Alaskan_Son

Drop both the symbol and the CAD block into your plan (assuming you have Automatically Purge CAD Blocks checked). Open the symbol, click on the 2D Block tab, and select the block you want from the list. If desired, Add To Library.

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The issue with the box eve seems to be related to your soffits over that back little covered entry porch area. If you change the soffit from Default to Overhang you can get that to clean up. Not sure exactly why...might have something to do with the way you built the roof. The best solution might be to place a break in that roof plane so you can assign 2 different soffit depths, or to use invisible walls over the back porch to create a ceiling. Not really sure. The best solution is probably better decided by you as you know exactly what you want. That's what seems to be causing your issue though. On a side note...That's a pretty simple roof. It seems it could be done entirely done with auto roofs which might not have resulted in the same issue. Just a thought.

For the piers, I think your problem is that you are using a pony wall. The pier is automatically centering itself below the main wall (and not the lower wall section). Solutions that come to mind... -Like David said, abandon the pier and use a primitive solid, slab, or something else. -Add a an extra Opening (No Material) layer to that upper wall definition that causes the pier to center itself. -Abandon the pony wall idea and build an extra...very short...room so that the pier will be centering to the foundation wall and you can adjust the upper wall section to where you want it.

Finally had a chance to open your plan. Don't want to do the work for you, but here are a few random notes that should hopefully get you moving in the right direction... -I would really recommend trying to build that roof with auto roofs before trying to do manually. You'll just need to familiarize yourself with the roof tab of the wall dbx. so you can set pitch, overhang, roof style, etc. -You would need to place a break in that wall below the super steep hip roof so you could assign a different pitch for the 2 roof planes. -Many of your upper floor walls need to be changed to attic walls so they cut to the roof properly. -You'll probably have to get creative with an extra roof plane to create that brace that comes down from the glass railing area (maybe in conjunction with an attic wall and opening below). Either that or a simple polyline solid. -You'll probably have to define that wing wall as an attic wall as well. Anyway, hopefully that helps.

Never tried this for a layout before now, but it looks like you can probably even just import the info from AutoCAD. -Import a DWG of your page layout into a PLAN (not the layout). -Go to page zero of your layout and delete Chief's template. -Copy your page info from the plan and paste onto page zero of your layout. -Add any macros you want to your title block

Go to page zero of your layout and place it all there.

Attach the plan if you want an accurate answer. We might get lucky guessing but it's pretty unlikely.

P.S. That roof style is uncommon hear as well (to say the least). Never actually seen anything quite like it before.

Not at my computer right now, but I think you should be able to do that all automatically. Turn on auto rebuild roofs, place breaks in the necessary walls, and adjust the roof settings in the various wall DBX's for pitch, overhang, and hip vs. gable. Most difficult part is actually going to likely be that hole in the super steep gable/hip thing. Can't quite tell what that is but that looks like the biggest challenge.

Agreed. Very good suggestion Sherry!!! You get a point. I do that CONSTANTLY but never once crossed my mind to suggest it.

Turn on your start and end indicators and lock the appropriate end.

I had a chance to open your plan real quickly. Only messed with it for a few minutes, but it seems you did some pretty odd things with the way you modeled that. Couldn't quite put my finger on it...maybe with a little further exploration, but you have roof planes for the same floor on 2 different levels and some of those walls that seem to have "changed" (as you put it) appear to be automatically generated attic walls (which I believe by default are always No Room Definition).

Not at my computer to check, but double check all the wall definitions. 9 times out of 10 one of the walls was accidentally changed to No Room Definition.

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Okay Scott, you had to go and talk didn't ya. It was almost spring here and now we've got several inches of fresh snow... and its showing no signs of stopping.

There is not necessarily a right or wrong way. Like I said there are a lot of ways you could get those layers to line up. What you have shown might be one, and I listed another in Post #6. It really just depends on the right answer for how your particular structure is to be constructed.

You're more than welcome. Thank YOU for posting the plan!

Your floor structure for those second floor rooms is currently defined as solid concrete. Change that to framing material of one kind or another and you're good to go.

I think the issue is that in order to get usable snaps in all views, Chief would essentially have to create a line drawing every time a vector elevation were created or updated. This would be very taxing time wise (especially when making any changes in that view). We would start to have complaints about how long it took to create or edit simple elevation views. I suppose maybe a toggle to choose whether or not an automatic line drawing were created or not might be a good solution. I too would like to see better snaps in elevations though.

I think you already got the idea Johnny, but here's another simplified video going over a couple of the methods. P.S. You don't even need to place a line or point like I did in the video. You could just copy an existing line or group of lines (even Control + A to select ALL the lines).

Thank you very much. I hope you have a lovely Australian winter

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Switches, outlets, and lights all work the same for me. Only the Y offset needs adjusting to basically place objects to center of the electrical box. If you want to place using bottom of symbol than changing both the Y and Z origins to zero is the way to go.

Yes. You are absolutely correct.