PitMan71

A couple things. When you make a thicker wall I suggest just doing a stud on both sides with an air space gap between to make the thickness. On the Sheetrock openings remove the jamb in the opening and it should let the base turn the corners. I know this doesn't look "right" in plan view but in 3d it will look nice..... Chief can do most anything you just gotta learn what its nuances are and work around and within them, if that makes sense. Give my suggestions a go and let me know how it works out. I hope this helps.

You can change your rendering technique in that view to standard and update the standard view to add lines. Ince in the view, click on the edit box. Then once in the dbx change the rendering technique. Lastly, click "define" to add lines.... Probably want to pull the squiggle values down so that they dont look hand drawn.

I haven't, BUT I will see if that helps. I make blocks of most things I create and add to library for use in other drawings.... Some things will not stay blocked, but some things it would nice if I can leave them that way for convenience. It can be challenging when trying to snap to an intersect or an end in one of those blocks. I was hoping there was some tip or whatever to be able to do that aside from some work around, if that makes sense.

Here are a couple videos that will be helpful... The first is for roofs in general. The second is for manual roofs which is what the roof becomes if you edit it directly which I am thinking you might have to do with what you have attached. Feel free to watch other videos on roofs to to get different viewpoints. It's what I did to get to where I can build most any roof. Roofs - Manual Roofs -

Is there a tip to snap to intersections and such in a CAD block? I find myself having to explode them in order to position correctly and then re-block. Thanks

What level of assistance do you need? Do you need someone to draw it for you or to give you direction on how to?

The most likely cause of this is a change in the path to your catalogue. I would find where it's stored and reestablish connection. If you have to restore from a backup.

My guess is if you if you grab that edge of the upper roof and pull it out beyond the upper edge of the lower roof its should give you the look you are after. This will break the automatic roof, but I am pretty sure that is the only way to pull that off.

There might be a better way, BUT I just had a go at it and if you change the wall to a Furred Wall on the Structure Panel it will go away. The downside is so will you base moulding which can be easily added back with a moulding poly line. If there is another way to fix this I don't know of one. Might be worth elevating this to support and let them have a look and see how they would solve.

Thanks for the assist guys.... Today I awarded solution to DB because he used the term "wysiwyg" and he was first to the party. For real though, thanks for the help. Helps to have help to navigate Chief and its many facets.

Reminds me of the Autocad days.... Oh wait I am still living in those days.

Thanks.... I am drawing some basic details and this will help. The line weight is set to 50 in some of the lines like drywall lines in a wall section which makes no sense.

RJ45 is the proper designation for the actual jack.

Is there a way to set the line defaults in the CAD Detail from View tool? Whenever I use it the line weights are always too heavy and wanted to see if I could bypass having to change all of that. Thanks

Have you tried copying the middle window up to be the third on top to make sure it has the same properties and dimensions? When I get a minute I am going to try and replicate and see what how chief behaves. Right now I am dealing with my own Chief setbacks.