JiAngelo

The "Short Panel - Square Grille" stretches to fit the door size. You want the 8' wide look times 2. Unfortunatley Chief doesn't have a Horizontal Panel multiplier like it does for Vertical Panels on the Options DBX. To work around this, Make your door 8' wide to one side. Copy & paste to the side a second 8x9 with no gap between them. (red 2) Then mull the unit together to act as one 16090MU. (red 3) This will give you the look you want. But there is no control over the handles with this symbol. To work around this, Before mulling them together reverse the symbol (bottom of the General DBX) The handles are now inside the garage, which generally doesn't matter since we don't often show interior elevations of the garage. Clopay needs to revamp their Chief library. I hope this helps.

Your windows are on the attic level in the gable wall. This is why they show a negative distance. They are being measured from the attic level. IF you select the left trapezoid and mirror copy it using the window itself and not the doors below, it will appear in the right location. And you can mull all three together. And it shows the same negative distance as the others. I tried mirroring it using the door and it appeared inside the door itself, so it mirrored properly but was attached to the first floor. . .Hope this helps.

Follow @ValleyGuy's instructions. Leave Room Type alone and use it as Chief intended.

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Chief needs a "build group" setting similar to "roof group" setting. Multiplex units could share the same roof group, but rooms belong to different build groups and each gets it's own living area just like detached buildings do in the same plan file. Schedules could be limited by build group or include a column in the schedule like I did with unit no.

Keep the room types their defaults. Open a room dbx. Create new custom schedule categories Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, etc... Create new custom object field "Unit No." Bulk select the rooms inside of Unit 1, open the Room Specification DBX, Schedule and select Custom> "Unit 1". Leave the existing room categories alone. Go to Object Information and enter Field Value 1 for Unit No. Bulk select the rooms inside of Unit 2 and per the instructions above, Custom>"Unit 2" and OI Field Value 2 for Unit No. Keep doing this for each Unit. Now create a room Schedule. For columns/rows add "Unit No." to include. Then on General deselect all room categories. Select only Custom categories > Unit 1, Unit 2, Or Unit 3 OR you can select all of them if you want to see the entire building in one table. (If those are all the custom categories you have, then you can simply select custom to select all.) In the example below I was working on a house, selected 4 rooms on the right side for Unit 1, and 7 rooms on the left for Unit 2. I also used 01 and 02 in case you have over 9 units in a building. You could also use 001, 101, 201, if you had rooms on different floors. This way it doesn't matter if you have 3 kitchens, 3 baths, 9 bedrooms in a building, each gets assigned to its Unit No. I haven't messed with my room defaults and I don't even have to delete what I've done within this plan - my schedules don't group information in that manner. The categories helps you sort/filter a Schedule. But you can't include category on the schedule so that is why you need the Unit No. to identify within each schedule what is being shown to you (a single unit, groups of units, or all units.) Hope this helps.

Based on your blue grid background size and the dimensions shown, did you import "inches" when it should have been "feet" ?

Can you isolate the symbol to its own layer and lock it or hide it? does that help in any way? I actually do the reverse of what you outlined. I insert the building plan 3D model in the terrain plan file. I recently learned you can reference one 3D view of a plan file within another. open your help dialog and type in "the reference display." It will tell you how to reference both floorplans and 3D models from another file. It's pretty slick and I'm slowing adapting to using it instead.

I think you have this "loss of accuracy" reversed. converting from inches to millimeters is accurate as follows 1" and 1/2" require 1 decimal place accuracy (25.4mm & 12.7mm specifically.) 1/4" requires 2 decimal accuracy, (6.35mm) 1/8" requires 3 decimal accuracy (3.175mm) 1/16" requires 4 decimal accuracy. (1.5875mm) Chief won't let you specify 1/32" accuracy. This image has the red boxes drawn in inches. Converting from millimeters to inches is where accuracy becomes a problem. This image has the red boxes drawn to 0 decimal place millimeters. . Notice the loss of accuracy compared to the first image. 25mm doesn't equal 1" -- 25.4mm does. 13mm doesn't equal 1/2" -- 12.7mm does. 7mm doesn't equal 1/4" -- 6.35mm does. 3mm doesn't equal 1/8" -- 3.175mm does. 2mm doesn't equal 1/16" -- 1.5875 does..

Can you place the schedule in a separate cad detail box, then send to layout and rotate the view of that detail box??

It is similar to the other threads instructions. Break the front porch wall into 3 walls. Make the middle wall a gable end wall. Size the middle wall for how wide you want the gable to be.

R602.10.8.2 states bracing is required only for rafters greater than 9.25" above the braced wall panel. Also required for trusses greater than 15.25" above the braced wall panel.

How does your roof venting work if the soffit intake is blocked off?

I had to first delete my ex. library to download a newer library.

Learn something new every day. That took me a minute Rene. I've always had a problem with backsplashes around windows and cooktops that soffits or slabs were cumbersome to address. I like how you can add underlying elements like thinset and backerboard to aid in material list calculations. And I can see using this to quickly to mask some of chief's 3D quirks or situations where adding skirt or molding lines are a bit cumbersome. A minor drawback is that the dbx for slabs, soffits & 3D solids allow one to set a uniform height from floor and the width/height of those objects, If you had door number plaques beside or on each door in a commercial office space, you could select all and change their size and location uniformly. It seems each material region would have to be changed manually via an elevation or 3D view. I also noticed in 3D view selecting multiples gives the highest height from floor value for all as a group, and overall width, but that isn't available when selecting just one. Still a great feature to add to the arsenal. Thanks.