glennw

Default Settings...Rooms...Deck Room...Deck Room Defaults dbx...Deck panel...uncheck Automatically regenerate deck framing.

d dot, My solution doesn't use the "virtual floor", it uses a monolithic slab built on level 1. It is a monolithic slab with "walls with footings" around the perimeter and monolithic slab internally - a "hybrid" concrete slab. There is no slab step on level zero because there is no slab on level zero. Just draw a cad line if you need to show the step in the slab ABOVE. You don't see a slab in a level zero floor overview because there is no slab to see on level zero. Why would I expect to see the slab on level zero when it is on level 1? If it was a timber floor, would you expect to see the floor in a floor overview of level zero? Why should a slab be any different? The slab is on level 1 - where it should be. If you really need to show the level 1 footing on level zero, draw 2 cad lines.

OK, got it. Well...pretty close. Ed, I used the brick ledge, but not the extra wall layer. Tile the section and floor plan and try dragging the dotted footing lines in the plan and see what happens in section - cool. I think the only thing wrong is the chamfer on the left hand side of the footing. Because the same chamfer setting applies to both sides of the footing. Footings X6 final.plan

Probably a breach of copyright until you actually purchase the plans.

Here you go. Footings X6.plan

This is about as close as I can get. Done automatically with Auto Detail. I can't get the footing centred under the wall. Probably easier to do it with cad if you want 2D or solids if you want 3D. It's not worth the effort otherwise. Footings.plan

I don't understand your reply - the views are distorted how? A picture of sketch of what you want would help.

Do you have permission to use that plan?

You could try using the ..........Rotation option in it's dbx.

simonas, Not sure I follow you, but the Text Style column for the Labels layers controls the ....text style for labels.

What does Chief need to fix? Before you can calculate a quantity for a material, you need to define it and add it with a new wall layer in your wall definition. Use the Area Material Type and add a paint layer to your wall definition. You can give it a thickness of zero. Now use that wall definition for the 1 wall you want to change. The paint quantity will now appear in the material list as a square area. The easiest way to change the color of one wall in a room is to open the wall's dbx...Materials panel...Interior Wall Surface. This will NOT change the material list though. Andy, You just beat me to it. Keep in mind that the Interior Wall Surface material doesn't count in the material list. It is really just painting a finish appearance onto the wall's inside layer (in this case, the plasterboard).

Ray, Try Preferences...Reset Options...Reset Side Windows. Drag it to the other monitor.

That's it Larry - simple.

Larry, Thanks, you did it perfectly - except that you moved the Marker instead of copying - no big deal. Looks like once I get Jing going I then need to open a Screencast account? Alan, I don't know what this means:

Larry, I don't believe that is quite what he is after. He wants to line up the Markers vertically, but away from the ends of the lines. This can be done using the Extension Snaps. Toggle on Tangent Extensions, Intersection Snaps and Endpoint Snaps. Turn all other snaps off. Select the Marker. Click Copy. Place the cursor back over the Marker until you get the 4 headed move arrow cursor - this is important because it won't work if you try and drag the copy with the Copy cursor. No need to use Paste. Drag the Marker down and across to the end of the line (the one you want the marker level with) to establish an extension point. Drag across to the right until you get the extension vertically down from the original Marker as well as the horizontal extension from the end of the line. Note that the 4 headed cursor has to be in the copy of the Marker circle to be able to see the extension lines. Click to place the copy. It's a little hard to see the extension lines sometimes if they are under the cross hairs (if you use crosshairs).. You can get them to display better by having an Aperture on the cross hairs - then it is easy to see the extensions in the aperture. You then need to spin around three times and click your heels. Sounds a bit fiddly and complicate, but is really quite easy to do. Larry, I have downloaded Jing. How do I post the .swf file for viewing? Can I attach the file directly to this message or do I need to go through Screencast? Any help appreciated.

Or...select it and then Shift Select it again.

Probably better to post the plan. It looks like you have used a label macro (File Info...%file.name%) in either a text box or for the label on a layout box.

I assume the mobile apps are Room Planner - not Chief. There is already an apple version of Room Planner.

Wynsong, that just turns off the icons in the menus Len, that will reset the toolbars back to factory default and lose any customisation. I'm not sure if it will turn the toolbars back on either - it might, I don't want to try it and lose all my toolbar setup. Looks to me like your toolbars are toggled off, try.......View...Toolbars

Rich, Yeah...mailboxes everywhere..

d dot, Well Doug gets it. As I said, it mainly applies to cad. If I am drawing a cad detail and I have many objects (lines, circles, etc) in that detail with different properties (layer, color, type and width), do I really want all those different lines on different layers? In this case, it would be too cumbersome to control them all on different layers, so I probably want them all on the same layer, but have different color, type and weight. Sure, I can draw an object and then change its properties afterwards. At the moment there is no way to PRESELECT the properties before drawing an object. All this asks for is a way to do this. If anyone has used Generic Cad or Visual Cad they will know how well this works. Admittedly the need for this ability is greatly reduced by the fact that we are doing less and less cad, but it is still a legitimate request so as to avoid post editing of drawn objects.

Doug, Yes, you have it correct. The 2 different methods to assign properties (color, weight, type and layer) are commonly referred to as either By Layer (Chiefs present default method) or By Object (the requested method). At the moment Chief can only be configured to preselect the By Layer method. What is being requested is the ability to preselect the By Object method. There is no question regarding editing these properties after drawing an object - that can be done in several ways. The request is for the ability to PRESELECT the By Object method. I should note that these 2 methods mainly apply to cad objects as they only have the 4 properties. The thread has really has wandered a bit from the original post.

Robert, He may have a roof but not a closed room. He could have drawn the roof manually or deleted the room definition after the roof was built..... We need Jay to come back with more info.

Help...View Users Guide and View Reference Manual. The Users Guide has tutorials. I am not sure that you would want to print them though - a lot of paper. I don't know if you can still purchase hard copies of these from Chief. Have a look at there web site.

You need to make sure that you have a room defined by the wall that contains the window or door. If you draw just a wall, or a room that isn't closed, then you don't get the icon. I think this is because Chief can't auto build a roof if there is no room definition. You can draw one manually by using Build...Roof...Gable/Roof Line. Resetting toolbars won't make any difference. The auto Gable Over Window/Door icon on the Edit Toolbar is not available outside the Edit toolbar.