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Select the room and open the Room Specification dbx >Options>Roof Group
 
 

Drew,
You may be able to use a Wall Material Region with Cut Finish Layers from Parent Object and then locate your corner molding over that.
The attached pic is just to demonstrate the technique - you would need to resize and locate as required.
 
 

Why not use Pass Throughs instead of windows?
No casings, no frame, no sill......
 

Interior Door Specification dbx>General>Sliding Doors>Side Overhang.
 
 

 
 

Not necessarily so.
Keep playing, particularly with Cut Finish Layers of Parent Object.

It sounds like you are talking about for 3D views.
This is from a post of mine from a while back.
This can be done fairly easily - with a proviso that the valley actually sits on top of the roof surface.
This doesn't seem to be noticeable in the 3D views that I played with.
You can make Chief draw the 3D Polylines that hold the valley profile - the same way that it builds Ridge Caps - but it takes 2 steps.
Build your roof.
Add a Ridge Cap to the valleys by selecting a roof edge and turning On, Ridge Cap On Selected Edge.
Select the valley 3D Polylines and place them on their own layer.
Rebuild the roof - Chief will build all the hips and ridges and also display the valleys you created.
 

 
 

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You can't build rooms on an Attic floor.
You need to create another floor to build rooms.
I think the errant walls showing through is caused by the wall definitions.
Check your wall definitions - particularly the Main Layer/Exterior Layer settings.
 

You are adding unnecessary steps.
Make sure both objects have the same properties - weight, color, linestyle, layer.
Select the arc, click on the E or S of the arc, click on the polyline.
The polyline and the arc should join to form an enclosed polyline.
Done.
Easy!

You could try using a Post to Beam and then increase the size of the Beam.
 

Try changing the Room Type to something other than Garage.
A Garage room type will automatically build kerbs or stem walls.
 

I think the best way to compare the properties for various objects is to multi select the objects and then open the dbx and go through looking at each property.
If the objects have any properties that are different they will be indicated by No Change, or tick boxes will have a horizontal bar in them.
This make it very easy to identify and change the properties that don't match - no messing with spreadsheets.
 
 

Larry,
What tools did you use for the driveways?
Straight and Spline driveways do not exactly follow the terrain like a Terrain Feature - they modify the terrain so that the road is level across it's width. ie cut and fill the terrain.
If you want a road the just sits on top of the terrain, use a Polyline Road.
With a Polyline Road yo need to do all the shaping with Terrain Data which means that it will not cut and fill, but instead just sit on the terrain.

Have you had a play with the Edit Wall Layer Intersection tool?

I think you already know that you can use an invisible bearing wall to break the trusses.
But if you don't want to use a wall, try using a Bearing Line where you want the truss broken.
These are butted over:

 
These are lapped over - unfortunately there is a set lap distance of 200mm (8"):
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Use an Angular Dimension
 

If I understand you correctly.....
In the Terrain Specification dbx, set the Subfloor Height Above Terrain to 98.75m.
This will locate the house at the correct height in relation to the terrain.
The house floor heights will still reference floor 1 as zero, and under normal circumstances this should be left as is.
The Story Pole dimensions are independent of the relationship between house and terrain in that you can set the Storey Pole dimension to display any height you want.
You can have the Storey Pole dimension to reference your real world floor level (98.75m), or your top of floor 1 (zero).
 
 

Or..
Use a rectangular polyline with one side converted to a curve.
Then convert the curve to a polyline with a high number of sides.
Select the roof and then use boolean subtraction to subtract the polyline from the roof.
 
 
 

What about placing the notes on a hidden layer - they will not be visible in the plan, but will still appear in the schedule.
 
 

Yes, you can do that with a Wall Material Region with Cut Finish Layers of Parent Object toggled on.
This will cut an actual groove in the wall layers.
You don't define them in the wall definition, you draw them using the Wall Material Region tool.
You can draw them in either plan or a 3D view - an elevation view is probably the easiest.
 

Joe,
I usually trace over the supplied contours using Elevation Splines.
 
Place your Elevation Splines at their true height above sea level.
Then use the Subfloor Height Above Terrain to relate your structure to the Elevation Spline heights.
This will give you the Chief contours in heights relative to sea level, but will leave the heights in the Chief model related to zero.
 
You can set things up so that the Chief model heights are also relative to sea level, but I am assuming that is not what you want and I really wouldn't recommend doing it that way.
 

There are probably several ways to do what you want.
I suspect that the Make Parallel tool may not be the most appropriate one in this case.
Try this one using a dimension.
Draw an Angular Dimension so that it results in an angle between a vertical reference line and the controlling side of your polyline.
Group select the objects you want to rotate.
Click on the angular dimension text and a Set Angular Dimension dbx will open.
Enter zero.
All your objects will rotate the desired amount.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Or...even simpler, you can set the Additional Angles to the rotation angle you want, group select the objects, and use the rotation grip to rotate all the objects to the Angle Snaps value. 

Have a look at Preferences>CAD>Line Properties>Endcap Printed Length.
Also look up Line Weights and Line Weights And Scaling.

You need to change the Current CAD Layer before placing the CAD Block.
Saving a cad block to the library does not save it's layer property.
You also need to save and close the plan before posting otherwise there is no data in the attached plan.

Or.....
Select your wall and save your wall definition to the library.
Then use Toolbar Customisation to add a Place Library Object on your toolbar.
Point the Place Library Object button to your saved wall definition in the library.
Now your wall type is available with one click on your Place library Object toolbar button. 

Try making the walls invisible instead of turning the wall layer off.
Normal walls cut through a floors Finish Layers so turning off the display layer the walls are on still leaves the floor finish cutouts.
Invisible walls do not make the cutout in the floor finish layers.