rlackore

Draw a Railing and use a custom Panel:

There's a chance that the Room Specification>Materials>Room>Walls material is no longer using the Default. For instance, here is the dbx for a room that is using the Default material. Notice that the Walls material is set to use the Default: Now I plop in my glass shower wall. The glass material shows properly because the Room is still using the Default material for walls, and the glass shower wall has material definitions that over-ride the Default. Note that in the Room dbx the Walls material reads "No Change", indicating that there are walls in the Room that are using different materials. It's also possible that it may still indicate the Default is being used. Either way, the enclosing walls are drywall, and the shower wall is glass: If at some point in the design the Room must have been defined to use a specific material (as Joe mentioned, probably with the Eyedropper/Painter tool), not the Default, then all walls will show up with that specific material. In this example I've changed the walls to "Brick." So, even though my glass shower wall is defined to use Glass, the new Room wall material will over-ride it: To fix this, open the Room dbx and change the Wall material to "Use Default".

I don't believe one exists.

Window Schedule dbx>Label>Additional Text>Include Schedule Number

Personally I'm really excited about the new block management features, and the ability to reorganize layout pages in the project browser; I recognized both these as feature requests from the Suggestion Forum.

Usually when I experience things showing up as black (when they aren't supposed to) is if an object is assigned one of Chief's Predefined Metal materials and I haven't turned on Photon Mapping. I don't imagine your light bulbs are assigned that kind of material definition, but it may be worth a look. If you post the plan we could give you a better answer.

DWG TrueView from Autodesk is free and you can view and convert dwg/dxf. This isn't an integrated Windows Explorer solution, but it's very useful. I don't know for certain, but there's a chance that installing TrueView will also install whatever's needed to preview in Explorer (I can't test this because I have a bunch of AutoDesk products installed besides TrueView, but I've read elsewhere on the net that this is true).

I copy the window, move to the second floor, then paste in place. Position it the same as the first floor window (using the absolute elevation as the reference height makes this easy). If you want you can put the second floor window on its own layer so it can be hidden in 3D views, but I find this isn't usually necessary.

I think because windows and doors are "special" symbols (we can't open a symbol dbx and make changes) that Chief treats them differently. A "normal" symbol can be reflected/resized etc. through commands or a dbx, but not windows and doors. I think this is why Sherry can't reflect a garage door and expect to see the actual symbol truly reversed (about it's own axis). The same for mulled windows.

ShaneK, you probably have it - I just can't see that high-to-low pitch intersection in the Google picture. A few more site photographs would help.

Yeah, I didn't look at the second PDF. Regardless, the more I look at the Google picture, the more I'm convinced that the rear intersection is the real issue, and needs to look more like this: Obviously I don't have it perfect - but I think there is a lot of tweaking that needs to happen.

If this is what you're after: ...here is how I would do it: Steve & Tereas Oslund Exist roof 1a - roof edit.plan

Duh. Thanks for the clarification.

Dan, referring to your post above (reply to Chopsaw), when I click on your first (large) image, I don't get an "arrow" on the right side to click through to the next image - I only get the "X" to close the image. However, when I click on the second (smaller) image, I get the left "arrow" to click back to the first image - and again, there's no right "arrow". Shouldn't the first image have an arrow?

Heck, it's even easier than I knew. A point for Joe.

Start a new plan, insert the old symbol, re-size it, then Tools>Symbol>Convert to Symbol.

Gene, why doesn't the method I demonstrated in the original thread work? 1. Set the size using the Object Specification dbx. 2. Save as symbol and set up the stretch planes. 3. Done.

Use the Revision Cloud tool: ...and you get a fancy dbx with lots of options:

To fix that Reset the size, then adjust the Object for the size you want (10" Depth and Width) with Maintain Aspect Ratio, then save as a Symbol and set it up the way you want during the import. Barn Pendant Resized with Z-Stretch.calibz

First open the object (not the symbol) and RESET the size. Then proceed with the steps Joe and I outlined. If that doesn't work, try the attached symbol. Barnd Pendant reset with Z-Stretch.calibz

The "Drag files here to attach" is confusing. I recently replied to a post, and I kept trying to drag 'n drop a PNG file into the typing space where I wanted it to insert in-line with my comments, not realizing that I had to specifically target the lower part of the window until I get the "blue dotted" rectangle, then proceed with the in-line insert just like on the old forum. It seems like this would have been a good opportunity to stream-line that whole procedure.

Open the Symbol Specification dbx and change the Z-value in the Sizing>Height tab (I used Joe's -9" value). This will restrict the symbol to stretching only the pendant stem when you change the height in the Object Specification dbx (remember to turn off Maintain Aspect Ratio).

Thanks Joe; but Scott may have an issue with you taking his point for teaching me how.

This is a better solution.

Teach me how to give points and I'll give you two - one for solving this thread, and one for showing me how to give points.