CJSpud

Joe: Here's a 3D camera view of a chunk of crown molding you have showing on the outside of your model. Looks like you've got something unusual going on with your model in this area of your plan. Is this project new construction or a remodel?

Pulling that angled wall to the wall intersection gives you room def.

That means you have a wall that isn't joined correctly. I am looking at a back-clipped section (looking from the inside out) of that whole side of the house you had the corner problems with and there's weird stuff going on. I think the culprit might be that "woody" angled wall.

Joe has the same issue with the next corner back. He's going to need a lot of lumber to build that angled corner on the main level further back. Great call Perry!

Great video Perry .... looks like you might have spotted Joe's problem.

Joe: If you are still struggling to attach your plan and/or more images, give me a call in the morning. I am on Pacific time. Another thing that I sometimes find helpful in sorting out problems is to take back-clipped cross sections from perpendicular directions of the problem area. Sometimes you can spot something on a particular layer that is messed up and allows you to more easily troubleshoot and remedy the plan glitch.

Well then, as our good friend Scott would say, post the @#$%^&* plan and we'll take a look at it.

I once worked for the RR and some wrecks don't look toooo bad while admittedly, others are "pretty BAD"...! I met with Joe in Las Vegas at the IBS and unless he's changed drastically, I can't imagine him looking like a train wreck. You didn't hit him with your wedge, did you? In golf, Scott, having 6 more strokes than your playing partner isn't necessarily so good. Keep your head down when you swing for crying out loud! You can catch Joe if you try.

Another thing to maybe try is open one or both of those walls and checking/unchecking the Wall Intersections options under the Structure tab. I would also make sure your walls are correctly aligned with any walls on the first level.

It is called "Edit Wall Layer Intersections". Hope that is all it is. Another thought is to select one of the walls and click on the "Connect Walls" edit tool. It might be something else but ....

I would try using the new wall corner edit tool and see if that won't fix it.

Todd: I think that question needs to be directed to Chief Architect. Perhaps you could make a suggestion including one or more images of what you would like the program to do. My cabinet elevations are busy enough right now for me and I think adding the display of shelf locations behind cabinet doors is something I wouldn't use without a real good reason to do it. I do my cabinet elevations at 1/2" scale and when you include dimensions and some labeling of fixtures and appliances along with all the cabinet labels, the real estate gets pretty crowded. Perhaps a larger scale wouldn't be so bad for the display of shelf locations but that means more sheets to the drawing set. I think that if showing the shelf locations for individual cabinets is important to you and/or your customers, that you can provide that information via sections through the cabinet(s). The reality of Chief is that it really isn't a cabinet design program although it allows us to do a decent job of presenting cabinet layouts and options for our projects. There have been many threads over the years on this and/or similar discussions about cabinets. Maybe someday Chief will include what you are wanting, but who knows when and if that will happen any time soon. By the way, I think your photo looks just fine. I just wish Scott was as good looking as Joe.

Glenn: Great suggestion .... thanks. I too find a need to place interior walls on their own layer. Yes, that would be a great thing to have in X7.

Kilgore: You are correct ... I think my comment was inaccurate and/or confusing.

Or, you could select the door to have glazing and go find one in the library. The downside might be matching door styles to what your project calls for.

If you are really desperate, you could View-to-CAD and then add the room name and size manually. The CAD view is black and white, not color.

I wonder why I can't see any of Glenn's attachments when reviewing this thread via a link from a newer thread??? Any ideas anyone? Maybe Glenn takes them to bed with him.

I just ran into that problem with a table and chair grouping from Chief's library. My solution was to explode the block and then select and drag the table off to the side. I then clicked on copy and just placed the table copy back in the approximate center of the chairs and that put all the chairs under the table.

When I select a wall, the two options I have when clicking on the dimension is "Move both ends" or "Move object" ... either option moves the entire wall, not just an edge, when I change the dimension in the box. This works the same with a temporary dimension or with a dimension already place.

You might be able to model your tapered foam pieces on the roof deck using polyline solids. You would have to draw them in a cross section view and then go back to plan to get their edges in the right place (i.e., change their thickness to the area being covered). This will work if the tapered pieces are square or rectangular - which would likely mean at least one side doesn't have a parapet wall but rather an eave for drainage. If your roof is designed to have some that have angled shapes sloping to roof drains or scuppers along the parapet walls, you could do that with roof planes. I had a southwest design project a few years back and I used roof planes to do the slopes to the scuppers locations through the parapet walls. You can just draw the roof planes off to the side; get their spec's, dimensions, etc. as needed and then use the point-to-point move tool to put them over your floor surface. It is easier to just draw them in place and shape as needed and use the join roof planes tool to join the valleys etc. as required.

Jon ... thanks for sharing those links.

Have you ever tried working with two "mouses"? I do it on occasion, mostly when working close in and doing CAD work. I have an older Kensington trackball (with a big base) that I keep hooked up all the time and go to it when I don't want to have to move the mouse itself around on its pad. Sometimes when I am tired of using my standard mouse on my desk top, I will put the Kensington in my lap where my arm and wrist can relax a bit more and use it that way instead of my Logitech. Years ago there was one (or more??) Chief user(s) that reportedly used two "mice" all the time and swore by it. That is when I started experimenting and using two off and on. I suppose that if a person diligently used two continuously (like learning a foreign language), you could get good at it. I just never have made that commitment myself.

I suggest you contact David Potter or Tommy Blair ... they are both in your neck of the woods and I think they both can do on-line training with GoToMeeting or something similar. I am assuming one or the other would have time to help you ... but you'll have to find that out yourself.

I totally forgot about the concentric tool ... hopefully that is the one you are after. Thanks for the reminder Jim .... I haven't used it in awhile.

I asked you if you had tried the transform/replicate/resize tool? I didn't really state that CA doesn't have an "offset command" ... if that is something that you've used with another program, I probably don't have a clue what you are talking about because I haven't used other CAD programs myself. You might look in the manual and see if you can find out more information. I don't have a clue how you would use an offset/resize command. Maybe Chief has one under a different name. Chief can make offset copies using the multiple copy tool but I don't think it will resize them in the same operation. I could be wrong.