HumbleChief

Can also be done with a railing symbol though the corners remain unresolved. FENCE_RAIL_1.plan

Whoa, had no idea how blissful ignorance can be. Thanks for the example Chris, I'll stick with grid rounding.

Interesting. I'll explore a bit more Thank you.

Wonderful!! Had no idea those settings existed. Changed to distance rounding in Dim Defaults and problem solved. NICE and thank you very much.

Thank you and good call but that did not change anything. Actually the grid snaps were on, as I normally don't use them, to try and fix the issue. Did you try the plan on your computer? Have you ever seen this happen? It's the second time in a recent short while so maybe I changed something somewhere in my template plan file? Baffling.

Saw this once again the other day. Never before, after thousands of dimensions in Chief. Any help greatly appreciated. DIMENSION_QUESTION.plan

If I might dare to summarize. You were gifted Chief XI. Is that Chief X1 or Chief 11? You also have the hardware key that the older software came with and when you 'plug that in' to we can assume a USB port, the key code that should allow you to run X1 (or XI) will not respond and allow you to open Chief? Is that accurate? If not my apologies, if so what I would do is call tech/sales support at Chief, if you haven't already and get their advice. In my experience I have never been denied using older versions (as David attests to above) and they have no specific policy against that usage but the fact you were 'gifted' the software, meaning you are not the original user, may trigger another policy and lessen the willingness of Chief to offer any assistance. If, as the unoriginal user (is that a phrase?) you can get no help from Chief then trying to unlock that hardware key may be the only option. What that 'trying' looks like is difficult to say. Either way good luck and let us know about any progress.

City of San Diego has just changed their submittal process to digital and it seems like there's a few land mines waiting to happen and so far I have not done a digital submission so don't have any experience. Anyone out there submitting digitally? Upsides? Downsides? Thanks

For anyone interested the hard part is getting the first and second floor transition lined up (if the second floor is not added with the transition wall in place) as Chief snaps walls to is own drummer sometimes. I ended up adding the second parapet floor AFTER the wall transition was in place and it preserved and lined the wall transitions correctly.

Thanks Perry, hope you're well! Yeah I figured it out with post above THANK YOU

AHA... Cntrl 'X' the window, move the wall in to position, then cntrl alt 'V' the window back in place. Too easy.

Have a bit of a unique situation. The house has a parapet roof and in the room addition there's a new window that spans the new and old wall transition. If I extend the new wall to its new location the window disappears. No real surprise but am curious how you all would deal with this condition? Thanks WINDOW_TRANSITION_1.plan

Yeah that's been my experience...

I use live views 'update on demand' and don't experience any slow downs - I don't think.

Yeah I can see no down side to color for presentation purposes as your very nice elevation clearly shows. Rob, do you think something like that would print OK in B & W?

...interesting - did not know that.

Curious, do plot line views update? ..and wasn't there a furious debate a few years back about live views, the lack thereof, and the demand they be included in Chief?

Yeah my print shop (which is probably yours as well) does just that and I guess the City could do the same with color sets - print them in B & W - but what would the purpose then be of sending anything in color? I also had an idea that they may not print hard copy at all? The inspector arrives at the job site with the plans on his iPad, does his inspection, signs off and he's out of there. Going to be very interesting to see how the digital submission strategy plays out. Giunea pig anyone?

Yeah big changes in store for submittals in our city (San Diego) and didn't think about sending color prints. The first thought I had was that if the plans will eventually need to be printed any color printing will take the fun out printing costs? But more to the point of your post's question I send 'LIVE VIEWS' (update on demand) in black and white for sections elevation etc. Would love to start using color but don't know if the printing costs (if they are even going to print sets) would be prohibitive.

Nice and a very simple solution for my ACAD designer.

...and that 12" gives enough breathing room for frames and doors and drawers etc.?

GOT IT - nice and thank you

Not sure I understand. A 24" cabinet across the back wall is reduced to approx. 14" across the front. An 18" cabinet is reduced to approx. 8". Is there a 5:12 ratio in there somewhere? When I tried a ratio of different cabinet front lengths it was not consistent across all cab dims. There's another formula I'm looking for. EDIT the answer is here, just didn't get it. Thanks

Difficult to ask this question clearly but am working with an ACAD user who will give me cabinet designs and elevations that produce in 3D for our clients. The 2D elevations are produced at a 90 degree angle to each wall but the cabinets that create the corners cannot remain at their 2D dimensions as they are truncated at the angle in the corner, 22.5 in this case. Curious about a formula that might recreate each remaining length of cabinet after that truncation? Hope the video can clarify the question. Got to be some geometry/trig brains out their that have worked this out? Mark? Thanks

Defaults are plan specific and preferences are global - I think...