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Damon, I just manually edited the floor elevations of the Garage rooms only. In this case as -24". (Also, your house does not have a foundation). Does this help? Jim

Thanks for the insight. Your explanation of how Chief schedules things based on text only really explains this scheduling behavior. Jim

Thanks Michael. That's a good workaround tip. I sent this in to tech support and we'll see what they say. I feel this is a bug or at least a program deficiency. Schedules should automatically report these as different windows. Jim

Brett, Thanks for the reply. I think I'll submit as a suggestion to Chief for them to look in to. Jim

Hi, I have 6 fixed broken-arched clerestory windows (1-6 shown below): These should schedule out as 2 types (left vs right arch) with quantity 3 each. Yet, my window schedule shows them all as 1 type, quantity 6. Chief seems them all as one type and does not recognize the mirrored window type. How do I fix this scheduling error? Thanks again, Jim

If a plan, section, etc. is too big to fit a sheet at a certain scale, you divide the plan into separate parts across separate sheets. Usually two parts across two sheets. The match line is just the graphical symbol that shows the reader where the two halves were divided. Here's a common symbol used for it below. It's similar to a double section arrow but with no arrows. On the side of the circle where the other half of the plan would be if you had enough paper you simply list the sheet number where it resides in the set. This site has a pretty good explanation: https://www.07sketches.co/post/mastering-architecture-graphic-symbols-a-beginner-s-guide-to-reading-architectural-drawings

Another thought I'd add is many building departments prefer 1/4" residential (1/8" commercial) standard scales in my experience. Jim

Rob, Arch E (36" x 48") is pretty big. Can you make Arch E1 (30" x 42") work? That's quite common and I do this if 24"x36" does not work. 3/16" scale in my opinion is unconventional. Although 1/8" is common for commercial. Another alternative is do match lines. That said, my opinion is "paper is cheap" and in the end I'm more inclined to go with a larger sheet size w/ standard scale than try to rework stuff to fit the smaller sheet. Jim

I'm new to materials lists, but this could be what you need. It looks like the Components tab controls the material list reporting for an object. I just deleted component items for these 3 base cabinets and just left the hardware. I did this in X16. This is what the material list reported:

Somewhat related to this, but I needed to model a deck edge bench... I got a reasonable representation by tweaking the standard railing wall settings without any custom profile. Top rail is widened for the bench seat, bottom rail is resized and pulled up to just below the top rail and the middle rail is used as the mirror copy of the bottom rail. Thought I'd share:

I've had computer and browser (Firefox) crashing this week related to a recent Nvidia GPU driver. That would be my first thought on this. You might try to roll back your driver to see if it helps. Otherwise, I find Chief pretty stable.

Christopher, I'm by no means an expert on this but I gave it a quick try. Might point you in the right direction at least. I drew up the polyline profile for the top built-up rail and then added to library. You can then replace the standard top rail with this library object. By sizing it right and messing around with the vertical offset, seems like you could make it work. I assume this can be done for the bottom rail too. Jim

Thanks Chris - Good workaround! - Jim

Hi, I have an exterior wing wall condition with brick both sides. I've created the new wall type but the sheathing, air gap and brick layers don't wrap correctly at the wall end. Any help greatly appreciated. Plan attached. Thanks again, Jim Existing condition: Plan: 3D with gap shown: WALL END PROBLEM.zip

There's a "Seeking Sevices" category of the forum. You can post a request there.

Yes, there was a forum discussion about this not too long ago:

Looks like the Brockway is already available in a Chief catalog:

If the steep lower part of the mansard roof is in fact part of the second floor construction / perimeter then maybe it can be interpreted as "wall" rather than roof? This would be a discussion with your planning / building officials. I would contact them and see if the planning code can be flexibly interpreted to help your design. Just a thought.

Immediately thought of a mansard roof. I'd imagine there's precedent for it in Poland. Perhaps it can work in your case.

Shane, Could you do this with two layout boxes stacked with different plan views? One plan view with standard walls (all layers) and one plan view with black poche' and main wall layer only? Here's a test: Jim

I've struggled with this too. One thing I've done is first draw the wall with a larger offset -- say 36" -- then move the wall into place. I've found this can keep the short segment from deleting. Jim

Thanks Michael for confirming. I think I'll post this as a suggestion to Chief. Jim

Good morning, My default CAD box has no solid fill, but my CAD Cross Box has a solid white fill: Where can I change this? I.e., when I double click on the tool icon, no default settings appear. Can't quite figure it out. Thanks again, Jim

Robert, Super cool! I learned something today thanks to you. It seems the process is sort of convoluted... Do you think it's worth a suggestion to Chief to allow these patterns to be automatically available if the materials are already part of the project file? If so, I'll make the suggestion. Seems like material and cad patterns are pretty much the same animal unless I'm missing something fundamental. Jim

Hello, I'm doing some quick and dirty elevation cleanup with CAD boxes and I'd like to I have my stone fill pattern "Mill Creek Country Squire" available as a fill pattern for my polyline box. In other words, I'd like 2) CAD fill pattern match the 1) material pattern: I'm confused that the material pattern is not available in the polyline box fill pattern pull-down list. How do I make available? Are these material patterns different from CAD patterns? Thanks once again, Jim