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1/8” = 1” or 1 1/2” = 1’-0” Either way pretty big...

Had this happen one time and changing the glass to another type (from regular to grey or...) worked that one time to fix it... But I do it so rare this way it was a long time ago.

So turn off framing in that camera. Yes you can. Use a Polyline to do the cropping with a white line or no line border and solid background fill and place that over the whole elevation. Use the hole in polyline tool to open the part you want seen then do your annotations normally (may need to use the Draw order to make sure the text, arrows, dimensions etc. are on top of the polyline in draw order but you get the gist. I use this for specialized cad details for something I am not going to use again and have a "live" cad detail for one aspect from a camera on a separate layer that is turned off in all views . This is basically how the new functionality of x13 is supposedly working automatically.

Place it into the plan first then move it to the cabinet.

Anything like this goes on the plan as see engineers design (I usually have an idea of what it is going to be based on the area and past experience but it is always done by an engineer.) I do however do the drafting for several of the engineers that my clients use so often times need to detail this out in chief according to the engineer's specifications.

Try framing the wall and opening up an individual framing member and look at the options it can be? For example a post can be lumber, Englsh lumber, steel square or round, concrete, etc.

Hard to tell without a plan but by the look of things the roof planes are not properly joined. Looks like they are overlapping slightly.

BTW you can change the white in the shelving by changing the 2d part of the symbol. Personally I like the white. I also modified that symbol to put stretch planes on the shelf part of the symbol so that when it was stretched it doesn't distort the hangers. You only have to place one one each wall that way and when you stretch it the hangers stay to one end.

That is the easy way but as Levi mentions the filled poly line in a drawing group behind the hatching gives it through the openings.

Use the wall hatching tool and a poly line with background color set to right level with draw order tool.

I don’t believe there is a way to do it automatically but you can manually force a layer by using a psolid or a slab set to gravel and manually positioned and cutout around footings... if not using it to figure material though I would think a 2d cad detail add in on your cross sections would be enough?

Without opening the plan I can tell you that it is because one of the roof planes is not connected to the other and is possibly not coplanar. Use the adjoin roof plane tool to get them to join together properly. BTW Chief has a pretty good auto-roof tool once it is learned how to be used. Some very complex roofs can be done automatically without any adjustments at times. Saves a lot of time once you learn how to use it. Let Chief do the heavy lifting and make necessary adjustments at the end.

Perhaps an addition to the suggestion would be an option in a railing wall to have a defined trim at the floor level where we could specify a Stair nosing Trim (and apron if wanted) at the floor level where the finish flooring would go up to it??? It should be easily programmable since the wall cap molding can be an automatic. Just place it at the base of the wall not the top of the wall.

I am assuming you double checked the size for the fascia trim for that roof planes as I am guessing you are still drawing manually? Almost looks like there is a faint line there but hard to see in standard view.

You can use a molding line in place of the crown molding for where cabinets cross two rooms like in this case where you have as Mark mentioned most likely a half wall below that point delineating another room.

Did you try searching the help file? Maybe for something called “toggle sunlight”...

Hard to tell but possibly you have reference layer view setup showing the foundation walls below? Probably best to upload your plan file otherwise we are just guessing on this one.

Don’t use this rather set your ceiling for the second floor to be 1.5” (sill height) use non flat ceiling for that attic truss storage room. Place manual ceiling plane.

I am confused with what you are describing here. Maybe a terminology issue. Can you post some screen grabs to clarify?

When you are in that dbx did you notice the help button at the bottom? It will guide you to direct information for what you are looking for.

I understand what you mean with some of these cases and can see the merit. Obviously every case would be different, my first thought when reading the OP was to use the reverse plan tool as it wouldn't cause those issues with the electrical, but I guess I assumed the following in this case: I just rename the cameras obviously and don't really see this as much of an issue as after renaming them and flipping things around and moving them on the layout It might take like 5 minutes to get it corrected. I guess I figured as I don't really do my site plan until the end of construction documents (my personal workflow) that this wouldn't be an issue. But that being said you move your site plan around your model not vice versa. Definitely some merit on this concern and I don't use the reverse tool often enough to have ever noticed this but I just did a test and it reverses it in the exact same X/Y Axis points so that is actually not necessary but worth investigating to make sure as some of the super long McMansions could definitely cause an issue in 3d if that was the case. Maybe you have some points I am not thinking about why these are big concerns?

I must be misunderstanding what’s being looked for. Is there a reason not to use the reverse plan tool?

Also screen capture to clipboard and paste into the comment section.

If they are lined up then the problem is the wall definition is building the foundation to a different point. My guess is most likely they are not lined up as the railing wall is probably slightly set back. The foundation builds to the layer of the wall that is defined in the wall definition box.

Glad it worked out for you. For you to know. There are two options in the layout view to refresh the views. One in the top Menu bar that is Refresh all views (with option for live views or all views). The other option shows up when you select the layout box in the edit menu at the bottom and looks like a black circle with arrows which will refresh that view.