DBCooper

You could create a separate cabinet schedule for each room and then change the "schedule number prefix" to whatever letter you want. As far as changing the order in the schedule, you can just drag schedule rows up and down to sort the schedule how you want. There are also some training videos and support articles about schedules. You mighty want to start with these if you haven't looked at them yet: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/2422/schedules-overview.html

Very strange indeed. Both framing and slabs can only go into a cad block which is only supposed to be a 2d object. The slab will show up in a camera view though and the framing won't. Seems very inconsistent, so probably worth reporting to Chief. Would be nice if anything that showed up in a camera view would also be able to go into an architectural block.

Since framing can't go into architectural blocks and 3D solids can't go into cad blocks, I don't think you can do what you are saying you did. My guess is that you are making a cad block out of framing pieces. For some crazy reason Chief treats framing like cad instead of like architectural objects. They won't show up in a camera view unless you explode them. Chief has worked this way as far back as I can remember.

If you need an arbitrary shape, you can use the poly subtraction and intersection tools. 1. draw the polyline that cuts through the roof plane where you want it cut and then make it contain half of the roof plane. 2. select the roof plane and then subtract out the polyline. retain the original. 3. select the original roof plane and then intersect it with the polyline. you can now delete the original. You should have two separate roof planes that are cut by the poly shape you drew.

Do I think Chief should improve their terrain tools? Absolutely. I'm 100% in favor of that. But again, how does that help GMcGee's solve his problems?

Just as an FYI, Chief actually has a tech article explaining how to do exactly what you want: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00007/importing-and-applying-a-custom-picture-to-a-frame-computer-or-tv-screen.html

@Michael_GiaSo I gave you one of the down votes because, first, you are completely wrong because there is no problem modeling what he wants in Chief, and second, which is probably even more important, your post does nothing to actually help GMcGee solve his problems.

So the reason that you are having problems at the edges is because you still have two different elevations at the same point. Your elevation region is one height and the ends of your elevation lines are at a different height and they are right on the edge of the elevation region. Try Chopsaw's suggestion of pulling the elevation lines back from the region. Then the terrain can adjust from one elevation to the next one more smoothly.

An elevation region says that everything in that region is the same elevation. An elevation line says that everything along that line is the same elevation. Since your lines go through your region, the program can't create terrain at both heights and will give you strange results. If you convert the elevation region into a flat region, you will get better results. Probably still not ideal though because it won't do a great job with the cut and fill. To get better results, you will have to add/remove elevation data to taper off the edges how you would like them (as suggested by Chopsaw).

I don't think deck framing rebuilds with any of the other framing. You could try rebuilding the deck framing manually. Just select the deck room and look for the deck framing button. Not sure why it wouldn't rebuild automatically though. May want to report to Chief.

Open the terrain dialog and see if "flatten pad" is turned on. If so, turn it off. You might also need to turn off the automatic height and set the subfloor height above the terrain manually.

If you draw a house at the north pole, then all your walls will be south facing. I think this will cause the auto flip to turn it inside out unless you first use the "rotate plan view" tool to rotate it -360 degrees.

Oh, if the goal is convolution, then I would have to start with drawing all of the walls just using cad tools and then use the cad to walls tool. Maybe even throw in a view to cad detail somewhere in the mix.

Not sure what this means or how you generated those posts. They look like they are just normal framing posts as far as I can tell. If you did not place them manually, then maybe you built a deck and the program put them in for you and somehow did not remove them when you got rid of the deck? In any case, if you can't select them to delete them then the only thing I can think of is if you are using Chief Interiors which does not let you edit framing. If that's the case, I'm not sure how you would get rid of them. Maybe a case for tech support?

Actually, the Polygon Shaped Room tool would get rid of step 5.

