PitMan71

I will try this. Thanks.

This is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.... I haven't finished the plan yet. I leave the size label on while I am drawing the plans. Once I get close to completion I will turn that off and the call out will move over the top of the window. I like your idea too. Again, thanks for sharing that.

Good to know.

Kinda confused on what you are trying to do. A little more context might help. Post your plan. To do that exit your plan in chief and then compress it to a .zip file and upload it here. To adjust door swings and knobs, select the cabinet, open the dbx (dialog box) to edit. Click on the "Front/Sides/Back" panel on the left.

Is the screen shot from X16?

On porches where I have columns I use the rail tool, post to beam, to draw the porch rail and the columns. Sometimes I don't need the actual rail so I just turn it all off. If I want 8" columns, then I make the rail wall 8". This is because I want the porch beam above to be the same width. The problem I run into is that I want the width of the rail wall to display as hidden lines and the columns to display solid. BUT the columns adopt the same line type as the wall. Is there a way to have them to display differently? I have even tried to select a column symbol for the newels and it changes the line type of the symbol too. Thanks

No worries. Maybe support could weigh in on it. I will open a ticket and see. Thanks for having a look.

Yes. I have reviewed this panel in my dimension setup. BUT I can't find where I can set it to go to center of door to center of wall like it did in X16. As you can see the dim goes to the face of the wall to center. This even though under Wall Options Interior is set to Centers and nothing else. I can and will adapt. I just didn't know if there was a setting I was missing somewhere. Might be worth a support ticket to Chief to just ask. Thanks

I just changed over to X17. When click on a door or opening, I noticed that my temp dimensions now go to face of wall. Before they were in the center of the wall. I know temp dimension settings are in the dimension style now. If there is a setting for this behavior, I am not finding it..... Note: when I click on a wall, the temp dimensions are to the center of interior wall so I am unsure what is different when click on a doorway. Thanks in advance.

I do this by keeping the main floor of the house at 0" elevation. In the garage I would set it to minus 12 if I wanted a 12" drop. The grade would be set at -16" such that the grade was 4" below the garage floor. It's hard for me to determine what's causing your issue without being able to look at the plan. I suggest sharing it here so some of us can have a look and help you.

This video may helpful.

Following.

Try stretching the roof hole out to the edge. The only issue is there will be separate walls (Dormer wall on top of the first floor wall) and I don't think that is your ultimate intention. Anyway, hope you get it. This is a cool looking small house.

Same here.... I bet that has something to do with project management turned on.

I looked into this.... I see what you are referring to... The only way that I can find to do this is to do the math and make the adjustment or explode the dormer. If not exploded you can't dimension to the dimension layer of the walls in it. The only way I could find to dimension it was to drag grips to it and that wasn't attached to the wall dimension layer. The dormer tool is really nice. These improvements would make it better and more useful, IMO.