PitMan71

A few steps. 1. add your railing out in front of your window. you will move it into place later. 2. Change The railing to a Furred Wall underneath the structure panel. this will keep it from trying to merge with the adjacent wall. 3. move it into the brick cavity. You will need to hold your free moving button so it will allow you to place it with giving you an error. For me on a Mac that is the command button. 4. drag the ends to fit. 5. click the "No Locate" radio box on the general tab. This should keep it from getting dimensioned somehow.

You will need to compress the file to upload.

I have experienced the same. As I recall I had to select folder even in X16. Would be nice if I could set up folders and chief for that to automagically happen.

Thanks for the help everyone. And the short video @Renerabbitt... Some great tips in there.

@Renerabbitt For some reason the video won't play. Says 00:00 long.

Anyone know how to have chief fill in the cladding on this parapet wall on the rear where the roof knee wall intersects? Or is there a better way to draw this condition? File linked attached. Even zipped this is larger than 14 MB. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bbeynauuhmng7gv37hmiy/24-250025-Connell-X17.plan.zip?rlkey=d5dkdubygrh49bs2qjgxpsrjs&dl=0

This might be helpful.

Is the second part connected? part of the same floor, just lower?

Nevermind. I found the issue. Radio box at the bottom somehow got unchecked. "Update Automatically".

Any idea what would cause the preview panel to stop working in the Print Layout DBX in X17? I have tried restarting CA, restarting computer, changing sheet sizes and printers for PDF but nothing is working to restore it. I have seen threads on this before but I can't find them. Thanks in advance.

Roof would probably need to be segmented to create the curve. You might consider drawing something similar in a new drawing and let chief roof it for you to get the idea. As far as being built the framer would probably just bend the wall rat sill on that curve and then attach the studs and curve the top plates. Something tighter would probably require another method.

I just use chief. Just curious, inadequate in what way?

I always felt like Chief just substituted the cabinet for the DW. It was quick and clean resulting in the same outcome which is the DW being between two cabinets with a countertop. The he new way allows more control and extends to other under counter appliances such as mini fridges, ice makers, etc. I suppose that is the trade off.

yeah. Thanks. I was hoping to keep the centerline line type as well. For me the centerline line type is enough to indicate center of the object being dimensioned to without the mark.

Thanks for the reply. I am aware of that setting BUT I want to keep the centerline extension. When I turn off "Mark as centerline" the extensions change to continuous lines. May be a limitation. I might look at changing my overall dim text height.

Is there a way to suppress the "CL" for the centerline dimensions and keep the centerline extension? OR Control just the size of the CL mark? I like it BUT the mark can clutter the drawings. Thanks Shane

Your marks over the street names are a layer in the PDF so they can be moved or removed easily. I am sure your intention was for the marks to be permanent which means they should be embedded or "flattened" with the layer of the original pdf doc.

This is doable but tricky. First off the top of the exterior wall in the front that should extend up into the dormers has a set ht for some reason and not responding to the normal top of wall directives which is to seek the height of the ceiling or roof. Once you get that corrected, the next thing you will want to do is adjust the roof opening at the dormers out to the outside face of the dormer/ext wall so that it extends up to the dormer gable. Then draw your side dormer walls, aka cheek walls. In the wall dbx (dialog box) setting you will set them as follows , on the structure panel "Balloon through ceiling" and on roof panel, roof cuts wall at bottom. The roof opening may adjust on its own to cut the wall as intended. I have found that sometimes I have finagle it. Getting the front corners to cleanup might be challenging to BUT can be accomplished with the wall layer cleanup tool. Hopefully this will get you going in the right direction. This video might be helpful.

Turn off the framing layer in that camera.

I am on Tahoe 26.1 MBP and X17 and haven't had any issues with performance. I am at the same location 95% of the time so I can't comment on network and location performance.

Welcome to the forums.

Thanks for the reply. I understood the "relativity" I just didn't know if there were some other functionality to control where the object rotates or heads to. What I didn't mention in this thread is that when you rotate an object, say a polygon, representing a rafter and the cut edge is down to the right and it's at 5/12 pitch. If you rotate it absolute to 6/12 it rotate it all the way around with the plumb cut edge on the upper left. Having said all this, your comments provided some insight on how I can accomplish some of the things I didn't think I could do earlier. Particularly the multiple copy feature for pitched angles. Polar being checked does not work on the left, just use the relative coordinates. As usual I was overthinking. Thanks

I have noticed that X17 has the ability to use the pitch to rotate objects as one of the number styles. I really like this feature!!!! ... Seems like tho it only works on right side of the Y axis. For instance if you input a line using the tab key and change the angle to 4 in 12 it will go from the point up and right. If you use a -4 in 12 heading, it goes down and to the right. Is there a way I haven't discovered yet to have the pitch heading go left?

I will try this. Thanks.