rgardner

It appears from your picture your side walls are not the same on your bay window. Looks like a different angle...

Glad you liked that approach. It can be pretty fast.

I would recommend using a cabinet to model it then. There are other ways to do it manually placing trim and material regions but a cabinet will be faster in my opinion.

Not 100% sure I am following what you are trying to accomplish. Is it just a decorative panel? If so use a Cabinet and customize it to the sizes you want at say 3/4" deep. Same idea of doing wainscot inside.

Try a little copy and paste in place, convert new to simple polyline, convert to molding polyline.

You can show the doors at least in this view but not the swing arc. Sliding doors are also troublesome. A work around is to send it to layout with the doors not shown open like this and then overlay a line drawing with the slice set showing the doors/windows in a plot lines type directly over the first. You will then be able to see it all. Sorry Don't have time to show you what I mean but it is possible I believe. This type of view is not very common in the US market so I doubt it is high priority for chief. This just happened to be a personal project for a close friend in Central America where this is common and they wanted to see it.

BIG GUESSES here since we don't have the plan to look at. 1.) Are you manually manipulating walls to get the shape and height you want? 2.) How are you setting up those "Dormer" Alcoves? More manually shaping walls? A couple of assumptions being made here but my best guess says you tend to work a lot of times in 3d mode with walls and forcing them to shape how you want them to do. That is generally a bad practice to have. In 99% of the cases if you have to reshape a wall it is because you have something not setup to work the way chief has designed it to work. Also try to use the auto tools as much as possible in Chief. They play nicely together especially when all walls have that default top and bottom height buttons checked... As a side note, neat looking little place. One small observation. Are those stairs engineered to hang from the exterior wall? Because if not you don't appear to have enough room to fit the stair stringer, a doorway of that height, and a header for the door in the space showing. Best of luck on the rest of your plan!

Search for Cross-Section Slider.

Please start your own question instead of hijacking another one. It will get you better results as well as not cause problems for the OP’s questions. btw the defaults are what you set them to be.

Bonus search term reference layers

A lot of times an unknown or even known chase will be designated in 2d floor plan with a closed x polyline.

Did you know there is actually a pergola already done and saved as a symbol that looks almost identical to this in the library? Very similar anyways if I remember right.

Very Easy to do. Do one side set it up properly then copy and paste about to mirror to the other side.

Sorry you have totally lost me at least with your description. I would say reattach your plan file.

Open below. btw that is just showing drywall on the side of the joists that you are not showing in that picture.

Delete your ceiling finish

Best advice I received when I started. open the dbx of the item and hit that help button. Huge resource of information there. While there search for just crosshairs or cursor and see what it says. F1 key is magic!

You have 7 floors setup in your plan. Every time you added a floor you selected blank instead of allowing chief to autobuild the walls. If this is what you want then go draw your walls where you want them (hint use reference layer to see where the walls below are as well as the align with wall below tool.) If you want them to autobuild go delete floors 3-7 and BUILD a new floor but look at the dbx that pops up when you do it.

open the stairs dbx and look around about connecting sections.

You can also grab the little diamond on the plan view and just slide the door all the way open in plan view which will do the same in 3d view. Of course the open door tool in 3d also works but will only open it as far as you have it set either way.

Just to note what Erik is showing here is a section with auto detail which will show the two different wall heights as two walls, so you can just delete the polyline with concrete fill above and pull the one below up in section view and it will look right.

Turn auto rebuild roofs back on.

Yes in a way. You would need to open the wall description and input the R-value of the wall. You would set your material list to report in area for insulation. This is where it gets tricky and would be best to do with just a cad block for sections. If you are showing in 3d even more work but still doable. When you do a section you will have to manually place a symbol indicative of rigid insulation (I generally use the same color blue as chief natively uses and set as solid with a note calling out r value/thickness. Otherwise the auto detailing will place the standard batt insulation in the wall cavities. These can just be selected and changed to the solid fill instead.

Did you do this drawing using a metric template?