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Those little round ones are Extension Line Anchors, they are not the actual snap types. You can change how many display at one time from the history of snap points in Preferences. Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties>Options>Objects In History. You can turn them off by toggling all of the 3 Extension Snaps off at Preferences>Edit>Snap Properties>Object Snaps>Extensions. Or, you can toggle all Object Snaps of which will include the Extension Snaps.

Chief will not auto build a roof over a deck with the OOB settings. Open the deck room dbx. Structure panel, Ceiling, check Roof Over This Room. But...do you really want a deck room? A deck is normally constructed with spaced timber decking - not waterproof!!! You really just need to use a normal room type and work out how you want to waterproof it and define the floor construction accordingly.

Quite often, I find you need to use negative numbers because it is a juggling act to get the mullion depth to disappear. You just need them to meet somewhere so that the mullion disappears - which can be anywhere in relation to the wall. The reference point for the values is the wall surface which means that the values will vary as the wall thickness varies. I believe a value of zero for both will make the mullion the same width as the wall. If you want to move the outside mullion out away from the wall surface, you need to use a negative value. To move the outside mullion in towards the interior, you need to use a positive value. The best way to see what is happening is to draw a section through the door and make some changes. You will see the mullion react to the various inputs.

It may also have something to do with the Recessed Into Wall setting - not sure about that though. And quite often, I find you need to use negative numbers.

I see this on the forum post: and this after I copy and paste into a Chief text box: I am using Chief Blueprint on a mac. Could there be a link between the macro's and what Michael posted?

When you select the arch and get the movement cursor (or the 2 headed resize cursor - depending on which grip you hover over), drag one side of the arch to resize it. You will then be able to click on the arch width dimension and edit it's width.

You can place 2 doors in the same space. Drag one above the other. Mull them together. Play with the sills, Mullion Depth, etc. to get things looking as you want. Here is a very quick one:

You can do superscript for 1, 2 and 3 using a Special Character Global Macro. The catch is those three are the only numbers available. Michael, In your numbers posted, how come 1, 2 and 3 are at different heights?

Or, even easier, just draw it in metres in the first place. Northings and eastings are specified in metres as standard.

You will need to scale the mm drawing by 1000, not 100 to get the correct size in metres.

Is this what you want? The end of siding wall over the terrace is lining up with the upper pony wall which is proud of the stone below - hence the extended fin. I deleted the upper pony wall and dragged the white fascia across to replace the upper pony wall. I then used the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool to clean up the wall layers in the corner to match how they would be built.

Simple. Turn snaps off. Also, keep in mind that Snap Distance is measured in screen pixels. This means that the more you zoom in, the smaller the snap distance in real world units.

It is not uncommon in the real word to have a triangular wedge mounting block for such fittings.

Open the Symbol Specification dbx. Options panel. Ceiling Mounted Uncheck Flush Mounted

I think the biggest problem is getting the square centre section. Fairly easy to get a semicircular centre section though. You can do one like this using 3 stair sections and the Winder option for which you will need enclosing walls for the winders to build out to.

Chop, I just had a look and it appears that you may be able to do something similar in windows. But, not having windows, I don't know for sure. Have a look here: https://www.faqforge.com/windows/change-date-time-formats-windows-10/ Go down to the bit where it says that you can customise the date/time setting by going to Control Panel>Region>Formats>Additional Settings

Chop, As Michael says, Chief gets it's time and date info from the operating system. Macs have a System Preference where you can assign any custom date/time format to the various date/time types. Here, I have customised the Short Date format so that it reads as you want. So that when %date.short% is used in Chief, this is how it displays: I don't know if windoze has a similar preference setting.

Use a molding polyline with multiple moldings and offsets?

There is a tool specifically designed for that. The Layer Eyedropper enables you to select an object and apply its layer to another object.

If I am understanding your question, it is not a matter of a temporary dimension default, but rather, a snap setting. You need to snap to an object to get a temporary dimension and this is controlled by the snap settings like Snap Distance and Grid Snaps.

I think you are selecting the "external room". The problem could stem from one of the 2 small rooms you have created either side of the front porch. Notice how one is shaded and one is not shaded. It also looks like the exterior room polyline turns inside out on the front porch. Have a play around the front porch area and see if you can resolve it. Or...you could always post the plan.

Joe, Wow, that's a big statement. Changing a dynamic default will change every instance of an object that uses the dynamic default. Objects like rooms, doors, windows, etc, all have dynamic defaults.

Or...you can paint a material onto the deck boards by using Material Painter Room Mode.

Open the deck's dbx and go to the Deck tab. Check Automatically Regenerate Deck Framing and see if that does it.

Sounds like someone has Purged the line styles in the Line Style Management dbx. This will remove any unused linestyles and only leave the used ones. As you select and use linestyles from the Library, they are added to the available linestyles dropdown and are saved with the plan. I do not know why you aren't seeing any linestyles in the Library. You can copy the linestyles from the library of one Chief installation to another without getting other things. In the Library, right click on the Linestyles folder. In the popup, select Export Library and save it to your desktop. Open the Chief Architect app with the missing Linestyles and drag the file (it will be a *.calibz file) from the desktop to the drawing window. Or you can go Library>Import Library and select the file for import. This will not restore the Linestyles to the Core catalog, it will place them in the User Catalog. You still need to figure out why the linestyles aren't showing in the Core catalog.