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They are probably on the molding layer and not part of the roof. In the roof dialog you can change the gutter profile and they will always follow the roof plans. If you manually selected and changed the gutters, they are no longer part of the roof plane. While in your 3D view, go to the active layers display dialog, and unlock the molding layer, you should be able to select and delete the unwanted gutters. If that doesn't do it, try the same with the millwork layer. I'm not at my computer to confirm the layer.

You can gang outlets and switches by placing individual switches or outlets close together. Switches are placed separately so you can connect each to its own fixture. There are many bonus libraries you can download and install that may have more of the fixtures you're looking for. Chief ships with it's core libraries and has many others available online. Or in the library browser, make sure search online is selected. Stove hoods would be found as appliances, fans are mechanical, I think?? Chief considers them fixtures, not electrical. You can tag them as electrical or favorites in the library if you are going to use the program for other projects. You can place an outlet and open the symbol and specify where it's mounted; on the ceiling for instance. You can assign it a specific CAD block so it appears differently in plan view. If you want the down and dirty way, I would just use the simple supplied 'electrical items' supplied and change the 2D CAD block and the label as you would like and copy those new symbols as needed. You could generate an electrical schedule of the symbols and their names so others can understand what they are.

I didn't download your plan but be sure the exterior walls of the deck is set to railing. If it's not, Chief will think it's not the edge of the deck but against a building. HTH,

Exactly. As Jason said, be sure Terrain Perimeter is set to display.

Steve, I modify the terrain elevation using area regions in the terrain dropdown menu (I have two in my template plans with heights already assigned since we do a lot of basement walkouts). In plan view place a region along to the front of the building extending from side to side of the perimeter. Assign a high height (assuming the front is high). Draw another region along the back (or copy/ paste the front region to the back). Assign you walkout height. Build terrain. You should now have a consistently sloped terrain on the two side elevations. I use terrain regions where ever possible as opposed to elevation lines. For simple modeling is is quick and more reliable (no spiking of terrain).

This thread should help:

If you select the layout box/viewport, the edit toolbar will show a pan and a zoom option. They allow you to reposition the view in the layout box. It helps with the 3D cameras that aren't in the correct position for the new plan. I relocate the camera in plan and use the pan/zoom to reposition as needed.

Make sure your OneDrive CA files are all set to 'Keep on this device' so you have a physical copy on your computer. That said, I found it frustrating to work on OneDrive and moved my client files back to my C drive. I do keep my Chief Data folder on OneDrive with all files on my local computer. I'm sure that not what you want to hear but I agree with your findings. OneDrive is a slug.

Layer sets do not control text defaults. It's more of a view, rather than a control. Default sets control layers. Saved Plan Views control the text defaults and layer sets, similar to Defaults sets, but give you more control of all of your defaults. It's worth trying to understand the Saved Plan Views. It can be a simple set up or a complex set up. Saved Plan Views also control what you see on your layout pages, which simplifies layouts too.

If you need to have both 1/4 and 1/2 scales available for the elevations, I change the scale when sending to layout (your capture above) and check Use Layout Line Scaling. You can do it after the fact in the layout by selecting the view port, go to the pop up edit menu and pick the little scale. A dialog will open to change the scale.

1. I'm not sure you can build the exterior soffit automatically but you might be able to get close with a molding polyline. 2. You can use a molding polyline for this skirt molding. For both, draw it in elevation as you have. Convert each to a separate molding so you have better control for each. Next, go to plan and right click just outside of the exterior walls. You'll see the building outline as selected. On the popup edit toolbar, choose make molding. Assign your molding and set the height to where you need it. You can add both molding to the same line or use separate ones. It'll be more difficult if you heights vary per building section, but this should get you headed in the right direction.

Switch to plain text. Rich text is known to do this when using multiple computers with different screen resolutions. I only use rich text when I need something formated.

Look at your folder paths in Preferences. Make sure they all point to your new install location. Be sure to expand the list as there are a number of folder paths not shown on the main screen. Once you have everything pointing to the correct folder(s), relaunch Chief. If you created new icons, be sure the icons are in the new folder location.

You might have something in the plan located way off in space. If so, the model is there but tiny since the view is including the errant object. In plan view, hit F8 which should zoom you out to the full extent. Is your model tiny? If so, something got places far from the model. You'll need to marquis select the outer regions to try to find the object. The other thing it might be is a video card driver. Did you computer receive any updates? You might need to roll back the update. My guess is it's the first issue.

I agree and would like to turn those angled alignments off. For most of my work, they are unnecessary and take longer to get past. Horizontal and vertical alignments is all I really need. A setting to turn them ON/OFF would work better for me.