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See attached plan view, one story Dr office Also current section view near front of building. The roof is actually a second floor with no ceiling & short wall for the parpet. The right parpet wall is 0.05 tall to allow water to run off. I have no slope yet to force water off. The Lobby need to have the ceiling raised to about 15'. Not figured out how to do that yet. I may need to raise the parpet walls another foot or two to get the look I need. BTW this is my forst structure in Chief.

Need to create this elevation. Notice the projection that provides the cover for the entry and another projection above that. What would be the best method of creating these cantlivers? Oh I suppose you could use a slab too?

That's exactly what I want to do. If I use the hidden wall method it will mess up the existing rooms, I think. Unless there is another floor.

The area is already filled with rooms. See attached.

I have a small Office which I diaplay Gross area and the room areas. One section is a seperate office & I would like to show that area as well. Can you create a floor or pline around that area & display that label?

OK got it. Thanks

Using Fire Fox & does spell check on most forums but here it doesn't. Yes, exploring macro now as I set up my title block, but haven't found where to get the living area macro yet. Is there a list of macros some where?

I found the way to import a ADA Unisex Restroom picture & then applied it to a frame. Sweet. I purchased chief yesterday so I could save my work. I am working on a small doctors office 39' x 91' The interior went well & I even created a walk through. (need some more work I was going to do this project as a parallel to my ACAD but looks like I can do the project in Chief. Only problem I see is getting the exterior correct. Looks like room labels are not totally controllable. I labeled all rooms & the small ones were too small for the labels. I scaled them in some cases & closets & mep room I did not want the dimensions or area so I had to hide the label & create a text object. Two of the room labels have disappeared twice so I have to go back & turn them on again. What's up with that? And the Living Area Label keeps returning to it's place of origin, moved it 5 time already. Frustrating. Off to do some electrical

Thanks, I did find the plumbing & more but some of the selections like bar sinks & laundry trays have very few selections. I guess the extended libraries have a lot more selections.

OK, another dumb question, I can't find the plumbing fixtures in this trial version? I see electical & I've installed some cabinets.

Thanks for the replies. I have explored the defaults & preference's and set a few to my liking. I see the mouse middle wheel pan function does not work while within a command. Quite a disappointment. While in Orthographic floor overview, when started you can orbit the view but when stopped I can't seem to find how to restart the orbit function? Ugh, looks like no spell check in this forum, I'm in trouble. In the orthographic views how do you do a cut wall view where the walls are at perhaps 1/2 there height?

Thanks for the replies, good info all. I am using Arch-T in ACAD which is a 2D & 3D program & had no problem understanding Envisioneer. All the buttons in ACAD are familiar to me but all Chief buttons are new so I realize it will take some time & I'm persistant. Back to the text, I wanted to do a global style change & save as a template not having to go to every style & change to Arial. If it was ACAD I would write a LISP to do all the work. Thanks again.

I feel like I'm learning to crawl again. Just installed Chief Primer Trial. Have looked at many videos on the Internet & from Chief. I guess I missed the Chief 101 video. Open a sample plan & find myself in Layout #1. How do you get back to Model Space? (If that is what you all call it) In a new template file I want my default wall to be 5/8 stucco + 7-5/8 CMU + 3/4 furring strips @ 16" o.c. + 1/2 drywall I found all but the furring strips, although I added a 3/4 air space/ insulation which will work for the trial but not for future BIM I have a window I adjusted to my liking & want to update existing windows (Match Properties) How do I copy the properties of that window to other windows? Are there any preferances that you would suggest changeing? One thing I prefer is to pick a start point & then pick an end point but you must pick & drag to draw a wall. Can that behavior be changed? When you hit Escape the current task is ended & you are put in the previous task mode. I prefer to be returned to the Pick mode on any Escape. Can that be changed? I want to change all text & dimensions to use Arial Narrow. Can you do a global change? BTW I am a Autocad user which may not be in my favor for transitioning to Chief. I tried Envisioneer, even bought it but returned it at the 30 day mark. There were too many work arounds in the basic text, dimension & CAD work areas. The basic drafting environment was too clumsy for me. Hoping Chief will be more to my liking. Thanks in Advance