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Well, some person. That may be a bit tough for me! However, making grommets and cable connectors gets a bit easier when you can clamp them to the terrain.

The pringle, I mean shade itself is very simple to create using terrain tools. This took a bit longer to think about than it did to actually model. 15 elevation points was enough. Now I need a snack!

It would work fine if the Beam was programmed to work like the rails and would then need to be added to the Plan Display tab of a railing dbx (Draw Beams). If you change the plan display for a railing, the 2d display in the schedule will match.

I only use polylines to display the floor area for multiple units. Very simple. The polylines could report to a schedule if you'd like, and their labels can be used in macros if you're into that sort of thing.

I would find it easier to make the parts (quick and simple) then place them manually. After 20+ years I still don't know how to make this work as a symbol on a sloped railing. on a wall: on the stairs as a baluster: manual:

Evidently! I don't think you're allowed to say such things on the forum, Steve. But, you've got enough reputation points banked to go on a spending spree!

I just made a landing and moved on. It would be nice if we didn't have to place newels manually to fix the garbage at the bottom, but I digress.

You may have done this, however I'd suggest naming it and adding it to your library so it's quick and easy to use again.

Plan file:startertread-railing.plan

I think the issues with Chief's stairs have not been discussed often enough on this forum, but is it actually possible that using a starter tread will disable the function for a railing pony wall to properly follow stairs? In the images below, the only change is the starter tread.

Chief creates new moldings that are somewhat disassociated from their host roof planes. Chief does this without warning us of this behavior. If the layer for those molding is unlocked, you can test this by replacing a gutter molding, then moving the gutter molding polyline, then pressing F12. A new auto gutter will generate and the original gutter molding will remain. If you open the old, moved gutter molding dbx, you'll see that it is on the gutter layer, which is not its new default layer. Interestingly enough, the default layer for the old gutter molding is Roofs, Trim.

Overlaid views is still not desirable because a window has no fill. Not ideal:

Not with pony wall settings and a single plan view. There are multiple techniques to alter this in plan view. Some are more complicated than others and suitable for advanced users, like reference plans, or additional saved plan views / layersets overlaid in layout. You could create an SVP that shows fdn. walls only, and adjust the pony wall settings to show the lower wall. You'd still need a cad mask to help 'white-out' the windows / doors. The simplest is to manually adjust the view using cad tools.

The underside of the roof structure will not generate a cross-section line. You would need a rafter or, you could use a fill pattern for the roof structure and click 'Auto-Detail'.

There is no setting for this. The real issue is that Chief automatically stops roof planes at the wall exterior finish layer. This is not correct for most real world conditions. Typically, a roof plane and its cladding will stop at the wall sheathing layer, and the wall cladding would be above the roof cladding, usually with a gap for flashing, depending on the type of wall cladding and regional building codes. So, for those roof planes that are butting up to walls, you could uncheck 'Use Special Snapping' and drag the roof plane to the wall sheathing layer. Or, you could notch the roof plane around the wall while keeping Special Snapping checked.

That happens! You should post an image of your pergola once it's pretty much done...

draw a gen. framing member; double click; end profile.

You would need to manually place a symbol (or molding or solid) to create an accurate door threshold.

I think you need the main roof planes to extend under the over-framed portions. See the video below...1 minute mark https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1969/framing-an-overbuild-using-rafters.html

Larry, were you going to post the plan?

FWIW, this only happens when a leader line is used to create the rich text. If an arrow is dragged from the rich text after the text is created, the arrow takes the layer line weight.

Thanks Ben. I read that in your post and immediately checked to see if my fonts were windows fonts. Good tip / reminder!

This is what you need to work on next!

Thank-you!@Renerabbitt Nice work Rene! There is some level of matching that needs to happen between the dimension string and the marker. The elevation marker dimension font is being stretched or squashed by the native height of the font used for the dimension string. In my plans, I have been using a shorter font for dimensions. The simplest fix (for me) is to match my dimension font to the font used for 'Text Below Line" in the marker default settings. You found the cause of this problem really quickly. I'll send this info to TS.

what the font.plan In the plan there is an elevation camera with a storypole as well as some text markers (which show the dimension font correctly). There are quite a few fonts that display incorrectly and I sent this plan to TS. If I remember correctly they said they were able to reproduce the problem.