Alaskan_Son

No, I don't think so, not really...especially when it's connected to a wall of the same type. It's really kinda strange if you ask me. I can see what you're saying but I just don't see any good reason it should behave that way .

You offer a good solution Glenn but I would still consider this an issue that should be addressed regardless of whether or not it's normal Chief behavior. I personally see no logical reason it cannot or should not work without the strange connection issue.

I think I agree with you. I also agree with Johnny that this should be considered a bug and reported. Even if they decide it's not a bug, it needs to be addressed.

You bet. I feel the same way.

For the roof (besides whats already been mentioned above) there are multiple methods you can make work but the 2 the come to mind first are... 1. Simply dragging the walls up in elevation. 2. Setting the room(s) to have no roof and ceiling and then just drawing a manual roof plane inside your walls.

Maybe this will help you a bit. Just the basics and might answer a couple of your questions... Step 1: Build Distributed Objects>Polyline Distribution Path Step 2: Draw line and Change Line/Arc Step 3: Select object and adjust settings as necessary Step 4: Explode Distributed Object (I thought I went over this step in that video but maybe not) Step 5: Delete, move, modify objects as necessary ...and any number of extra steps in between or after those.

Just got back to my computer. Select that wall, click on the Materials tab, click on the Interior Wall Surface material, click Select Material, and then check Use Default Material. There is something funny going on with the material definition for that wall. Not sure how it got that way though.

Overlayed views, added text/CAD in layout, or you could convert the whole plan to a symbol, rotate it to its side, take an elevation view of the roof and add any notations you want to that view. Definitely a good handful of methods and combinations thereof.

Click the little Open Symbol icon and it's in there.

I'm away from my computer now, but double check that wall definition and see what happens if you turn on your wall framing layer.

Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Minimum Display Size. Set it to a lower number, perhaps zero.

WHAT!!!? People wanting to be fairly reimbursed for their valuable time!? What nerve. On second thought...I guess I would be charging for maintenance on a house I built 10 years ago and it doesn't surprise me when I have to pay for repairs on my 2007 Suburban so....maybe it's not so crazy?

I made this video a little while back for a different situation but it may help you nonetheless. I'm think instead of the spline I would use a polyline.

I've had this issue come up with one plan in the past and it didn't bother me enough to deal with it but it's recently reared its head again and it's getting slightly annoying now... When I open a particular plan I get a message stating that the plan is using a font I don't have installed on my machine (or something to that affect). The strange thing is that I created the plan on this machine, it's essentially empty, and even after I tell it to replace that font with Chief Blueprint, the message still comes back next time I open the plan. I've had this happen on 2 different plans in the last few years. Anyone else ever see anything like this? And if so...any idea what causes the issue? I would post the plan in question except that the only thing in it is a special tool I'm working on that I don't want to put out there right now.

Unfortunately if you never saved/named the file I don't believe any auto save/backup will be initiated.

You need to check "Automatically Regenerate Deck Framing" for that material to show. The deck surface is a unique surface in Chief as it is treated like a framing layer and must therefore be "framed".

If you're just using the OOB settings, those arrows are probably on the "Text" layer. You can very easily figure out what layer they are on by opening the line, clicking on the Line Style tab and then checking the layer, or even quicker...once the line is selected, click on the little Object Layer Properties button (looks like a little square with an "O" in it), or even quicker than that...if your Active Layer Display Options window is open, simply selecting the object should isolate and highlight the item's layer(s) so you can then turn it off if you'd like.

Just one man's opinion here but that should be no problem for you at all.

Not for the faint of heart but a person could use polyline solids or material regions to create the tiles or grout or both. It's not that bad if you're used to the process, but otherwise it can be pretty time-consuming. You can use distributed objects, multiple copy, and transform/replicate among other things to speed the process up but it definitely takes a little work no matter what you do. Cool thing is that you can create some very unique and realistic tile layouts with the ability to quickly change tile and/or grout colors on an item by item basis.

Yep, except I would add that Patterns/Material Types are also used in Vector Views and Line Drawings as well.

Totally agree.

That's a good idea Eric. The one downside to that method would be that you would have to remember to resize the polyline anytime you modified the room size(s).

Would you still want the labels in the individual rooms or just the one label with combined totals? It can definitely be done and although I'm sure Joe, Eric, or someone else might be able to come up with something more elegant but the only way I know of doing it would require a "one time use" macro for each of the 2 rooms and possibly a 3rd depending on how you wanted things displayed. And by "one time use" I mean just that...The macros could only be used once in any given plan. If you had the situation arise multiple times in the same plan you would have to set up 2 or 3 more similar macros with some very minor changes. Easy enough to do but keeping track might be a different story.

Like mentioned above there are definitely a number of uses for the various techniques and a person could pretty easily do a full page write up but just briefly... I use all of them with the exception of Duotone and Painting. I'm not super good at describing artistic rational but I'll give it a go... Vector Views result in very sharp, clean lines, and can be used in color when you want to accent the details about the basic form and include a very general sense of color schemes but still remain a bit disconnected from reality. The "cartoon" like qualities help keep the model from feeling like the real thing and therefore allow a person to focus on whats important during the initial design phase. In addition vector views are necessary for creating CAD Details or Plot Lines (converting to line work). Glass House is good for (as "Designsyko" stated above) seeing how the various design elements interact and correlate with each other. Many people use it for troubleshooting the model. Technical Illustration is one of my favorites for accenting form without bringing color into the mix. A person could use vector views with colors turned off for this as well, but I find technical illustration much more realistic, much warmer, and it brings better depth and just has a better overall feel in my opinion. Watercolor to me is like the opposite of technical illustration. I use it (usually with line drawing as Joey mentioned) to accent color while only giving a very general sense as to the details of the overall form. Used along with line drawing it seems to help a person more freely envision the deign without getting tied up in the details. Line Drawing is much like watercolor in that you can use it (especially early in the process) to make the design feel more like a rough idea...a sketch...which again, keeps people from getting too tied up in the little details yet it still allows for a relatively good way to accent the form. Anyway, that was just brief, but hopefully that helps someone.

Sorry, I don;t know what to tell you. Like Chopsaw I rarely use that tool but I just tested and it seems to work just fine to me. I always just use the center mouse button to pan the camera. The only thing I can think of is maybe change your Field Of View Setting to a smaller number.