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I have a building that is getting a detached garage. The builder wants to submit both the house and garage in a single drawing. So, I do not want the garage to inherit any properties of the main building. Can I draw it as a separate plan, with my garage defaults, but then send it to the same Layout as the main house without one plan's defaults and preferences trying to impose itself on the other plan? Thanks for any advice, Lane

It does seem that way!

I finally got it worked out. But, the process is cumbersome. Why aren't all of the defaults available from one source. Other programs do that, why not Chief? --Lane

I tried that yesterday with nothing but wrong frustrating results. When I opened the program this morning, the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool worked. Beats me, it did not work yesterday. Maybe when the program closed down and opened this morning it cleared out something in memory? I have no idea. Maybe it just works on Fridays? But thanks!

First, this group is great! Thanks to everyone who has helped me keep the hair on my head instead of pulling it out! Now for my issue. In the first Screen Shot, I have two walls joining as they should. When I try to get the wall to the left of them to butt up against the joined walls, it takes over and invades the territory of the correct walls. How can I get these walls to behave? Thanks in advance, Lane

Thanks. First I looked to see if the windows were on the correct floor. They were. Then I made sure the walls lined up with each other. They did. But The problem was the lower wall was broken into two parts. Once I connected them the problem solved itself. Thanks JiAngelo and DB Cooper.

Hello This screenshot is from the right elevation view. There is a box on the second floor, left side where two windows show in the floor plan view. Why won't they show in the elevation view? I placed the windows with copy/paste of the windows that do show up in the same elevation view. Thanks in advance, Lane

When I was sending my plans out for printing, I had to send them as PDF files. However, the PDF's (I am using Adobe Acrobat) printed all the lines at the same black, no matter what I had in my plans (lighter lines here and there, transparencies, etc. Does Chief have printer drivers for different printers like it did many versions ago? Thanks, Lane

I will do so in the future. The answer was user error. Since the window opening spans the foundation concrete wall and the wood frame wall, I was placing the walls in the concrete wall vertically, but on the wood wall horizontally. Once I place all the windows on the concrete wall, the problem was solved. --Lane

Okay, got it. I would have deleted this post, but I don't see an option for that.

I am attaching a screen shot of part of my foundation for this particular plan. The windows on the vertical wall and the windows on the horizontal wall show different orientations. The double window line occurs on the exterior side of the vertical foundation wall, and on the interior side of the horizontal foundation wall. Is there a way to install windows backward, or do foundation walls have an interior and exterior side that could be causing the problem? Thanks for any insight. Lane

Yes, thanks!

Good morning. One of my clients e-mailed me this morning saying he downloaded the Viewer App so he can view the files without me sending a PDF. I have never used it, and have no idea where to find it. Any help in using it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lane

Hahaha....yes, in theory is the best! I'll give the theory a try.