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Good morning, I have a stairwell that extends from the basement to the first floor above. The basement is below grade. I have my basement foundation walls with full 2x4 furred walls at the interior, all part of one wall type. On the first floor, I've decided to frame my 2x4 stairwell walls directly on top of the furred walls below rather than on the concrete foundation walls. These framed walls will step back from the concrete foundation wall below and will be flashed. Anyhow all seemed great... But, as soon as I built my shed roof over the stairwell, the concrete foundation walls below extended to the new roof above in front of the framed walls. How would you handle this? Would you manually edit the tops of the concrete walls? Another thought I had was build little roofs over the concrete walls -- essentially the flashing -- to stop the walls. Thanks in advance, Jim

Thanks Mick, very helpful. Jim

That's probably the best habit. Along these lines, do you happen to know if Chief ever "retires" libraries or are they more or less always available on their website? Jim

You probably could. I'm on a PC, and the file just winds up in my "downloads" folder, which I empty from time to time. Here's more info on the process: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00090/obtaining-library-content.html Jim

Rick, When I download a new library file from Chief, I just double click the file and it self-installs. Jim

I believe it's caused by this setting under Preferences / Appearance. If you set it to "0" then text will not adjust when you scroll in or out.

Alan, my interpretation is with a sprinklered residence and garage, there is no requirement addressing the door leaf construction. Only the hardware -- the door must self-close and -latch. You could contact the building official for a verdict. That said, I would be inclined to call out a 20 minute or solid core door that is self closing and latching even if the house is sprinklered. It's not much extra money and you can always exceed the code requirement especially when it comes to life safety. Jim

Good afternoon, I have a keynote schedule table and am looking to vertically align the keynote callout to the top of the cell. Is this possible? I looked and couldn't find an option. Thanks once again, Jim

Thanks Jim. That's what I have been doing. Sure would be great if this could be done directly within the project browser. I work with other cad software that has this convenience. Jim

I have one project "Davenport" and another "Reynolds." I'd like to bring over existing CAD Details (sheet notes) from first project to the next. Does the Project Browser allow direct copy and paste (project to project / folder to folder)? I believe the answer is no, but wanted to confirm. Thank you, Jim

Here's the discussion link I came across:

I noticed a "select previous" object command request was requested of Chief a few years back. Did this ever get implemented? Seems like an easy and useful tool to implement. Thanks, Jim

Thanks Eric. I'll do just that. BTW, I appreciate that the community takes time out to help. It's a very nice bonus to the software. Jim

Thanks Joey. I checked that and it does not seem to be the case. I uploaded the plan. I did notice I can drag the walls tops to infill and produce the frieze. I guess that's a good workaround, but maybe not best practice. TEST.plan Jim

Good morning, I'm working on an as-built of an older house with masonry exterior walls. My gable end walls currently stop at the underside of the roof rafters, which I think is normal. Is there a setting to have these walls continue to end at the underside of roof deck above? Here's a screenshot of the offending gaps: Thanks again, Jim

Thank you for your quick help. Jim

Good morning, What's the quickest way to query a room's area? Wanted to get my crawl space area shown below. I figured I'd open the Room Specification box and presto, all the data will be there under the "General" tab just like a Polyline, but no such luck. Any tips? Thanks once again, Jim

If you search for phrase "heel heights" in the forum, there are a number of posts that might help. Jim

Thanks, I figured out the technique. Snap to center of wall then pull line ends to each jamb edge. Seems to work well. Jim

Are Chief wall plan hatch directions always based on the direction of the wall? See masonry wall snapshot below. Is there an option to set the hatch direction so it is fixed "globally" in one direction like hand-drafting? P.S. I first thought that Chief hatch directions might be always object based, but I did a little test with a hatched polyline box. The hatch patterns there seem to behave "globally". Thank you, Jim

That's what I figured. Do you think this a feature people want, or is it easy enough to just deal with it? Jim

Rich, I think that's what I already do. But, I found I needed to manually input some of the new materials from my wall in order to exactly match same materials in existing walls. Jim

I too didn't know they were called "floating" until earlier today! Seems very "ethereal." Jim

Quick question - I wanted to know if there is a way to bring over a whole layer definition from an existing wall when I am building a new wall type? For example, if I want my "lap siding" from another wall -- complete with pattern, texture, fill and thickness -- can I say copy/paste it into the new wall type? The reason I ask is Autocad Architecture (my basis of reference) allows this and I was hoping Chief does too. It is a bit of a time saver. Thanks again, Jim

Michael, This tool: It's like a regular dormer, but without framed walls below. Jim