Alaskan_Son

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.)?

What exactly IS happening? Can you select the line? If so, are you getting any options? A little more information might help.

Try grabbing the move handle, hitting tab, and then entering the correct angle and a very small measurement of movement.

Those look like point markers to me too. They can be resized here...

Just to reiterate what some of the other people said above… it probably wasn't a "roof plane". It was probably a ceiling break line. They are associated with roof and ceiling plans but they are not an actual thing in and of themselves. It's just a piece of information that is automatically given to you when 2 ceiling planes intersect.

Check these settings...

I'm not sure what you're referring to...can you be a little more specific? I'm not having any issues with walls flipping.

And it's "drag and drop" in X6. Simply drag the file and drop it right into the plan. You can then chose to "Add To Library" if you wish.

A few of my thoughts on the subject... 1. If you build your model properly your cross sections may be a little "messy" looking compared to those of most AutoCAD users, but fact is yours will most likely be far more acurate. 2. View to CAD as Lew said turns your view into a series of lines and disconnects the view from your model so it is no longer "live". It defintely has its good uses...for example, I've started making copies of my cabinets, deleting the doors, and creating a CAD detail from view in order to dimension all the openings for "shop drawings". Its also a good tool when you need to heavily modify a view and gives you a lot more flexibility with dimensioning. Having said that, I would avoid using this tool for most elevations though due to the fact it doesn't stay "live" (after refreshing the view of course). 3. The Edit Layout Line tool can be handy, however I would only recommend using it for minor touch ups to nearly complete plans, or to make more substantial changes once plan is completely finalized. The view would stay "live", however if you make any changes that would affect those views and you want to refresh them, all your linework would be for naught. 4. What I've found to be the most effective for me personally is to use polylines to "mask" the elevations as necessary. Choose a solid fill set to Match Background and whatver line style and thickness you like (including the "clear" line option). You can break lines, reshape, create polyline unions, etc. to cover whatever you don't want showing up in the view. This way your view stays completely "live" and you have very little fear of anything getting messed up when you refresh a view. Just my $.02 Its not the most beautiful plan work (at least compared to some I've seen around here) but I've attached a link to a dropbox file with a plan and layout in it that I recently did for a big cabinet layout. Look through it a bit to get an idea of what I'm talking about if you like. And note that all the "detail" pages were done with "Create CAD Detail From View" https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2k5gkqafitspp7/ER%20backup.zip