Fanstorm

Thank you for your advice, sounds like you know Chief inside out, I know I am not that crash hot with all the items you mention but really all I want is to double click on the wall I have put in and it opens the wall specification dialog box and it has a tick box "Lock wall" and that’s it, nothing more, The wall stays where I placed it at and at the length I made it Really just super simple and without having to use CAD, angular dimensions and all the lovely things you have pointed out which can be done in Chief. No coaching, no watching tutorials, no clicking on other parts of Chief to do such a simple thing.as double click on the line up pos the wall dialog box and it has a tick box "Lock line", quick simple and done! then when I untick the dialog box, full Chief functionality is restored. I am quite sure such a simple thing as "lock wall" would be appreciated by most without having to go through a learning curve to understand all the functionality of Chief to achieve such a basic thing as locking a wall in a location because that is where you want it. I will of course follow your suggestions, check the parts you have pointed out, also spend a few more hours trying to nut out how to get what I want but in all honesty it should not be necessary, all for the sake of a simple tick box in the wall specification dialog box.

I really just want to lock a wall in place to the length I want and it will not move it stays there at length and location I set. It still will have provision for me to change its length or rotate it it suit my drawing but it stays where I put it. If needs be it has to be auto re-aligned then a tick box to say AUTO align and it will detect any ajoining walls and connet to them if I tick yes JOIN This has been my problem everytime i go to use Chief I cannot draw my wall, lock it in place and carry on then when I get the walls in place I can see if I messed up as I have gaps and mis-alignments in my walls. I am trying to use Chief to layout a warehouse complex and show the pallet racking as well and ever time I adust a dimension it changes all my racks so I have to re align them again. You can say "Chief" is not designed to do that work use a CAD program, but it actually is great to do this work if only I could lock my rack dimensions I would save a lot of time readjustng their sizes, I do get the jobs done and Chief copes really well but line locking would be like the icing on the cake. Locking walls would make this so much better to use and I feel more user freindly