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Thanks Joe, I will have to consider getting more storage space.

It looks like my Chief Architect Premier X9 Data file is 4.72 GB and looks like I would need to upgrade my Dropbox space. Is this file size close to the size of yours? Looks like I need to set the path to all the files in the data file and not just the library file?

This is how I need to properly show the walkout wall below grade foundation wall on my foundation plan. I did this with CAD lines but am wondering is there is a little better way to do without using the cad lines.

Thanks Mick, The 1st link does not address how to do this. The 2nd link (making the walkout wall in to a pony wall) is what I tried, which is looking good in 3D but will not give me the below grade foundation wall in my foundation plan view. (see attached images on original post)

Thanks Jonboy, I've already made the wall into a pony wall with framed wall above and 12" icf wall below grade. What I am wanting to know is how to properly show this below grade foundation wall on the foundation plan.

How are others doing the below grade foundation wall at a basement walkout? In my area the frost depth is 60". A lot of times to keep the plans clean and readable, I do a foundation plan and a separate lower level plan. On the lower level floor plan, I show the walkout wall as a normal framed wall with other areas into the hill shown with an ICF wall. On the foundation plan, I have set up to show the ICF walls with no interior or exterior framed walls. I still need to show the portion of 60" deep ICF foundation and footing that is below grade at the walkout wall. What are my options to show this below grade foundation wall at the walkout area? Maybe just draw with cad lines? I tried using the pony wall option as shown in Chief knowledge base which looks good in 3D, but doesn't show the foundation wall the way I want in plan view (shows a framed wall). I have setup a layer called "below grade foundation walls" to put this wall on.

What is the process to set this up? Not sure where to set the path for the library to look for the user catalog file on dropbox.

Can anyone give some advice to how to properly manage my symbol library when running the program on 2 separate computers. Want to have the same current library available on both machines. How to keep the library up to date with the newest symbols added, etc. If I add a new symbol on one machine, how can it be updated on the other one and visa versa. Maybe a shared file for the library on something like Dropbox?

Ok, I will give this a try. Thank you for your help!

What did you do to get the roof to rebuild? I'm wanting to recreate.

Because it seams to be part of the attic wall, I can delete it and it goes away but then I am left with no attic wall.

Anyone know what is causing this??? I have attached the file as well as a couple of pics. Looks like it is an attic wall with framing that penetrates the roof above it for some reason. Also having the same problem on the back of house. Bergman__11_16.17__KH.plan

Does anyone know how to get rid of this garbage under this manually drawn box bay window. I followed the tutorial in the chief architect knowledge base but they didn't address the exterior. I also tried using the automatic box bay but couldn't figure out how to have 2 windows vs. just one.

Does anyone know if it is possible to show frieze boards when there is no soffit? They show up but once I uncheck the soffit box, they go away.

I have not spent much time playing with the materials list function of Chief. Playing around a little today. What I am wanting to know is how much sf there is for the ceiling and walls of the room. When I right click in the room, I am hitting "calculate materials for room". I am getting calculations for the floor, ceiling and trim but no walls. How do I get it to show how much Sheetrock is on the walls? Am I missing something in settings or something? It seams pretty straight forward that it should calculate all the materials for the room including walls. For learning, I am just doing a simple square room with no windows and doors.

Tried this and it continued to rebuild itself, even if I open another roof plane on the house, change nothing and click ok to close the roof window. Thank you for you recommendation

A little bit of a bother, but this seamed to work and keep it from rebuilding. Thank you

Thanks for your response Joey, where do I find the command to convert the roof trim molding to a basic pline?

Thanks for your response David. I am just wanting to get rid of the one piece of trim on the house wall and keep the other pieces of frieze trim.

I am planning to finally make the move from windows pc to mac sometime later this fall. I am tired of all the problems with pc, viruses, windows 10 and Microsoft. Seams like you have to be a computer tech to use now days. Can any of you mac users out there give me feedback on your imac system, what you have, memory, graphics card, etc. and how Chief Architect is running speed wise on your system, any other thoughts? I'm looking at the 27" imac and others specs yet to be determined.

I don't want this frieze trim on the house wall. Anyone know how to keep this frieze molding from automatically rebuilding? I keep deleting manually it but it keeps showing up. I've tried deleting it, unchecking the "frieze molding on selected edge", I have auto rebuild roofs off in the roof dialog setup, auto rebuild roofs is off in defaults. What am I missing?

Here is what it is suppose to look like. Yes, the problem is the black bars and the smaller elevation images that appear in the layout box.

For any remodel or addition project I work on, I first do an existing conditions plan file model. I save the plan file as "project name-existing conditions". I then send a floor plan and 4 exterior elevations to a layout file. I save the layout file as "project name-preliminary plan set". Once satisfied with the existing model, I save one last time and "save as" the plan file to "project name-remodel". I model the addition on to the original building. I then go to my layout file, copy the 4 existing exterior elevations, paste them in place to a new page in the layout file, (I do this so the alignment will be the same when looking at the plan pages, if I resend the elevation files from the plan file, I need to manually align them again on the page), then I re-link (using the re-link file button on the bottom middle of the screen) the 4 individual elevations to the new plan file called "project name-remodel". For some reason this time I got this screen shot in one of my newly linked elevation layout boxes, others seamed to work fine. I have also gotten some crashes as well when re-linking.

?????? Did existing conditions plan file, sent exterior elevations to layout from existing conditions plan file, copied 4 elevations to new layout page, re-linked each elevation to my new plan file for remodel project, got this. ???? Which there were not so many bugs with this program and it was quicker.