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I am Greatly disappointed in this!  I have been a user since 1997 (Chief 97)

I upgraded from every other year to every few years.  I was doing fine with Chief V9.54 but when I had to leave Windows XP and go to Windows 10 Chief V9.54 wouldn't work so that forced me to X11 (Which I will say has been a mostly nice upgrade). But very costly upgrade.

I am a general contractor and draw my projects from small project shop drawings to permitted house plans with as many as 6 or 7 pages.  I just need to create permittable drawings, and give the customer some basic 3D views of what the project will look like, I'm not trying to win any art shows.  Now I am going to be forced to pay $600 a year and achieve no greater benefit!  Will be even worse when the economy tanks and there's nothing to draw and still have to pay out that $600 a year!

It seems similar to some of these companies that turnout products that won't last half as long as they used to so you have to buy a new one.

What happened to the days when you could buy something and it last a long time.  Now they try to keep you on the hook so they keep getting money from you!  To heck with this subscription crap!

Sorry for the late response, I have the forum set to notify by email when a post is made but never got the notification.

Thank you both for your time.

That worked perfect Levis.

I draw a 2" circle fill it solid and put it on the default cad layer, because I want it to show up on all pages. (the only thing I put on default cad layer is cad I will not turn off)

Since most of my jobs are ICF I put dimensions for dowel locations and put them on the "Dimensions, Foundation" layer, since I don't want the dimensions to show up on any other page.

I take an extra step and instead of a dimension line I use text to locate the dowel from a corner (kinda like a running dimension) that way the guy in the field can pull his tape and mark ea dimension without having to do any calculating.

I thought I stumbled on it once but was unable to get back.

I tried a search here with no luck.

The closest thing I found was the octagon arch or dog ear arch but I need the two sides to match the slope with no flat top, as pictured.

Thanks,

Jim

On 7/1/2015 at 5:11 PM, pazzfam said:

Locking the wall normal worked great Thank You

Thank you, (maybe a 5yr old thread but helped me a lot today) I was having the same issue, placing dowels in the wall.  I went from v9.54 to X11.  Lot of nice new stuff, but miss a lot of old stuff.

Now hopefully I will remember later that it's locked and not wonder why I can't move my walls. LOL

6 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

One Idea........If you put the Macro      %scale%     in a Text Box in Plan (not Layout) you won't need the ruler as you zoom in and out....

 

M.

 

Can you explain how this is done please.

2 hours ago, glennw said:

I don't get why you are measuring off the monitor.

I would have thought that using Drawing Sheet Setup and Print Preview would give you everything that you need.

I have never heard of anyone measuring the off the monitor.

That would not give you an accurate idea of how things would look when printed anyway, because the screen and the printer use different resolutions.

It is just a quick check to make sure the font and or detail is readable at that size, when at scale.

No scratching the monitor it's just a small flexible ruler.

Is there a tool that will allow you to click and display the page you are on at scale?

I usually just take a ruler and zoom in or out till it is at scale, to confirm that I will like it when it gets printed.

Thanks,

Jim

58 minutes ago, DavidJPotter said:

The thing you must understand about Chief Premier is that it is pre-programmed along particular lines and if those pre-programmings do not fit what you are doing then you must preset things to arrive where you wish them to. Chief Premier is in the end, just a mechanical drawing device which must be guided to all reasonable results only by the end-user. No pure Automaticity can ever perfectly read the users mind. Simple Auto-Build roofs operate on default settings or custom end-user settings only. It is damn fine Architectural software but it is not and never be "perfect" by those that use it.

 

DJP

I totally understand that, but I have no desire to do something manually if it will do it automagically.  Because if something changes than I got to go back and fix that.

This program is way beyond my capability to use it, so I didn't know if there was a preset that I had not accessed to attain my goal.

1 minute ago, tommy1 said:

"automatic build as much as possible". Yes, it has been mentioned many times that an auto built roof is a good starting place, then manually fix as needed. You're talking about a very short time to manually fix it. Auto roofs don't always do what you want as you're finding out.

And it may well be that way.  I was just hoping someone knew if I was missing something. 

10 hours ago, solver said:

You are not being very helpful 

 

 

That indicates same fascia heights.

 

Not when the pitches are different.  I don't know how to simplify my first post any more than it already is.

Yes that is how the fascia should look. but you raised the floor/wall height to achieve that and it appears the pitches are the same.

If wall heights are the same, o.h. is the same, heel heights normal, pitches are different the fascia can not be level.  This is what I want with autobuild roofs.

The fascia to be different heights.

Ya but I would've still had to give description of my issue.

I have the "same height eaves" unchecked.

And if I uncheck the "same roof height at ext wall" it still makes the fascia the same height, although it does keep the same amount of o.h. which is better but still not what I need.

Overhang at inside corner, 2 different pitches, main pitch 6", other pitch 3" , same wall heights. Automatic roof build.

It is expected that the fascia elevations are different, the wall heights have to stay the same and o.h. stays the same.

Program keeps making the fascia elevations the same by extending the overhang of the 3" pitch out, regardless of what the o.h. setting.

Yes I can manually pull the roofs back but I prefer to utilize the automatic build as much as possible so I don't have to keep fixing something if a change is made.

Thanks,

Jim