glennw

The easiest way to do 2 doors of different sizes is to just butt them up against each other. They will auto mull together - no need to manually mull them together. Make sure Minimum Separation in the window defaults is set to zero - this setting applies to both windows and doors. You retain full editing capability for both doors.

Do a search for Garden in the library.

The Project Browser, ALDO and dbx's can remember their monitor and location. Preferences>General>Save Dialog Size and Position.

Have a look at Preferences>CAD>Line Properties>Endcap Printed Length. Also look up Line Weights and Line Weights And Scaling.

Just thinking aloud here, but it would be great if we also had the ability to not only offset and rotate, but Mirror a reference plan. This would give us the ability to do a mirror reflected and offset reference plan so that we could do mirrored duplexes so that editing the original plan was dynamically reflected (see how I did that) in the reference display.

I think you will find that you can apply the new line style to a line and it shows up in the line style drop down, but the line style is only saved with that drawing - it is not saved as a system line style. If you want to save the line style for use in other plans, you will need to save it to the library or your default template.

I really don't want to spend a lot of time dissecting your post. Suffice it to say that Chief can do a lot of what you are talking about. ie, in Chief, you CAN edit the model in elevations/sections, use dimensions in elevations and sections, auto mulling windows and doors may not be desirable, auto beam updates are no problem..... You can even edit the model in a true 3D view and even in the Cross Section Slider. Most of your other points have comparable features in Chief like customised Room Types....

Default Settings>Cad>General CAD. The Number Style on the dbx's is only for the display in dbx's. The text size is controlled by the Text Style assigned to the Cad, Default Layer.

Brad, What is wrong with Transform/Replicate>Rotate?

You need to change the Current CAD Layer before placing the CAD Block. Saving a cad block to the library does not save it's layer property. You also need to save and close the plan before posting otherwise there is no data in the attached plan.

If you want to use walls for demolished walls, make sure you specify them as Invisible, No Room definition and probably No Locate (once they are located correctly). There are other ways using layers, etc, but try the above first. Added walls can be just plain walls with a new wall type if required.

From your description, it sounds like you need to build an invisible wall where the ceiling changes from cathedral to flat and then in the room dbx, change the ceiling type as appropriate. There should be no reason why you can't do auto roofs on a simple plan like that. If that's not it, post the plan.

Select the dimension line itself - not the extension line. You will see grip points on the end of the extension lines at the house. Grab the grip and drag it off the house.

Hi Chopsaw, The last one was just zoomed in.

Heidi, I can confirm what you are seeing with the fuzzy text. It doesn't happen as bad with Rich Text. I can think of a couple of choices, all of which make an improvement. Show Line Weights. Use Rich Text. Turn on Print Preview. Make the text bold. Using a different font doesn't seem to make much difference. So...a couple of options, pick your poison! Without Print Preview: With Print Preview: Bold text:

Hi Gene, I am no expert in OBS, but I may be able to get you going until someone else steps in. So I will keep it to the basics. I am assuming you have 2 monitors. Open OBS and have it on your second monitor. Have a look at the Sources section. Here you can configure your source - use the + button to add new sources - I use display Capture. If you double click Display Capture, it will open a dbx where you can select the display to capture and any cropping required. Over on the Right is the Controls Section. Use Start Recording - this will change to Stop Recording. See how you go with that.

You can't edit Chiefs built in toolbars - that includes the toolbars, dropdowns and the tool palette. You can create a new toolbar that contains your Library Objects and you can dock it or float it, but you can't make it a dropdown or tool palette.

Allow Editing In Selected Home Designer Products in General Plan Defaults. No need to export a model - just use the .plan file.

Better to post a .plan file rather that a .pdf

Use Edit>Delete Objects>Objects>Roog Baselines Polylines to delete them all in one go. Then use roof directives (and correct ceiling heights) in the walls and auto roof.

A couple of tips to get you going. Once you are using Roof Baseline Polylines, the roof information specified in the walls is ignored. You can change the roof directive information for a Roof Baseline by opening it's dbx and make make any changes. Why are you using Roof Baseline Polylines? Maybe Roof Baseline Polylines are not the correct way to go with that house.

You should be able to do that by using Linear instead of Count and specifying a width. You can then create a new Unit Conversion to convert the length into number of 60m rolls. You can then display number of 60m rolls in the ML. If you want anything more fancy like rounding to full rolls doing it without Unit Conversions, you would probably need to use custom macros.

It is possible to do it in one operation without guide lines, etc. It just needs a bit of preparation and then a select wall and drag. Turn off all grids and Angle Snaps. Turn off all snaps apart from Endpoint. In Preferences, turn off Always Snap Walls At Allowed Angles. In General Wall Defaults select Resize About>Inner Surface. Select the wall I have hi-lighted and drag a new wall off it, and snap it to the top right hand corner of the lower wall (outside of wall lining). Before: After:

Or...if you really need it to be a wall, you can use the Inserts Into Wall option for a symbol. This option then allows you to make any shaped wall opening that you want.

You can also find it in the ML.