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Eric I have the room divider along the center of the soffit but one side does not join the crown molding correctly -- see screen shots. Alan

Thanks Kyle -- it wasn't intuitive. Alan

Eric Okay thanks -- hadn't thought of that. Alan

I used to have a deck where my sunroom is now. Part of that deck was under the second floor that was supported by a beam. To separate the area that was under the second floor and the addition I added a wall (where the beam) is and made it invisible. I tried to add crown moldings to the sunroom but the molding would not display on that invisible wall. Any idea how I can get the molding to display? Thanks Alan

Kyle Not the long curved walkway -- I created that with a slab, but the straight section with the notation. Alan

Kat I found out what I was doing wrong (or in this case not doing). The tutorial I referred to seems to be missing a step and that is setting the elevations of the terrain lines that you draw. I know now it's obvious but it should have been included for us dummies. Thanks Alan

Whenever I try to install a curved walkway or wall all I get is a straight hallway and wall. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks Alan

That is why you pay so much more for Chief. It rivals (and for home design beats the pants off) AutoCAD Architecture for about the same price. I used the later for many years and it's fine for commercial buildings but not very intuitive for houses. It took me about three hours to create a custom wall with quoins -- 10 seconds in HD. Alan

This is what the support people said. Alan

The strangest thing -- I copied the roof planes from the plan that Eric sent (where he had corrected my errors) then pasted into my plan and I have not see that anomaly were part of the plane was inside the building. Go figure. Alan

David I had forgotten that you could do that until I saw your video on my roof issue. Thanks Alan

Hey Eric I have made quite a few changes to the terrain since you and David fixed my funky roof. Can I copy and paste the terrain between open plans? Thanks Alan

David I'm glad it just wasn't me. I can't understand why the plane on the other side of that bedroom behaves itself and the RH one doesn't. I may try deleting it and creating a new one to see if the issue prevails. Alan

Thanks Eric. In reality they are two separate planes and the right hand one gave me a lot of grief trying to get it attached to the adjacent planes. Alan

Okay thanks for that -- I always wondered how to fix that issue. I am working on the top of the driveway -- got the little issues fixed and am now adding the walkway. Alan

Wow thanks Kat that looks great. As I said this is the first time using terrain and I'm still learning. BTW I went onto the HD website and read the article - Modeling Terrain for a Walkout Basement (http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00718/modeling-a-sloping-terrain-for-a-walk-out-basement.html) and I did exactly as described but when I click on Build Terrain nothing happens. That article says that the software will put intermediate contour lines between the ones I added but it doesn't. Any ideas? Thanks Alan

Any idea why when I extend a straight wall from an existing curved wall, the extended wall is not as tall. See screen shot. Alan

Okay here it is. The roof plane in question is the one to the right of the front bedroom. Alan 1241 BARKSDALE ROAD.plan

Kat I'm still wading through how to make a sloped terrain and am not having much luck -- the terrain is up and down and I can't seem to get it a smooth slope or even a flat area. Alan

David Okay I unchecked that box and immediately the roof plane corrected itself. Later it went back to the same as before. You can see on the screen shot that the edge of the plane is not itching the wall and doesn't move at all when the OSB appears in the bedroom. It's strange that this is the only plane that acts this way. Thanks Alan

Eric Im not sure if I got what you are describing but ended up with this which is two slabs. I can't change the arc to match the wall though. Alan

Okay thanks Alan

I'm trying to create a sloped driveway to my basement garage. I tried using a slab but it cannot be set at an angle (that I could see). I tried a soffit and got it where it looked okay on the flat (correct width and thickness). I had the elevation at -143" and checked the Sloped Soffit box and the ending elevation changed to -138" but when I tried to change that to -16" it defaulted to 1/16" and wouldn't accept any other number. Am I using the wrong item to create a sloped driveway? Thanks Alan

That didn't make any difference. I think I'll submit a Support ticket. Alan

Eric How did you create the curved slab? Thanks Alan