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    Manufacturer name and product name would also be helpful. DJP
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    One would manually create custom symbols to emulate the specific railings in your posted photo using 3D solids and if a lot of railing is required you could also make a symbol that could be repeatedly copied for larger runs of such a railing system. One's main tools are one's intention and persistence along with study and practice. DJP
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    I also have X12 active and would be happy to assist you. Let me know, please. DJP
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    Manually by turning off casings and applying molding polylines that you can individually adjust per side. DJP
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    Case in point, this most recent project I did of a 1910 fire damaged house in Gonzales, Texas (West of San Antonio), I did completely manually. It was too complex to try to set up for "auto-roofs". My point is that you do what is necessary to get a project done. The method is NOT important, the result IS. DJP
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    Your most potent tool is your intention to get a product. Roof creation is based upon strenuous study followed by practice where you fail-fail-succeed. There is no other workable way to obtain your own competence. DJP
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    A great question for Tech Support or Customer Service or as DB said, take a look and experiment for yourself. DJP
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    With roofs, any roof designs I commonly set up for auto-roof generation and when done if not quite right, you manually edit the roof geometry to what is needed and wanted, always. DJP
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    A home built in Gonzales, Texas in 1910. Burned in a fire and now under restoration by its owner
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    I think what Joey means is that Exterior Dimensions are literally that and if your wrap-around porch is between the exterior of the house but wrapped around, the auto-exterior dimensions will skip the exterior walls enclosed by the wrap around porch areas That probably means that those areas missed will have to be manually dimensioned by you, that is all that you are looking at. The software is programmed to work a particular way and sometimes you have to manually step in an do what was "automatically" missed. DJP
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    Using railing walls set to "Post to beam" works for simple porches but where you need more control over the posts or columns, I often just set the "Newels" to zero inches and then manually place my columns of posts from the LB - Millwork -Columns. The point is getting a product and not, as much what you did to achieve it IMHO. DJP
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    Of course, they are equivocal. DJP
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    Initially, I simply checked "Roof Tab - Auto Roof Return - Full" on the long wall and then manually added the roof returns on the bay window walls. Doing it that was lessons the chances of bad manual roof connections. Doing it all manual as you have seen, often makes simple tasks too complicated. I agree with Eric in that Auto Roofs for this house would have been easier to do. To learn more about auto Roof settings go to the Build Roof dialog - Roof Styles Tab for more data. I almost always start a roof system automatically and then just manually edit what it got wrong. The product is the thing, not how it was created. DJP
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    When you draw manual returns, how they are aligned and connected directly determines whether or not you get fascia, any version. You DID get it done, actually. But with Chief, any version, there is usually more than one way to get an effect. DJP
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    I deleted all of your molding polylines and used a combination of "Auto Roof Full Return" along with manual roofs over just the bay... DJP 220804 - Krupa Residence - Lot 8C The Preserve at Brook St. Rehoboth, MA.zip
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    On inspection I SEE NO missing trim, it looks great to me but obviously, there is something missing for you. Can you be a little more specific, please? DJP
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    I downloaded your "file" and it would not open in X14 because you attached it while the plan file was actively open in Chief= Zero Kb=no good, try again but close Chief FIRST before attaching the plan file here a CT. DJP
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    Not much "wrong" with your wall connections or custom layers of those walls. I can't find anything particularly "wrong" with what you did other than the unwanted brick reveal. That can be handled cosmetically using a Wall material region or a custom backsplash set to drywall. Chief is quite good but never has been nor will probably ever be "perfect", sometimes you have to step in and work-round things to get a product no matter what. DJP
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    Thank you, I have not noticed! DJP
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    I commonly draw the house and other structures and then add a "Terrain Plane". Then shape the terrain plane to match my "property boundaries", add any set back lines or easement lines. You place all these different objects on different named layers so in "Display Options" you can then, at your choice and need, turn layers on or off for different printed, scaled views to graphicly communicate your project to the Permit office, your GC and his sub contractors. In Home Designer Pro You create a single layout file for each printed page to create your scaled, printed pages of your plan set. DJP
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    Sure but the posted image IS a perspective in terms of the yard, just takes some elbow grease to make it pretty. DJP
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    The roof planes in the photo obviously have different "Baseline Heights". Measure or estimate the difference in baseline heights, apply them to the two roof planes and then connect their edges using the "Join Roofs" tool. Remove any unnecessary line breaks in the roof plane edges so they connect to each other properly. DJP