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I believe this is how I did it before! I was missing the part of having to be in a 3d view to have the option to convert to a symbol. I like this method because there is more control over the elevation of the building vs. the site terrain as I can just selected the symbol and manually move it up or down and around. Thank you very much for the help!

I will have to play around with that some more. Thank you very much for your help!

So far so good. I have the separate house showing up as a reference display in my 3d site terrain but is there anyway to control the elevation height as I am trying to show in on a raised or hill portion of the site. I need to raise it about 30' higher.0

Does anyone know how to make your entire house a cad block for use on a 3d site terrain model? I have done this before about a year ago and can't figure out how I did it. I made the entire house into a cad block and saved it in my user library, then placed it in a separate plan file where I had the 3d site terrain. This way I didn't have to rotate the site terrain I can just rotate and move the building around on the site. Thank you!

Thank you for the input. I am not a computer guy. I would like to do an upgrade of my system but would really like to stay with Mac vs. PC because I also do photography work and the Mac display and operating system is superior. I also have had no issues in like 6 years with operating system performance compared to windows. I have a 2017 model 27" iMac desktop and it has been great but is now getting pretty slow with medium and larger sized Chief projects. I think I am leaning towards a Studio model sometime over the next year.

Is anyone out there using the Mac Studio to run Chief on? If so, how does Chief perform on it?

Thanks for taking a look Brett! I truly appreciate it. You must be using X16 so I will have to upgrade so I can open the attached file. I think some of the issue too is the post frame wall style I am using. But this also happens when using just a normal 2x6 exterior wall so I don't know.

Wondering if anyone can help me out or also has problems with boxed flush roof eaves. I have had this problem for a couple of years now. The problem is the software does not want to always fill in the end of the boxed eave properly. Sometimes it looks fine with the red ribbed steel, sometimes it looks white and sometimes it looks open. I have contacted Chief Architect tech support and they seam to be avoiding the issue saying they have given it to their technicians for review. At one point, they sent me a video where they adjusted some attic walls. I have contacted them a couple of times for follow up and they say nothing new. Many of my designs are for larger homes so a simple pole building like I have attached shouldn't be that difficult for the software to figure out. Maybe it is something with my computer or a setting in my drawing template. Does anyone else have this issue? I just don't understand why this is happening and it is very frustrating. I have attached the file and would highly praise anyone that could figure it out. I have also attached a couple of images of how it looks on my end with the file open. Thank you! Healy High.plan

I will play with some of these thing tomorrow. Thank you so much for your help, it is much appreciated!

Yeah ya did. You don't know either huh?

Looks great! I am using X15 but don't seam to have any more options than I normally did in the railing dialog. I think you may be using 1 1/2" newel posts spaced at 5 1/2" and extended down the thickness of the rim joist? How about the vertical 2x4 member under the top rail? A custom drawn top rail?

Anyone have a good way to create this railing? It was a very common railing design in the 1980's and 90's. 2x6 flat top rail, 2x4 vertical under top rail, 2x2 balusters fastened to bottom of deck rim. I only need to draw only with existing conditions, not new decks. I have always struggled to find a good way to draw this and usually end up with just showing the top 2x6 rail, no vertical 2x4, and no balusters extended down below the floor level, just to the top of the decking.

I have lost the decking from the main deck. It was there at one point and then it will not show. I even have all layers on. I can build a new deck (see the little deck next to the main one) that will show the decking correctly but still not right on the main deck. I am not having any luck with problem solving this issue and this has happened before on other projects. Anyone got any ideas? Plan file is attached and thank you in advance. Bercher-Anderson for chief.plan.zip

Just wondering what other Mac users are using for their systems. Looking to speed up my system. I know Chief Architect has told me that it's best to use a pc with gaming cards in them. I need to stay with a Mac because of other graphic things that I do (I also do photography). I need to have the display of a Mac to show true colors. Interested if anyone could share what they are using for Mac with Chief Architect and how they find it is performing while using Chief. I currently have an iMac 27" 2017, with Radeon Pro 580 8GB, 64 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 memory. Finding it quit slow even on medium size projects. Maybe I need to just have a separate PC system for using Chief.

Thank you Steve Nester! This seams to have taken care of the problem. I just don't understand how this would ever have gotten changed in my template file because it's never been an issue for me before.