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And if you look in the status bar, you will find a description of what the tool actually does

In plan view, hatch patterns have their origin at 0,0. So...you could create a new hatch pattern or edit a hatch pattern with a different offset origin. This is a real hassle though because you would need a different hatch pattern for each different origin and if your room changes size, you would need to redo the hatch definition.

Antoine, You first need to capture a picture of your floor plan or site plan which you are going to use to sit your 3D model on. You can use Chief's Screen Capture to do this in a plan view. Before you can use this background plan image, you need to convert it to a material and apply it to a polysolid, terrain or whatever you are using for your base picture. There are a couple of ways to make the material. Go 3D...Materials...Plan Materials...New...Texture panel. Find your picture under Texture Source. Make sure you use stretch to fit. Or, you can do it in the Library Browser...User Catalog..right click...New...New Material And make sure Textures are toggled on in your 3D view.

Brian, If you can't use the Join Roof Planes tool because it is removing part of the roofs that you want to retain, you can use Roof Intersection Points to locate where the roofs intersect. You can then manually edit the roof planes by snapping them to the Roof Intersection Points. I assume that you have Roof Intersection Points toggled off. Go Preferences...Architectural...Roofs...check Automatically Place Roof Intersection Points. Now when you click on a roof and then a second roof, you will see a red point auto generated. This is the intersection point of the 2 roofs. You can place the toolbar icon for Delete Temporary Points on a toolbar to clean the points up as you go - otherwise your plans will look like DSH's!

As far as I can remember, we have never been able to reshape a layout box (apart from being able to fillet the corners).

Railing Specification dbx...Rails panel...Rail Profiles...select Beam...uncheck Automatic Width and enter a width.

This has to do with the difference between using the default glass material and the actual material. I am assuming that Auto Adjust Default Glass Properties is toggled on and left on. Lets ignore the left door, because it has Glass Grey as it's glass material. If you open up each door's dbx and check the glass material, you will notice that there is a difference in the glass material used between the doors that have clear glass and those that have the tinted glass. The doors with clear glass have the glass material set as "Default Glass: Glass Standard". The doors with the tinted glass have the glass material set as just "Glass Standard" - note, no "Default Glass". Select the door and open it's dbx. Materials panel...#Glass...select it and then Select Material...Material Defaults...select Glass (which is set to Glass Standard). OK, OK. You should now have clear glass. Or, as Alan says, you can select Glass Standard from the library. However, if you do this, the Auto Adjust Default Glass Properties will have no effect on how the glass displays - the glass will always be clear and Chief won't auto adjust it.

I can' imagine that bevelled piece of concrete staying in one piece for very long.

Try adding another wall layer to the inside of the wall definition. In this pic, I added another 12" thick layer.

The pony wall method works. What trouble are you having?

I guess it's easier to ask and get someone else to do it for you. Although it would probably be quicker to try it yourself than make the post.

What "certain things"?

Steve, Why don't you try it and see if it works.

Johnny, The height the cad line is always relative to Chiefs zero floor height. The height of the polysolid is relative to the terrain - because it is outside the building (no floor under the object). Use Absolute to avoid the difference. The floor structure shouldn't make any difference. Try drawing an object inside a room with Relative to Floor set, and then drag it outside the room so that it only over the terrain - it's height will change.

Joe, Come on, that's an easy one. The number of decimal places should be an option or preference.

Michael, I am not saying it can't be improved, but wouldn't you expect some problems if you built a railing wall composed of multiple layers?

Chopsaw, I deleted that post and this is the repost with some changes. I was probably out surfing 8 hours ago! I am not sure this is a bug, but it is one of those Chief intricacies. It is caused mainly by the use of a multilayered wall for the railing wall. Larry, Try this. Instead of creating your railing wall from your standard .Stucco-4 Existing wall - which is a 3 layered wall, create a new single layered wall 5" thick, and use that for the railing walls. Having a single layer wall prevents the stucco (or external layer) from building down in the floor space below. This is creating the rectangles in the floor space under the railing walls, which are visible in vector view. Now, go to level 1 and select the wall below, check "Balloon Through Ceiling Above". Do the same for the small side wall to clean them up as well. Things should look perfect in both vector and standard views - in fact all the render modes.

Looks like you need to buy more paper.

There are a couple of things you can do. 1.Turn on Print Preview in the layout. 2. Look at the print preview in the Print Layout dbx 3. You can set up a default printer and paper size in the Default Printer for View dbx - accessed from the Drawing Sheet Setup dbx..

No, not spline. Select Build... Distributed Objects...Polyline Distribution Path. Draw a single straight line. Convert to a curve (Change Line/Arc on the Edit menu). Open it's dbx and select and configure your seats. Change arc as needed.

Did you use a Distributed Path for the seats?

Maybe, but I am not prepared to spend any more time on this one until the walls are fixed because the roof will build off the walls. Its not just that the walls aren't square - there are also short wall sections. Also, have a look at the external room - something funny going on. And once things are right, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to auto built a roof on that house without Chief choking.

All else is not fine. To start with, many of your walls are not drawn orthogonally (90deg or 0deg). Fix them all up first and then repost the plan.

Or maybe even easier, use the Layer Hider command (LH is my shortcut).

Mike, No. The dimensions will not change their formatting if you switch the annoset back to an annoset with the original or a different dimension default. You are not changing formatting in the current dimension default , you are changing the dimension default itself, so that new dimension formatting will follow that new default. Dimensions inherit the dimension default's formatting when the dimensions are drawn. There are a couple of ways to change the formatting of existing dimension lines: 1. You change a setting for that particular dimension default (through the annoset, through the dim defaults or through the dim line dbx) - in which case all the dimensions that use that default will change, or 2. You can select a dimension (or dimensions) and change the Dimension Default they are using in their dbx, or, in the same dbx, you can also redefine that dimension default (same as #1 above).