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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?

You need to be aware that once you have drawn an object that is "off grid", it will not snap to the grid if you try and move it. Rather, the object will move in increments of whatever the Snap Grid setting is. Newly drawn objects will snap to the grid. And on top of that, the wall will snap to the grid using the Resize About setting. So, for your existing walls, move them with Tab move, or with dimensions. Display a grid with a large setting like about 2 or 3 feet and play around with moving an existing object and drawing a new object to see how they are influenced by the grid and the Resize About setting.

You can place a sink in your plan that is not connected to a cabinet. Select the sink from the library and try to place it in the plan (not in a cabinet). You will see the following:

Once you move the sink away from the cabinet, the sink is still connected to the cabinet. Select the cabinet and then Tab - this should select the sink.

In this case, which includes a single window that looks like it could be created with a fixed window and custom muntins, you can use a material for the glass whose texture is created using your (cropped) picture.

Also, if you line up the wall's main layer with the collinear wall to the top of the screen, things fix themselves.

As far as I can tell, it works for the Preview Panel only - which is a camera view. I don't think Themes make any difference.

One down and dirty way to get things looking OK is to designate the stairs with Open Risers and then make the Tread Thickness the same as the Riser Height. You don't get a nosing, but it may get you out of trouble.

It is there to tell you that you need to Build Walls/Floors/Ceilings. Go to 3D View Defaults and toggle on Auto Build Walls/Floors/Ceilings - this should normally be left on. Or go to do it manually go to Build>Floor>Build Walls/Floors/Ceilings.

This is much the same as what 7654321 did, but doesn't just bury the last molding in the roof. Add another molding polyline section to the bottom end of the 3D Molding Polyline and uncheck Molding On Selected Edge. You can now finish the molding to any angle by rotating that section of the polyline. The angle at the end of the polyline bisects the angle between the 2 sections of polyline.

When using trusses, and changing the pitch of a roof, Chief can tell you precisely how much to raise or lower a roof after changing the pitch. In the Roof Plane Specification dbx, note the Vertical Structure Depth or the Top of Plate (depending on your rotation point) for the before and after pitch and then apply the difference to move the roof plane by that amount (using Transform Replicate or some other method). This works because both the Baseline and the truss use the outside surface of the main layer as their reference plane.

Alan, As I said: In the Layout Page Display Options dbx, change the Line Style for the Layout Box Borders to "Invisible" and save as your default.