Alaskan_Son

It has some limitations but you can include the apron as part of your sill profile actually.

Post the Sketchup model and I’ll see if I can make a video with some quick tips.

Unfortunately, we don’t currently have a hutch default. There are a few options but the easiest is to just use the eye-dropper/painter. You might even consider making yourself a hatch style palette that you can quickly drop in the plan and used to transfer styles.

Archicad can convert as well but I believe it requires a plug-in to do so.

Sounds like you’ve either placed it where there is no roof plane or you’ve skipped step #2.

Don't try to make a square skylight round. Instead, try to make a round something into a Skylight/Roof Hole: Draw a Circle Convert Curve To Polyline Convert Polyline to Hole In Roof/Custom Ceiling

Do you care to speak to what that "deficiency" is? I can think of a few myself, but something tells me they're not the same as what you're contemplating.

If I am understanding the request correctly, in it's simplest form, his suggestion would essentially result in the capability of telling a macro which road to take without having to use a separate macro. Take a 12"x12" rectangular polyline for example... %my_area_macro(inches)% ======> 144" %my_area_macro(feet)% =======> 1' %my_area_macro(feet_inches) =======> 1'-0" One macro, multiple paths. As it is now, the above would require 3 different macros. In your use case scenario you could hypothetically use the macro to set your scale such %my_dimension(1_100)% for 1:00 scale or %my_dimension(1_50)% for 1:50 scale. Of course we currently don't have access to a dimension's value so all we can use at this time to mimic the behavior is a polyline. I'm sure the original scale adjustment would be super easy. I've seen corrupted files on multiple occasions where this exact thing is happening already. Here's a recent example... ...of course Chief hasn't given us any direct access to the code that controls the unit conversion, but it's obviously written in there somewhere. I think the main thing here is that Chief is a 1:1 scale 3D CAM application specifically designed for modeling homes. What you're asking for is something outside what Chief was ever designed to do and by adding the type of setting you're asking for, you would be introducing an enormous number of problems to contend with (of which I only scratched the surface)...all for just a few oddball use cases. Again, it might be a cool option to have, but I can completely see why Chief hasn't and probably never will introduce this feature.

BTW, there are even more complications to think about to such as how imported objects are handled, how models and CAD work are exported, etc. No small undertaking for a 3D modeling application.

Just something to remember me by buddy On a side note though, I do think Chop's use case is quite a bit different than yours was. I think what Chop is looking for is essentially a way to use Chief to build a dollhouse and I'm thinking it may not be such a bad idea. Its a lot more complicated than just changing the dimension units though. We would end up having problems every single time we went to enter a dimension in any one of the dialogs. I thing what we would need is a default scale modifier setting where each plan would get a single 3D scale modifier.

A good use for a Hole In Roof Plane and possibly a Hole In Ceiling Platform/Hole In Floor Platform depending on the situation.

Ya, I definitely agree that we oftentimes have quite a bit of wasted space. It would be nice to see a bit more control in this area.

The height of those rows in controlled by the width of the column. If you make that column narrower, the rows will have less wasted space.

...in addition, depending on your climate, those rooftop windows whether shaped like a tube or otherwise) can be a major long term maintenance liability and potential leakage/condensation/mold problem.

May or may not be an acceptable solution for your situation, but you can try unchecking Scale Images in the Window Schedule dialog

Scale?

Your next challenge will be getting rid of the opening indicator without losing the shelves. There are quite a few forks in the road here... -Mask/delete the opening indicator -Place shelves manually -Place panel manually -Etc.

Just make a new door symbol with no panel and use that. Easy peasy.

To what end?

By the way, the above use case scenario is one of a handful of reasons that I made this suggestion recently...

P.S. That table is totally automated too. I just use the label to keep an eye on the various areas and to make accessing them easier.

Either use a Spherical Panoramic Backdrop, Generated Sky, or place images manually using Build>Image. You can also combine one of the first 2 along with Build Image, especially if your image has a transparent background.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/18681-allow-open-polylines-to-be-used-for-polyline-subtraction-operations/?tab=comments#comment-154134

Don’t forget that we have an invisible line style too...which is what I typically use. I almost never (IF ever) use white line for anything.

You can also use a single segment polyline with arrows on both ends and then enter the desired text in the label.