rgardner

A couple of things to add to this great thread. 1.) If you keep your sink cad blocked with the cabinet they will not show up in a schedule if you happen to need to do a detailed plumbing schedule 2.) When placing a sink or other plumbing item that I know I need to show on my foundation reference I will also place a marker at the sink drain location on their own layer off in everything except the reference layer, this gives me a dimension-able point. 3.) If you use the trick to hide the base cabinet line and use my point #2 here you will have the best of both worlds without the schedule possibility.

As this will show you can place the sink outside of the cabinet then drag it into the cabinet.

Look up the Wall Hatching tool.

Same concept but you either turn off auto rebuild roof framing or you leave the ceiling plane as opening no material. BTW good information to share originally. Also pictures and plan files really help you get accurate information. Another tip is to fill out your signature line with which version you have and some details regarding your system to help the guesses.

Place a manual ceiling plane at 8” place your trusses and once they are set then lock them. You can either set the ceiling plane to opening no material or delete it after if you lock the trusses from rebuild.

You will need to create a custom stair rail panel and use it.

Unblock it before resizing

Similar idea of best practice as Joey mentions however I would use a wall niche for the slot opening instead of just a cad line. And I would probably draw a cad line to the shape, break the wall and shape it to that line then convert that line into a molding line for the top trim piece.

I have personally seen this as the case 95% of the time as very few are any good and even a lot of times it is faster for me to trace a picture of the plan than actually use the DWG provided and cad to walls as I find the time is about the same and tracing and setting everything up allows me to get a better feeling for the project. Just to point out that pdfs embedded into a plan file does take up a lot of memory so try converting a pdf to .png file first and then importing it. Now if its a basic one or you are going to delete after tracing walls for example it may not affect you but I will usually leave it on a separate imported layer myself and turn it off after done in case I want to refer to it later on for some reason.

Do a search for framing material.

Just as an FYI from a long time Flooring Industry Expert as you should never take the flooring takeoff for sheet vinyl or carpet too close to the takeoff amount. Even though it may be 1000 square feet you may actually need 1400-1600 square feet as they come generally in 6' and 12' rolls and there is patterns to take into account and layout.

There are lots of variables but 99% of the time it is your wall definition not set to align to the right points. Without a plan or pictures of the wall definitions for both your foundation walls and upper walls no one will be able to definitively help you.

Hard to tell how you did your brick ledge from the pics but would be my guess of why it is not working properly. I believe you will need to include your plan file (make sure you close out of chief before adding it) to get accurate help.

Open the material for that wall in plan instead of library and rename it to 1/2” stucco.

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?