DRAWZILLA

Curt has my answer, I always have a second floor on a 1 story plan, just for that purpose . You can create attic rooms up there very easily to do whatever you need.

I use Anno-sets for just about everything, including a special separate anno-sets for wall elevations and all exterior elevations. I also use colors on the dark side for grayscale printing, light colors will tend to print too light. to test it just turn off the color icon and see. You also need to have "Color off is Grayscale" in preferences. I also print to PDF in color so when actually printed to paper in grayscale it look good, and the homeowner likes color better. One more thing , if you use live views, you won't get the special line weights to make your elevations "Pop", use "plot lines" to get the line weights you want, I have no idea where the line weight come from using live views.

Joe Carrick has created some macro's to do all of this automatically. Also framing members have a label box you can type anything you want there. Just select a floor or ceiling joists and look in the label box.

Yes, we really need a quick way to draw some cad lines, like for drawing in cabinet locations, column's, just for distance measurements. Also address more floors instead of a new plan for every floor. 5 plans is not enough "cloud storage" if you want serious users and need a separate plan for every floor. edit: What about the property line /exterior measurements? I need them on every job. Do I have to pull out my pencil and paper, kind of defeats the purpose of room planner.

simple footing adjustment.

set it up in a template plan and done. No fuss after that.

Live views do not use line-weights from layer-sets, only plot lines do.

Glad I could help, everything in Chief is rooms, even if there really are no rooms . Get that right and that's half the battle.

Make the upper and lower floors , rooms. You can also add railing to the top.

Haven't looked at you plan, but looking at the picture, if you want overbuilds then you need to do it manually. I always start out using auto roofs then turn that off and manually adjust the roof planes. Sometimes you can do it using auto roofs, by using a truss base without using trusses, it works for conventional framing also.

For me Chief has always generated large files since Chief's pdf started. For printing I use 300 dpi in Adobe Acrobat.

If you are using a slab foundation, you can adjust this tool and drop the stone or brick

No callouts on framing plans, I want labels. no length either. feet-inches fraction

Joe, are you finding the arrow sticks better in X8 ??

Do you have auto floor / ceiling framing turned on?

And Donald is the Duct Designer

I think he stated he wasn't an Architect. He might be talking about "Chief Architect" in he listed name. I wonder how Chief gets away with that? Software Architect, there are a lot of other uses of for the word Architect.

Copy a close layer-set and rename it to something you will remember. I just use" reference set" after the name, so I know it's for reference sets only.

good luck with that one, at least your at Disneyland, where nothing is built to code.

But be careful, in remodeling when you have existing walls vs. new walls, if you add that pattern to the new walls, there will be a line between the two different walls in vector view in elevation because of two separate type stucco textures. All new const.--no problem.

X8 is still a little quirky, in my opinion.

Change them from lumber to engineered lumber and the label will change

Did you try the wall elevation view ? with all the correct layers on

Try to make your terrain deeper-thicker to hide the back labels

For elevations,I use plot lines (no color), shadows turned on. For sections--no shadows. This way it prints in grayscale much better than color. color tends to print much darker and can hide things you want people to see. Live views can slow down your work speed, unless you have a top of the line computer. I set those to "On demand" only.