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A cad block is a collection of cad items that have been grouped together so they behave like one object. When you have a cad block and Explode it, you are changing the cad block back to it's original individual objects. I didn't investigate too far, but there where a whole lot of cad blocks in the file that seemed to only contain a single contour line. I just went through and blindly exploded as many blocks as I could find.

Here it is in Chief format. Is it a metric plan or imperial plan. There are reference to feet, but other things look metric. I saved it s an imperial plan. I deleted some blocks, but there may be some I missed - I am not quite sure why they were there in the first place - they just seemed to be contours. Do you have the Explode Cad Blocks tool in your version? You may have to rescale the drawing to suit. This may be enough to get you going. Contours.plan

I believe that would be normal unless you have changed some settings. Have you tried View>Toolbars? Have you tried Preferences>Reset Options>Reset Toolbars or Reset Side Windows?

I doubt if the 2 different types of dimension strings are "all one entity". They are most likely 2 separate dimension strings. Select one of them and drag it out of the way by using the main grip.

Something like this? This is a 2D drawing. Once again, a bit of a fiddle, but easily do-able.

Did you use Rotate Plan View at any stage?

You can draw an ellipse by defining both (or one) axis dimensions while dragging the ellipse. When dragging the ellipse, press the Tab button. Make the End Point "Relative to Start" and uncheck polar. You can then enter both axis lengths that you need. Or, another easy is to draw a Rectangular Polyline the size you want the ellipse and the drag the ellipse from one corner to the other diagonal corner.

Easiest way is to just type it into the label box.

The included Object Specific, Formatted Size macro will give you this, but I am guessing you probably don't wand the thickness. (and the spacings are bit off)

No need for autocad, it can be done easily within Chief in a couple of seconds using Convert Selection To Symbol . This shows the whole wall slanted, but you may want the inside face vertical, which would involve other techniques. All this gives you is a symbol with no wall "smarts", but may serve your purposes. There are several different techniques available, depending on what functionality you want the wall to have and how the wall is constructed.

Like this? A bit of a fiddle, but not too hard to do.

Chris, Open the bow window dbx and on the Options panel check Use existing Roof. Make sure you are in the floor plan view and go Build>Roof>Fix Roofs.

There are probably lots of ways to get that information. You could also select the "exterior room" and then Make Room Polyline from the edit menu. Open the polyline dbx and get the area from the Polyline panel or use the Area macro in the Label panel.

Yes.

Don't forget that there are several other options like the color wheel, color sliders, color swatches, color spectrum, etc, as can be seen in the Colors menu bar.

Steve, The wall is there, you just can't see it. Open your 3D view and Toggle on the "Walls, Invisible" in your Camera View Layer Set.

It's a bit hard to follow exactly what you are doing. You need to be aware that you can only have one terrain Perimeter in a plan. If you copy a Terrain Perimeter, you do not get another Terrain Perimeter, you get a plain polyline. If you delete a Terrain Perimeter, you will also delete the roads, terrain features, etc, that are part of the terrain. You can convert a TP to a plain polyline by selecting it and clicking the Convert To Plain Polyline tool on the Edit toolbar.

There should be no problem using auto roofs. Select the seven walls you don't want the roof to build of. Make them High Shed/Gable walls. The wall you build the roof off should be left at Hip Wall. The roof should build like this:

Open the Railing Specification dbx>Rails panel>Beam.

Go here and download the Colorbond ranges you want. https://steelselect.com.au/resources/textures?supplier_id[39]=39 In Chief, go 3D>Materials>Convert Textures To Materials. Select the folder that contains the down loaded files. Chief will convert the downloaded textures to materials and import the whole folder to the User library.

You may be able to get close to the effect that you want by changing the Draw Order of the various lines.

I believe that this is normal behaviour. The extension lines are automatically suppressed when they lie over the wall surfaces (or openings placed in walls). If you drag the dimension line outside the building, the extension lines should appear - but this doesn't help your situation. I don't know any way to make the extension lines appear in the openings. I would normally avoid drawing dimension lines through the openings.

Your elevation views need to be vector views to do Cad Detail From View. You can keep the same camera, just change the view to a vector view at 3D>Render Techniques>Vector View.

This one is a bit more applicable https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00816/creating-a-color-palette-toolbar.html

Lew, No, you can't define a room on the Attic level. But you can define a room as an Attic room on any other level.