Alaskan_Son

Its nothing more than a simple manual roof that I dragged out across the front of the building. You could probably force it to auto build with some invisible walls, but manual is super easy. Just drag out the 3 little roof planes and join them up... https://rumble.com/v6ro2x7-quick-awning-roof.html

The Curb Width is essentially just your wall width. What you're actually seeing is likely the footing line.

Yeah, I think I understood what you were asking. I was just suggesting that there might be a better way. I'm not sure why you can't just explode the CAD Block when you drop into a new plan. In which case you just include the text boxes and paste values into them. Using the Text Macro approach does not even require exploding the block. All you need to do is type/paste your values into the macro value in Text Macro Mangement and the value will get updated. If you don't want to explode the CAD Block, you can simply click the Edit CAD Block tool and insert your text that way. Shoot, you can even include some invisible markers in your CAD Block in which case you can use those whether you explode the block or use Edit CAD Block.

Why not just place a generic text box in that exact location and then just switch the text out for each plan. Or, better yet, if you're going to be manually entering the values anyway, just use a custom non evaluated Text Macro and just enter your text in the macro.

For whatever reason, Chief's parametric Slab door symbols have this problem with texture wrapping. Just make your own rectangular slab and convert to a Door Symbol and the texture will wrap better. In fact, you could even use the "Door S01" from the Core Catalog which is just a simple slab and no longer a parametric door symbol. Just bear in mind that the parametric door symbols do come with some advantages in that they will reshape to accommodate arches and such which a simple door symbol will not.

Use one or more Custom Fields along with the side_jamb_size and top_jamb_size name:value pairs (macros).

Hard to know without seeing the actual file, but if I had to guess, I'd say you are probably seeing the line weights as you have them defined. You didn't see them prior to printing because you didn't have line weights turned on. Either toggle Line Weights or toggle Print Preview to see your line weights before printing.

Are you talking about something like this lower awning roof or eyebrow overhang thing?

100% agree with this^^^^ No reason the flooring all needs to run the same direction.

The macro actually isn't the problem. Its a Chief related 3D rebuild issue/bug.

It should be noted that specifically regarding the Emissive setting, the video is a little out of date. In X16, that setting does indeed cast actual light on the scene in Physically Based (Ray Trace) views.

Check out the Recreation No.2 Theater and Music bonus catalog. They have some theater seating in there... https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/detail/779

From the help files:

This should be over in the General Q&A Section, BUT, yes, as long as all your rooms are set to Default Floor and Ceiling Elevations, all you need to do is go into your Default Settings>Floors & Rooms>Floor Levels, and then, change the ceiling heights for each individual floor.

I believe it was right here in X16 that we were first given display Layer control for the structural Layers of walls. You'll have to make use of those:

Use a molding profile with no back leg...

You're right that Perspective Crop Mode is very similar to the Zoom tool. I still use it when working with very small details though for some of the exact reasons you mention...it allows for infinite zoom while freely panning, orbiting, and scroll-wheel zooming with my mouse. The zoom tool is not nearly as fluid and easy to use.

You can also optionally use a standard Orthographic Camera, 3D>View Direction>Front View, and Edit Active View>Camera>Options and set Field of View to 10 (the lowest it will go). This won't be perfect, but its close. This may be what Robert was alluding to when he said... By the way, I think the real ticket was what Robert mentioned just before that... He seemed to be mostly responding to Chris' mention of the Perspective Crop tool. but it was also a very good option for creating a PBR of a nearly Orthographic View. You just need to be viewing front the front, Zoom way out, and then use the Zoom tool to crop your view (zoom back in again).

Yeah, some of these are a real pain. I honestly can't blame Chief for this one. Its super difficult to know how and where these walls should join up. Even trying to manually decide how to do so is nearly impossible. Every single wall layer intersection option creates a problem somewhere and at least one of them is pretty much impossible... There are different variations within each as to how wall layers could potentially be joined, but they all have problems, so, I would probably do something like this... I would use a short section of Room Divider wall to control where that break takes place, and I would place a CAD polyline to hide the resulting extra line.. Turn the special Room Divider Layer off, and set the polyline to Background Color and you're off to the races.... Test.plan

Yes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried some variation of that over the years hoping that I can get it to work somehow.

This^^^, OR if you're already in the cabinet's dialog, you can click on the Accessories tab and click Edit next to the Top Appliance / Fixture Symbol selection.

I see. Make all cabinets 2" taller. I'm not sure I have a specific method for doing this in any specifically efficient way. I guess it depends on how many cabinets of different heights I have. One way or another though I would likely just group select cabinets based on specific heights and change the heights one group at a time. As far as selecting those groups... If I immediately knew where they were, I might just manually group select, If I knew off the top what the different heights were, I might use the Match Properties tool to group select, otherwise, I might use a temp schedule to group select by height.

Select single Wall Cabinet, Marquee Select Similar, Select All Similar, Transform Replicate, Move 2" in Z direction, Okay.

The tilde is a mathematical symbol for approximation. I think Jason was humorously suggesting a way to fudge the numbers without exactly being dishonest.

Interesting. I just re-read your original post. I don't recall reading the words "default roof label". No, the default roof label cannot currently be changed because we don't current have a roof label default. We can however use a custom macro to get roof labels to automatically round. You would have to manually put that macro into the label though.