glennw

Try this - I believe it is the "official" way: Specify the wall as a railing - doesn't matter what sort - or an invisible wall or railing should work as well. Select the railing wall and open the dbx. Structure panel>Platform Intersections>Invisible Walls and Railings>uncheck Generate Between Platforms. Note from the help file states that this setting has no effect with a single layered wall.

Try using a Double Arch with Left or Right Arch. This will allow you to specify the Height of the arch section and the radius.

Can you post a cad detail sketch of what you are trying to achieve - your description is a bit hard to follow.

There is no floor framing built for Subfloor For Floor 1, so I am assuming what I show in the attached pic is what you want. You need to divide the 2 areas so they frame the correct way. Both areas are being framed according to the Joist Direction. You need to break the area into 2 different framing areas. In the picture, I nominated the short wall as a Bearing Wall. You could have also used a Bearing Line to do the same job. Chief will then frame the top area so that the joists run to span the shortest distance.

Tony, Sorry, but I am retired now and no longer do design or documentation work (yeah!). I am quite happy to help you with training or any problems you may have with the software.

You could cut and paste the existing structures into a new plan and then use reference files to display what you want.

Without the plan it is only a guess.

Preferences>Edit>Behaviors>Edit Type>Behavior Indicators Only thing is, it turns off all the behavior indicators, not just angle snaps. Do a search in help for Pointer Icons to see all the different ones. The Edit toolbar and the Contextural menu display the same tools. You can hide the Edit toolbar and only use the Contextural Menu. Select an object to display the Edit Toolbar. Drag the Edit toolbar off the side or bottom (if not already floating). Press the Minimize button on the top - it should minimise to the desktop and be hidden behind the Chief window. On my mac, it is the middle yellow button with the dash in it. Windows should work the same. You can then configure in Preferences to use a single or double right click to open the contextural menu.

You are wanting something that wall caps don't do.

The ML list seems to report everything for me. Post more details to see what is wrong. The simplest way to keep track of cabinet pricing changes may be to just have the ML reflect changes to the widths of cabinets. So you could have a lineal foot cost contained in the Components panel for a particular cabinet style. You can use all sorts of info and macros to do what you want, but my feeling is that it will get too complicated once you start editing your cabinets - just because there are so many variables for cabinets. eg, in the Price section on the Components panel of your cabinet dbx you could enter =width*your cost per lineal foot. Any changes to the width of the cabinet will then be reflected in the total cost of the cabinet in your ML.

The roofs are all over the place. This should be easy to do with auto roofs. I don't think I can have a really good look for a couple of days. Try this: Change the wall on the upper floor over the front entry by unchecking Upper Pitch. Same for the upper floor gable wall at the rear. Open Build Roof dbx. Turn on Auto Rebuild Roofs Change pitch to 8:12. Auto build roofs That should get you most of the way there. To fine tune, use the Roof panel settings in the wall dbx. ie, Looks like the porch rooms need to have their pitch changed. I will let you have a play - I did the one on the front left.

Use File>Backup Entire Plan. Close the plan. Then come here and just below this window use Drag Files or Choose Files. What error message are you getting?

Can you post the plan. It looks like all the pitches are 8:12?

Larry, Why not just draw the floor plans in their correct location in relation to the site master plan to start with? If I am understanding you correctly, you can't move the referenced plans in the master plan - you can only do that in the individual plans. You could draw the plan outlines in the master plan and then copy/paste them into the floor plans to locate the floor plans, but I see all that as being the long way around and unnecessary.

First up, you can't create rooms on the Attic level. So build a new floor and go from there. Use a very small ceiling height and no flat ceiling over.

I didn't try too hard to find a limit, but I had 12 plans referenced and I was switching between them in the master site plan without trouble. It is a pretty cool way of working because all the floor plans and 3D views can display the referenced plans (so it looks just like the original plans), but the objects in those referenced plans can't be selected or edited. To do that, you need to go back to the original referenced plan and make your edits, which will be dynamically displayed in the master plan. One thing to remember to do would be to draw your referenced plans with the correct offsets from 0,0,0, so that when you reference them in your master plan, they all fit together in the correct locations relative to each other.

Larry, In most cases, you probably need to use both. Without a Joist Direction, Chief will span the joists over the shortest span. If that works out, OK, if the joist directions aren't what you want, then you have to use the Joist Direction tool.

Or... I haven't tried this to sort out any problems, but it should work. You could try using reference plans. Draw each dwelling in their own plan. Draw your master site plan and then reference the individual floor plans. This way, any changes to the individual floor plans will be dynamically reflected in your master site plan. No need to muck around with duplicate plans, stripping out files, creating symbols, etc. All the various dwelling plans and master site plan will always be up to date and synchronised. You would probably need to initially spend a bit of time to set up some reference default sets, and some other settings - but it could be well worth it. This could also be a good way to do things like showing alternate kitchen designs in a master floor plan. ie, you could have several alternate referenced kitchen plans that could display as alternate kitchen choices in both plan and 3D just by changing the reference plans.

Thats why I said:

Draw a straight driveway. Select it. Grab it by the centre end grip and drag it into a curve. Driveways added to the ends should merge (same as curving a stair. Or...Select a straight Driveway and select the Change Line/Arc tool on the Edit toolbar.

How and where did you create the door schedule?

Roads, Driveways and Sidewalks are not really just polyline solids. They are terrain objects that may interact with the terrain data so as to maintain a flat surface over their top surface. ie, they cut and fill the terrain in cross section. It can depend on how they were created. When you convert a closed polyline to a Road (Perimeter) it does not cut and fill the terrain - it follows the terrain like a terrain feature. When you convert a line to a Road (Center Line) it will cut and fill the terrain.

A Terrain Wall isn't a wall - it really is a terrain path - more like a solid, that will follow the terrain, cut and fill the terrain when running parallel to the slope and will follow the terrain slope when running perpendicular to the slope. This is an L-shaped Terrain Wall:

Any wall apart from a Retaining Wall as they usually create too many problems, mainly with all the auto wall steps they create.

It looks like you just need to move either the wall or move the Terrain Break to the middle of the wall. What type of wall are you using? I usually get everything correct with Elevation Regions, Elevation Lines and Terrain Breaks before placing a normal wall. I usually don't use Terrain Walls or Retaining Walls.