Alaskan_Son

No, but it's all I'm going to have time to help you with today. Maybe another user can chime in.

Like this? There are other ways too, but that's the easiest I could think of.

Also... -The Exterior Room -Room Moldings -Make Room Polyline -Make Room Molding Polyline -3D Molding Polylines -Molding Symbols -Symbols -The Inserts Into Wall option for symbols -The Hangs On Wall option for symbols -Material Regions -Custom Backsplashes -Wall Coverings -Wall Caps All the above can be used in various options for "Wall Sweeps"

I agree, but the problem is that it also cuts off any notations so I still mostly use the CAD mask method.

Be careful. It's probably not the trick you think it is. It's not changing the camera view-port as one might hope. As Dermot pointed out, it's actually changing the model, and as such, it could have a lot of unintended consequences.

Room labels will wrap like any other text box. All you have to do is resize the box.

For this reason and others, I personally almost never use the Wall Elevation tool. Just use a normal elevation camera and either crop it in layout (by reshaping the layout box) or mask it in the elevation with a polyline.

I just noticed there is another little trick that might work for you... Once you get the schedule how you want it, you can copy it, block it and then mirror the block. It requires a second copy of the schedule or else the numbers won't generate in the block. Just drag the faulty copy off to the side.

I find it useful to get a pretty good feel for how I would like the trusses designed so that I can adjust the design accordingly as well...bearing walls, point loads, beams, feasibility, etc. The plan above for example...It wouldn't actually work around here. The truss manufacturer won't build trusses anywhere near that tall, and our snow loads wouldn't allow for the truss even if they did. In addition, piggy back trusses wouldn't likely work either since the trusses below wouldn't be sufficient to carry the load. I'd much rather catch all the potential problems myself early on in the process then wait till trusses are drawn up and then have to totally re-design the project.

For now, I would suggest just placing that schedule into a CAD Detail.

Hmmm...define "worse".

Using Saved Plan Views and leaving the Pony Wall set to Default are the 2 key things. Foundation Plan View: Go into your Pony Wall Defaults and set the Display to Lower Wall. Do NOT change the setting in your actual wall, only in the defaults. Once you make that change, SAVE your plan view using the Save Plan View button. Floor Plan View: Go into your Pony Wall Defaults and set the Display to Upper Wall and Lower Wall Outline (or whatever you want). Do NOT change the setting in your actual wall, only in the defaults. Once you make that change, SAVE your plan view using the Save Plan View button. Send the appropriate plan views to the appropriate pages. Each Plan View will store its own Pony Wall Default.

Are you having a problem with the software or are you simply looking for construction advice?

Away from my computer, but you’ll probably have to: 1. Cut one of the walls that forms the bay window. 2. Open the deck room and on the Deck tab, uncheck Auto Regenerate and check Retain Framing After Deck Room is deleted. 3. Paste Hold Position the previously cut wall back into place.

This conversation seems to have become messy and overly complicated with various bits of bad advice thrown in to further confuse matters. First of all, the OP indicated the he was wanting to input dimensions using the tab key. This is one of the most efficient ways a person could possibly draw if they get good at it. Why draw an object and then move it later if you can efficiently and effectively just draw it correctly from the get go? In order to use the tab entry method, a person has to know what exactly Chief is using as the basis for the length of that wall. If you took all your measurements from the interior drywall surface, then it is imperative that you properly set Resize About. Chief didn't give us the tool so we could ignore it. Its a useful tool. Use it. Secondly, the OP indicated that he wanted to see the Temporary Dimensions locate the interior dimensions of the room from surface to surface in both directions. In order for this to happen, the Temporary Dimension defaults must be adjusted appropriately. This has nothing to do with Dimension Defaults. Furthermore, in WILL NOT work as desired/requested unless both the Temporary Dimensions and the Resize About settings are set correctly. Thirdly, there have been some suggestions with regard to adjusting wall definitions. While these suggestions are a bit debatable, and might help in the short term, they can cause all sorts of other problems later on down the road and if they can be avoided then they definitely should be...and in this particular instance, there are other methods and tools specifically designed for the operations in question. Lastly, to the OP, Chief has some pretty standard ways of doing things, and those ways have their merits. I tend to agree with your sentiments though... It IS faster to simply draw correctly as you go IF you can use the proper tools to get really good at it, so don't be discouraged from trying to attain that goal. Chief gave us the tools. Don't avoid using them just because the average user doesn't. On the same token though, don't be held back by your paradigms. Be willing to accept that it may just work differently in Chief, and that way just might turn out to be better.

Are you in Vector View?

You bet. For the record though, I’m not sure I fully thought through the exact geometry and there may be some other required steps or other approaches worth considering, like maybe drawing some temporary roof planes to represent your known and easily definable reference lines/points (just outside the mono planes and along the pivot line for example). You can then use Chief’s handy roof plane snap capabilities to draw all the (probably triangular) roof planes. Chief has some pretty great functionality with regard to roof snaps that can be used to set heights and pitches both during initial placement and during edits. Pay attention to that little Change Pitch/Height pop-up that you see sometimes and take advantage of it.

Just FYI, you can also simply disconnect the layout box from any Plan View by selecting “None” in that dropdown. Then you can modify whatever you want and even optionally create a new Plan View from that.

I was saying that when that particular problem happens its usually the video card driver (NOT the mouse).

No. Don’t do that. It will just cause you other problems later on.

It’s doable but complicated. I don’t have time to spell it out completely, but you have to use a series of roof planes, and essentially the key things you need to do are these... -Establish a pivot line (presumably from the one low corner to the opposite low corner) -Draw an arc or ellipse in an section view representing your desired roofline shape (probably in a view perpendicular to the 2 high points) and convert it to a multi-faceted polyline. You will use this shape to obtain dimensions and angles for your roof planes. -Make very deliberate and effective use of the Roof Baseline, Pitch, and Baseline Angle. Using both the Pitch and the Baseline Angle will just make it a lot easier to change the pitch one section at a time (about that pivot line in one way or another) with the Baseline Angle being changed one section at a time to represent each facet section of that arc/ellipse) Hope that helps get you started.

I would recommend you go to your General Wal Defaults and change your Resize About Layer. This is an oft underutilized toggle that you should probably make yourself familiar with. It will allow you to trace your linework without having to move the walls afterward at all.

Yes. This will likely solve your problem. You can find the setting in Edit>Default Settings>Walls>General Wall

Change your Temporary Dimension Defaults to Locate Wall Surface. Also, make yourself familiar with Default Settings>Walls>General Wall>Resize About. You might want to change the Resize About Layer to Inner Surface...at least during the initial draw process.

This is almost always an issue with Nvidea driver. Make sure your video card driver is up to date.