glennw

I think you need to select the wall in elevation - not cross section. The camera is called a Cross Section/Elevation camera - the one camera does both.

Strangely, if you toggle on Angle Snaps when dragging an off angle wall, it will help maintain the walls angle - even though it is off angle.

Millwork>Cabinet Feet>Straight Feet?

Not true. Chief will always join walls main layer to main layer, no matter what wall layer you try and snap another wall to - unless you use a Partition Wall.

Open the foundation "room" and go to the This is caused by the way Chief has chosen to implement mono slabs. There is a foundation room that is enclosed by walls that really don't have any height, but they define where the footing (thickened slab edge) goes. When you break the walls, you break the room definition. It is no longer a mono slab and so the walls show as normal walls not mono slab footing walls. I think that because there is really no wall displaying in plan, there is nothing to hatch. Try this to solve your hatch problem. Open the dbx for the foundation room. On the Structure panel, go to the Relative Heights section and change the Floor To SWT to 1mm (or the smallest that will take). This will show the hatch for the foundation wall, but it will also probably cause some other problems like drop your floor by 1mm, increase your ceiling heights by 1mm....... It cannot be seen in cross section. In my opinion, forget the hatching, or use cad.

Another great advantage with using Saved Plan Views is that you can have as many Saved Plan Views open at once as you like. One example, you can tile the plan views of different floors displaying in different tabs. This means that as you are editing, say floor one, (with auto build foundation toggled on) you can dynamically see the foundation rebuild and change in another tab - no need to change floors and zoom, etc, to see the changes to (and to work on) the foundation.

Most of this discussion has revolved around the relationship between the Plan View and the Layout. But Plan Views have another benefit that go beyond this function. They provide a very efficient way to navigate around your drawing. eg, a Saved Plan View can navigate to a specific part of your drawing like a kitchen or bathroom area and include parameters (as Michael points out) like floor, zoom level, color on/off, watermark, link to layout, reference display, etc. You don't even have to use the Saved Plan Views linked to your layout if you don't want to, you can use them to only navigate around your floor plans. A bit like Aerial View on steroids.

This is not a tool as such, it is a setting. ie, you can rotate objects about the current point, object centre or absolute point. So, if you want to rotate around a point, you have to place a point first, and then rotate.

They could be shadow boards connected with the main roof. Turn them off and report back after trying that. The tall ones in the centre of the dormers are ridge caps.

2017 iMac running Catalina.

Doesn't seem to be any problems here.

Casey, At some stage, did you select the "exterior room" and change the material of the external walls - that could explain why the internal Porch walls are different - because, for the purposes of the "External Room", they are internal walls. The External Room goes around the Porch and includes the railing wall. This would also explain why the external wall material in the wall that houses the garage hinged door is a different material for the garage door part and the part inside the porch, even though it is only one wall - changing the External Room wall material is the only way I know this can happen (having two materials on the one wall). Select the External Room and set it's material back to default. That should sort out all the external walls. I also think this is connected to the internal wall problem as well - I can get the internal walls to behave by pulling back the wall edge from the left hand side of the garage door and then dragging it back to it's original position. One other thing I noticed is that you have 4 materials all called Herringbone?

For ortho movements , you can also use the Snap Grid/Snap Units setting. Then, once you have made your selection (with Edit Area or one of the other selection methods), just drag it and the selection will jump in accordance with the Snap Grid/Snap units setting. Or, what I find easier once the selection is made, is to use 1 click of the arrow key to move the selection in the direction you want to move.

Joe, I haven't tried it, but... Have you tried using Rebuild 3D - can't hurt to try? But this may take a while!

Brad, You are really making it hard for yourself and looking for reasons (that aren't there) to make it difficult!

There can be a difference between using the X key (Resize Edit Mode) and the C key (Concentric Edit Mode), depending on the shape of the original object - especially for a rectangle. For the X key • Resize/Reshape - Resize allows you to keep the angle between adjacent edges fixed when a corner handle is moved. For a rectangle, this will maintain the same proportions as the original object. For the C key • Resize/Reshape - Concentric allows you to resize an irregularly-shaped polyline so that each edge is moved the same distance from its original location. For a rectangle, this will move all edges the same distance from the original. Have a look at the diagrams in the help file to see the different behaviors. If you have assigned any keyboard shortcuts starting with C or X, this will preclude these shortcuts from being used as Edit Behavior shortcuts.

Open the dimension string and on the Primary Format panel, uncheck Use Default Formatting and change Format > Units to inches.

This is our stair regulations in Oz. Table 3.9.1.1 Riser and going dimensions (mm) Stair type Riser (R) Going (G) Slope relationship (see Open link in same pageFigure 3.9.1.4 below) (see Open link in same pageFigure 3.9.1.4 below) (2R+G) Max Min Max Min Max Min Stairs (other than spiral) 190 115 355 240 700 550 Spiral 220 140 370 210 680 590

Mick, That works for a 3D view but not in plan - the concrete wall butt up against the window frame. In plan view it works for a framed wall, but not a solid concrete wall.

Mark, Thanks for making that sound simple. Your example is pretty much what I was describing. It has been a few years since I played with all this and am now on a mac, so things are a little different.

A while back (years ago) I created a spreadsheet for costing our building jobs. I used excel at the time and it worked pretty well. As there were a lot of items that were not included in the final price, we included a filter that would hide all the items that were not used in that pricing sheet. I would think that something similar could work for your specification. Yours would be a lot simpler as you would have no need to do calculations - you only need the text. You could have each paragraph or note stored in a cell in a single column. You then have another column where you enter a 1 (or any digit) if you want the item in that row to be included. Maybe it would be possible to use a Tickbox instead of a digit? I did that spreadsheet in excel when I was using a pc, but I just opened on my mac with Numbers and it still looks OK! The formula in Numbers is fx IF (Cell # )>0,1,0 So if you enter a digit, that row is included in the final, otherwise it is hidden by the Filter (in Numbers). Maybe it would work better using a checkbox rather than a digit. You can then use a Filter to only display the rows that contain the information you want. In excel, I had a radio button that would do the hiding and displaying of the information with a single click - but that didn't translate to Numbers, and I can't remember how I got the radio button. As you can see, it is pretty crude as I really didn't know what I was doing, but it did work and we priced many jobs in the millions of dollars using it. PS. I just looked up how to do the radio button. Although a Checkbox may work better. "Go to Developer Tab –> Controls –> Insert –> Form Controls –> Option Button. ... Hover the mouse anywhere in the worksheet. ... Congratulations! ... In the Format Control dialogue box, in the Control tab, make the following changes: ... Click OK." Thinking about this, if your needs are somewhat simple, you could probably do something directly in Chief using Notes and a Note Schedule. Create notes of a certain Type and then use the same type Note Schedule that will only include that Type of note. It means that you would need open the Note and change it's type so that it could be either included or excluded in the same type Note Schedule. Using Note Type Management, you can customise the Type of Notes to make additional Note Types in addition to Chief's OOB ones.

How many paragraphs or items do you think you will need to keep track of. Is this a construction specification you are talking about?

Post the plan, or a cut down version of the plan.

That is why the setting is called Snap Grid/Snap Units and not just Snap Grid.

Use 3D text?