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2nd floor walls aren;t gone, they've just been moved to way the heck into nowhere.

You're right, if it would auto generate it, that would be awesome!

Does this mean you need to take your socks off?! I agree. However, with experience one should find a correlation from floor area to wall area for the types of homes you build, for estimating only, not ordering. Let's remember the material list for wallboard would only be good for estimating because you'd order different lengths as needed per room, some 48", some 54", some mold resistant ,some tile backer etc.

You'd just end up editing more wall types. Especially when you have several exterior cladding types on one project. I make my attic walls close to the end of a job when the client is done selecting materials, but before I start completing sections. Just copy your main floor wall, rename it and remove the drywall, uncheck the insulation in the framing layer, remove the fill type from the framing layer, and adjust the framing layer to 1.5" thick, and use insulation air gap so it doesn't frame a wall where you'd use a gable end truss.

Insulation fill isn't a pattern, it's a cad box. You'd have to manually draw a box over every wall. Better to use a separate pattern. You're on the right track to keeping it simple.

Don't do it. It doesn't belong there. But if you're going to anyhow, use a cad insulation box .

Convert your railing to a symbol, then spin it in the "open Symbol" dbx.

It looks like your displaying the 'standard' rendering technique. Switch to 'vector view'.

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I thought the 1" grid would show up better in my screenshot so that it would be a bit more obvious as to the size. 6" diameter. Hope that helps.

They're the same thing, just labeled differently.

Alright then... never done that before and I wasn't sure if it exported the library object, or the whole library. Here they are. Easy enough to edit using Chop Saw instructions. COSD.calibz SD.calibz

I've got a customized COSD and SD symbol. Perfect for 1/4" scale. I don't know the easiest way to share it though...

So what does the architect do?? That explains the autodesk reference file you had open. Looks like Michael will take care of you. Good luck.

I hear you. Curious...if there's an architect...what are you doing? Do you work for him/her?

And maybe a gable over the middle garage door? The roof sloping down over it doesn't leave space for a header, and it doesn't make much sense to have a roof eave extending lower than the top of a garage door right?

And you probably want boxed eaves right? Flush to the gable? Check those boxes too. Then rebuild roofs.

Just change it to a gable wall. And turn off auto roof returns for that wall.

Like this?

Rocky, ever thought of creating your own layer set or annotation set just for working on roofs? It'd be a huge help and is really quite simple. Just copy a layer set or annotation set, rename it, then turn off everything you don't use or want to see. Lock everything else that you don't want to accidentally select or change when working on the roof.

If manually, pay close attention that you are dragging exactly along the outside of the main layer of your exterior walls. Gotta keep that roof plane's baseline parallel.

And drawing roof planes manually? Or using the 'build roof planes' tool?

I can make a roof weirder than that as long as I keep my eyes closed! Are you drawing the same plan in 2 different programs? Or just referencing the autodesk file?

For what it's worth, those spec's on your current laptop are almost identical to what I just gave up on. After using gaming laptops for 10 years, I had enough of slow renderings and switched to a gaming PC. An unbelievable difference in performance. I never actually did any work out of my office anyhow which is why I switched to a PC. SOOO much better (except for on really large homes in which case Chief still runs so slow). But if you have to have the mobility, someone else will have to offer their advice. In my experience, the graphics card in the laptop never really performed up to it's spec.

In Chief Architect? Outsourcing...I like it!