DBCooper

My guess is that you created the terrain perimeter on the second level and that is why it displays there. Was that your intent? If not, then you can remove it and put it on the first level. If that was what you wanted and you want it to display on other floors, then you can always show it using the reference display (as suggested by Joe).

You can only see a stair on the floor below if you have an open below room (or stairwell). You can either make this room using the "auto stairwell" tool or you can make it manually just using the railing tools and then mark the room as an open below. I usually start with the auto stairwell tool and then manually adjust as needed.

Just to be clear, there is no way that I know of to actually convert an imperial plan into metric or vice versa. You can modify the dimensions to display in metric or even both if you like. Just follow Doug's instructions above. Under the hood everything will still be in imperial units and you will see this in all of the dialog boxes. If you need to actually convert the plan into metric, you would need to redraw it starting with a metric template plan.

Nope, it's all or nothing with the automatic labels. You could manually place your own text boxes but that hardly seems worth it just to get some partial transparency.

This might just be me... but wouldn't those asymmetric windows look better if they were mirrored?

Assuming that everything is a solid, then yes, you can make a notch. Basically, you build another piece for the notch using a solid, move it into the proper position, and then use the poly subtract tool.

That's because the original post is over 7 years old and the program has changed a bit since then. You can now have as many different reference floors as you like. The draw order is determined by the order in the table. You can change the order in the table using the "move up" and "move down" buttons.

I don't think Chief likes having one camera view sent to two different layout boxes using different layer sets. It looks like when you update the plot lines that it wants to use the layer set from the camera view and not the one from the layout box and so it updates both views. I'm not sure if anything changed from X15 or not but I have always used a one camera for every layout box rule and not had this problem. It's pretty easy to copy cameras now so it should be easy to fix.

Post the plan then.

Have you tried using the "find objects on layer" tool? Just open up the ALDO and right click on the layer you want to delete.

It just looks like your ramp is too short. It's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like the top of your ramp is level with the porch. If it's not level, then you need to raise or lower the top height so it is. For an ADA ramp, your ramp will need to have a 1:12 slope. If your subfloor is 36" above the terrain, then your ramp will need to be at least 36' long. This is assuming that your terrain is flat. If your ramp needs to meet the terrain at a lower point, then it will need to be even longer than 36'. You could also make it steeper but then it probably wouldn't meet code.

Turn off automatic heights in the ramp dialog and then you can set the height to whatever you want.

I think you can do that with a custom macro. See this thread for an example of how: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/43125-ruby-script-help

I am using the latest update (26.3), and it seems to be working fine for me. I even tried it with the same tools you used in the first video (soffit and cad defaults) and it worked exactly how I expected it to. Not sure why it wouldn't work the same for you but maybe it is related to some setting somewhere?

In your picture, your schedule only has two schedule numbers listed (W01 & W02), but your plan has a bunch of other schedule callouts. Like Brett, I would bet that you have another schedule somewhere. Select the window in your plan with the W03 and then use the "find schedule from object" tool to find it. If that doesn't help you solve the problem, then you should probably post the plan.

So I get the same behavior as you. If I change the layer for a wall so it does not have the "default" checkbox set, then any attic walls will be set to the same layer. I am guessing that they did this on purpose so that if you want to hide the main wall that the gable wall will hide with it.

See if checking the option for "use soffit surface for ceiling" in the room dialog gives you what you want.

Could be lots of things so probably best to post the plan.

Check what layer set your plan view is using. Maybe you accidently changed it to something that isn't displaying anything.

I don't know if or how ColePOC solved their problem but it it's happening for you on every plan than it sounds more like a system/install issue. You probably need to contact tech support.

You can control how lengths and angles are displayed in dialog boxes by clicking on the "number style" button in any dialog. This does not affect plan views and is reset every time you start the program. To change how lengths and angles display in plan views, I think you need to change it in the general cad defaults.

Try this, draw 2 cad lines and select them both. If you don't see the "make cad block" tool, then there is something wrong. Maybe you are not actually using Chief Architect Premier? If you are, then you might want to post your plan or call tech support. If you get the make cad block tool for 2 lines but not for some other group of objects, then you probably selected something that can't go into a cad block. Most architectural objects, like cabinets and walls can't go into a cad block.

I don't think just breaking the wall will do it. I think you would have to create different materials with different texture offsets for each room.

Are you still on X11? If not, you should probably update your signature. Here are a few things that may help you (and I *think* they all work in X11): - you can make a cad line or wall perpendicular to an off angle wall using the make parallel/perpendicular tool. - you can always just type in any angle you want in either the wall or line dialog - you can setup allowed angles if you want to have a building that is on a non-standard angle - you can use edit area and transform/replicate or make parallel to move a set of walls to a new non-standard angle - probably some others that I have forgotten as well

I don't know of a way to set the default for roof labels to use a macro. If you want an easy way to change them all at once, you can use the "edit all roof planes" tool. And, to get rid of the white background used for the label, you just need to change the text style that is being used. Check the box for "transparent (not used when fill style available)".