DBCooper

I'm confused about what you want (and no, the pdf did not really help). In the stair dialog, on the "railing" page, you can turn off the railing on either side or the handrail on either side. So, if you want the stair to be open on the left side, you can just turn it off there. Normally, you will automatically get a handrail when a stair is up against a wall. In your picture, you don't have one so the program may not be able to tell your stair is against the wall. If you need help figuring out why, then you probably need to post your plan.

You get to decide how it works by choosing "by block layer" or "by object".

The short answer is yes and no. The program can automatically generate a cross section view but it may not have all of the details you need. You may have to draw some of them yourself using the cad tools. This video might help you get started: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/16/cross-section-elevation-views.html?playlist=102 This tech article has some more info though: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00766/creating-cad-details.html

I think skylights and roof holes were added to schedules back in X13 or X14. So while you couldn't add them automatically in 2016, you can now.

A door in a plan will only use the material from the door defaults when it is set to "use default". If it is set to some other material, then it doesn't matter what you change the defaults to. When you use the material painter on an object, it usually changes the material from "use default" to whatever material you painted on it. You can always tell if something is set to "use default" by opening the dialog and looking at the actual material assignments. Assuming that your doors are set to "use default", then it becomes a question of what door default they are using. The picture you posted shows that you changed your "interior door defaults". Are the doors you have in your camera views actually "interior doors"? You should be able to tell by opening the door dialog and it should say either "interior" or "exterior" in the title bar. There are lots of door defaults and which one gets used depends on what kind of door you have and where it was originally placed. If you originally placed the door in an exterior wall, then it will be using your "exterior door defaults" even if you later move it to an interior wall. And if you change the type from say a hinged door to a garage door, then it will use different defaults. But if you want a better answer, do like Mick suggests and post a copy of the plan.

Yes, and no. There are no defaults for pdf boxes, so no. There are defaults for layout boxes, so yes. But you could also just turn off the layers instead of suppressing them.

Looking at your picture above, the math adds up: 4' 3" + 2' 6" + 3' 9 1/8" = 10' 6 1/8" Your cabinets may be on 3" increments but this doesn't mean they are positioned accurately. Maybe you have some small gaps or even overlaps somewhere along the row. Or, maybe your appliances aren't sized or positioned accurately. You might want to also check to see if both the 2' 6" or the 3' 9 1/8" dimensions are exact. My guess is that this is just a problem with how you have laid things out.

It might have to do with rounding. Depending on your settings, Chief might show a different value for the overall dimension so that all of the inner dimensions will actually add up. You might want to check each of the other dimensions to see if they are actually what you think they should be. If that doesn't help, then post the plan.

You need to make sure partitions are checked in the categories to include on the schedule general panel. I think partitions are always turned off by default (unless you already changed them in your cabinet schedule defaults).

When you get the message asking you if you want to regenerate the 2D cad block, just say no. The cad block will stretch or shrink with the tub and as long as you don't change the size by a lot, it should look fine. I think the reason you are losing the lines when the cad block is rebuilt has to do with the smoothing angle. I was able to get them to show by setting the smoothing angle much smaller but then I was getting extra lines I didn't want.

Try turning on your "filters". My guess is that you have set up a filter that is not finding anything but since your "filters" are turned off you can't clear it.

Hope no one tall needs to use that urinal.

Sounds like more work than just pressing the "s" key to disable the object snaps.

I beg to differ. It's at least tricky enough that it's not obvious to most people. It also only works if "auto adjust lites for component size" is set and you may have to futz around with the component size to get the right number of lites. And what if he wants both panes the same size but a different number of lites? I think you might then need to use custom muntins.

Like Chris said, there are already a bunch available in the core libraries. You can just click on one and start drawing in a plan and then it will automatically be available in the line style drop down list. You can also create your own in the user catalog by right-clicking and choosing "new" and "line style". You can also copy ones from the core library into your user catalog and then modify them. There is a tool to import them using "file import" and choosing "import line styles" but I have never tried this myself. According to help, the file has to be a .lin or .dat file but it doesn't really say anything about the format or how to create one. This all is assuming that you are using Chief Premier because I don't think the other versions have all of these features.

If it's just a one-off cabinet, I would just type in the label you want. If all you want a more accurate width, then just use the %width% built in macro.

If you want 15 lites for each pane, just use 5x3 or 3x5. If you want 15 for both panes, well then that is a bit trickier.

Have you tried just deleting the bottom separation on the cabinet face?

BTW, you can block a single cad line. Just shift select it or marquee select it. Just sayin'. Still might not be able to use it for custom muntins unless it meets the area rules I posted above.

So according to the help file (under "Custom Muntins"): I suspect that your one line cad block doesn't meet these conditions.

If you want one cabinet, you can't specify shelves on the right side, but you can modify the ones for the whole cabinet on the front side so that they will look right through the opening on the side.

Here is the link to the most recent post: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/37840-stair-rise-and-run-information-on-plans/ And when you are searching for something on the forum using two words (like "stair label"), it usually works best to choose the option for "all of my search term words" instead of "any".

So Mark's solution was to lower the pool house by lowering the floor heights. This works but your pool house, pool, and patio area are still not going to sit on the terrain properly because the terrain is sloping through them. (I wasn't the one that downvoted him though because I still thought it was good info.) See first picture below. What I like to do in cases like this is to place a terrain "elevation region" wherever you need a flat place. You need to make sure your elevation lines don't go through the elevation region though because this will cause problems. You can't have conflicting elevation data with different heights in the same region. See second picture.

One of the best things about being able to see all of the online libraries is that you don't have to download them all. I have just been downloading them as I need them. Of course this could be a problem if you regularly work offline.

So it sounds like the problem you are having is that you are getting off-angle lines. Lines are either curved or straight regardless of their angle which is why I was confused by your question. I'm not sure if there are any bugs because this might just be a side effect of the new object snaps that were added for elevations in X15. One thing you might want to do is try holding the "s" key while you are drawing a line. This temporarily turns off object snaps which may help with your problems. If you want to turn off object snaps before you even start drawing a line, you can use "shift-s" but then you will probably want to turn them back on again when you are done. And if you ever think you have found a bug, then you should probably report it to tech support because just hoping "they'll remedy the situation" usually won't solve any problems.