JiAngelo

The text box is too narrow. Set it to auto width. And unless you speak Hindi change "shelfves" to shelves.

For #2, send the full plan @ 1'=100' to SK4 On SK4 select the oversized layout box and copy in place. Select one of the boxes and move it right or left until both boxes are side by side. Select bottom of left box and crop up to midpoint. Select top of right box amd crop down to midpoint. Keep left on SK4 move right to SK5. Now whatever you draw will appear on the proper page. To align the boxes on each page. Set the box on SK4 where you want it. Draw a control line starting at the upper right corner off at a 45 degree angle. Copy and paste in place to SK5. Move box on SK5 to match upper right corner with starting point of your line. (Draw a temp line on your plan so you know which items are appearing on SK4 vs SK5, and this will also let you know if you need to adjust the matchpoint location.) For #1, open up a cad detail box. Draw your "map scale with bar graph" to real world dimensions 1" = 25', 50', 75', 100', 200' Send this to each layout page at 1"=100' and it should match and serve as a map scale for your subdivision layouts.

What if you raise the ceiling height, mull the Unit then lower the ceiling height?

You beat me to it Eric. Additionally you can use a pony normal wall at 6" for the sill (turn off baseboard) and add thresholds to the panels to create a sill cap. Don't check railing and glass will appear above. Units can be mulled.

Looks good. Just need your beams, simpson straps & ties, and pier footings

The county GIS maps, if you are downloading them in dxf format contain the bearing and distance informations in the lines themselves. Turn on distance and angles for each line and set cad to decimal feet and quadrant bearings. Like @SHCanada2 said in Chief you draw real world dimensions. The send to layout whatever scale you desire. Here's a 34 lot subdivision I drew in Chief. The engineer and I traded dxf files back and forth during the course of construction. So now Chief includes all the sewer, water, gas lines. I was even able to get dxfs from the electrical company for all their transformers and conductor line routes.

Change the pitch on your new 3 walls to 2/12. That should keep you under your other windows. Slowly raise pitch until it is the max height you want it to be. (Pitches don't have to be whole numbers, FYI) Second, draw the room 2' to the right of where you want it to be. This will help you get the roof right, then you can move the walls 2' left once you like what you see. Third, keep the new room separate from the existing porch. You need to keep the original left wall a gable and the new left wall needs to be hipped. Keeping the existing front porch wall there makes sure the change in roofing stays aligned.

That's some next level thinking. I've always done it as @JKEdmo explained it. Thanks.

HELPFUL #1 The files we receive from surveyors are based on the distance from a state plane's origin (0,0, altitude). There are 124 state planes in the US. Long story short, they eliminate having to account for the curvature of the earth over longer distances. Here in Ohio we have two state planes, 3401 and 3402. We build in both. A plot plan created and exported for 3401 will appear correctly on a gis map (including google) if you tie it to 3401 state plane. We have a new project in 3402 out near Lake Choctaw, London Ohio. We shot the property pins. Imported DXF to Chief, drew our plot plan, foundation, driveway location and then exported a dxf from Chief and imported it into our 3402 based project file. We walked the site last week, verified the property pins still matched up amd then staked our foundation and driveway centerlines. Here's what happens when you import the dxf into a 3401 based project. Notice the plot plan appears up in Toledo Ohio on Rogers street, southwest of the intersection of Woodville Rd & Navarre Ave. Thats how helpful the origin is in this instance.

I thought when you stacked compression methods the result needed to be decompressed in reverse order.

Send to layout a view of the macro working as intended in the plan file and place that where you want it to show on the layout pages

Gene, I have a couple of plans like that. I rename the cameras and just remember the orientation is reversed when inputting or offset copy, move It generally happens when I design a home across the street from another I previously built.

Is the plan open in X16 by chance?

Is there more than one room above? And if so are you opening the room below to change the stem wall height? I believe you can't change the stemwall height from a room above's dbx due to the presence of multiple rooms.

@Renerabbitt very impressive.