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Cad...Current Cad Layer. Or there is a toolbar icon. Or there is a hotkey. Or, another way to do it after the fact is to use the Layer Painter - especially if you want to change the layer of several different types of objects.

I think you need to understand the relationship between the actual line weights used in the plan and the Advanced Line Weight Options setting. You are using an ALWO of 1=1/10 along with very small line weights in the plan (about 1-4). The OOB setting for ALWO is 1=1/100mm along with line weights in the plan of anything from 1 to , say about 100. With a ALWO setting of 1=1/100mm the line weights in the plan relate to the old Rotring ink pen widths. ie, a line weight of 25 is the same as an ink pen width of .25mm, a line weight of 35 is the same as an ink pen width of .35mm, a line weight of 70 is the same as an ink pen width of .70mm, and so on. There is no right or wrong setting - whatever works for you. I happen to like Chiefs OOB settings as I have an ink drawing background and those width settings make it easy for me to relate to. I know that to most of the younger users, this is a foreign concept - what is a Rotring pen?

Do you have Line Weights toggled on?

Johnny, If you have a simple terrain, and you can use your own Elevation data objects instead of Chief's auto generated contours, you could use the elevation objects Label to display the information. That would allow you to place the label wherever you wanted.

Looks like user error to me. You have some very funny geometry on the top right hand corner of the Elevation Region - have a very close look and you should see what I mean. You may also need to resolve some of the conflicting terrain elevation data in that same area - there may be conflicting information between the elevation region and the elevation lines. You may also need to extend the elevation region under the building. I don't see a retaining wall, just a path.

Do you have a room definition on level 0?

A round Callout with Display Cross Section Line checked

Sheeees........., to put it simply. The Op wants the under framing without the roofing materials. I think the solution is to create a separate roof for the under framing and specify it with just a framing layer and no finish layers.

There should be no need to edit the dimension layer after drawing it. Although Annosets are the best way to set things up, they are not the only way. You can get to the same defaults manually by using Default Settings or Active Defaults before drawing the dimension. Active Defaults is a quick way to change defaults on the fly - say if you have a need to change the default dimension layer as a one off. Open Active Defaults, change the Dimension Layer, draw your dimensions on the new layer. You could then go back to your normal setting by using an Annoset.

You can set the default moldings (base board, chair rail and crown) on a floor by floor basis in the defaults.

Larry, No need to redraw the terrain. This just came up in another thread- there are several easy methods to fix things up. Try this https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/13365-say-it-aint-so/#comment-114379

You can copy a terrain perimeter to the library for reuse in other plans. If you already have a terrain in the plan, the library terrain comes in as a plain polyline - and yes, only one terrain perimeter per plan. To move a terrain perimeter to another floor, select it, copy it (just copy, not paste). Delete the original, change floors and paste or paste hold position.

Ross, If you make both the brick wall layer and the timber wall layer the main layers (in the Wall Type Definition dbx), you should get what you are after.

Johnny, Isn't it funny - some users want all auto to save time and effort and others want no auto so they have complete control. And then there are those who want auto until it doesn't auto the way they want it.. And then there are those........ I agree with Yusuf, what particular "auto" feature do you want to disable - what do you mean by "shut down partially". What does "partially" mean? You can turn off Auto Rebuild Walls/Floors/Ceilings - but this is probably something that you would want to leave on - depend what level of auto you want. I guess if you shut down all auto, you are left with a 2D cad drafting program. I guess I am one of those users who like everything to auto build along the way - I like Chief auto adjusting things as I work because then when I get to the end, I know that everything works - there is no tidying up to do. I would hate to do a whole lot of work and then expect Chief to fix all my mistakes by trying to rely on some auto fix routine - that is just a recipe that leads to a whole lot more work. In my opinion, it's better to let Chief work it's magic as I proceed.

Ceiling drawn from inside

Michael & Scott, The reason is not quite obvious when you are dealing with trusses. Trusses build from back of sub fascia to back of sub fascia. The reason becomes more obvious when building the same geometry without trusses. As I said in a previous post, the framing will only build to the edge of the ceiling plane. If you draw your ceiling plane to outside of the main wall layer, Chief will frame the ceiling over the wall. If you draw your ceiling plane to inside of the main wall layer, that's where the framing will build to - obviously incorrect.

It is a little tricky to select them, but it can be done. Firstly, turn off the pitch display by opening the baseline dbx , and on the Line Style panel, uncheck Show Length. Or, do what I did in the attached pic, and make the text size smaller. If you then zoom right in, you can select the individual parts of the baseline polyline. I don't have time to go through all your post and work out exactly what you want, but the above may help. Can't we already do this?

The terrain breaks are too close together and don't have the correct elevation data to make them work as you think they should. I would forget the terrain breaks altogether and use more elevation lines (and/or greater height differences) to get the steeper slope required. I think you are wasting your time using terrain breaks I would also get rid of the elevation points and use Elevation Lines or Elevation Splines. Elevation lines are really just elevation points at about 2'0" strung together - much easier to control than elevation points. Just draw then like normal contours. Very easy to copy them and move them parallel , or adjust them as needed.

I believe that Chiefs recommends building ceiling planes to the outside of main layer (under normal circumstances) is because the framing will then build over the main layer and have something to sit on. Users should be aware that whether you draw the ceiling plane over the inside or outside of the main layer will make a difference to the height of the ceiling plane. A ceiling plane drawn to the outside of the main layer will be higher at any point than one drawn to the inside of the main layer. This height difference is the distance specified as the Automatic Birdsmouth Cut height reported when Trusses (No Birdsmouth) is unchecked.

I would avoid using a roof plane in that sort of situation as it has the potential to cause too many problems. A roof in the guts of the house is not a good idea. I would create a room and use the new Shelf Ceiling option. It will auto frame the walls and the ceiling. PS Ah, I just realised that this is an older post. Oh well, it still may help - and it's good that we have the new tool.

Larry, You sash and frame sizes are all set to zero. This essentially creates a pass-through which you can't select in an elevation view.

The problem is definitely being caused by the polyline Terrain Breaks on the landscaped mounds adjacent to the road on the bottom of the plan. Do you really need them there? And they are so close together - with a large Transition Distance. What are you trying to achieve by using them? Terrain breaks are usually used to make a vertical step in a terrain - same as retaining wall (a retaining wall is just a terrain break with a wall). On thinking about this a little more, I think it is just that you are not using the Terrain Break tool correctly. Either for the correct purpose or technically correct. As I said, it is designed to build a vertical break or step in the terrain by placing terrain elevation data above and below the break. It would appear that you really don't want a vertical step in the terrain where you have placed the breaks - although that is just a guess on my part.

If you don't want quantities by floor, open Preferences...Material List...Report Style...Include These Columns...uncheck Floor. Generate a ML using Calculate From All Floors. Sorry, no time to look at your file, Chief is probably correct though.

It has nothing to do with the height of the trees, it has to do with the display order. Select the tree images and open the dbx. Go to the Line Style panel...Drawing Group...scroll down and select 1 - Front. This will make the tree images draw on top of other objects. By default, images go to the very back. You can also access the same tool through the Edit toolbar which may be a better way because you get dynamic feedback as you change the order.

Here is a bit of a variation https://www.screencast.com/t/fMtUkgJuTX