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@Doug_N I think you are doing it the hard way. You don't need to manually assemble your railing using 3D solids. Just select one of your sloped top balusters, convert it into a millwork symbol, and then just replace your default balusters with your new symbol. Boom, fully auto now. I think the stacked railing is a good way to handle the top rail but in my previous picture I cheated by just using the bottom rail and moved it up where I wanted it.

You can't make the back of a cabinet sloped, at least not very easily. In this case I would just make a 3/4" deep cabinet to represent the front face. If you really need to show the shelves behind it, then I would just create them manually. If you absolutely need to show exactly how that cabinet would be built, then you could probably model the various parts with polyline solids.

You can use as many of these buttons as you want all setup to place different objects..

You can't add or remove buttons from the electrical drop-down toolbar or menu. Only Chief can do that. You do have some control over what gets placed for these tools though. Take a look at your electrical defaults. You can assign whatever library objects you want to use for them. Keep in mind that each electrical tool can place one of several electrical defaults depending on where you click. For everything else, you can get it from the library when you need it. If it is something you need to place often, you could always create a custom library button for it. Take a look here for more info: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00811/customizing-toolbars.html#library

I used a negative offset for the bottom of the railing to drop the balusters down. I used the horizontal offset for the whole railing to get the balusters to mount to the outside of the deck. I hijacked the bottom rail to make it a vertical 2x4 and moved it up and in to mount under the top rail. I turned off the newel posts.

Are you still on X13? If so, then there is no easy way to do this. This can be done in X15 just using the various settings in the railing dialog.

Based on the walls being yellow, my guess is that it was started with a very old version of Chief that did not have saved plan views. It was probably brought forward and then saved in X15 without ever adding/importing any saved plan views. You could import the saved plan views you want using "file/import". You could also just create them on the fly as needed by setting up the views you want to save and then saving them. This is super easy in principle but if the plan doesn't have proper layer sets or default sets it can be a bit of a pain. You could also just "old school" it and not use saved plan views but if you have never worked this way before you probably won't like it.

You need to change the text style being used for the "fixtures, labels" layer. If your using X15 defaults, then it is probably the "default label style".

Instead of steps 1-3, you could also just use the "edit all roof planes" tool. The other thing you can do now in X15 is just create a custom schedule and set it to include roof planes. Then just add the column for surface area and the totals row.

Open the note schedule and take a look at the "object preview options". Are both schedules set to "use plan view scale"? If so then they should be the same size and the size comes from the size of the notes in your plan. If they are not, then the size comes from the column width which also determines the row size. If this doesn't help, then you probably need to post the plan.

Look for the "reverse direction" tool. It works for most things like cad lines, walls, and even stairs.

Eric's answer in the other thread only works if you are using X15. In X14, you need to use the "open symbol" and go to the "sizing" page and then type in the width you want.

As far as I can tell, free floating sinks work fine in auto or custom counters.

Seems like a lot of silliness to me. If you want more than one sink, just place them free floating in the plan and drag them on top of the cabinet. Done. *eyes rolling back into the top of my head so far I think they might be stuck now*

Then you should post your X12 plan.

Try opening up your preferences and changing your "color off is" setting from "grayscale" to "black and white".

I think you need to post the plan for help with this.

I would just create the bottom frame and shelf using other tools, such as poly solids or maybe even soffits/shelves, and then either block them or convert them into a symbol. Then I would just have the vanity cabinet sit on top of it,

You might not need to create a blank template page because you can always just choose "none" for the template. Now if you want some pages to use one template and other pages to use another template (that actually has something on it), then I would create a new template and assign the pages I want to use it.

I think the way it works is that the program will cut a hole in the terrain based on the building envelope for the floor the terrain is on. This will only happen if "hide terrain intersected by building" is checked in your terrain spec dialog. Sometimes moving the terrain to a better floor works but sometimes it doesn't, for example when the building has a stepped foundation on multiple floors. For all cases where the terrain hole isn't the shape you need, you can convert the auto hole into a manual one using the "make terrain hole about building" tool and then manually edit the shape. You can also just draw a terrain hole wherever you want.

Your zip file is empty. This means that you probably had the plan open when you tried to make it.

I think it does. If you open the window defaults and change the level back to 0, the doors will then work correctly. I have been burned by this before so my rule is never change the default stacking level.

In your window defaults, your "vertical stacking level" is 1. Change it back to 0. I think doors are always on level 0 so if you draw a dimension while on level 1 it won't pick up any openings that are on different levels. This is also why your doors are light grey instead of normal. You might also want to change any existing windows back to 0 as well if you want your dimensions to pick them up.

Try switching the drop down from whatever you are currently on to "linear length". My guess is that you have it set to something else. Here are a couple of tech articles that might help explain how this works: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/category/59/materials-list.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00095/creating-a-cut-or-buy-list-of-framing-materials.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00510/controlling-the-information-that-s-displayed-in-a-materials-list.html

Wrong on the screen? Or wrong when sent to layout? Or wrong when sent to a pdf? When you say "certain drawings", do you mean plan views, elevation views, cad details, or on a layout page? The reason I ask all of these questions is because depending on when and where this is happening it could be caused by a completely different problem. For example, if it is only wrong on the screen then it might be video card related but if it is only wrong when sent to a pdf then it is probably pdf driver related. You should either post the plan on the forum or get back with tech support.