Chrisb222

I just manually drag the extension out to the callout border. If you have a long string of windows, you can copy/paste the new "Gap Form Marked Object", or use "Apply To All" if you have other extensions at the corners.

Dimension to layer was set to studs. The software introduced a thickness to the house wrap in spite of it being set to zero.

Those lights are typically because the model has no roof and/or foundation. Did you try playing with Interior Ambient setting in the Standard Rendering - Techniques dialog?

Or change the HW thickness to 1/8" and the air gap to 7/8"

Or if you want to leave the HW just change that dimension's primary format smallest fraction to 1/1.

It's not 15/16 it's 49/50 and it appears caused by the housewrap layer in your wall definition, which is set to 0 but evidently has a 1/100" thickness. Delete the housewrap layer and it dimensions like you're expecting.

Yeah if you're trying to use the Material Painter, that ain't gonna work. Corner boards don't have a texture, only a color. The way I get ONLY the color of an object to match another color is using the Adjust Material Definition tool, click on the corner board, and use the color eyedropper to pick up the color I want. See the first pic, which is from a Mac OS but you should be able to translate it to PC if that's what you're on. The color still won't match exactly because the siding is various hues, but trial and error will get you close. See second pic.

Another great way to find answers, in addition to what has been posted, is a google search restricted to the chief website. Put this search into google, it will search all of the chief architect website INCLUDING this forum. I use it all the time: site:chiefarchitect.com [YOUR SEARCH TERMS] You can also perform a google search of only the forum using this search: site:chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com [YOUR SEARCH TERMS]

Ugh, so no easy way. Thanks for the suggestions but I think I'll make a "Suggestion."

Bump Still have times I want to show walls in plan view without windows and doors, and without their cutouts. Just continuous walls. But turning off the window/door layers does not affect the cutouts. Is it possible?

Specifying "Rail to Post" in the Rail Style panel works for 3D. Plan view shows one line connected to wall.

OP wants a setting in dimension defaults to control whether "Suppress Wall Width" is checked or unchecked when using the Interior Dimension tool. There appears to be no user-control setting for this and all interior and manual dimensions have "Suppress Wall Widths" automatically checked. If you want them displayed you have to go into each dimension string and uncheck it. In previous versions, if the dimension default was set to locate "Primary Wall Side" and using the Manual Dimension and other tools, "Suppress Wall Width" was automatically unchecked in dimension strings. That seems to no longer be the case.

I would try changing the material to Color - White. I've had issues with Color - Brite not looking as expected.

Both options are going to need foundation walls. Haven't done this exact thing but I would draw the foundation walls, use room divider to make a closed room so can define it as "open below" then draw stairs in the basement.

I know, it just appeared some weren't aware, so I was just clarifying. Yeah, the feature seems very unreliable. But I'm still on Beta so maybe it's been corrected? I'll play with it when I upgrade and if still not working 100% i'll turn it in. Maybe time for another Suggestion?

X12 does have a new Clip Stringer option. I've found it to be a little finicky and does not appear to work at a Landing, but it's stairs so...? Nice video Steve. That trim is certainly better than what Chief provides, and seems just as fast compared with the headaches of making the parametric settings do what you want. Thanks!

I noticed the hole in the living area, but was more curious about all the storm shelters and safe rooms. Somebody's really paranoid!

The regular Break tool in the lower edit toolbar now breaks walls too, so the Wall Break tool was taken off the stock toolbar. The Wall Break tool is still there, you can go to Customize Toolbars and add it back to your toolbar.

Haven't tried it with landings yet but I'm sure that, with stairs, there is also some type of mouth position or incantation required....

Caulk?!? How dare you!

I never migrate my old toolbars. Let the program install the new toolbars then compare to the old and customize the new accordingly.

Library has double ovens you can drop right in a standard full height cabinet. It looks like you created a space for the oven, don't need to do that.

Yeah they changed that. Don't have access to chief now but there's a menu item in the top toolbar that's used to save, and "save as" views including plan views and cameras.

The Living Area label can also be used for a total calculation that includes an Open Below room. Open the room specification dialog and change to "Include in Living Area" and it will return the entire total of the footprint.