Alaskan_Son

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

You're welcome Jon. Not sure what might have happened. I don't recall the program having ever done that to me before.

3 of your walls were specified as No Room Definition...

Like California, the State of Alaska also has its own program (software). We can't export from Chief model, but I also might note that we can't export from any other program either.

I'll throw another vote out there for ASUS as well. I love my G751. I had a higher end MSI gaming laptop get stolen and my wife bought me the ASUS for Christmas as a replacement. It was notably cheaper than the MSI but was the best one available locally, and as it turns out I couldn't be happier with it.

You'll need to enter a lot of numbers.

mckennedy, It might help if you were to attach a plan. From what you describe it sounds like your complaining about having to build things that you SHOULD be building. Don't you need a chimney chase (or a room...obviously with a ceiling definition) and a roof or chimney cap (or a roof of one type or another), and what makes the overhang for a fireplace roof any different than a normal roof (in other words, do you have this much trouble with all your roofs)? I guess I don't see where all the trouble is. Either build a room with a pass-through for fireplace insert (just like you would in the real world), or build it with primitive solids and cut an opening...again, just like you would in the real world. How on earth is Chief supposed to know the footprint and opening dimensions for your existing fireplace or new chase, and how is it supposed to know how tall to make that chase and what kind of cap or roof it's going to get, or what the walls are constructed of? What about the shape of the chimney itself? List could go on. Point is I'm not sure what you expect and without a plan or at least a screenshot it's impossible to help you.

Not too complicated in my opinion. Might get easier though if the kind folks at Chief will ever implement the ability for a symbol to truly insert "into" a wall (i.e. cut a hole AND slide into position cutting ONLY the affected wall layers.

If you've already tried deleting them and can't, the layer might be locked.

Have you tried it yet (specifically with auto roofs to see where Chief places them)? I seem to recall having done that style of roof with auto roofs turned on...easy peasy as I recall but I don't remember which floor the roofs were created on. Away from my computer or I would test it.

Those are controlled via the "Windows, Labels" and "Doors, Labels" Text Style layer settings. Go to those layers and change the text styles and the labels will change accordingly.

I've had nowhere near 100 of these, but definitely a handful. A recent example... I did designs for "Remodel Project A" and owners (let's call them the Smiths) decided to buy a different house (we'll call it "New House B") and called the whole thing off. Smiths hired us to finish the basement in the New House B instead, so I drew up an As-Built for the new basement finishing project and we completed that job. In the meantime the new owners of "Remodel Project A" called us to remodel that house, and so we did. And now we're back to "New House B" again for a second phase. Point is that those As-Builts as Perry suggested can most certainly come in handy.

A CAD mask seems to be the most popular method and makes a lot of sense, but I also use multiple plans. An As-Built plan first, then I do a Save As of that plan and make a Demo plan, then I do a Save As of the Demo plan and make a Proposed plan. You can use the same steps and just use the As Built plan for a CAD mask under the proposed and/or demo plans, but by having the 3 separate plans you can keep better records of what is what, and if necessary you can always go back to a starting point. Just a few things to consider.

Nice post Graham.

This makes sense if a person is doing full construction plans on a regular basis where the basic layout doesn't vary a whole lot. I personally do mostly kitchens, bathrooms, and remodels, and every one of those varies wildly with regard to what views I need to send to layout and what details I might need to draw up, and most of the plans I draw up are cabinetry plans which can be anywhere from 2 to 40 pages long and contain the same number of views. I've only efficiently been able to use the SAM or standard template methods with a small number of projects.