PitMan71

Thanks @robdyckfor the idea to look at the old drawing and dig into this further. I just went in and I know the cause, but I don't know why. When I cut the wall to make the fireplace bump out the space was temporarily not a room. When that happened the walls flipped around. Knowing this will help me in the future. While it doesn't make sense at least I know what the cause was.

I do need some Chief expert friends for sure. I have done pretty well on my own so far. things like this seem like a glitch in the software. Like why do things like this happen arbitrarily? if its not arbitrary then I would like to know what the cause is so I can be aware of it.

27-250007A8-11-2025.plan.zipHere it is before.

Here is the file that has the foundation walls flipped. it looks like somehow it was caused by adding the extension for the fireplace which wasn't there before. 27-250007A8-12-25B.plan.zip

If they have ESRI ArcGIS Pro, you can open the file (.shp or shape file) that you are referring to and export to a cad file or maybe even gpx file that can then be imported into Chief. EDIT: I looked and you can export .gpx from ArcGIS Pro. See here... https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/features-to-gpx.htm Shane

I wonder why that is an issue in the first place..... Might be a good thing to bring up to support to see what they have to say about it. Im not a fan of having #D solids all over the place.... I know sometimes they are necessary because of a special shape, but when it's fundamental stuff there should be a solution and not a work-around.

What GIS system are you using? Shane

Thanks.... I didn't even know that was a thing. TMYK.......

Dimension extensions missing AND foundation wall flipping around. I have been using chief for 8 months now and I really like it. I do have a couple questions about some things that happened in a recent plan that hopefully someone can explain. This plan was for the most part good to go with the exception of a few notes that needed to be added. The client did make some additional changes which I made. It involved adding a bath on the second floor and move a wall on the first. When I did my check of the drawings I noticed that some of the wall dimensions were missing from some walls that had dimensions before on the original check set.... These walls weren't touched in the changes. BUT the dimension line did pick up the wall that was being moved. I am trying to figure out what triggered the dimension extension falling off so I can know what to look for in the future when I make changes to a completed plan. Is this a common thing that happens? Anybody else experience this behavior? Secondly, My foundations are combination of pony walls with 12" block on the bottom for brick ledge and 8" block on top to catch the slab. At the porches out changes to a 12" block all the way up to just under the slab to catch the porch and finish floor turn down. I have this looking the way I want on the foundation. ***Rebuild foundations is turned off.*** When I went in to make the small changes to the foundation I noticed that all of my 12" block walls under porches and garage transitions were reversed. The edge was inside the main slab rather than extending out underneath the porches which is what it was supposed to do. I used the "Reverse Wall Direction" tool to fix them.... Any thoughts on why this would happen? It was every one of those particular walls. This house was reversed, but before the original check set which showed everything correctly. What concerns me on this is what else is disappearing or changing that I am not catching? Checking plans for random errors constantly is exhausting. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Is there a way to label a window on the elevation manually with an automatic link to the schedule callout with a macro? It's a window that's in the attic and does not show on floor plan. I know I can turn on the label layer, but I don't want all of the windows labeled on this elevation, only the one not shown on the floor plan. Thanks

Try clicking on that wall and using the "edit wall layer intersection" tool. It might allow you to pull the galvalume layer over ignoring the intersection.

The finish schedule. My apologies. I thought I mentioned that.

In this picture it looks like someone levitating inside the house.

I have done it a few different ways. 1. You can remove the ceiling in the room dbx and draw a roof plane for your ceiling. 2. I have created invisible pony walls, the bottom of which extends out enough to create my porch edge and the other face pulled back enough to hide that ceiling edge. This can be a pain because while you solve one problem you can create others such as a lot of dashed lines on your porches. 3. I have created it with railing post to beam, but I don't like how it terminates the beam at the ceiling line. I wish there were a more straight-forward way to do this. Seems like us users could settle on a method and let chief engineers look into and create a solution for it. Even if for option 2 with a single invisible wall, just having a room directive in the room dbx to stop the ceiling on the inside edge of the invisible wall which would solve this problem.

For some reason rooms under or around stairs where the lower space is underneath the "open to below" for the stair, the ceiling height reports the ceiling height AND the floor height above.. Is there a way to force it to just report the first floor ceiling height? Thanks

I would call support. They are very responsive.

This thread might be shed some light on this subject.

I have X16 so I can't open the drawing you posted. BUT have you tried the break command, the "3" key?

That's awesome! So glad you got what you needed. Please mark whichever response above was the solution for anyone else who runs into this issue. Also, when you can update your signature to have what eversion of chief you are using..... Currently it shows X14. Have a great day!

Edit Area tool is awesome. Thanks for the tips all. Shane

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/products/sysreq.html This may help.

Thanks for the help everyone. Rob's solution seemed to be the cleanest, most direct way to accomplish this.

A couple things I noticed when opening file.... The wall that has the man door and windows is marked as a foundation wall. ALSO, the lower part of the pony wall w/stone is set to generate foundation to the outside of the stone (This is in the wall type settings under the "properties" tab.) which may be contributing to the behavior you're experiencing when generating the foundation. When I corrected those two things and generated the foundation using a stem wall the foundation generated correctly. I have X16 so I can't save to X15 or at least I don't know how. Good luck.

Thanks all.

Morning guys... How can I create this porch with Chief, specifically the arched stone above the columns? I have tried multiple methods but I am not able to get the look I am looking for. I would like to do it all on the ground floor.