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Not sure this is 100% possible with the flush cutting the corner off. Probably closest you can do is setup your ceiling height on the upper floor to 1.5" which is what would be done IRL since it will need a plate to sit on instead of on the subfloor. Set your rafter cut to plumb and your overhang to 0.

So are you looking for a way to do it other than with the Defaults, or turning the layer off? What is your end desired results?

With X13 using the line overlay option. Looks like you are still using X12 See above comment. BTW It is a much cleaner look if you use the vector view and send to layout with plot lines instead of live. It will be a much cleaner crisper view and more compatible/in line with Cad Drafting standards.

Attach a link to a cloud share file of the plan. Best guess from the view is that your terrain region for where the house is sitting is missing or not set to 0 Terrain is dropping down to the only elevation information it has which is the -36" that you have on the plan.

You can show it open as it shows here by making a custom door with the side slides as part of the door symbol. To show it with it slid in is currently not possible with the same cabinet. Typically this is done by annotation.

They act just like a set of stairs, next time use a railing wall set to follow the stairs.

You can do it that way but you have to change it in the components tab as mentioned above:

How did you place it? Was it a copy from floor framing?

Rooms are defined by walls, floors and roofs. Select the wall that makes up the perimeter of the porch in real life, use that wall type and draw the room. With auto roofs turned on you can set your room to have a roof over this room (OOB the Porch has this selected) set your walls to show what type of roof you want, (i.e. gable, hip, shed, etc.) and done. You will have to set settings for the foundation if it is a deck porch, or a patio type porch. @SNestor Steve Nestor with My Chief Skills has several good videos on how to do them to help you along.

I personally use the same plan name for all so they don’t have to be delinked. Just duplicate your folder and give the folder newest date. Inside you have your house as built new and layout files with the same name. I.E. I am working on a large addition for client Morales. Job folder 2022_Morales Addition > Plans > CA > 20220615_Morales Addition: inside that folder I have 2022_Morales AB.plan 2022_Morales New.plan and 2022_Morales.layout files next revision the folder gets duplicated and renamed with the current date. Chief will look at the same folder for the plan first so it won’t unlink.

Yes it actually works better with my newer Mac studio with Mac ultra chip than it did with my older Mac with intel chip. It’s a game changer for 3d

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/335/using-a-framing-reference.html

If it permeates the roof or exterior wall it will pickup the sun. Toggle sunlight and see if it goes away. If so then pull it inside and don’t let it permeate the roof or wall.

It is actually easier than that. Just click on the "Default" wrench to unselect it and it pops to 3". I think it should as you mentioned show what the actual offset is for it to be at the preset 36" instead of showing the overall default. But not worth the time for the suggestion/time away for the programmers taking away from other tasks for my workflow needs.

I think this is the confusion here @Dermot thanks for clarifying it. With a typical 90" Full cabinet those doors are at 37" with a 9" lower drawer which must fall into the oversized door category. Interesting that when it defaults it to the 36" height that when you open it the overall default is shown instead of the offset that puts it at 36". I learned that today so thank you for the input. Doesn't matter enough to me to make a suggestion differently so I will just file that away for information in any case I come up with on that.

Hey Tom I am not able to reproduce that same issue myself: Does it not work when you close out the DBX on the cabinet after setting it correctly? Sometimes the preview does not always refresh correctly. Although most of the time it does now a days with the later versions. If it does not work. Try the following. Set it to a crazy number like 18 or so, hit ok and save it and then reopen the cabinet and try changing it. You can also try hitting the F5 (oob is refresh) hotkey to see if it updates the view. As a note even though it was set to 3" on mine when I opened it as the default it was wrong location and did not update until I over-rode the default and inputted the number myself. There is something in there that is hardwired to put it in the middle of the lower door. Maybe a bug report or maybe that is how they have it programmed to do. If none of this helps I would recommend uploading the plan file or the offending symbol to see if myself or others can figure it out.

Glad that helped. Think the mark solution button messed up on you.

Can you post a picture of what you are looking for?

Open up the Individual doors in the Front/Sides/Back Panel.

Just to add about the edit toolbar as Dermot alludes to here. You can move it to a different location instead of the lower bar, i.e. left or right side bars. But sounds like if you are having issues with the size and "real estate" the edit bar takes up that you are using either a small monitor or a laptop. Highly recommend getting a larger dual monitor setup for everyday work. I love my twin 28" BenQ 4k monitors. I undock my Project Browser, ALDO, and Library browser leaving them on my right screen with room for reference material and have very customized toolbars that leave me plenty of "real estate" on the left screen to draw. There are lots of posts on the forums about setups and what works best for each person is always going to be different but lots of pros on the forums have shared what works for them for a reference.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00933/creating-an-attic-truss.html Here is a pretty good write up.

Hard to see with the standard rendering. Turn on vector or line overlay on standard for better pix. As it’s hard to see in that pic just want to confirm that you have that applied as a wall cap. That is one continuous wall and not broken at the door and the foundation wall below it is continuous and aligned properly and is square 90degrees?

Glad that was helpful. To give back to future users who may be searching for this you can mark the one that answers your question as the solution as well as mark other pertinent and helpful answers with upvotes and likes as well.

I assume you mean Luke? Who uses Chief. There is Cox Obrock @johnny who still has Chief and I believe still has an engineer on staff. I have been working with another engineer out of Seattle who doesn’t use Chief but I do the drafting for him on my projects. If you want his info let me know and I am happy to pass it along.

Both steps to the inner wall were necessary and would take care of the issue.