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Actually, I can use the Opening (No Material). The deck perimeter above gets an 'unnamed' material which I need to paint to my aluminum trim material regardless of the patio wall type material.

Ahhh, I missed that little check mark. That works Ryan, thanks! It creates a slight oddity on the deck above, so I kept the wall material as my alum. trim material. It covers the deck perimeter, but I'm ok with that. My deck layers are vinyl decking for the sheathing, and black aluminum (not framing). This creates an appropriate appearance in elevation views and section views (I don't show floor framing in section views).

That one wall is not invisible, all the others around the patio are invisible.

But doesn't it still need to be made invisible to avoid showing up in Vector views? And then the plan view line dilemma remains.

Has anyone figured out how to create an invisible wall that can display only a single line at the exterior in plan view? The closest I can get is to create a wall that is 1/16" thick. The inside line is set to the invisible line style, and it's color is white just for redundancy. I make it invisible but place it on the Walls, Railings layer. Because it is invisible, the lines will not follow their settings from the wall spec. dbx, but rather both exterior and interior lines display based on their layer. If I make this wall solid, then the lines follow the wall spec. I use them to define concrete patios on ground. It's a bit frustrating, because I'd prefer not to add CAD line work when I need to define the space with walls.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5439/choosing-material-painter-modes.html Open 'Help', then search "Material Painter Tools".

I already have the cameras I mentioned in my template plan so they exist in every project. I believe I'd access this view type with less clicks assuming my project browser and your library are already opened. I also have a library of frequent room fills and I'd recommend other users do the same. Without going on too long on this subject, one of the nice things about the camera view is being able to edit patterns / textures simultaneously, including making copies of materials to adjust direction & orientation, which can have a spin-off benefit for all other camera views.

Ahh, yes, I wasn't thinking of it as a use for Con docs, more along the lines of a marketing plan is what I had in my mind.

Something worth looking at is an orthographic floor overview / top direction. This will display the materials and their patterns. Quicker than using room fill.

You could add a terrain feature, about 1/8" thick. That should get consistent lines to generate.

Could you try the fill pattern: 191-SIDG_Stucco

From Help: By default, only one header for a given opening displays a label while the other(s) are suppressed.

Not without creating multiple openings in the same place. You could make a symbol, but it's probably not worth the effort.

No, everything in that particular plan is automatic, with headers calculated by width.

I think what a person needs is the ability to place layout boxes on layers. Then you could simple place unused items on their own layer and turn them off if they won't be used. In the meantime, maybe you could place those items in a layout CAD detail, using cut / paste. That'd be really quick to do and really quick to add back into layout if needed.

Would this also be similar to how the plan display of pony walls / windows can change in an SVP unpredictably? This does not get 'reset' by re-opening the SVP, rather a wall dbx must be opened then closed. INCORRECT CORRECT

Yes, however keep in mind that the headers need to be displayed in plan view along with their labels. In the example below, I have the window label to the exterior and the header label to the interior. The header label below uses macros, plus the brackets, the dash, and the letters HDR.

I'd gladly give out CAD files of an unfinished floor plan, and at no cost! What's anyone gonna do with them, they'll be complete crap, right? Would you have any use for someone else's unfinished plans in dwg format? Heck no! Emails: they'd already have their email communications with you. It would be a privacy no-no to send them copies of your communications with someone else, unless they want to pay for your time to get signed release from all other parties (and they will not want to pay you for that). Renderings: I'd gladly send them 4 exterior renderings (from each corner) in vector or standard technique. I would not give out a Chief file, nor would I even mention a Chief file.

For a little experiment, try this in your beam label (Note: UNCHECK "Use Default Formatting"), then try changing the width from 3.5 to 5.25. (%width/1.75%)-1 3/4"x%depth%" %type_name% %name%

This is the same type of glitch that's created by having multiple SVP's open and toggling between views. SVP's will regain their functionality simply by double clicking on the SVP in the project browser, even if it is already open. It resets the SVP.

Is the wall niche layer turned on in that camera view?

If you want separate tread / riser material like in your picture, then you will need to use landings. If you're ok with 1 material, then it can be done by using no stringers, tread overhang of about 18", and tread thickness equal to the unit rise. That would get you pretty close.

It hasn't been happening lately. I made a couple of workflow changes: Turned off preview panel in library browser change default camera views to vector view (which has never caused a crash)

I would use a polyline solid. If framing needed to be shown in a plan set, I'd handle that using CAD in a section view.

When blocking a cad detail for use in other plans, it can be a good idea to make sure that all items do not follow any layer settings. This way, when unblocking, there will be no unintended display changes if one plan has different layer properties than the original plan from which the cad block was formed. Another good practice when exploding a cad block is to open 'Object Properties' immediately after exploding and review the layer properties to make sure they are all displayed.