Alaskan_Son

I don't really want to play, but my instinct would be to use a base cabinet as well. It's kind of cheating though because it could be argued that it utilizes a bunch of the disallowed items. In addition to the items above it could be used for the tile, wallcoverings…heck, even the foundation, framing, and drywall could be built out of base cabinets.

Are you referring to this??

That's an entirely different situation than I was envisioning. Closing an open exterior wall "envelope" I imagine would have different results. Try drawing an abnormal shaped footprint with no common walls like the OP was talking about...divide it with several rooms and then try getting extensions to show several rooms over through the dividing walls.

Gotcha. Yes, this is what I was trying to help solve. If you "inference" or "reference" the other wall by "snapping" to it before placing the object you can get the extension line to go THROUGH walls.

You bet sir

I think your problem is "Casts Shadows = Off" The light is doing as requested and not casting a shadow of the table.

Hmm...are you sure? Even 3 rooms over? I definitely have to. Extension lines will only show up for me automatically if no other walls are between the wall I'm editing and the wall I'm snapping to.

Looks nice Alan.

I too use CAD lines A LOT for these types of things. And for those who don't know, W is the out of the box hotkey for the line tool.

When trying to snap to something so far away you would need to "inference" that point or as I mentioned snap to it first AND THEN go back to the area you're working in to actually place the object (wall in this case). In order to have those extension lines show up when aligning a wall to a parallel wall you may have to use your center mouse wheel or the right button (IOW use a "move" handle).

I understood what you were trying to do. I don't have chief available to me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure what I said will work. If not, I would probably just use a CAD line or the align tool.

When moving the wall try dragging it over to the wall you are trying to align it with and let it "snap" to that wall without releasing your Mouse button. Now try to put it where you want it and see if the line shows up that way.

CAD patch is the only way I know of. Chief will not allow a symbol to be truly inserted into a wall yet. You can adjust the origin of your custom symbol and it will slide into the window "cutout" but no matter what you do the associated CAD block will only attach TO the wall and not INTO the wall like Chief's native window symbols do. Definitely needs to be fixed.

You know, I think the lack of a curtain wall tool is one of the only reasons some architects don't use Chief.

We have used a lot of engineered scissor trusses over the years and the interior pitch has always been half of the exterior pitch. We also typically have a lot of snow load to account for though too.

No probelm. That sink works fine on most cabinets and countertops, but for whatever reason (probably something having to do with the order in which you built things), the sink is inserted into the top base cabinet and not the countertop (thus the origin discrepency). If you explode your symbol and replace the custom countertop it works just fine. It works just fine if you don't use a custom countertop as well.

You need to adjust the origin of the sink symbol to approx. -8 1/16"

I think you forgot to close the plan before you zipped it.

I don't think anyone is trying to police anything. Just suggesting it's not a very good idea to change dimension numbers to something that is inaccurate. Having said that, I think a custom text dimension tool would be nice and could definitely have a lot of uses. I guess even the ability to override existing dimensions with text.

Yes sir...agreed.

I wouldn't go quite that far. I wuild usually try to figure out why my dimensions weren't adding up and split the difference (average it out) here and there to make up for it. Drawing the house correctly out of square would be overkill in my opinion.

I concur...bad idea to fake dimensions in my opinion. Too many potential problems.

Using Firefox and no spell check for me either.

I've also had this issue for some time. I gave up trying to make it work. I figured it just doesnt. Working in elevations has a long way to go in my opinion. It is very inconsisitent, snaps work sometimes and sometimes they don't, I will have objects that will snap on one side but not the other, I've had objects that will snap to the correct plane but the snap point will be way up in space, and like you said, point markers don't work right either. Thats my experience anyway, and no settings seem to fix it.

Can you be a little more specific? What does the face look like? What is the intended function of the "cabinet"? What do you mean by 12" leg (12" tall, 12" wide, etc.)?