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Scott, I can't find one. The best I can do is to enlarge the Safari window and then use View>Zoom In repeatedly which just about gets you there, but far from satisfactory.

I have had this happen as part of an ongoing problem i am having with Chief. What do you see if you go Preferences>General>Unit Conversions after seeing this message? Do you get the same error message when entering a distance into any dbx? What happens when you draw a dimension and/or what happens to existing dimensions? I suggest that you keep the Chief session open to help with trouble shooting. But, does closing the existing plan and opening a new plan result in the same behavior? Does the problem resolve with a new chief session?

Have a look at Repositioning Cameras in the help file.

There are no differences between the mac and windows versions. Well, there may actually be the odd minor thing because of the different operating systems (like the way the title bar and menu bar work, for instance), but for all practical purposes, there is no difference.

Just so you know for future reference. It sounds like this to me: This is a real quirk, and I could never understand why it was designed that way. The "All On" layerset turns on the "Walls, Main Layer Only" layer, which actually turns off the display of all wall layers bar the main layer. It's a bit like multiplying a positive number by a negative number - the result is always negative. Go figure! I have always thought that there had to be a better way.

You can do it by dragging the top and bottom of the wall (rail) up or down. BUT, you can't do that while it is a rail. Open it's dbx, uncheck rail, drag the top and bottom heights, check rail. Tommy may have a different technique.

Or... once you have your scale factor, you can also do it in the PDF Box Specification dbx. Open the dbx and make sure Retain Aspect Ration is checked, in either the Width or Height, leave the existing size and add "*your scale factor" (multiply by your scale factor). Click OK. It always amazes me how many ways you can skin a cat in Chief.

Scott, If this is only a Chief problem it may be the setting at Preferences>General>Troubleshooting>Mouse Movement Optimisations.

Use Draw Order and send To Back?

I usually make my Terrain larger than the actual building lot and then designate the lot with a thin Terrain Feature.

When you input x and y coordinates without Polar checked, you are not entering line lengths you are entering x and y offsets from the start of the line. ie, you are telling Chief that the endpoint of the line is so many units in the x direction and so many units in the y direction from the start of the line. So that if you go x=20 and y=20, the line will be at 45deg and 28.284 units long. If you want to enter line length (Distance) and angle, you need to check Polar. Or, you can use Polar unchecked and have a line go horizontal by entering the line length in x and enter zero in y - this tells Chief that the line end is offset by the line length in the x direction and a zero offset in the y direction. You are better off using Polar though - less confusion when the direction is not 0, 90, 180 or 360.

Eric, You lost me. That plan belongs to another thread? The plan we are talking about is "I have covered porch.plan"

If you are after something like this. Place two breaks in the bottom edge. Use Change Line/Arc on the centre section. You can use Convert Curve To Polyline if you require a smoother curve. Ah, I just reread your post and noticed you need an ellipse and not a curve - same technique though.

Mick, The plan I downloaded only has a foundation, level 1 and attic. Level 2 is just a .pdf - not a Chief floor plan. Did I miss something?

Rocky, There should be no need to do this. Things should build automatically. I spend a lot of time looking at the plan you posted in another thread and finally gave up looking for a solution. I believe the file was corrupted some how and you would be better to start over and get things to work automatically.

Scott, this may help https://paulminors.com/how-to-speed-up-mouse-tracking-on-mac/ How is the mouse connecting? Bluetooth, USB?

Looking forward to seeing you guys again.

Hi Scott, I didn't notice any change in scroll speed when I upgraded to Mojave using an Apple mouse. You can change the scroll speed in System Preferences>Mouse>Point and Click>Tracking Speed.

Or.... 4. Do it all automatically (maybe) Why don't you post the plan ( a proper one, not a pdf) and I will see how far I can go automatically.

You probably need to make the entry porch a room with an invisible wall across the front. You don't need the invisible walls if there are normal walls there to define the area of the raised roof. My pictures are just generic to indicate the method. In this pic, the ceiling height of the porch and the room defined by invisible walls just inside the porch are higher than the rest of the house. Once again, the important thing is how far back you place the rear invisible wall - or the rear wall of the porch if you don't need the invisible walls inside the house. If you still can't get it, post the plan and I will show you how to do it.

Yes, can be done with invisible walls as Mick says. The trick is to know where to place the walls and what to do next. Place the invisible walls to define the area of your raised roof - ignore the walls you have already drawn to define your rooms. Raise the ceiling height of the rooms defined by your invisible walls and your real walls. One critical thing is the placement of the invisible wall that defines how far back the raised ceiling heights go. It needs to be back at least as far as where the side invisible walls meet the valleys. Have a play and you will see what I mean Leave auto roofs and split screen on as you do this and you will see the effects as you change things.

This is a perfect example of when Plan Views tool could help. And don't forget the Aerial View tool as well.

Can you post the annotation sets that are causing the problem to see if others can duplicate the behaviour.

You can snap to a Place Point, but you cannot select a Place Point. You can open it's dbx and move it with a double click - it will then become the current point. When you use Place Point, it becomes the Current Point, ahead of all the other Place Points. If you delete a Place Point the next previous Place Point becomes the current one. You can't individually delete a Place Point, you can only use Delete to delete them going backwards in the drawing order, or you can delete them all with the Delete Temporary Points tool. Read the help file on Current Point. The Place Point tool is probably the wrong tool to be using. Try using the Point Marker tool instead. And if you can't snap to or select a Point/Marker it is probably because the text, markers layer is locked.

Try an Endpoint Snap if you are trying to snap to a Point Marker. Points/Markers snaps to a Place Point but not a Point Marker.