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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.

Try a cross section through the beam and use a cad detal from view to get the view of the beam. Then you can detail it there.

Without using the truss base tool to show where the overframe portion needs to be just like using a framing indicator and joist indicator it won't know where to do it. I am not at my work computer so don't have chief available to look at the specifics though. I messed with it very quickly in beta but don't have a ton of time in it.

and/or depending on case need you will also need a "Truss Base".

Framing group?

For the Mac side of things: 1.) Within Finder right click on any layout file and choose get info. 2.) With the get info dbx that pops up, one of the options is to open in and gives you a drop down of typical options, if your version of Chief is not listed there use the other options and it will open your programs folder. Select the Chief product you want to open it with. 3.) In the same section below where you associate that file is the option to open all of those files with that option. Select that and from then on you should be able to open them directly into Chief.

Adjusted the lines to show it clearer for you but there is the way to accomplish what you want.

To get them into a schedule you are going to have to add some custom Fields to your roof planes and then show them in your schedule: You can add Global macros or custom ones. Use a Object information macro pointed to the edge of a roof plane to see what can be added. But globally you can get all of these:

Probably not going to get you alot of assistance if you are talking badly about other users especially power users who give a lot of their time to this forum.

Dont have the time to download and review but looks like it is probably the ceiling height in the open to below room where your stairs are at that is pushing the auto roof to build it up. Do a cross section and figure out where the top plate needs to be then set your "ceiling height" at that in the stair room.

Hard to say without having the plan but biggest culprits are imported symbols. Even if you have alot of chief symbols it can get bigger pretty quick. Big models are many times over 100mb though. Just depends on the amounts of surfaces that the 3d model has to render.

Also doesn't need to be downloaded onto everyone's computer who wants to help. I many times will scroll on by so this is great advice from Eric to get yourself more help in the future.

Once you have them selected open them all together and have a look at the schedules panel of the dbx…

Did you happen to change your selection fill color in preferences to the same as your background or white?

Key to using Chief in general. Accuracy and build the model like you would build the structure!!!