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I opened the dialog box for the dormers, and set the walls at 82". When I dimensioned the plan view, none of the dormer walls were at 82". Apparently for Dormers the locate wall dimension surface does not work, and the 82" dimensions to the siding. Is there a setting to make the walls in the dialog box to reflect the actual outside wall to outside wall instead outside siding to outside siding. Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!

Thanks, I thought that was only to display the roof above or below. But I worked it out with a combination of "F*&k this, what a piece of sh*t, who the h*ll programmed this". Thanks again, Happy New Year --Lane

Thanks Ken. Next question, how did you move the dormers from one level to another? I assume the roof has to be moved, and not just displayed above? --Lane

Hello All, I want to hide the dormers, dormer Roofs, from the 2nd floor plan view in the Electrical Plan View. I have everything for dormers turned off, but here I am. This is a Cape Style building. I placed the dormers on the 1st floor roof. The screen shot is attached as is the plan. Thanks in advance, Lane 302 Crawford Garage.zip

Thank you!

Does Chief have a commercial lighting library hidden somewhere? I am looking for 2x2 and 2x4 lighting (equivalent to T8 bulbs) for drop ceilings. Thanks, Lane

Hello again, I would like to show the room divider as a single line, but after I draw the divider (I draw it in the center of the wall I want to divide), it shows up as two lines, and the two lines line up with what the program generates as basically a wall. I want a true divider, so I can place it where I want it in relation to say the end cap of a wall, and it will actually show up where I place it, and as a single line, not as a double line. I checked all of my default settings, wall settings, etc. and I can't see anywhere it is a double line. But that's what shows up. How do I fix this? Thanks, Lane

Thanks Everyone For the plan file, I am going with the Draw it as a separate plan, then export those to the Layout file. The only place it has to show up on the same sheet as the main house is in the site plan. Someone else is doing that, so not my problem. Thanks everyone. Next I am posting another question but this time about room dividers. --Lane

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.

Yesterday, amid several other problems I was having with Chief, a message box popped up referencing a drawing I did two years ago. When I created my template file, I thought I purged everything except the CAD details. Is there a way to "clean up" a file so it does not reference any other files or inherit any properties from that file? Thanks, Lane

I tried that too. I suppose that is why there is an option for manual framing!