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If your SSA is due to expire within a certain amount of time, it is unavailable. I think it is 60 or 90 days?

Use the orthographic camera (floor or overview)

@Renerabbitt The Xiadax requires a seatbelt (5 point harness).

I got a Lenovo Slim Pro 9i laptop. Would not recommend.

@para-CAD Holy Skynet Batman. The robot is not going to snitch on the robot. Who taught it that?

@ValleyGuy only one of those is the temp dimension. That is the issue, there is nothing to distinguish it from the distinct dimension that I had already placed. The size difference is the placement locations (outside of stud vs. inside). 

Here are a few things that I use. I have some images cut out from the Sierra Pacific instructions showing the taping sequence. I am not sure where I got the head flashing images and notes. I believe it may have been a Fine Homebuilding article or a JLC article?

Wood Installation Guide (CA) - All Products 2017.pdf

One of these is a temporary dimension. Is there a way to better distinguish the display of a temp dimension? Even if I change my plan dimension layer to a bright color, when I select the connected object, both dimensions appear with the same colors. In a situation like this, I am likely to select the wrong dimension for my adjustment. I realize I can turn off temp dimensions but that is not the solution I am looking for. Is there a layer that Temp Dimensions populate from?

Here is a copy of that library with a near complete loss of texture links. They error message was searching for links from version X2. Therefore, not very current but a lot of the Ikea furniture is unchanged.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jwfrvqy7hs2v9h4b41qoz/Ikea-very-old.calibz?rlkey=ext7dtmkr8f5jmcszf6gfr6wk&dl=0

Words, how you vex me.

The Plot Plan Default set (out of the box) with X15

Since I most often send my Plot Plan (renamed Site Plan) at 1/8" scale, I have my text set to 12" and my arrows set to 7" (they are the "Slash" type). These are my 1/8" scale drawing defaults. 

Check your minimum display size in Preferences. That might be what is making your plan views look like you have massive dimensions

Also, this is the forum for Chief Architect Premier. HD pro has it's own forum. The info is different across the 2 programs. I almost exclusively build roofs manually. Are you displaying roof blocking layer?

Good luck with that one. Clicking on a link titled "Happy Endings.whatever"? Yeah, not falling for that again (and again).

I would make that with a solid. Shape it in elevation in order to get the sloped riser profile. You can set the CA stairs to have no overhang but generally, the riser is sloped back in order to have the code required nosing overhang.

For good poche in section cuts, you will need to do some CAD work on the section (in X15).

Is there a setting to avoid the overwhelming size of temporary dimension arrows as I zoom into a selected object?

https://theplanprinter.com/blueprint-printing-online-arch-d-24-x-36-blueprint-architectural-construction-blueprints-printing-service.html

The type of image you are showing in the model is going to be custom painting on your elevations. You will not get that in a Chief model due to the lack of texture repetition. If I was doing this I would do something close and then run the rendered image through https://fotosketcher.com/  and make it super dirty so it is an idea of the texture.  For the actual elevations I would hand sketch over the mostly blank elevations (texture very vague).

First printing to PDF and then printing that PDF is the most reliable path.

Also, when you export, save as .png so it retains the transparency.

Jim's in the box thinking.

If you just want white, export with remove backdrop checked and then paste that onto a white background.

Thanks. I may have drawn that one slightly out of the orthogonal plane?

I am not sure what I am doing so wrong? Adding custom rafter tails and I am not getting my rafter to build correctly. What am I doing wrong?

Tail line that I exported to the library. 3x4 rafters

I am only working on the garage/adu building on the left side of the plan.

I saved that elevation camera with the line drawing of the rafter tail

Thanks for any input.

Roof actual

YAN ADU V1 export.zip rafter tail a.calibz

select your walls and check this button