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Hope this helps ...and the pitches are different as well

Yeah might not exist but not sure why you want to use it? Is the task more complex than joining the roof planes? There are 3 different pitches which does complicate things but have never tried the approach you're undertaking. Can't suggest a method to help with that direction. Good luck. Curious, is that a technique that another program might use? New to me. Again good luck.

Looks like he's trying to specify a roof edge's angle not the slope angle, but could be missing something...

I just googled "join roof planes Chief Architect" and got these simple explanations.... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/724/joining-roof-planes.html

Have you tried using the join roof plane tool? It will automatically join roof planes and figure all the appropriate angle for you. Select one roof plane edge, press the '2' key and select the other roof plane edge and see what happens. And yes it is considered a common courtesy on this forum to post your plan so people can truly help with your unique situation. Another note if the problem you are posting is truly about using Chief's roof join tool then you really need to watch some videos or check the help files as it's one of the basic Chief tools that you should learn yesterday....

Funny, I'm thinking there's not a huge buzz here because most of the prolific posters are probably on the Beta team and already know what's new...as always hopes are high, expectations low....

Thanks for the link. Seems like a decent post candidate for the announcement forum no? Looking forward to seeing what's new...

Yeah they can be bit tricky but once you get the hang of them they make creating a terrain at least possible...

Elevation regions are very flexible and can create various elevations and terrains. NOT useful for entering hard data but for the 'look' you need, quite useful. Plan is attached in case it's useful for someone.... ELEVATION LINES 2.plan

Elevation regions are really very, very flexible for every elevation challenge.

Thanks Mick, I knew there was an explanation even I could understand...

Yes elevation regions as suggested above are much more cooperative.

A good question. I have no idea how elevation lines are designed to work in Chief but certainly not in a way that works within the logic of my mind. That's why I never use them, never understood them, and always use elevation regions instead. Here's what I get when setting your defined scenario. Someone, somewhere probably understands why a zero elevation line doesn't remain a zero elevation line, most likely the brilliant (and I am NOT being sarcastic) software engineers at Chief but unfortunately I am not a software engineer so the logic simply escapes me.

Good points all. The main benefit for me and using Plan Views is that more than one Plan View can be open at a time in a tab, instead of the past where switching between Anno Sets would force one to close before another opened. The one other benefit is when using a foundation Plan View and being able to switch to that foundation floor via the setting in the Plan View instead of the old Anno only method of switching Anno Sets then switching floors every time the foundation was shown. I used to have a single floor set for each other Plan View but all my floor plans (except foundation) are now set to 'use any floor'. Easier to switch floors for me with the plan floor icon than set up new Plan Views for each floor. Also never have, nor do I think I will, use the zoom feature for a plan view. Just sayin'...

Lol, that's going on my tombstone "I Almost Got it" Thanks for the clarification and overall help...

See if that vid explains it a bit as I had your same question....

Apologies in advance if I'm not getting it either but I THINK I understand how to by-pass Anno Sets and what Michael is talking about...

Thanks Rene, Really nice to see how other brains use Chief's tools. I'm pretty old school with Chief's layout tools but again really appreciate your look at things....

I think that's pretty much it but there might be a trick or nuance missing. I'm all ears/eyes....

Yeah my questions are kinda like that...just can't see how to save a plan view without a specific Anno Set? That Anno Set drop down in the Plan View dbx seems like it's requiring a specific Anno Set? No? That's the part I'm not getting. How do I save a Plan View without a specific Anno Set? Thanks

A better worded version of my question above...

Hey Michael, Curious about your comment above and love the idea if it truly simplifies things but I was just exploring Plan Views and it looks like there's a drop down >Annotation Set>Currently Using: and can't seem to find a way to use an Anno Set in that drop down that does not choose the Layer Set as set up in that currently selected Anno set? Without using Anno Sets, which is what I am reading you are suggesting, how are they by-passed within this drop down? Thanks and hope you're well...

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Sorry Rob, I've been using Chief for 20 years and do not understand the structure DBX well enough to do this the proper way or at least in a way that looks OK in section. Tried a couple methods and remembered how utterly useless that dbx is. Good luck...

What kind of foundation? Slab? Crawl space?