DzinEye

Good point!....though you can tell the toe-kick Dbx to form on the side that will become the front, but the front which then becomes the side will also have it. That could be easily covered up though.

Yeah, you can't drag it into an angled shape, you have to tell it the proper dimensions in the Dbx...(see Left Depth / Right Depth in my screenshot) Change your cabinets largest side 'depth' to be the width you want the front of your cabinet to be. Make the other side 'depth' whatever the cut-off back length would end up being. Turn your cabinet sideways so the normal cabinet front will become the angled side wall of the cabinet and your long side will become the front

Direct to your question... you can build a roof over invisible walls and do anything you want with solids to model your sloped walls. Easiest though will be if you can have 'battered' walls, which slope on the exterior and are vertical on the interior (or could be opposite I suppose)... then build normal walls with windows/doors etc, and put your roof on as normal, then add the sloped solids to the exterior of the wall(s). If you need them to be sloped both inside and outside then it gets a lot trickier requiring using roof planes or walls turned into symbols and the thread that Ryan refers to above will be a good start.

Agree!

Eric, you needed to turn on View Arc Centers and Ends ...

Select Angled Front cabinet type, then rotate appropriately so the angled front will become the side that is cut off. Then tell what is the left side of the cabinet that will become the front in the new orientation to 'match front'.

Sorry to leave you hanging, I had to go out. I thought you'd need or want something that comes down to the ground or top of the conc. wall... hard to tell quite how things are laid out from your pic but didn't look like it would attach to the deck. What I was trying to get at in my description of adding a side rail in red in the pic. Glad the basic handrail return works for you.

Or this... it's a little unclear with your pics vs. what you're explaining

Terrain Elevation Region

The safety hazard is the trip hazard at the top of your stairs! lol... For the railing, I think you could put a short section of rail returning to the wall and use the smooth transitions checkbox but I don't see that as being a safety hazard at all since it should be only a few inches from the wall

I gave up using cabinet dbx backsplash ages ago. Sometimes it works great, but usually there's something to make it easier to just draw a custom backsplash.

Yep... Plus you really should have a handrail as per your screenshot.

This kinda made me chuckle Robert... I totally get your drift, but since when is this kind of logic applicable in Chief? It seems like everything can and will be used as something else in order to get the job done.

Kind of a big file, but it was in my Podium Browser Speaker_soundbar_Bose.calibz

You probably will need to include a photo of what you want it to look like too.

Ahh... read too quickly. You mean a default setting. Yes, that would be nice

Well, I didn't grab the focus being something that looked good in vector view when I created this roof texture. Only realized after I saw your comms with Robert. I think it'll be tough to get something that looks good in vector view, but the method Robert mentions is the approach to use. Here's the material I used if you want something for your 3D views to look like my example. I found that having the 'live edge' on the material makes it look better. You'll need to adjust the scale to work just right. Thatch roofing.calibz

That's good to know... thx Glenn

Not a bug, but it sure bugs me. There are some other similar inconsistencies like that too, which I can't recall at the moment.. same thing where we can't control all dimensions of something which we can in a different dbx.

Ha ha... too true! Wow... congratulations on 47 years!.. that's awesome. Better toss those suckers so you can make it to 50 years!

Interesting! I wonder if that's a bug? It's probably most common to join them, but we should certainly have the option to control it. If you move it over a little more than halfway off the lower bay then it works correctly. The only work around I can think of (and made sure it works) is to make a library symbol of the bay window. If the upper will be an exact duplicate of the lower bay then just use that one to make the symbol, otherwise make another bay window off to the side of the lower one on either floor or elsewhere and adjust it the way you want it, then convert to symbol. Then you'll need to make a wall opening to put it into

Well... I understand your dilemma. I've been running old Quickbooks software that I used to upgrade annually, then finally said enough when they weren't adding anything to improve my use and justify the cost. That was in 2004. It's been fine since then, but finally I can't seem to install it on my newest Win10 machine. Strangely enough, it does operate on my old desktop which was upgraded to Win10 with that QB software on it. I've now got an old desktop hogging up space for the last year mainly so I can keep using that software and my old version of AutoCad. Then there's the dilemma of what to hold onto and what to let go. Just in the last two weeks I finally made the difficult decision to toss out 15 years worth of hand drawn plans on vellum. I have another 15 years worth of AutoCad files which I have on disk, but I only have an old 2004 version of AutoCad which is on that same old computer. I surely do not plan to purchase another copy of AutoCAD, so once I toss that computer it's goodbye to all those files for all intents and purposes. I'll keep them on DVD's since that takes so little space, but I probably won't be accessing them ever again. AutoCAD does at least have a free viewer that I could use if need be. I have to say that although it initially hurt to toss all those drawings, it definitely feels good to be rid of it now... it was just clutter. Unless you really think you'll need to use those files electronically, you might consider saving everything to DVD and printing everything to PDF and maybe even add-in some 3D views so you can go back and look at it again at any time. This is something I've been wondering about myself since I've now experienced this with the aforementioned software, and realize it will be the case with Chief as well some day. Here is another thought; Chief offers a free trial period with it's software, so you should always be able to at the very least view your old files anytime in the future as long is it remains backwards compatible.

This should help... It's our cattledog Ginger

This method actually works quite well. Where ever you have such a column it's usually part of a porch 'room' which is usually formed with railing walls or invisible walls and those will define how the roof connects/sits. You can give the mini-room inside the column different heights to adjust the column height as needed. You can use pony walls and wall cap to create lots of different looks. It would be nice if we could lock the walls so 1-click could select all 4 walls of the column. Turning it into a symbol can work in that regard but with some flexibility loss.