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Also if you want auto-without both sides, just uncheck what you have and check the highlighted checkbox

It just sounded to me that he wanted something special, not the standard. A picture would be good though.

If you set up your dimension defaults to locate the main wall layer you will not get both sides, and a wall thickness dim. That what I get. After you already have a dimension , you can select all dims, and select "suppress wall widths.". Just set your defaults correctly and you won't get then at all. There are many defaults to set, do them all.

Oh Ya, that can be done in Chief, as we all know, just about anything can be done in Chief, if you can build the model without too many flaws. I just choose not to b/c I get all the work I need, doing much simpler stuff. Makes life easy, except for the plan check of course.

Use the custom mutton tool to do that. Just draw in cad your grids on the elevation and hit the custom mutton tool in the edit toolbar. You can then apply them to all your windows.

My son runs 50 seats of Acad, Inventor, Revit and others, and he wouldn't even think of using Chief for any of his "parts" he does all over the world . Chief is just not intended for those kinds of things just like I wouldn't think of using any of yours for homes.

That looks like a commercial project. I think Chief is only recommended for residential and light commercial , like T.I. stuff, you will probably never like Chief if that's what you do. I would think the natural progression would be to use Revit.

You pay for what you get, and you can't compare Chief to those other programs, if you do 3d parts, use AutoCAD Inventer for that not Chief. Chief is not designed for that. For what most of us here need, Chief works mostly perfectly, give or take a few items here and there. I wouldn't use Chief for drawing parts of musical instruments.

A lot of them were drawn in cad programs before Chief was invented and just imported into Chief with a little fix-up. I just wish I had chief when I created them, back in the 80's and 90's cad wasn't so good, I consider Chief much better now than the old cad programs. I guess it matters from where you came.

If I understand you correctly and you are talking about Chief. Chief is not trying, and doesn't want to be Acad. Chief is a 3d program, the only reason for 2d is for details. You don't really need to draw lines anymore, and that's good and getting better all the time. I think the 2 d tools are just fine for what you need them to do unless you are drawing in Chief, lines for everything, which is just wrong for this software. It's a different way of drawing. Can Acad let you draw a complete house in 1 day including sections, elevations, foundation, I don't think so.

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