Alaskan_Son

No. I don't know either. I do know how I might use them though. There are definitely times when I'd like to show the overhangs and general roof outline without cluttering up the rest of my plan view with unnecessary roof planes. I'm sure somebody needed them for something or else they wouldn't of gone through the trouble of setting up the new functionality.

I think this just means you aren't one of the people who needed them.

Are you changing the PLUMBING WALL to a Furred Wall? Should be no reason to delete framing. And are you building the correct framing (Subfloor for Floor 2)?

...or polyline sidewalk.

Not sure how others might use them, but I can see those overhangs being useful for cleaning up plan views while still keeping the overhangs and general nature of adjacent roof lines in the picture. I'm all but certain I'll be using them.

On the structure tab, under double wall options, select Furred Wall. EDIT: Guess I was too slow. Robert beat me to it. I'll leave the post though as it describes HOW to make it a furred wall.

Nice work Alan.

See post #3 in this thread... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/9103-poly-line-labels-why-did-chief-bother-to-add-this-feature/?hl=%2Bdecimal+%2Bplaces

I agree that doing manually would probably be easiest and end up looking the most accurate. To answer your question though Alan... No, "Fence Panel" is NOT one of the options when importing. You would want to import as "Millwork" which you could then select to be used for the fence panels.

Just a quick update... The issue with piers and pony walls has been fixed in the most recent update. Thank you for listening Chief. Keep up the good work.

You are very welcome : )

That bounding box offset is a result of the special behaviors I mentioned. If you want to fix the offset, either do as I suggested by unchecking "Switch" or "Outlet" OR by just dragging the outlet or switch over to where it is actually the correct distance from the other ganged item...2" I believe it is.

There are 2 things you can do that come to mind... 1. Select the longer walls and on the structure tab, check "Through Wall At Start" and "Through Wall At End". 2. Select one of the walls and then click on the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool in the Edit toolbar. This will allow you to select the wall's main layer (as well as any other layer you wish) and move it accordingly.

Rob, Did you try emailing Legrand to see if they had any 3D CAD files? Some of the manufacturers do. Edit: Just to clarify, by "3D CAD files" I am referring to 3D symbols. I was just using the generic term that it seems most companies tend to use. And I did a quick search...There are quite a few 3D symbols available for Legrand products but outside commercial and industrial products the symbols available seem to be pretty limited to Revit files.

Switches and outlets have those special behaviors to more accurately represent proper and common "ganging" among other things. You can do as Joe suggested or you can override those behaviors entirely by unchecking "Switch" or "Outlet" in the Options tab of the Symbol Specification DBX.

You betcha!

What you're looking for is found under File>Print>Drawing Sheet Setup

I have personally only experienced this problem when getting plans from others. I think it's a pretty well known issue though with a number of users… https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/8536-text-reformatting-itself/?hl=%2Btext+%2Bsize

Samsung's SSD's come with a software that does that same thing. It's really pretty easy. You simply clone your existing drive to the SSD and then install it. OR, you can install it first and then clone it. I think I t's just a little more complicated to shuffle the drives around and change BIOS settings that way.

I would just try to download the newest version. It might not run that well, but it may work well enough to take it for a short test drive. Worth a shot IMO.

Aunttieem, Please don't take any offense based on my post above. It didn't come from a mean heart. I was just trying to be straight with you. You're just going to find yourself hitting dead ends on a regular basis if you can't figure out how to better communicate your problems, whether that be via better describing your issues, posting screenshots, and/or posting the plan. And I'm not sure exactly how you are using Chief or what exactly you are using it for, but there's a good chance you're going to have a hard time doing anything truly productive with your plan unless you get this whole communication thing figured out. I've seen this time and time again and simply ignoring the problem trying to be Mr. Nice Guy isn't doing anyone any good. We use this software for what? To produce plans. Why are we producing plans? To communicate with people to reach an end goal. If we can't even communicate a simple issue here on Chieftalk, how in the heck are we going to communicate complex construction details to people? And if we can't posts simple screenshots and plans, how are we ever going to be able to communicate electronically with clients, subcontractors, engineers, etc...or even take advantage of tech support. The answer is that we won't. I'm just trying to encourage people to figure out how to use the bag of tools we have at our disposal. Hope you all have a great day.

Joey, I think an "a$& chewing" is an extreme overstatement. Am I wrong with what I said? I don't think so. I was legitimately trying to be helpful with my post. Your "more helpful" response was based on what? Your uneducated and uninformed guesses. Don't pretend you have any idea what is going on with the OP's plan. None of us do, and for the vast majority of problems, simple written questions are going to be of very little help to anyone...ever. You coddling isn't doing anyone any good, whereas helping a person realize the importance of learning to use the right tools could potentially open the doors for a real progress. Anyway, I'm sorry you feel that way but I don't feel bad about what I said at all.

If you can't figure out or dedicate the time to figure out how to post the plan, the argument could be made that you should probably just give up entirely right now and not waste anymore of your time. Being able to post the plan (even a stripped down version) or at least posting screenshots is a near necessity if you want any help from us or from tech support, and in the big picture, if you can't do those things you're really going to have a hard time learning to do some other very basic things that will be required to get proficient at using Chief to any real usable end.

I too considered that it might be related to lighting after my quick experiment rotating the model but I thought "Nah, I don't see how lighting could be removing lines". It never even occurred to me to check the line color (or shading contrast for that matter). Good job piecing this one together guys. Teamwork!

Only had a chance to look at your plan very briefly but I think its one for tech support. I couldn't pin it to any of the usual suspects. In fact, if you rotate the whole plan 90 degrees, the problem rotates to the other walls. Very weird.