glennw

Did you start by looking in the library?

Or you can try Backup Entire Plan from within Chief. Select the Send Backup Files To Zip Archive option. Should save you a bit of fumbling around if it gets the file down small enough. Or...I have used a free service called WeTransfer - free and great for large files.

Do not use terrain walls - there is no need to - they will only complicate the process. Just use plain walls. My best tip if you want to use curved and straight walls is to use the one with the 45deg corners. Use the Change Line/Arc on the 45deg walls. Then use the Make Arc Tangent tool where you can specify a radius during the process for the curved wall. No need for guide lines or worrying about locating arc centres or trying to get arcs to locate.

It is possible to do rounded corners like this (I can't get zero inside radius, is, square inside) but they play havoc with some of the auto functions like auto roofs and auto foundations and chief doesn't handle them well generally.

The "side panel" can mean anything, depending on how the user has customised the UI. There are many ways to do what you want. Are you thinking about the Style Pallets? You can customise these and then apply the style to objects in various modes (ie, Object, Room, Floor, Plan) Start by selecting a window and then click Add Object To Style Pallet on the Edit toolbar. You can customise the style pallet in the dbx before it is added to the library, or you can open it from the library and customise it.

I think you need to turn on the locate Cad objects in your dimension defaults.

Chief is dimensioning to the extents of the cad block - not to the objects within the cad block.

When you create the Cad Block, you can nominate where you want to locate the Insertion Point by using a Place Point snapped to the centre of the circle. The obvious place for an insertion point is the centre of the circle - but it can go anywhere, on the line, centre of circle.......even away from the Cad Block. After you create the cad block, you can then snap the Insertion Point to the Place Point (which doesn't get included in the cad block). This means that not only can you move and snap the cad block with the nominated insertion point, but you can dimension to it as well. You current Insertion Point is off centre of the circle for some reason - I am guessing you eyeballed it there? so...to clarify: Explode your cad block (the circle and the line). Snap a Place Point to the centre of the circle, or on the line - where ever you want the Insertion Point to locate. Select the line and the circle and Make Cad Block. Select Insertion Point and snap to the Place Point. You can delete the Place Point as it is not connected to, or part of the cad block - it was just used as a temporary snap point.

In Oz (about 35 deg south) we are typically required to do shadow diagrams for June 21 at 9am, 12 noon and 3pm.

Copy and Paste from one plan to the other.

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You can change the default for vector views. 3D>3D View Defaults>Vector View Options>View Types With Color On.

It sounds like you used Rotate Plan View - bad move. Read up on Rotate Plan View and don't use it - except to rotate your terrain back to zero degrees. Then use Edit Area to do the rotation.

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Or...another way. Select the polysolid in elevation. On the Edit menu select Solid Feature and then draw the hole. Reshape the hole.

Another way if you want something a bit more complicated is to open the dbx for the Deck room and uncheck "Automatically regenerate deck framing" and check "Keep deck framing after the deck room is deleted". Drag one of the railing walls back to break the room definition (or you could check No Room Definition). Drag the rail back to recreate the room definition (or uncheck No Room Definition). Open the room dbx and uncheck Floor Under This Room. This will now allow you to paint or change the material of any decking plank - not just the boarders. What this does is create a deck room without any floor platform. It uses the retained floor platform from the previously created and deleted deck.

Rene, Very understandable given the conditions. Often I don't know if I am misunderstanding, missing something or not following the thread correctly, or if it is the poster who is not understanding or making some type of mistake. Anyway...all is good. Take care.

Am I missing something? You can select a single room or multiple rooms and then use the Auto Interior Dimension tool from the Edit menu. This will only give you dimensions for inside the rooms.

Can you post the plan?

Ok. I just revisited this thread, particularly Eric's video near the beginning. He was having trouble getting some roof edit fields available when he selected 2 roof planes (before he changed the width of the room). This should be the expected behavior because he is selecting 2 roofs that have different ridge heights - it may not look like it in the 3D view, but they must be different heights because the spans of the 2 wings are different. The roof at the rear will have a different ridge height because it will need to extend a tiny amount (a little V) to tie in with the ridge of the front roofs. If the ridge heights are different, you cannot use the dbx to change their ridge heights. In the exaggerated plan below, you can plainly see that the ridge height for the main front roof is at the normal ridge line height. The ridge height for the rear roof is at the top of the small V, which is equal to the front ridge height. This is why the ridge height becomes available when both wings of the floor plan are equal - the ridge heights are then the same. Try selecting the 2 smaller front roofs and the rear roof. Because they both have the same ridge heights, that choice becomes available for edit in the dbx.

Try this - although I am not sure if it is the problem or not. Open the dbx for one of those dimensions. Dimensions panel>Options>is Suppress Wall Widths checked? Can you post the plan the picture came from?

In the cross section view drag a selection marquee around all of the section. This will only select all the cad work - this is good unless you have already done any cad work. I haven't looked at what happens in X11 - only X12.

I see the same as Eric - all looks good. Are you sure that you deleted the old Auto Detail polylines and then Auto Detailed again. Auto Detail does not delete any previous auto detail polylines.

Do you mean like a Frieze? It's time to read the manual.

Think of Elevation Lines as you would draw contour lines. I still believe that Elevation Points are just too hard to work with - especially on a complicated site. It is much easier to find and control Elevation Lines than a whole lot of points. Elevation Lines will result in a smoother terrain than a whole bunch of points. Even though the survey shows points, I would still draw Elevation Lines. An Elevation Line is just a string of elevation points spaced at about 2' centres.