PitMan71

Thanks.... #2 This is pretty much what I ended up doing..... regarding #1, totally agree. This garage is attached by way of a breezeway. I should have been more clear on that. Thanks to everyone for the information. This is all a great help.

This is the first time I have had this come up.... I have had to shift a detached garage on a plan both forward and over to fit on a lot. Being detached I have elevations of just the garage. After moving the garage around all of my notes/dimensions on the elevations are now not lined up. What is the best practice to get things lined up again? Thanks

This is what I am thinking too. This is actually what I do. Thanks for providing some insight on this.

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Anybody with X16 upgraded to Mac OS Tahoe 26 yet? Curious if causes any issues with Chief. Thanks

Thanks for the reply. that is what I use.....Generally it will grab the angle you move the cursor in. BUT on occasion for some reason it will be a random angle. For instance if I grab and object and move the cursor to the left it will prefill 180d in the angle field. Sometimes though it will be 178.65d or something and I can't figure why it will vary like that. especially when you move the cursor in that direction and it seems locked. I use the tool a lot and I would rather not have to check the angle every time. I was hoping there was a setting somewhere that I didn't know about. Thanks again.

There a few things to remember in addition to what these guys have mentioned. I am new to CA as well, when I learned this it helped me a lot. Roof planes and walls have certain directives. When I get in a pinch it helps me to think through which of these items is calling the shots. In your case the roof interrupts the wall. There are settings in the wall to control this under the structure panel. Particularly the "Ceiling Platform" "Balloon Through Ceiling above" setting the top left AND then sometimes the Roof panel "Roof cuts wall at bottom" check box. Not having your plan to dig into I would bet the gable wall is an attic wall and It can be grabbed and pulled out over the roof, BUT your will need to move the edges of your roof plane out such that it is not over that wall. Something else to consider..... In my experience the roof and gables will look unfinished until all of the manual roof edges are connected to another roof (hip, ridge, valley) or intersecting a wall ace. Lastly, you can draw walls in the attic on the attic wall layer if you need to. Chief will give you a warning reminding you that you are drawing a wall in the attic where the walls are mostly generated automatically. Speaking of attic walls if you screw up one and you need it to regenerate, just delete it and chief will automatically generate a new one. I have only been using chief for a short time as and I recently started my design practice so I still speak "newbie". If you ever have questions feel free to DM me.

Morning all.... I use tab a lot to move and copy things to directly input distance. I like the fact that it automatically will update the direction and distance from where the cursor is currently. Makes things fast and efficient. Inevitably when I get going I fail to look at the actual angle of direction and it will bite me with some sort of random unlocked direction even though it would seem that it should be -180, 90 or whatever. I know that likely has something to do with Object Snaps. Is there a way to force the input angle to snap to a certain angle increment like say 15 degrees?

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.

Try unmulling the bottom two and see if the top two will mull. That may tell you if they may be something with that top window that's keeping it from mulling.... such as the ceiling height. I can't remember if I have ever had a three mull stack like this. I have had 2 over 2 I know. I do remember having to mull those in a particular way.

I can't open your drawing. I am on X16. What method did you use to create the stone section? Is that a region or invisible walls?