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Schedule Specification dbx>Labels panel>Schedule Number Start.

Johnny, A Frieze is really just a Molding Polyline that shows properly in cross sections.

Use a Frieze. This is just a quick one from the library. You will need to create your required frieze molding profile.

You need to make this wall on the upper floor a Knee Wall. The side walls need to be High Shed/Gable Walls. Horizontal Walls need to be Hip Walls. Auto Build Roof. Have a look at the Roof panel of all the walls on the attached file. mono roof.plan

Ivan, I can think of one reason, but there may be others. You don't have column headings set to display in the Schedule Specification dbx - check your note schedule defaults. Temporarily turn on the display of column headings to see what is happening. Chief sets the column width from the length of the column heading text - wether it is set to display or not. So...check the length of the column name under Columns To Include in the Schedule Specification dbx.

Have a look in your dimension defaults and/or search Help for Primary Format Panel. Check Display as Inches to display the dimension number of sufficiently short segments in inches rather than the Unit selected above. This option is only available when the specified Unit is a form of either feet or yards, or a format that includes feet. The Less than or equal to value specifies how short a segment must be before its number uses inches rather than the specified Unit.

I will have one guess. Preferences>Reset Options>Reset Side Windows.

Works OK for me in a ML.

What is the active toolbar? What do you expect to happen?

I think what is happening is caused by the dimension line being moved past the location grip. ie, if you drag the dimension line past the location grip, the marker and text flip over to the other side of the dimension line. It's a bit hard to explain. Try dragging the dimension line to the right and the marker and text should flip at some distance. Is there any hidden building to the right of what is shown? Can you take a screen shot while the dimension is selected so that we can see the end of the extension line grip. Or can you post the plan.

Sorry, I misread and thought you were talking about plain polylines - I missed the rectangular bit. Are you using the rectangular polyline tool or are you using Continuous Drawing Behaviour?

I am not sure about X2, but in X14 it is Preferences>Cad>Options>Connect CAD Segments Probably still the same.

Try using a railing (with Follow Stairs) wall instead of the railing attached to the stair tool.

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?