PitMan71

You will need to create a symbol. A symbol allows you to assign it Electrical Properties. However, I don't see a way to do that with 2d lines. Someone else might know that trick.

It's for sure doable. When I worked for a builder back in the 90's and 2000's we did it all the time.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z42ikkhq9x5di9n9wdu55/Screen-Recording-2025-05-09-at-11.39.02-AM.mov?rlkey=3b4dexm6s64gtnpqqgm4nqdzn&dl=0

I don't know of a way to do this with auto roofs turned on. It would be simple with manual roof planes. in this case you could turn off manual roof planes and grab the edge of the upper roof plane that turns back toward the lower roof till it forms a point and then modify the lower roof plane to follow the new valley edge created by pulling the upper roof down. its easy once you get the hang of it.

Use invisible walls to form the porch room and stone walls to form the columns. The stone walls all terminate at the roof the plane like your example shows.

You could add the floor above the joist in the Structure panel>>Ceiling Structure setting of your second floor. Click "Insert Above", change to plywood, set your thickness, uncheck framing for that item. Anyway, worth trying.

How would you approach doing industrial brick details similar to the picture using chief? I have some idea..... Using trim and 3d solids..... but wanted some input to see what other users had done. Thanks

Hello all. Working on finalizing some plans and have a mystery line created by the railing wall that I can't seem to figure out how to hide.... Doesn't seem to be added when I just add another railing wall like it. The line is on the inside face of the rail wall. The file is large so the link is below. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gkwucv2maj9d464m1k2my/44-250020.plan.zip?rlkey=od38oldhvwo357ffbpp5836s5&dl=0 Thanks in advance for the help figuring this out.

Thanks.

I would love to see what Gary posted, but I am on X16.

Try this... Go to the structure panel of the shower wall and change it to a furred wall.

I don't see anything baked in. What I would do in this situation is put two barn doors together and do a panel offset on one to bring it out a little further than the other door say like 3". Then mull them and let the door symbol cover the mull in the middle.

Try 37 years of CAD. I can totally relate. Though I have come to love using Chief. Started using it at the beginning of the year. Between the forums and videos I have learned that once you learn how CA works the learning curve while steep becomes easier. Hang in there. I still work with CAD occasionally.

Im an old acad user. I toggle that all the time accidentally with the F8 key.