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Copy the Walls, Normal layer, and call it Walls, Normal INT. Then select all your interior walls and place them on that new layer. Then review each drawing for appropriate layer display control. Because you made a copy of the Walls, Normal Layer, it will indeed be a copy, so you should only need to turn the new layer off in a few drawings (layer sets). It will already be on or off for each layer set the same as the original layer Walls, Normal. Does that make sense?

Take a backclipped section view through that roof, looking at the front door. Plop the p-solid onto the wall with the front door, then break as needed and snap the corners to the cross section lines of the entry roof. Then apply your material and, in plan view, stretch it out to the gable end.

It's just a gable roof with a vaulted ceiling pitched to match the roof. In that example, it would appear as though enough roof structure depth has been left so that sloping-flat roof trusses can be used for the roof structure. You can set that depth for those 2 roof planes, or you can use ceiling planes. Either way, you'll want an exterior room with NO flat ceiling. That example would be easily modeled with a p-solid and some 3d molding polylines for the battens. All easily drawn in a section or elevation view.

Is that a hard no? You could be limiting your options. My work would exceed your expectations and needs, but I'm 3 hours away and relocating is not an option for me.

type "narciss" into the library search bar. Once you've found it, you may want to add some search key words to its attributes.

Yessir. I take it that's not the norm in your region. It varies out west regionally, but also by builder and plumber preferences.

The 'Ceiling Hole' portion is greyed out because there is no ceiling. This is controlled (that is to say 'removed') by your 2nd floor room 'Open Below'. The skylight appears fine...what would you like to be different? Made some changes for you...take a look. 993208181_Skylightproblem.plan

For the same reason that walls are measured to framing...which of course we can choose in our wall type spec. Oh wait!! How about the same type of choice for a roof assembly? Now we're talking! For you it might be sheathing. For me it would always be framing. 3 key elevation points: top of sub-fascia baseline elevation ridge elevation And please, don't measure to the aluminum strip of fascia that covers the sub-fascia in 99% of north american homes. Ok it might only be 97%...

There was a time, many years ago when Chief's Fascia Tope referenced the top of the sub-fascia. I think that was x7. The inconsistency of referencing framing elevations for some points and finish elevations for other points has been brought up often, in suggestions as well as in feature requests. This current system really gets weird when you have multiple pitches that should have the same sub-fascia elevation. It's not cool...but I got used to referencing the baseline height whereas I used (again many years ago) always reference the fascia height...it was just more familiar to me. I also don't like that roof planes measure to the finished fascia instead of to the sub-fascia.

I didn't find what you're referring to... which is why I asked here. What I ended up doing was taking a series of screen captures of the various preference settings (in order) and using that as my guide to match them up on the new computer.

Quickly Rendered in Chief X11 (this model was produced for the marketing rendering only) @VirtualDesignIs this type of quality is acceptable? Feel free to contact me if you're interested in assistance.

Answered at the 26:00 mark of the video. Best to just take some notes! https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10240/managing-files-locally-and-on-the-cloud.html?playlist=139

I'm setting up a new PC and I'm having trouble figuring out how to migrate my Preferences to the new PC. I've read everything I can find but I'm not understanding how to keep Chief 'looking the same' on my new machine. Things like colors, crosshairs, icon size, etc. I haven't had any issue with copying all other relevant files. Am I missing something obvious or do I need to make notes from the Chief Preferences on the old PC and then adjust them manually on the new one?

You can do better in Chief with some additional training before you start dealing with additional apps. Have you seen the preview videos for X13? It looks like it'll also take a few steps in the right direction.

Do I dare even start with a legend calling out my own deficiencies?

Interestingly enough, if the room name is the first field, then it organizes them alphabetically and all the blanks are first, so that's a really easy way to add it in with text.

Good idea. That's pretty quick...I already have a Custom field for My Room Names. And it's easy to select all the electrical items on the exterior using the Match Properties tool. Then I'll manually enter 'Exterior' for those items in that field...the rest will be automatic. Is there a simpler way than that?

Plan?

In an electrical schedule, (or any other for that matter), is there a way to get a room name attribute to show up in the schedule for items place on the exterior of the house? Right now, when I include the Room Name column, items on the exterior have a blank space in that column. I'd like that to fill in as 'Exterior'...without going to text of course.

That's like 3K CAD, right? I think I just bought the 395 for $3060...whoops! Wait a minute...Just got my 3080 in a whole new machine today!! For those shopping, it was NOT budget priced.

I regularly have files exceeding 100 MB because of furniture symbols. To address the speed, you either simplify your model or throw money at a faster machine. A couple of other things to check: -purge CAD blocks - purge materials - merge materials

Now I'm tempted! Just hovering over that arrow...nah, not today!

For Sure! But it doesn't work for everything that needs to be rebuilt. I'm just stretching an attic wall and F12 won't get the frieze to build on the new portion. Open & close on the roof plane does! So I've certainly got a habit of just doing a double-click then press Enter right away.

@pdiaz4 Follow the steps in the video. Couldn't be easier.