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Gene, In the Build Foundation dbx, make sure "Hang 1st Floor Platform Inside Foundation Walls" is NOT checked.

The Cross Section Lines layer is locked by default. You may need to unlock it. Keep in mind that only items that lie within back clipped depth and are cut, will be cross section lines, and thus snapable. Items within the back clipped depth and showing in elevation will not be cross section lines and thus not snapable.

You are having trouble because (as far as I can tell without the plan), there is really nothing to select. Firstly do as Mark said and turn on select room before walls in Preferences. You have a room with invisible walls, no floor and no ceiling (?) - so, nothing to select in 3D. If you do have a ceiling, try clicking on that. Otherwise, you may need to temporarily give the room a floor so that you can select the room. Or, select it in plan view and do what you want to do there.

Do you want to select the invisible wall or the room? In a 3D or plan view? Does the room have a floor, ceiling or roof?

Yes, can do. Set your Grid Snaps to 10mm and display it. Set Primary Movement Method to Orthogonal. Place 10mmx10mm solid filled Polygon in one of the grid squares. select it...Copy/Past...Sticky Mode from the Edit toolbar. Click and drag it from the center and it will snap to a grid. You should restrict your copy/paste to orthogonal directions to make things easier. Every time you place a square it will remain selected for another copy/paste. You can turn the grid display off if you prefer. For some of the rows and columns it may be quicker to use Multiple Copy in Sticky Mode and delete the ones you don't want.

I'm not sure where those ones came from, but Chief has a couple of simple options in the core catalogue. Do a library search for "Row Of Books" (very low resolution material), or just "Books" and you will find some symbols without any text or detail - just plain colors.

This is a carry on from Michaels suggestion to keep it out of the Suggestions forum. Not wanting to diminish Michael's suggestion, and I know it doesn't address the sticky mode question, but, until Michaels request is implemented... I would imagine that Michael already knows that you can use the Stretch CAD tool to do this, but some other users may not be aware of this ability.

Neil, Select the logo (the tomato Architectural Block), open it's dbx and check Display Bounding Box.

Neil, I don't see any plan.

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Chopsaw, Can you post a plan. I can't duplicate that.

Can you post the plan?

Along the same lines. You can select the PDF and open the Object Layer Properties dbx by clicking the toolbar button on the Edit toolbar. The Object Layer Properties dbx is similar to the ALDO. The Object Layer Properties dbx, however, will only display a single layer for a PDF - the layer the PDF resides on. No looking for, or selecting a layer, the layer is already there and selected, ready to be turned off. Not a single click operation, but fairly quick and easy.

Bob, No, not correct. Place an electrical/lighting symbol in the plan. Select it - or group select several items. Open the dbx and go to the Layer panel. Change the layer.

Is it still a polyline or did you convert it to a Polyline Solid?

Bob, When setting up the electrical/lighting defaults, it is worth remembering that Chief is smart enough to know what type of item is placed, depending on it's location. In the Electrical Defaults dbx, there are items like Light - Ceiling, Light - Wall, Light - Wall, Light - Wall Outdoor, etc, and you can set individual defaults for each item. But, the standard drop down tool, only shows one item called Light. However, Chief will place the appropriate fitting (determined by your default) depending on where you place the light. ie, if you place the light in a room, Chief will use the Light - Ceiling default item. If you place the light on an internal wall, Chief will use the Light - Wall default item. If you place the light on an external wall, Chief will use the Light - Wall Outdoor default item. Also remember that layer/anno sets will not control what layer an electrical/lighting item is placed on. You need to do that either through the Electrical Defaults dbx, by a saved library item, or by editing each individual (or group) of items.

Bob, If I understand your situation correctly... You have set up all your anno and layer sets OK, but you have done nothing to tell the lighting and electrical items to use those settings when you place them in the plan. All lighting and electrical items go to the Electrical layer by default. You can do as Chopsaw says, or... Open the Electrical Defaults dbx where you can select a Default Library Object for that electrical/lighting item. If you click Edit...Layer Panel, you can assign a default layer for the various types of electrical and lighting items. While you are in that dbx, you can set up a whole range of other defaults that will apply to that particular type of electrical/lighting item.

Perry, Easy to exclude the mirror (sash) from Ml and schedules. The pass through will come through the ML and schedules as a window. You can customise description, label, etc as you need.

I just did this one in a couple of minutes using a Pass Through for the frame and hole in the wall. I then used a mirror from the library for the opening sash - changed the materials and rotated it.

You need to use a railing wall and define it to use Panels, and then select the iron railing panel from the library.

View...Toolbars or if that doesn't work, try Preferences...Reset Options...Reset toolbars

It's a Wall Covering. Open the room or wall dbx and go to the Wall Covering panel. Delete the Wall Covering.

First off, to keep the wall corners vertical, you need to set the Tilt Angle to zero. You then have to keep it at zero whilst you orbit the camera. Keyboard Orbit Camera (with left and right arrow keys), Orbit Camera Left and Orbit Camera Right will do that. You can also use camera movements like Mouse Dolly, Mouse Pan, etc. Or you can move the camera in plan view with the mouse or the keyboard arrows.

Scott, You can get close by using a Single Hung window, Round Top Arch, Reflect Vertically. Then use a Ray Count of 1 in the Lites panel, Lites In Top and Lites In Bottom. Depending on how accurate you want it, you may have to change the sash sizes, etc, because it really is a hung window with a top and bottom sash.

Can you explain in more detail in what areas you want to drop the floor? What is preventing you from selecting the room and dropping the floor. Unrelated to the above, it looks like you should turn some snaps on as you have a lot of unaligned objects in the plan.