Alaskan_Son

Yikes! That's bizarre. Not sure what to say about that. You probably aught to contact tech support. Looks buggy to me.

Johnny, You need to uncheck "Sides". "Sides" picks up the side of the window itself, what you want is just the rough opening. Because you have both checked, auto exterior dimensions is using one of each.

I have Sketchup 2015 but I didn't use Sketchup at all. Just dragged and dropped 2015 version of the model directly into Chief.

Did you rotate the oven using the rotate edit handle or through the symbol DBX? Whatever happened, it needs to be fixed through the symbol DBX. There are 2 rotation settings...One in the 3D tab and one in the 2D block tab.

Yep...what Scott said.

Imported just fine for me.

You can either turn off the framing layer altogether or put those particular cripples on their own layer and turn that layer off. OR, you can make a small CAD mask to cover them.

Not in front of my computer, but most video cards have an eight light limit.

Okay, I finally understand what you're talking about. You're talking about getting rid of the little sloped section of ceiling... Sorry, don't know the answer

You know...without seeing the plan we can only make assumptions here, but from what it looks like to me, your existing wall heights need to be left alone, and the height of your new walls needs to be shorter (as opposed to making the birds mouth deeper). If the birds mouth is deeper you lose most of the structural benefit of the bigger rafter. Like I said, you should be able to simply break that wall and drag it down in an elevation...OR, give that area a unique room definition with a lower ceiling.

I don't understand the problem either. Can't you just break the wall in an elevation view and simply make the appropriate section taller or shorter?

K, It would be good for you to attach the plan file so we can see exactly how you are building the items in question. There are a lot of variables and various settings that come into play.

You bet!! Glad I could help

Not at my computer to test right now, and I have very rarely messed around with it, but is this not a case where global symbol mapping might come into play?

I usually just use a custom countertop.

Just use the layer painter.

It looks to me like perhaps your walls aren't aligned properly.

For an accurate answer you should probably attach the plan.

A HUGE variable here is the size of your existing house. If you're in a $3,000,000 10,000 square foot house with a 40' x 40' master suite then your architect is probably right. If you're in a 1,500 square foot starter home I personally see no reason for a walk-in closet at all.

Not totally clear to me what you're looking for but if I now understand you correctly, I would try doing a save as of your plan, deleting everything except the cameras (what I assume you are calling elevation symbols), copy the entire 2nd plan and Paste Hold Position into the 1st plan. Now send to layout or do a Save As of the first layout and re-link to the new plan. I guess it would really hope to know EXACTLY what you are trying to do. There are a lot of variables.

I'm not at my computer to look at your plan or layout files, but it should be as simple as copy and paste hold position to the second layout. At least I would think so.

Actually Joe, the video card in my laptop can handle 4k resolution. Here's a pretty good little article on the subject... https://developer.nvidia.com/4k-ultra-high-resolution-development

I don't believe this is quite right. The 840M has a max resolution of 2560x1600.

I for one couldn't figure out what the problem might be or what the OP was really asking for, but I bet you got it Bill. Way to go.

Not sure I fully understand your questions and what you're after, but I'll give it a shot. By no means does this fully cover the subjects at hand, but hopefully this crappy video will at least get you started down the right path. Sorry for the abrupt end. I just ran into my 5 minute limit. Hopefully this helps... http://screencast.com/t/wxDLqICr