rlackore

You could use a manual ceiling plane to achieve what you want on the inside. powder_room_roof.plan This doesn't actually make the "exterior" wall the correct height, but I'm not sure how you'll achieve that given the roof you've drawn on the plan.

Every day the X6 Reference Manual remains open in my PDF viewer. I can't think of a day that goes by that I don't reference it in some capacity. However, there is no replacement for this forum and the active users who contribute their expertise. There will always be times when we ask a question here for expedience - but I think most regular users are pretty good about doing their research before posting. I think part of the "problem" is that forums just aren't very search friendly. Threads aren't always named in a way that are search friendly, and many threads get hijacked and good info gets buried deep and is difficult to find. We could all get better at using topic tags when starting a new thread. I guess I'm just rambling. I'm not sure what can be done.

So I'll end up doing what I've done before with a similar issue: draw a wall to the side of the plan, place doors to "stand in" for the doorways in the schedule, and call it a day. My main beef with this work-around is that it's not obvious if someone else picks up the project at a later date.

Maybe a modified auto dim could auto change to the manual dim layer.

Do you mean there is no Doorway category in the Materials List>Categories dbx? If so, I'm aware of the omission; but doorways are created in the Doors dbx - why the heck can't CA just treat it like any other door - at least for component and schedule purposes?

I'm confused. Here is a screen grab of the Components dbx for the cased opening. I added the Door (D1) category, and added a description:

Joe, if you look at the second pic in my post you'll see that I opened the Components list, added a new subcategory for Doors, and entered a description. Neither the description under the Trim category or the Door category shows up in the schedule (3rd pic).

I've added doorways to my door schedule: The components listed for a doorway only include trim, so I added a Doors subcategory and entered the Description I want... ...but the schedule still shows "Doorway" under the description: Any guidance is appreciated.

You could try using a pony wall on the first floor with the elevation of the lower wall portion (brick) set to stop at the first floor window head height; the upper wall portion should be the same wall type as the second floor.

The 2D block (plan view) of a symbol should rotate along with the symbol. Can you elaborate or post a plan of the problem?

Ok, maybe you can extract the texture image from the object. In 3D view use the Adjust Material Definition tool to select the terrain object and open the material dialog box, then check Texture>Texture Source>Texture File to find the path to the image file. Close out of the dialog box, go to plan view, use File>Import>Import Picture and navigate to the image file. Then it's a matter of aligning the imported image with the existing terrain object.

Oh, of course. I'm being stupid. Give me another minute to think.

I'm guessing that the image is a material texture and you'll have to switch Chief's render method to Standard to see it in plan view.

I'm still on X6, but the Current View that prints is always slightly bigger than what I see on screen - otherwise I don't see any issues with printing from plan.

The diffuse maps available from sites like CGTextures is a good place to start. Genetica is powerful, but expensive and can be difficult to master. Regardless, to make a high quality texture you need more than what Chief offers; but, for what most users need, Chief's abilities are satisfactory. I'd prefer to see Chief improve it's lighting tools before working on additional texture map features.

Chief is limited - it allows diffuse maps and height maps (for bump/shadow) only. More advanced tools may be nice, but I suspect that most users wouldn't have the time to dedicate to learning and using them to their full potential; and even with advanced mapping tools Chief would still be limited without better UV, lighting and environment tools. Chief is not a rendering/raytrace program - it's an architecture program that can do some basic render/raytracing.

Chief pre-defined metals will not show in render; they will show in raytrace only if photon mapping is enabled.

Am I correct in concluding that there is no way to assign a separate material or profile to an exterior door sill? I can do it with windows, but not doors.

Don't know why, but it happens to me a lot with roofs enclosing rooms like in your picture.

Here is a room, 18' exterior walls, manual ceiling plane at 17' with an air gap material definition, interior wall with Stop at Ceiling Above checked. The ceiling you see is a manual polyline solid - I couldn't figure out any other way of putting a ceiling back in.

Maybe make the shorter interior walls half walls with a railing height of 17'. Or put in a manual ceiling plane at 17', then define all the interior walls to Stop at Ceiling Above.

Preferences>Appearance>Font>Legacy Text Conversion, etc. This might have some use. Before you upgrade to a new Chief version, rename the Chief_Blueprint.ttf to Chief_Blueprint_old.ttf. Then install new Chief version, open the Preferences dbx, and select Chief_Blueprint_old.ttf for Legacy Text, Legacy Dimensions, and Legacy Material Lists. I'd don't know for sure if this will solve issues, but it may be worth exploring.

Let's say you want to use Arial instead of Chief Blueprint. Open the system font folder, delete the Chief Blueprint font, then make a copy of the Arial font and rename the copy to Chief Blueprint. Of course, this doesn't solve any kerning or special character issues that you'll encounter with replacing Chief Blueprint with a vastly different font.

You already found the fastest way - just replace the font at the system level.

Strange. Works for me with your plan: