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Well-said Michael.

I confess that I spend more time meeting work deadlines than studying Chief. As a programmer, you must protect the user from themselves. Make it foolproof and they can not make dumb mistakes. If you changed nothing in the DBX any method you exit the DBX should not result in the user making an error. Can you tell me why the attic wall is now flagged was altered?

Why would Chief throw up a warning when all you did was to look at the DBX of an attic wall. The user changed nothing but by their ignorance, they said OK to a seemingly erroneous warning. I never knew the consequences of saying OK. The program should be smarter. And so should I.

So if you uncheck "flat ceiling" in the room, the roof will build the ceiling for you. If you want a 20" truss & a 9' plate height I get this: The CMU wall builds on top of the floor material. I can use the bird's mouth settings to lower the roof but it does not help the truss build correctly. Furthermore, the truss ignores the ceiling created by the roof, Maybe I missed another setting? This is my manual roof & manual ceiling. Attached is for the first two sections The manual roof is the original plan I posted to start the thread. Thanks Largo 3.zip

Ryan, Would you take a look and tell me where I went wrong on this roof thickness. I tried to set the roof as you suggested. Largo 2.zip Largo 2.zip

Steve, Thanks for the alternate method. I used your building set plate height at 9' added the roof. The roof was too low for my 20" desired trusses so I added sloped ceiling at 9' & raise the roof to get 20" trusses. Then I was able to create the trusses. Now to see if I can modify my plan to match.

OK one more wall issue. Can't seem to get rid of these attic wall lines in vector view. I tried reversing the east-west wall exterior but no joy.

Thanks all. I tried the Window levels. But not what I wanted, but thanks for the tip. Thought about the pony wall last night & tried this morning. I had to break the wall to get the window on right to show properly. This is what I am going with. Thanks Eric.

Working on a small plan with windows above windows & doors. I did not want the upper windows to display in plan view so I use another Window Layer. The result is missing wall segments. The fix is easy, just add filled polylines but is there a setting for this? I did not want a second floor. Largo 1.zip

You are a clever guy. My last Windows update changed the file display setting but I never thought to look at the date type setting. Thanks for solving my mystery.

Using Windows 10, I have noticed lately that Chief does not update the plan file date in Windows when saved. I that the date always updated that date when saved. Am I miss remembering that or did Chief or Windows change some setting?

We don't see that type clean out unless the lines are very deep. Sewer Cleanout-details.pdf

CAD/CAD Block Management select the block Insert into plan explode edit make block rename block to match original block

Maybe this one can be modified. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/a50e99615477e08914b35a7d7cea7130/CR340D-Quadrato-Fabricated-Double-Square-Bowl-Kitchen-Sink-Abey

Thanks, fellas. The immediate need passed as the clients could not agree on going forward at this time. I will refer you both in the future.

Great, Thanks And the .to_ft does the division for you! begin wlength = owner.length.to_ft.round(2) wlength.to_s rescue "Error" end

OK, thanks for the clarification. I was able to add this: begin wlength = (owner.length / 12.0).round(2) wlength.to_s rescue "Error" end But it displays as "10.2 in" and needs to be feet. What causes the "in" to display at all?

That's too bad. I did not see a way to insert custom fields in that schedule so a macro would not be possible?

My units are in inches for the plan work but the Wall Schedule also displays in inches for the lengths. I changed the DBX using the NUMBER STYLE button in the DBX bit that length did not update to Feet & inches. So do users have any control of the number format in the schedules?

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That is one reason to mirror the house some distance away from the original position. Front & rear are easy, you just draw a vertical line and mirror the objects and move them into position. Left & right will require you to select the text & dims make into a block, then cut & paste into the opposite elevation view. That's what I do.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00284/using-the-reflect-about-object-tool.html

In my experience, I would not use the reverse plan tool. I draw a line off to one side of the plan to use the mirror tool. I turn on all layers the unlock all layers. Use the "Edit Area" tool with "All floors" & mirror about the line. The problems I had were mostly electrical connections if you mirror within the existing plan. Like when you draw a line down the middle of the plan to mirror about. Seem a lot of automatic thinks get confused unless you mirror to an unusedd area of the plan. Make sure you create back plan before you start.

If you have Revit or know someone this should work. https://www.bimobject.com/en/zurnindustries/product/zurn-z1345

So you need the cold climate version? That is the stem extension into the wall?