Alaskan_Son

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.

Very nice : )

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

1,000 words...

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.

Did you check the bonus catalogs? Chief has this one in their Modern/Retro No. 1 library...

You can also drop into plan, change to floor mounted, adjust Y offset to zero AND THEN add to library. Changing to floor mounted and adjusting Y offset should be the only adjustments that are necessary though whether you drop in plan first or place in library first.

Let me get this straight, you spent eight entire days talking to the folks at Chief and yet you claim they have no customer service or technical support? I can tell you for an absolute fact that you are dead wrong. And chances are if chief is claiming it's not a problem on their end that it's not. It's probably an issue with your system. I'm sorry you are having problems, but just because you haven't found an answer doesn't mean it's Chiefs fault. What exactly did they tell you? And can you describe your computer system? There are a ton of us who have upgraded to X8 and have no problems. That being said, I have personally experienced a few very unusual issues connected to windows 10 updates not playing well with a couple different drivers and a couple different programs... All different, and all on different computers. One of the issues required uninstalling my antivirus software and reinstalling it. Another issue required changing one of the drivers to an older version, and one of the issues was fixed by running a full restore.

Without seeing exactly what you were doing it's hard to say, but one thing you can check for is this… When you are about to enter a dimension into the dimension field look right next to it to see if there are a few little icons. Those decide exactly how you will be adjusting the wall. Click on the appropriate icon before hitting enter.

Amen brother.

This example is one of the more complicated situations, but starting at about the eight minute mark of this video you can see one example of me stealing snapping points from a CDFV...

Just create cad detail from view, place a point or line or whatever,copy from the CDFV, and then paste hold position back into your other view. All you are doing in that instance is stealing a snap point from the CDFV. Actually, you don't even have to place a line or point sometimes. All you have to do is copy an existing line.