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Robert, Think of the Pad Elevation as Chief's zero floor level. Enter the Pad Elevation as in real world heights ie, 903' give me a call on Skype.

nicknz, I suspect that Screen Refresh doesn't solve your problem. After you sent the view to layout did you change the display of any layers in the layerset set that you sent the view to layout with?

The instances where I have seen this are fixed with F5 (Refresh Display) - with the layout active. Try this: Open a layout and plan file and have them in separate windows (this doesn't work with tiled windows). Move an object in the plan. It will auto update and move in the layout as well. Undo the move in plan. The layout will not update - the object will remain in it's moved position. Make the Layout window active. Click F5 (Refresh Display). The moved object updates in layout. If you tile the plan and layout windows, the action of activating the layout window will update it without the need for a Refresh Display. nicknz, See if the F5 (Refresh Display) works for you. I also have it in the back of my mind that this is also related to layer display. This is really hazy, but I think if you have sent a view to layout and then change the layer display, a similar thing can happen and the Refresh updates the view with the new layer display settings - but maybe I am remembering incorrectly. I will have a play.

I would be very interested to find out the source of your information - can you provide details? I suspect that you are talking through your ars*!

You can, of course, turn these icons off at Preferences...Edit...Behaviors...Edit Type...Behavior Indicators. But then you won't be aware of the information that Chief is trying to tell you.

Joey, I can easily get Chief to build the slab on top of the stem wall or top of slab inside stem wall (no slab thickening though as in your detail). It's also easy to switch between the 2 methods.

Call it a Court, Deck, or Balcony.

Why would you ever want to do that - you can't build 2 walls in the same place! I show new and remaining walls with different wall types, but I would never show a demolished wall as a wall type. I would always indicate a demolished wall with 2 broken lines - it's not a wall, so don't draw one!

Then use the drag/tab method and the + or - doesn't make any difference.

Bob, There is no ceiling because you haven't drawn one and you don't have a room defined for an auto ceiling - a slab and footing doesn't create a room.. The roof return won't build because you don't have a gable wall defined at the front of the porch. Not sure about the frieze board at this stage. I reckon it would be much easier to build an auto roof on a house like that. Anyway... Build the porch from invisible walls. Define the front wall as a full gable wall and give it a roof return - that will fix the ceiling and roof return problems.

Yes, rebuild the framing and it will appear as if viewed from inside - mirror reverse of the way you had it (viewed form the outside).

Alan, There are prompts in the status bar as you select different objects, move the cursor over snap points, move the cursor over icons, etc. There is a context sensitive Help button in the bottom left hand corner of every dbx.

Mike, Have a look at this setting: Default Settings...Framing...Wall Panel...Wall detail Views. Uncheck Build Wall Framing Details From Exterior. This should give you +X to the right. I assume you are using Transform/Replicate to move the framing member. If you use the Drag/Tab method to do the moving, the positive/negative direction doesn't make any difference - the direction is set by the initial drag direction. A wall framing detail is really just a 2D representation and therefore doesn't have a Z direction - Y is up/down, X is side/side.

You can already do this. Show the lower pony wall.

I think your main problem is that you have changed the default Vertical Stacking Level from zero to 1. The Default Stacking Level should be zero. Any windows that aren't on the default Stacking Level will display in light grey. Go Default Settings...Window...Options Panel...Vertical Stacking, change it to zero. Use this setting temporarily to place windows on a stacking level other than zero and remember to change it back to zero when finished. In the Default Set why are all your Weights 4, color black, same linestyle? You should be using your layers to display weights, colors and linestyles. Have a look at the Plan View Set for a guide. The other thing I noticed was all the Layout Sets - unless you really need them and use them, I would turn that option off when sending to layout.

Yes Lew, but it wasn't about you. Maybe you should preface your posts with "As far as I know".

Alex, Try the Wall Material Region and check Cut Finish Layers of Parent Object. Make it a single layer with Opening, No Material.

Larry, The main problem with the Terrain specification is, I believe, one of nomenclature. I have suggested before that Pad Elevation be changed to something else to make it sound like it is associated with the floor level and not the terrain.. If you always thing of Pad Elevation as being Chiefs zero floor level, you can't go wrong and it will all make sense. So, if you want your floor level (assume Level 1 or Chiefs default zero) to be 20" above the terrain, type in 20" for Pad Elevation. And just remember that Pad Elevation is Chiefs zero floor level.

Lew, Why wait any longer? A decade is a long time to wait for something that is already available - and has been for quite a while. It has already happened sooner! Chief CAN do a cut list.

Ok, from memory. I think 9.5 automatically adjusts the glass properties for windows and doors - there was no choice. BUT it only did do for the Default glass material. Check your window glass material to see if it is the Default glass material. If so, do not use this Default glass material. Select another glass material and play with it's properties to get what you want. Chief shouldn't automatically adjust the properties of the non Default material.

Coffcons, In 9.5 do you have 3D...3D View Defaults...Options Panel...Vector View Options...Opaque Glass and General Options...Auto Adjust Default Glass Properties?

Scott, Can you explain what you mean - I don't understand. I haven't had my pill today.

Johnny, If I read you correctly, this is very easy to do in Chief. Turn on Edit Object Parts, select the line segments, copy, paste. If you want to form a continuous polyline from the segments, leave them selected, click Extend Objects, click in the plan. I am sure I would have a very hard time doing this in any of the other cad programs - horses for courses.

Simonas, I'm not sure I am following you 100%, but: The Display Line Angle As setting in the CAD Defaults doesn't control the format of angular dimensions, it controls the display of a lines angle when Show Angle is selected in the Line Specification dbx. To get decimal degrees to display for angular dimensions, I believe that you have to draw the angular dimension, select it and change the format to Decimal which gives you decimal degrees. I don't think there is a default to force decimal degrees for angular dimensions. The reason that 45deg always looks correct that it is an accurate amount - there are no minutes or seconds (or more decimal places). In Australia use both deg, min, sec, (mostly for site boundaries) or decimal degrees. It would be nice to have a default for formatting the various angular formats, but I think, that at this stage, you need to change the angular format after you draw the angular dimension. Ah, another thing, I don't think you can specify the number of decimal places with decimal angular dimensions. Definitely room for improvement here. And I can't imagine it these would be a huge thing to implement - definitely worth a suggestion.

Jonny, I don't get it. What's wrong with drawing a continuous line (individual lines - not a polyline) using the Edit Object Parts mode. You get the graphical indication at the cursor that you are drawing individual lines and not a polyline - how simple is that. What's the difference between having a "mode" or a separate tool - same thing in my book (maybe even better to have the mode - then there is only one tool).