glennw

I am running this setup without problems.

To go upstairs just drag the end of the walkthrough path up the stairs. Stop anywhere along the stairs. Chief will automatically continue the path up the stairs and continue it on the upper floor. When you go up to the upper floor, the path should automatically be there, select it and start editing it.

Are you prepared to spend any time on learning how to use the program?

Hi Jason, My best guess is that you have Fixed Proximity checked for those stubborn dimensions. You can change it here in the Fixed Prox column on a dimension by dimension basis: Or here as the default - I would normally have it off in the defaults:

Open the Schedule for Level 2 and change the Schedule Number Start to 7. And on the General panel, make sure Include Objects From Floor is set to 2 (for the second floor). As you add or delete doors, you will need to change the starting number in the other schedules. Do you want something like this? Or, what am I missing? You can renumber the schedule by using.....Renumber Schedule on the Edit toolbar.

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.