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Just now, stevenyhof said:

Its not working for me ???

Hmm?.. but I noticed you lose the beam doing that anyway.  Try changing 'porch' to 'garage'... that works too

8 minutes ago, stevenyhof said:

But when I place a door, it puts in an interior door. How can I force an exterior door.

That is odd...
Don't know why it's happening, but if you change say that short porch 'wall' to 'no room definition' you'll get your exterior door.

6 hours ago, stevenyhof said:

But my roof keeps snapping and opening up my interior attic wall...

Hi Steve, looks like you figured this out, and I haven't looked into it other than reading your post.  The sentence of yours I quoted just warranted a quick comment in case you're unaware...but if a roof is snapping to something you don't want it to, there is a checkbox in the middle of the 'general' tab labeled No Special Snapping.  If you check that you can sometimes solve problems related to roof snapping.

20 minutes ago, GintOtis said:

...now is there a way to keep the 4" garage slab but slope it, say at 1/8", toward the door?

If you really need to model it, then you'll need to do as Mike or Joe suggest above.  I just put a note with an arrow (Like a roof slope arrow) calling out the slope and direction.

50 minutes ago, Lakeside-E said:

to touch on this a bit more and to show how the finished fretwork acts, here are some renders using it in one of its applications. having it a solid object has alot of benefits...

Ya, for sure you'd need to model it if you're using it as part of the house as you've done.  Looks nice.  I assume in reality you'd need some kind of framework to hold those screens in place?   Were you able to finish the 'sprig' panel using the tips from Michael and Ben above?

2 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

I personally almost never use this method.  It has a few notable issues to contend with.  One of the most problematic though is that the results are essentially useless in Vector based views.

Yes, that limitation can be a no-go for sure.  Was thinking that most likely a landscape screen would really only be needed for enhancing 3D views.

9 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

Thanks for the tip @BenMerritt.  I've never had the issue quite to this extent, but I have had some notable slowdowns with similar scenarios and I think this method may help speed things up a bit until you can get this issue addressed. 

Really interesting... I hope that we'll get more insight into this from Chief.   Before I gave up (before you and Ben got involved) I had managed to separate out the picture onto it's own layer, but after the 2nd literally 10-minute choking session my computer went through I had to call it quits.   Very curious why marquee select avoids the problem.

On 11/23/2020 at 4:51 PM, glennw said:

Build Image>Create Billboard Image>enter the path to the image and make any changes>Transparency panel>Use Custom Transparency Color>select the color assigned to the spaces.

Great idea Glenn!... I had thought of mentioning use of a see-through billboard as I've frequently seen it used in games, but I didn't know if or how to achieve it in Chief.  

1 hour ago, Lakeside-E said:

windows have to be inserted into walls, these do not. you show me that you can make muttons accurate to the fretwork, celtic, sprig, or morse pattern... I dont know how you could begin that process.

 

Ya, I can see that the Sprig design would be impossible with muntins.   It was just a thought when I saw one of the other designs was comprised of 'lines' of the same width.  I opened your plan and was working in it without any problems, and then I clicked on the outer frame and that brought my computer to it's knees.  I didn't want to play anymore after that, but I have to believe there's a better way.  You might try using arcs.  

16 minutes ago, Lakeside-E said:

https://duralifedecking.com/composite-decking/accessories/panels/ scroll about midway down and you will see the panel designs. I already created the fretwork, boardwalk, and celtic designs but the sprig is being a pain. 

 

I tried this but it is still slower than my prized race snail...

 

 

     If you can't find a workable solution, you might consider trying using a 'window' with custom muntins.   

21 hours ago, crdsplans said:

Yeah that is what I normally do it but client is requesting a single pdf so they can print either or from the same file

You can combine your PDF's into one using PDF tools available in many different PDF softwares.  PDF Xchange is one example

3 hours ago, ACADuser said:

Why are some of the foundation walls filled & others not?

If you select that big cell 'room' on the left and uncheck 'floor under this room' in the structure panel all footings shade correctly.  If you look at a 3D view of your foundation plan you can see there's something weird going on.. you have what appears to be open cells in the middle when looking down, but looking up from underneath they show as filled, and you can see a layer of a slightly different color concrete in some areas, which I believe is slab material.  There's definitely more amiss here than just the foundation fill missing. 

@ACADuser

Well... if you break those footings where shown in my screenshot you'll get fill on the parts not adjacent to the slab... so this tells me that the fill issue has something to do with that adjacent slab... but as of yet I can't tell you what

45 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Created a method for this that is slightly convulated but overall very accurate.

...and convoluted too!  

GIMP is free and very good...not particularly easy per se... but lots of YouTube videos to explain almost anything.

4 hours ago, Lakeside-E said:

Ive read this thread through and the older thread, wouldnt this block out the sun?

I've never done a 360 background myself, but I've done large curved ones that do almost 180... and I've never had issue with the sun

Here's the plan with the opening, but as Eric says, you have to do the casing manually.

Schwantz_r1.plan

18 hours ago, Ridge_Runner said:

My hat's off to them!

Your love hat ?!?  

Haven't done one manually... but FYI there are some in the catalogs... look in Kohler, Verdera line

1 minute ago, Kiwideziner said:

fruit machines

It's spiced pumpkin season.... spiced apple comes afterward

35 minutes ago, PMMully said:

How do I add ceiling joists underneath? They are 24" OC going out to a main support beam with tongue/groove on top.

Did you try selecting 'ceiling over this room' in the structure panel of your patio room?

1 hour ago, Alaskan_Son said:

This is where things like Open Below and in this case, Floor Supplied by the Foundation Room Below come into play...

That's an excellent graphic Michael, I wish I'd seen that when I first started.  The whole garage floor thing gave me some grief early on in the learning curve.
Curious if you know whether setting the 'floor supplied by foundation room below' is pulling the same behind the curtains strings as setting the room to 'open below'?

25 minutes ago, cajunland said:

 

I was waiting to build framing until some of these major issues fixed.

In general that's not a bad idea, but just in case you're not aware, the Delete Objects tool in the Edit menu, will let you delete just the framing or even just certain types of the framing.

3 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

you can actually use the Reference Display capabilities

Thx Michael.  Hmmm... okay, so it is do-able... but holy cow whatabuncha monkeying around...  sigh.   I guess once you get it set up in the SPV it's mostly self regulating.  I'll give it a try.

26 minutes ago, robdyck said:

this is what I've found to be true

Thx Robert ...  hmmmph... grumble grumble...