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Hi Jim welcome I personally just do single family residential and Chief is the perfect software for me. It does everything I need to create full working drawings complete with structural,and 3d renderings and raytraces. Some people here that come from AutoCAD aren't happy with the 2d drawing tools, but if you build your model correctly you really don't need much in the 2d tools area. IMO Chief is more than ok for 2d detailing. The idea behind Chief is really to eliminate 2d drawing of anything. You can just bring you details into Chief from AutoCAD and put them in your lib. Chief is a completely different way of thinking, and I love it. I would think if you do multi-family and high rise you might ask some here how that's working, and you might need a monster computer for that.

Ok, very nice Joey. I remember back in the day, you use to cad embellish them , prior to annosets. You can get very nice elevations if you work at it a little. Either way you have turned out some good final views.

Foundation pony wall should work lower wall 12" upper wall 6" adjust the lower wall height to what you need

shelf with crosshatch light color transparent . it should print out ok

Here is a way, little extra work but possible

I do it similar, using an elevation layerset, its automatic, and no slow cad work needed. Is that what you show?

I think the idea of Auto dormers is really just to get the walls where you want them, then explode it for further changes. I really just use the auto dormers just for a start, and adjust from there.

Do you have a drawing you can post, I'm not sure what you want.

Explode the dormer to select items

Normally , when a garage is attached to a house the wall between should not figure square footage to the middle of the wall, ever. We never do that.

Tommy, if your just looking for the Credit- go ahead and take it, who cares.

The Room divider wall turns into a regular thickness invisible wall if it needs to frame anything above or below. It's automatic. if you are just using it to define a room then it stays thin.

I ask myself, why do I sit here and interrupt what I'm doing to try to answer these questions, its like a game, and first one who answers wins, even if its the wrong answer. I can't help myself, am I sick? Please don't look at me ,I'm hideous.

I did too isn't that great.

Yes , that could also be 3 side by side doorways.

I assume main layer is checked for square footage

When we get to 11D ,then we will know that everything is nothing but a hologram surrounding a black hole, true quantum theory physics.

Thanks Jim, I was ignorant. It pays to be here.

or a different level maybe

It uses half the wall between the house and Garage and the outside of the Exterior walls to be exact

Nice one Yusuf

Thanks Scott I think the b&w loses all the grayscale so you end up with b&w everything. Depending on how dark your color is it will either disappear or be black. I always have that grayscale box checked. The only thing you can't show is when you print the color pdf as grayscale on your printer, it would also be grayscale , So In my view, you and Joey would end up with the same thing when printer on paper.

here is a way

I think BIM could be nice for those of you who spec everything in a project. I personally Don't spec much on my projects b/c most of my clients just haven't decided yet, except for some major items. I try to keep my projects as generic as possible for that reason and budget reasons. BIM wouldn't help me much but could help others a lot.

I think both ways end up the same, he just prints pdf's in color, then prints to paper in grayscale