Alaskan_Son

Ya, I was wondering if that might happen. Was away from my computer and couldn’t test it.

You can try to insert this in lieu of your comma and space.... %”\n”%

Chief changes the wall so that it can provide a usually appropriate vertical structure at the height change. When you don’t want a vertical wall at the height change and would prefer to see a single line, I recommend using a Custom Wall Type. Just copy the OOB Room Divider wall type and set the thickness to .01”. Name it something like MY Room Divider. Because the wall already technically has a thickness, Chief won’t change it, and because the wall is nothing more than a single layer Air Gap, it won’t provide anything at the vertical transition areas.

Use the Gable Roof Line tool.

Not sure who this comment was directed at, but if the goal is to use the primary offset as one joist spacing and the secondary offset as an alternate joist spacing.... I’m away from my computer, but you might try right clicking and dragging in the joist length direction, releasing the mouse button just before the first copy is placed, and then dragging out secondary copies to layout joists. Not sure if it will work or not. Don’t recall ever trying to use the secondary copies with no primary copies.

Primary offset is one direction. Secondary offset is in the perpendicular direction. Right click, distribute in the desired direction, and release; and then distribute in the perpendicular direction and left click to finish. I use it all the time.

The DWG file you attached appears to have been drawn at a roughly 6:1 scale which is quite different than the 1:8 scale you initially described. As Robert already pointed out, the scale isn't consistent and varies a bit depending on the object, and your various CAD items are out of alignment. You also have a whole bunch of overlapping CAD, segmented lines, and partitioned fills. I'm really pretty curious how you even got this drawing to the current state. It looks like a combination of imported CAD, CAD Detail From Views, and manual drafting.

You just did. You attached a DWG. Do the same thing with the Plan file.

I must be missing something. I don’t understand how you were able to draw that entire detail at such an odd scale but you’re unable to do the math to size it back up to full scale. 1/4”=2” means that you drew a 1/4” line to represent a 2” line right? Your line is 1/4” long but needs to be upsized to 2”. 2.00 inches divided by 0.25 inches = 8.00. Either the initial information you gave us was wrong or you have already changed your scale to something else. If you were working off the 24”=3’ version then you would need to use a resize factor of 1.5 (1.5x24” = 3’).

You need to resize by a factor of 8.0

When you create your CAD Block it cannot have any other CAD Blocks in it. That’s what a nested CAD Block is. It’s a Block within a Block. CAD Blocks with other nested CAD Block cannot be used for a symbol’s 2D Block.

You cannot have any nested CAD Blocks in a 2D Block.

You might consider using an architectural block made up of multiple objects. For your MEP symbols you could use molding polylines with no moldings assigned to them.

You can be Rich_Winsor and Meager_Winsor

Yes. This was my point. We don’t get any special hidden line behavior with those objects. It just looks like we do because those object types are always being “hidden”. A simple line style change is all that’s necessary. It’s comparing apples and oranges.

...better yet, CUT and then Paste Hold Position.

Do we though? Or are those just ALWAYS displayed as dashed lines because they’re ALWAYS hidden objects?

Here you go.... DWG Import.plan

Hey Chris, You should be able to do that with one of Chief's parametric doors: Door Style: Glass Panel Width: 72" Height: 96" Arch Type: Broken Arch Arch Height: 9"

It wasn’t an instructional video. I was just demonstrating the functionality.

There isn’t any. I wanted to just make a GIF but it was a bit too long and needed to be a little higher quality to better show the dashed lines.

I think it can be super helpful to show a little orthographic 3D overview off to the side... Automatic hidden lines would definitely be nice though. Something like this...

I kinda expected that type of response. To each his own. I wasn’t actually suggesting you do it because it sounds to me like you’re doing just fine without. I was just pointing out that it’s possible without CAD. I do however think its worth noting that once you set it up, the only extra steps required for new drawings are moving planes to the same floor and adjusting drawing order. Not actually that ridiculous IMO.

You can address this 2 ways: 1. Drawing order. 2. With the reference display.

We actually CAN get hidden lines for roof planes using the reference display. I’m away from my computer so I can’t verify exactly how I do it but here are the required steps from memory: Give all your roof planes a solid white fill Move all your roof planes so that they are being displayed on the same floor. This step MIGHT not be a necessity but it simplifies things and its the only way I've done it. Adjust the drawing order of your various roof planes so that they are displayed properly with upper planes drawn over lower planes Let’s say at this point only roof planes are displayed and they appear as though you were looking down on them in an orthographic top view. Let’s call this our Solid Planes set. Now copy that layer set to create a second layer set where the roof planes are a slightly lighter weight dashed line style. Let’s call this our Dashed Planes Reference set. Switch back to your Solid Planes set Turn on the reference display, set the referenced floor to the same as your current floor, set the reference layer set to your Dashed Planes Reference set, set the reference floor to draw on top, and leave Details unchecked. That doesn’t address how to deal with walls and other items you want to display and edit in those views. You can probably sort through that on your own, but that’s the basics for getting hidden lines for lower roof planes.