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A fluted block texture would be your best bet.

I opened your plan and had no problem auto-generating a roof over the deck. Of course, it also rebuilt the existing roofs, so if you want to preserve what you've already got, mark the existing roofs as edited, check Retain Edited Automatic Roof Planes in the Build Roof dbx, and then delete the roofs you don't want after the build operation.

The plan south walls of the game room need to be defined as foundation walls.

Yes, my first run was with all the lights and the sun on: 25:14. Second run with just master bedroom lights and sun: 10:44. Third run with master bedroom lights and no sun: 10:09.

Thanks Mike.

As specified by the OP for his original test.

I'm at 25:14 - which explains why I never do ray traces. Hopefully we'll be able to afford a new box sometime this year - mine is from 2007.

Mike, please share how you achieved the divided lites.

Achieving the diamond is pretty easy. Insert a fixed glass window with identical height and width, remove interior and exterior sills and lintels, then a dogear arch with a height equal to 1/2 the overall height and reflected vertically: The kicker is the muntins - I can only get one - you may have to manually add the other unless someone else can find a solution.

The example you showed is very clever, but the individual components can't be modeled to the same degree of accuracy. It's a matter of personal preference, or what is required by the application.

Normally I like to bash Chief for its shortcomings, and this kind of project is definitely easier in another program (like Sketchup), but I was able to knock together a sandwich board in about 10 minutes using polyline solids converted to solids, boolean operations on the solids, explode the solids and assign materials. So, it may be, as others have stated, that if you spend time understanding how to do things with Chief, it gets easier.

Just like a tilted floor mirror - I suspect you'll have to build it manually, or https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u1e413018-2269-45d7-9b24-9720100a07ac

Chief doesn't have a command for quickly offsetting a line or arc - you'll need to draw the offset manually. As Alan mentioned, any shape can be turned into a symbol, including a door symbol - but Chief doesn't allow inserting doors into wall corners. I believe you'll need to build the shower walls and doors using Chief's other tools, such as poly-line solids, primitives, soffits, etc. - or create what you need in another program and import it into Chief.

The lack of an option within the Schedule dbx to format how measurements are displayed is befuddling.

Using Glen's suggestion, I guess you could enclose it with invisible walls.

I did not know that. Thank you.

Draw the wall intersection with a long bump out to prevent the intersection from cleaning up (snapping). Break the horizontal wall at the intersection. Select the bump out wall, open the Wall Specification dbx, open the Wall Type Definitions, make a copy. Select the bump out wall and resize it using your favorite method (I'm imperial, so 3/4" is about 20mm). Clean up the wall intersection with the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool. From the image in your first post the horizontal wall appears to have the finish layer wrapped around the end of the wall. How do you accomplish this?

No glitches visible for me.

Which fonts? What PDF printer/driver are you using?

Make the stub wall a different wall definition:

As Mick mentioned, it's probably because: 1. The Framing, Wall layer isn't set to display, or 2. The wall framing hasn't been built. Use Defaults>Framing>Wall to set Automatically Build Wall Framing, or select the wall and use the Build Framing for Selected Objects tool.

What we need is the ability to specify a profile for the footing on a per-wall basis.

I believe there is confusion about what the OP wants. Dshall and I are giving suggestions to "turn off" the dimension text so it isn't visible. Simonas' tip removes the background fill from the text (this is also definable within the Text Style definition). I guess the OP can take his pick to suit his situation.

You could set the Text Style to use a color that is the same as your background (or white for plotting to white paper).

All new CAD objects (lines, boxes, etc) will be drawn on the Current CAD Layer.