Alaskan_Son

It sounds like what you're looking for would best be accomplished by turning on the Walls, Main Layer Only layer like Joey suggested and applying your desired fill or hatch to the main layer through the wall definition.

Yes. Post the plan. And I would recommend almost never using the material painter in Blend mode. I turn that off and leave it off except in very special situations. That particular toggle may be responsible for more problems in Chief than any other. I have long believed that it should have always been toggled off by default.

I think Glenn might be right. That's probably the better idea. Maybe that coupled with a wall hatch will get you what you want. Hard to say without actually seeing how you want your walls to display.

I won't claim to understand this issue all that well as I haven't studied it much so I could be wrong, but I believe that happens in any situation where the new room definition requires any kind of structural change. I believe the only place a zero width room divider really works is where all you want to change is the finish flooring.

Curious...did you try to search sectional SOFA instead?

Yes. Try that, or maybe try the wall hatching tool. I would discourage you from changing the wall definition later though. Too many potential problems.

Finally got back to the office and checked this out. Definitely just looks like a modelling issue. I think Chief just needs to have someone clean up those extra lines and update the library.

Gotcha. It just looks like the door is trying to repeat itself. It looks like the pattern only works up to 12' (guessing) and then adds another 4' section and they appear to be overlapping by 5"ish.

Not at my computer to check. What does the sizing dbx look like for that symbol? Looks like faulty stretch settings to me.

You are probably using a FLOOR camera went what you need to be using is a FULL camera

Joe is correct. Increase thickness of one or more of the layers to bring flush or uncheck Cuts Finish Layer of Parent Object.

Make sure bumping and pushing is toggled on.

To modify what Dennis said a little, you can still use the newest version of Sletchup. You just need to save the model as as an older version. When the Save As dialog pops up, choose an older version from the drop down list at the bottom.

Here's a quick video showing how to use those place holder rooms. Again, this is just one of a number of solutions that allow for multiple custom schedules.

Putting those walls on their own layer is probably your best bet then in my opinion.

By the way, you shouldn't lose your room definition simply by turning off those invisible walls. I think you might be mistaken. It works for me. You could also just do that and draw a polyline around that room if you wanted.

Just put those walls on their own layer.

I think the closest you can get in an instance like that would be to open those invisible walls and change the thickness to 1/16".

I ran tests and it's definitely not fixed yet. Update notes actually only listed a fix for an issue with PERSPECTIVE views too. This particular issue seems to be limited to ORTHOGRAPHIC views.

Agreed. I have personally framed MANY MANY of that type of arch and I always did so with plywood and 2x roughly as you described (except that more often than not I would fill the arch solid).

I posted a response but deleted it as I realized it wasn't going to work for what you want. I can't figure out any good way to do that. I don't believe those particular defaults can be imported or exported. Not perfect, but I think your best bet might be to open your template plan, do a Save As, import all your default settings from the other plan using Import Default Settings, and then use Edit Area (All Floors) to copy and paste everything from the old plan into the new plan.

I just realized that this is not altogether true. If you know the aspect ratio is correct, you only have to do the point to point resize for one dimension. Its still a 2 step process though... After the first resize is complete you have to open the PDF and click Reset Original Aspect Ratio.

That one is easy (because of the math). I would just use Transform / Replicate and Resize using a factor of 2. You can also use Point to Point Resize (a 2 step process though...once for horizontal and once for vertical). If the resize factor is more complicated you can also draw a line over a known dimension in the PDF to get a length, divide the known dimension in Chief by the corresponding known dimension in the PDF and use that answer as your resize factor.

I honestly don't draw up foundations all that often. I know that when I have though that I have NOT had problems with the foundation level deleting and rebuilding so in the past I must have either... A. Had Auto Rebuild turned on. B. Placed notes after foundation changes were completed. Don't rightly recall though and I may well have used different methods each time.

For the steel bar joists, there are quite a few pretty easy options including... 1. Using the truss tool. You could optionally create 2 trusses...one for the top and bottom cord and one for the "webbing", modify as necessary, and distribute. This would result in square tubing though which may or may not be a problem. 2. Create a symbol for the trusses using moldings and/or primitive solids. 3. A combination of the above.