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OK I guess I asked for that. PARALLAM PSL BEAM

I usually draw in wood & then submit to Engineer. In Naples the wind forces may require steel but you can do a lot with parallel lambs & structural sheeting on both sides of the wall.

Use Joey's suggestions & create the girders first. Every other truss should build correctly.

Working on a house with 2 exterior stairs & the room open below is nice but one stair has AC equipment on a platform that I want to show on the 2nd floor as well as the first but that is not visible in the open below room. This seems like odd behavior. Did I miss a setting?

Scratch that it is working as you said. Not sure how I got off track.

Yes but NEW windows placed in the plan did not use the "Specify Label" they still use "Automatic label" I was looking at Eric's routine as the only way to get feet & inches.

So I changed the Window Default to "Specify Label" and added this: %automatic_description% Top @ %height% But the new windows in plan view default to "Automatic label" is this normal behavior? I would also like %height% to be Feet - Inches, do I need a user macro to do that?

Nice Job. Thanks for sharing.

New codes Old house. I would talk to the building inspector to see if they would indeed require the landing. If so I would install a PT wood landing & remove it later if you like.

Did you see this?

If you want the chase to be open, make the room type "OPEN TO BELOW" Also you may want a copy of the wall type for a new one-sided wall & delete the inner drywall. This way the chase is closer to real-world conditions.

You can fake the edge by using a nearly flat circular p-solid.

I can select each one at a time to create a group of them but you can not rename them as a group.

Match Properties is not available for symbols, I think, so I was selecting one & using "Select Similar" which captured too many other objects. I did a workaround by adding one to the catalog, renaming it & then swap all on the floor.

I have a lot of furniture in this building & I decided to rename one symbol type. There are 21 or more of these identical items & I wanted to group select all of them which I can not seem to do automatically. And I wanted to add a prefix to the name of all 21 of them in one operation. Am I missing a method? or are symbols not fully supported like blocks?

As Chop alluded to, In Autocad export to a 3ds or dae file & then Import to Chief.

Before you delete the thread make sure you get those links from David's post. They will be critical for your early days with Chief. Pay close attention to the Walls MAIN layer vs exterior layer. The "Wall Settings" within the wall DBX is likely ok as is but pay attention there too. The way walls butt together vertically & horizontally is important for 3D display. Welcome to the club.

Commercial? I'll bet emergency lighting may be required.

I use the left-hand rule. Mentally place your left hand on the starting electrical object. Point your thumb at yourself. The arc will follow the directions of your fingers.

You can update the core catalog. You can export the previous version user catalog & import it into the new one. For the others: [Back up your data if you try this I have copied the contents of the folders (see below) & pasted them into the new version. [Back up your data] Restart Chief.

Here you go, but will still need some TLC. Electrical-4.zip

I've found that using "Attach Tail to Other Objects" ONLY is the best for me. (Nothing else checked) If you attach the head and label a foundation, the arrow may attach to the foundation & any edit to the wall can cause the head of the arrow to jump.

I see a cad block "edit in the library" feature. Wondering how Chief handles the scaling when you replace the blocks in the plan with the new block of the same name?

That was such fun I did another. Cat5+120v Split.calibz