glennw

I am pretty sure this can be done, if I am following what you want to do. I have been over it in previous posts. Can you be a bit clearer about how you want the various levels and dimensions to relate to each other. ie, how and where you want to mix both relative and absolute levels.

Chopsaw, I have been playing a bit more and to say the decking set out is from the bottom left, is not correct. I think that the deck planking is set out from the corner where you start drawing the deck. Chief remembers that first corner - this is confirmed by displaying the wall id's for the walls that form the deck. I have confirmed this setout on simply shaped decks. I would love to have a play with the one you are working on - something a bit more complicated. Any chance you can copy and paste the deck into a new plan and then post it here and let us know the critical set out points, etc. This may shed some further light on what you are trying to achieve.

Chopsaw, I believe the set out point for planking is the bottom left corner of the deck.

Or, you could use Roof Baseline Polylines. This allows you to alter the floor plan and room heights as much as you like and the roof won't change unless you edit the Roof Baseline Polyline. Start off with your lower ceiling heights so that the auto roof builds the roof correctly, then build Roof Baseline Polylines. You can now change ceiling heights and the roof will stay put because it is building off the Roof Baseline Polyline and not the room and wall information. Note that you can edit the Roof Baseline Polyline if you need to change the roof - shape, height, type, slope, etc.

Just a little more on this. In a 3D view, a polysolid can be manipulated in all directions - but the editing axis is dependent on what face you select. In Michaels example, if you select the top (or bottom) face, you can change the depth (remember it was drawn in a right side elevation). If you select the front (or back) face, you can only change the height or width. If you select a side face, you can only change the depth. Quite often it is easier to edit in 3D than in an elevation or plan view. In a 3D view, you can still use the Tab key while dragging a face to precisely move the faces using the Enter Coordinates dbx.

You can get the same color for both the Texture (standard view) and the Pattern (vector view) by using the Material Color...Blend with Texture option in the Define Material dbx...Texture panel. Blend With Texture applies a selected color to both the Texture and the Pattern. Or you can select Set Using Texture which will color the Pattern based on the color of the Texture. But one is still a pattern and one is still a texture - ie, generally, by default, you can't show a texture in a vector view and you cant show a pattern in a standard view. Vector view on left, render view on right.

I don't follow, what are you talking about? It really has nothing to do with Chief - it is an OS thing.

Lew, There is no problem or fix needed. A Room Divider is an invisible zero thickness wall - that's what it is meant to be. You cannot use it to divide 2 rooms with different floor or ceiling heights because in that situation, we would need a wall of other than zero thickness to fill in between the floor and ceiling platforms. Chief knows this and changes the Room Divider wall to the default interior wall style). You can change this wall to any thickness or type you want. What sort of fix would you propose?

With a .plan file hi-lighted in a Finder window you can also get there by going File...Get Info.

Scott, You ARE missing something. You didn't follow my instructions. When you first right click on a .plan file and that dbx opens, DON'T click Open With up at the top. Go further down and click on Get Info. A dbx like the attached pic will open. Have a look down about half way and you will see another Open With and a Change All box. This is in High Sierra - do you have the same OS?

Is this the sort of thing you re trying to do?

No need to repeat yourself. Can you be a bit clearer on what you are trying to achieve because I don't quite follow.

Here you go. See if you can work it out. 3d framing-2 GLENN.plan

Are you using X10? If so, I can post the plan.

Do you need to display wall framing in plan view, as well as the concrete layer of the ICG wall? PS. I can now get the default fill for the concrete wall layer AND the previous 3D views.

I was assuming that the OP wanted to see the concrete core of the ICF wall in the 3D Framing Set layerset.

Scott, Open Finder. Right click on the type of file you want to open (any .plan file) and click "Get Info". Go down to "Open With". Select Chief X10. Click "Change All".

Is this what you are after. The ICF wall hatching looks a a bit iffy in plan view, but may be acceptable. What type of 3D views will you be using?

Have you built the framing?

Lance, While you are waiting, you can use the Image option in the Watermark defaults. Draw some multiline text, do a screen capture of the text and use that as your watermark.

You can do this fairly easily in the Window Schedule and it will apply to all windows in the plan.

Preference...Edit...Snap Properties...Snap Indicators...Display Angle Grid Snap

Mick, The way Doug has drawn the deck with an invisible wall to define the deck and a separate wall for the rail, he doesn't need to use Generate On Low Platform. You actually changed Doug's drawing by making his railings enclose a room -- have a look at the original drawing and note that the railings do not connect to the main external wall - they are not forming a room. What you have done is connect the railings to the external walls, thus forming another deck. Hence the double up of the Deck room name - you have 2 decks in your plan. You could join the deck rails up to the external room and then make any one of them a No Room Def wall to get the same result as Doug 0 just different ways to skin a cat. Either way, you don't need Generate On Low Platform.

Eric, You just beat me! Douglas, You used an invisible wall to define the deck and then you added a freestanding railing. The other way is to build an invisible layer in your wall railing definition which offsets the rail from the edge of the deck. That way, you only need 1 wall to both define the deck and display the railing.

Douglas, Like this. Did you miss item 6? So convert the rail back to a wall, drag the bottom down, convert back to a rail.