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I did also try this earlier as well. It does display correctly but I am wanting to have it at 1/4" scale. Sending as an image does not work unless you do some resizing afterword. Also, I don't think it would update itself if changes were made to the elevation in Chief.

Anyone know why when I send this elevation to layout, layout is cropping the background image only, to the edge of the model and not the layout box? I have a background scene set up to display behind my elevation (i'm using watercolor style). When I send it to layout, layout crops the background portion only. Even though my layout box is bigger, which should display more of the background, it appears to crop the background only to the extent of the house model, (notice the ridge on top, the overhang on right side, to the deck on the left side). I'm sending to layout using current screen and live view. I have the background set in my 3D view defaults. I have also tried sending it to layout using entire plan/view and get the same thing.

Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you all for the help!

Yes, this is what I need to do but it doesn't say how the foundation wall was increased in height to accept the top chord bearing truss in relation to the other 3 lower height foundation walls.

Any suggestions on how to modify a foundation wall to accept a top chord bearing floor truss? I can not seam to find any information from Chief, knowledge base or forum topics. I just want 1 foundation wall at the front entry to be higher than the rest and have the top chord bearing trusses. The other 3 sides of the house can be conventional bottom bearing floor trusses. Are there any places to set the height of an individual foundation wall higher than the rest of them. In 3D, I've found I can manually adjust the height of the top of the wall but don't know if this is the only way. I also have to manually bring up the bottom of the main level wall as well so the siding show correctly.

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.