glennw

I am jumping in on the very end of this thread. I haven't got the time to go through the details, but this may help a little. I just wanted to go right back to the beginning and answer one of your original questions regarding how to get Chief to auto build a roof with different heights on either side. You can use an invisible Knee Wall to form 2 rooms with different ceiling heights. I have left the invisible Knee Wall in the attic so that you can see where it is. This is reducing the problem to the very basics - you will have to take it from there, and it may not do what you want. I am just throwing it into the ring in case it may help.

Hi Jason, This may get you going. There are many other templates for different types of vehicles. Glenn Passenger vehicle 6.3 m.pdf Passenger vehicle 6.3 m.dwg

No need for a cad detail. That is what the Layout is for

Ah. One of my favourite "gotcha" moments. Use that tool with caution, as it doesn't do what you are expecting - as you have discovered. It rotates the drawing sheet itself (and most things on it) - it doesn't rotate the drawing on the drawing sheet. You need to set Rotate Plan View back to zero and use Edit Area instead. Look up Rotate Plan View.

Are you 100% sure that wall is not vertical. Is it possible that the wall is vertical, the top and bottom level and ends sloping? Is that a door in the wall?

Build the terrain.

No

Give the Porch room a larger ceiling height. Are you doing auto roofs? Do the above and if you are using auto roofs you may get crickets or other screwy things where the roofs meet. If you get that far, post back here for the solution to that problem.

Go to your Digital Locker and it will tell what versions are Perpetual or Expired. It will also tell you when, and if, your SSA licence has expired.

You can use a straight ramp and curve it using the Change Line/Arc tool on the edit toolbar. Open the dbx and have a look at all the settings. I left the railings so that you can see the slope better.

It is because you are trying to dimension to non-parallel (or off angle) lines. ie the house is drawn orthogonal and the plot lines are not orthogonal.

Have you had a play with the Vertical Stacking setting in the window dbx. On the Options panel.

Yes, I have one. It is from a few years back, so it may be out of date. It is too big to post here. Give me your email address and I may be able to do it as an attachment. This is just a small selection:

Just a heads up... I am assuming that you used the Rotate Plan View tool for the rotation. If so, make sure that you understand the following as things may start happening that you didn't expect:

Start by going to Cad>Cad Detail Management>New. You can then use the cad tools to draw your details. Note that you would normally draw the cad details full size and then scale them when sending to layout.