Alaskan_Son

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.

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.