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I tried to alter the attic wall but no joy. Why is the sloped ceiling appearing on the gable end? I can turn the ceiling surface layer off but I should no half to. Emma 2205.zip

Yes, I see the dimension will not snap to the rough framing in the wall ref set. Which is what I use. So I guess we are forced to dimension on the floor above using a special layer.

OK went back to the old plan & added the reference layer & changed the walls to Wall Plumbing Using the Wall plumbing & Wall, Main Layer Only I got the rough wall outline. This is great Eric. Thanks

Well with the cabinet issue solved I'll try it on my next plan. Thanks

Very clever Eric! Now can you solve the wall issue?

Here is the problem I ran into trying to use referenced layer sets. Solver has a good example in the plan he posted. The sinks are in cabinets typically & do not show up unless you turn on the cabinet layer. I do not want to show all cabinets. In fact, I prefer to show the sink only an not cabinet. The stand-alone fixtures show up fine. Toilet's, tubs water heater, etc. The sinks are an issue for me. Next are plumbing walls. I do not want ALL walls to be displayed so the plumbing walls need to be on a separate layer. You can use the layer trick with cabinets with sinks but as I said I don't want the cabinets, only the sink to display. So for me using 2D representations is what I do. The big downside of this method is that if you modify/move something on the floor above the foundation does not update. The reference display of the floor above will guide you so you can align CAD objects to match the modified locations. I'm not happy with this method but the work to make the reference display as I want it is not worth the effort. Thanks my 2 cents. And I hope someone has a better answer.

KD you didn't say what version of Chief you are using. Fix that by adding to your signature. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/18908-signature-here-at-chief-talk/ After you review the info Dermot provided I would look at Close the LAYOUT File. Also notes & schedules, also auto rebuild, If you have a complex terrain that can cause slowdowns. Those are the obvious ones for me with my limited knowledge.

I too will not go back to Autocad to create house plans but for details & section views a more robust CAD environment would be so nice. Another area I feel is lacking in Chief is Ruby. Autocad has exposed most of the inner working & provided so much language support to the programer that many things are possible in Autocad.

Well, it's obvious that the terrain need not rebuild for things unrelated to the terrain. So the rebuild routine should be made more selective OR the user should be given the option of turning that indicator off individually. I guess you could save a copy of the plan file and then delete the terrain from the current plan. Yes, that's a sledgehammer solution. Personally I just turn auto terrain on and live with any slow down that it causes.

I've requested this a couple of times but no joy. Cursor Method to select "Crossing" or 'Contained" selections. When the cursor in the click-drag moves in the relative -X direction (left) the "Crossing Method" is used. When the cursor in the click-drag moves in the relative +X direction (right) the "Contained Method" is used. No buttons or No Hotkeys needed.

I was hoping that Joe had a Macro that would read a text/csv file with that info in it.

Mick, I was afraid that was the case. David, thanks for sharing your wisdom. Mark, very clever solution. I'll stay with the manual method for now.

Is there a setting to get auto-build roof too add the shed roof portion?

Yes but no way to eliminate the user catalog. Although mine is still somewhat small. Speaking of user catalog, when I select user catalog/ notes I have many notes & some subfolders. It takes a long time to open due to the display of all the notes. I wish there was a way to turn off the display for selected folders.

Great tips, thanks The filter is more than I need at this time but good to know. Odd that you can not filter on/off the USER CATALOG. The right-click is exactly what I need at this time.

Is there a way to limit your library search to "User Library" only?

OK found it: Distributed Objects The Distributed Object tools allow you to place multiple copies of an object in an evenly spaced array, either within a region or along a path. Select Build> Distributed Object to access these tools.

Another method is to use your TAB key when dragging so you can enter a distance. Wall do love to snap to other walls but that is another issue.

Forgive my ignorance but what is a "distribution line"?

Drill small holes & foam fill the box headers.

That seems odd because you can not set the default floor height for balconies separately, correct? The columns did not change in camera view until I double-clicked on them. Then they updated to the correct position. All is good now though.

OK, I closed the plan & opened it again & most everything updated as expected. I guess I panicked too soon.

Hum, yes the windows header height default was changed & it did not raise the windows so I manually raised the windows to the new default height. I thought the balcony defaults were correct. When I changed the room type from unassigned to balcony I had to manually change the floor elevation -4" but the floor under it remained at the full truss height. It did not assume the 20" floor thickness the default had assigned to it.

The customer set the floor heights and I did a rough 1st draft. See the attached plan. So today he said he got the flood elevation wrong & wants the first floor ceiling at 8' I have in the past just changed the default floor 1 to 8' and most everything followed that change. When I tried it today the balconies refused & some windows went wacky. Is there a better way to change the floor height? Vincent.zip

Why not export to CAD & let then deal with a CAD file?