I suppose you could define two asymmetrical wall types that are mirrored to solve that problem. Seems a bit extreme just to get the room names to show in the right order though. It seems like a better solution would be to have some way to designate the "owner" room for a door and then get rid of the double room names (which might make Doug a bit happier). But that would probably be something Chief would have to add in unless someone was clever enough to create a macro that could do this. Moving either the wall or the window should fix the schedule. Which is more appropriate may depend on the design because either way you are changing some dimensions. Personally, I think I would avoid having a window spanning two rooms. If all you really want is a different floor material, you could also just use a floor material region. Probably other solutions as well but these are what popped into mind. Just as another FYI, I see that X15 now has the ability to sort schedules by columns. This means that if you want the schedule sorted by something like floor number that you should be able to just click on the sort button (looks like a triangle) in the floor column and maybe you won't have to manually drag things around so much. I haven't played with this too much yet though.

I think this is controlled by the direction you drew the walls. All walls have a start/end and the schedule looks like it always lists the room on the left side first. So all you need to do is reverse the wall to control which room name is first. BTW, this also controls which side of the door is called the "exterior" which matters if you ever want to change the trim or materials on each side of an interior door. I think the schedule will always display the room name based on where the center of the door or window is. If the center is right on the middle of the invisible wall, you might need to move it over just a smidge. Converting a live schedule to text is like converting a view to a cad detail, I only use it as a last resort.

I have never needed cad lines to draw accurate walls like this. Seems like extra work.

I watched your video but apparently no matter how loud I yelled at it you still couldn't hear me. So here are some things that might help... You will have better luck if you draw your walls going around clockwise. I can just draw out those walls using the temp dimensions and they will be exactly 5'. If you need to adjust the lengths, you will have better luck if you start with the first wall on the left and then go around clockwise to the last one on the right. You need to pay attention to which direction the walls move when you type in dimensions. When you click on a wall dimension you should see some tools popup that will show you which end will move. If you select a wall and change the end on the left, then this will also affect the wall connected on the left. If you then go the wall on the left and change the end on the right, you are basically chasing your tail and will never get the walls the length you want. This is what you were showing in the video.

The deck is either not building the deck framing or the framing is not being displayed. My guess is that it is not building the framing for some reason. Could be something simple like one of the rails is set as no room def or maybe the auto rebuild framing is turned off for the deck room. If you want something other than a guess, you should post the plan.

Roofs don't build to beams, they build to walls. One way to do this is to just move the bumpout wall so it is aligned with the other walls, build the roof, turn off auto rebuild roof, and then move the bumpout wall back out. Another way is to just edit the roof manually to line it up with the other parts. There are probably several other ways to do this but these two things above are probably the easiest.

Layout boxes and other polyline things have the "fillet lines" tool on the edit toolbar. A handy little tool that let's you set the fillet radius and either fillet a single corner or all the corners at one time. Images (AKA "picture file boxes") don't have that tool (not sure why), but you can still fillet them by holding down the "F" key while dragging a corner. I don't know if there is a way to set the exact radius though and it only fillets all corners.. Must be something with the way images work that is different then polys because you can't make the image box any shape you want either. I think this works the same in X15 as it did back in X12 although I did not notice if it had been broken at some time along the way. I wasn't sure if @DefinedDesignwas using actual images or sending a view to a layout so I was covering both bases by suggesting to hold down the "F" key. BTW, if you want to create an arbitrary shape for an image on a layout, you could always put it into a cad detail first, and then send the detail to the layout, and then edit the shape of the layout box. Boom, best of both worlds.

The fillet tool should work. Just grab a corner and hold down the "f" key. I think this should work on either images or on layout boxes.

Check your cad blocks. Maybe when you imported the cad it had some blocks that were imported that are using the layer. They can still be in the cad block management dialog even when they are not anywhere in the plan. If you still can't find it, then you should probably post the plan to see if someone is willing to help you look.

I bet the problem is that you changed the handles for the individual drawers already. In the cabinet dialog you have controls on the door/drawer page that are basically defaults for that cabinet. You can then go into individual face items and override the cabinet controls. So if you want the drawer handles to use the cabinet settings, you need to click on each drawer, click on the specify button, and then set the handle to "use default". Then if you change anything on the door/drawer page, it should change all of them.