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I read it wrong the first time, sorry Guys.

Once you have your line weights and layersets the way you want , save the plan as a template plan so you don't have to do it again. Try working with anno-sets for auto linestyles and weights and quick automatic changing of different views (plan view to site plan view etc.). Once set up it's done and ready to go.

Your just wrong about Chief having no upgrades for many years. If you used Chief you will see that. Every year Chief has added features that simply save drawing time. Enough said. That alone plus many other improvements is why I stay here and today , you couldn't pay me to change. I think its a case of you just not knowing what they do. Take the time to see for yourself, and learn about all Chief's tools, in depth. You will see.

Alan, it's just a me and Scott thing, I'm trying to get my head around keyboard shortcuts.

Scott, we still on for tomorrow 6am workshop?

Larry, glad your alive again. Btw ,I have a 1000watt power supply, but you would think the SSD would require less power.

Bug?? Lets hope it gets fixed.

I would definitely start a new SAM with every new release. I always start fresh with a small box template plan and layout but it does have al the camera's, elevations, foundations, roof plan, structural plans, site plans, details and Sections already there. Very close to a SAM.

here is a short video of what I'm getting. http://screencast.com/t/sUvv4IR4

Check what layerset your camera view is using, maybe you accidently had Make copy of layerset and upper cabs might be dotted in that layerset. open your camera view again and resend making sure make copy is not checked. Just a thought.

That exactly what I saw, then when I clicked off "use room ceiling finish", it looked ok.

Hey, Robert Have you ever heard of a contractor in Madison named Jay Demay.? Funny thing , when I uncheck that it looks fine to me. Who knows

I am not getting that, could be a mac. thing. looks ok for me in windows

Did you change the fascia in the "materials" section of defaults? just changing the roof DBX won't change all existing rafters

For me , when I opened it a few materials weren't there, I forgot to look and see what they were, I'll check again

just uncheck use default ceiling material and no z-fighting for me

I have siding vertical for the rafters, and some kind of green fascia for the ceiling plane rafters.

Those are always a problem, I just use a p-solid to cover it in section view.

You may have painted your rafters / ceiling joists, try using default material. Then you can change it.

Hey Ron. Are you and Jim from Florida brothers, you look like it. The troll brothers

I'm not sure windows 8 even has a blue screen, it just crashed Chief ,but I had to restart my computer to get it back.

Did it to me also today and I just had to restart my computer to fix it. It said file was locked.

yes, as long as soffits are checked, if you don't want soffits make them an air space material.

For me its better to lower the top plate to get a full bearing than to chop up the rafter, kind of what his picture show's when using a 2x10 or 12. I've been called on that before. 2x12 to a 2x4 eave is just too much mustard off the hotdog.

Do you have the inside, outside checked correctly.