glennw

You just beat me to it.

My guess is a gable.

Something like this? Use a railing with Panels and Post To Rail. Change the Plan Display to Show Newels and Draw Balusters and Panels, or what you want.

Kyle, Are you saying you want this: And not this: If so, that is controlled by the Reach setting

Check the Tilt Angle setting in the camera defaults. Did you first draw the camera view when connected to the TV? Are you running your computer monitors at anything other resolution than 1920x1080? Just stabbing in the dark.

Looks to me like it could be a camera setting/monitor or TV aspect ration setting. Open the Camera Specification dbx and check the Tilt Angle - what is it? Set it to zero and see what happens. Does this happen to new camera views? Or...post the plan.

A screen capture might help

Alan, I am not sure what you mean by this. Esc is usually a shortcut to Cancel Selection/Previous Command - not Select Objects. ESC does default to Selection mode when it has cycled through all the history of commands which makes it look like it is a select tool if you only have one command in the command history list and press ESC once. Or, if you have more that one command in the command history list, repeatedly hitting ESC will cycle back through the command history list. Have you changed any of the keyboard shortcuts lately? Have you closed and reopened Chief?

Symbol Molding?

Ryan, Your rafter overhangs look like they are being cut off by the wall.

Build a second floor.

Yes, as stated by Mick, if you use the Material Painter tools to paint ANY walls (if that is what you did), the materials are not included in the Materials List.

I don't think it is a video problem. I think it is a missing image file problem. I can assign another random image (.png file) and it displays instead of the original plant image. When I do a 3D view in X12 I get a Missing File message dbx. The missing tree image is specified as coming from the X10 data folder. A lot of your textures are specified as coming from the X10 folder and some even coming from your X7 folder. Does that sound correct to you?

Depends what you mean by drawing sheet. Do you have a drawing sheet displayed in the view. Fill Window? Fill Window Building Only?

We already have a temporary dimension toggle.

I think the problem is that you are not including in your selection all the objects that are referenced by the dimension. Dimensions are only included in a cad block when all the objects they dimension are included in the block. This is a cad block including dimensions:

You can make your own fairly easily using a Polyline Distribution Path (for the lights) and a corresponding Molding Polyline (copied and converted PDP to a MP for the cord). This one took a minute or two.

Thats what I was getting to.

Would you be happy with no line at all?

Yes, and if you want plate height, eave overhang and eave height to stay the same, then you will need to change the rafter birdsmouth cuts - which Chiefs gives us you the Measurments section

By interactive floor plans I mean floor plans that you can edit, dimension, note, and change at will. Once you make a symbol of a building, it is static and cannot be edited. Why don't you try the various methods so that you can assess them yourself? Nothing like learning some new tricks.

No, a little bit of effort to understand what is happening will pay off. Do you only want a 3D view or do you want interactive floor plans? Try this: Draw a 3 storey building with 1 room on each level - using the derive floor from the floor below option. Just use the defaults for the platform levels. Draw a cross section so that you can see what happens as you change the settings. Go to the level 3 plan and draw a room that is like a seperate building from the existing one. It's floor levels will use the defaults which place it platforms same as the level 3 floor defaults. Now change the new room/building floor level to zero and set it's Relative Ceiling Heights to the default - they would have been at the level 3 ceiling height default. The new single level room/building you built on level 3 in plan view now appears as if it was drawn on level 1!

I would not recommend using symbols - not dynamic enough for me. It sounds to me like you are not understanding how floor levels work in Chief. You do not create floor levels on a building by building basis. Once you have say 3 floor levels in your plan, you can use those same 3 levels for a separate building and specify different floor levels (on a room by room basis) - thus, you could have 3 floor levels, but you can also have as many room floor levels as you want on each of those floor levels. The limit of 30 floors does not effect how many different room floor heights you can have on a floor. ie, you can have 3 floor levels, but you, can have many, many different room floor levels on each of those floors. I am probably describing this clumsily because of the "Floor Level" terminology. Have a play and post back if you don't understand what I am saying.

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