fix this issue with vertical cabinet pulls on a full height cabinet that has multiple stacks of doors?

That's the exact method I used! I had to apply a 3d molding to the top of the wall for renderings, and cad masks for the section view.

You know, I actually find it quite funny when its someone else's problem!

Over the length of a career, how much time has been wasted retyping deck sizes, and garage sizes...

It doesn't work well, but here's what I came up with. My default deck railing wall - used for side of deck. My outer railing wall - a copy plus 1" Then, for proper plan display, adjusted the wall thickness back to 3" Plan view display:

You're such a whiner! Doesn't seem like a big deal to me...

Then I'll get the wrong width, right? I'd need to use a different railing wall type for walls that are opposite a house wall.

Is there a simple way to get a deck to display it's framing dimensions as the room size as opposed to the room size label that reduces the room size because of the exterior wall cladding? I've been typing these in manually for 20 plus years and I might be getting sick of it! During design development, a deck size may change several times and clients don't like seeing a deck labeled wrong. I prefer to fix the label for the final draft...

Go to your library, type in Villager

Thanks Mark! Appreciated.

You don't have the "line drawing" on in your view.

I must admit I don't run into this often. What's the best way to have a railing (no room definition) that will follow the terrain? In the picture, I used a terrain retaining wall to develop / divide the slopes, and a ramp to model the railing at the edge of the driveway / retaining wall. Is there a better way? If I need to adjust the slopes, I'll have to recalculate the ramp elevations. I'm unsure if a railing can be a pony wall and a terrain retaining wall, but I'll play with that shortly.

@SNestor 4:51 of the video: One of the things I'd be doing differently is with the lower roof. I'd have it build TO the upper wall, not under the upper wall. Now I realize that probably won't put the ceiling where you'd like, but I'd also be using a ceiling plane for the vaulted ceiling. I use No Special Snapping, and I draw my roof planes up to the sheathing layer where they butt against a wall.

I'll see if I can today yet. In your video I really liked your expression about Chief's behavior! Random bs that just drives a guy insane! Right now, I've got a plan almost done...except I have a wall material that won't generate properly in elevation or section views...but only from the front! From the sides and rear it's fine. Curses, Curses, Curses!!! If I take a cad detail from view, there's nothing! And I'm supposed to print this today.

Just to clarify my suggestion: I wasn't intimating that the Room Type carried any special properties that would help with the building of the original offending walls. However seeing a room type as UNSPECIFIED makes me wonder if the rooms STRUCTURE properties have been addressed. An examination of the image below reveals a few oddities: The ceiling height in view "elevation 1" measures 9'-1 1/8" but the room in view "elevation 1" appears higher...perhaps 12'-1 1/8" as indicated in the dialog box. the top plate height is somewhere in between those 2 elevations. Chief's modeling of walls won't like this 'discrepancy' or ambiguity of structural elevations. So my only point was that it's helpful (to Chief) to ensure the model is accurate by addressing the properties of each room for the purpose of the original topic...to get those odd walls built correctly.

I still don't know what's going on here...but it's time to eat! L8R y'all!

You are talking about text formatting in the forum, correct? Base cabinet?? I am lost

Screenshots from a layout window. 1. Camera view sent to layout using "Current Screen As Image". For this particular file it was acceptable. But let's say I want to send a clearer picture so the client can zoom in for a better view. Then I'll use "Export Picture" at 3000 or 4000 wide and drag that file into layout. When I want clearer pictures, I'll also print at 600 dpi.

In my experience "live views" can be jumpy, not images.

I'm certainly not arguing too hard against live views, but I'll send all my pictures to layout, one after the other, so they are all in the same spot. Select them all, change one dimension to resize them all at the same time, and distribute along a line. Boom, 2 seconds. Or deal with the BS of a camera view jumping around despite a saved and untouched view...or not...maybe it works maybe it doesn't but it can't be trusted, can it?

Any jpg can be cropped and resized. As far as a reason NOT to use the send Current View as Image' feature? When a higher resolution is desired. I typically export pictures at 3000 pixels wide. I've found that to be a happy medium between picture quality and file size.

Of course. My thinking is that its just an indication or a 'cue' that the rooms and their properties have been addressed.

Hey Steve, just trying to offer my take on it. I've done around a hundred split-levels...I've at least got some ideas as to what works. And yes, you have a defined ceiling height, but not the room. And the ceiling height is defined incorrectly, at least for the purposes of building it correctly in Chief. That's my take on it. And it works.