Alaskan_Son

I think you probably just need to scroll to the left and you'll find that it does indeed do what you're looking for. P.S. It may be that you're not selecting anything. Select All before unhiding.

No. There isn't. Me and others have requested this in the past. It would help if you would send in a request as well. Bottom Line: It sure would be nice if we could simply change the desired Layer for the annotation object to be placed on without creating a whole new Default...much like we can with Current CAD Layer except we would need Current Dimension Layer, Current Text Layer, Current Point Layer, etc. etc. This is from a request submitted over 5 years ago back before Saved Plan Views, but it illustrates the same basic idea. It would be great to have some additional settings like these....

@Katy_DDR, Depending on the specifics of the situation, you can also turn off the railing entirely and use a manually placed railing wall set to Follow Stairs... ...this has challenges of its own but can serve as a very good way to refine newel placement for many situations. Don't have time to elaborate on all of them, but here are a few more tips as well: You can use Invisible walls to define your decks, rooms, or platforms and No Room Definition railing walls for your rails You can place wall breaks to force a newel to generate at that location. Stop wall from rejoining by either alternating wall types or flipping the new wall section. You can refine wall break locations by using a small perpendicular Room Divider wall. Place a break at that room divider and then drag the Room Divider to control the break location. You can use molding polylines for railing components You can use Polyline Distribution Paths for railing components You don't have to approximate locations. Create a CAD Detail From View of your Plan View and then Cut/Copy snaps from that view and Paste Hold Position back into your Plan View. This way you can place objects with precision.

OR.... Edit>Preferences>General>File Management>Associate Files With This Program

Just a wild stab in the dark here, but this sounds like it could be a textbook case of working with a laptop, a 3D mouse, and a regular mouse over in the passenger seat during a 12 hour road trip across the country. I’ve seen it too many times to count.

For me, this would depend on how I charged for the first set of plans. If it was billed using a standard square footage rate and the client was difficult to work for or the plan took longer than expected...same price as first time. If it was billed using a standard footage rate and the client was super easy to deal with or job was super profitable... I might give it to them for half price. If I had charged by the hour? Again, it depends on the specifics. If I spent 200 hours with the builder hammering out every tiny little detail to perfect the design for future use, then I might charge no more then a minimal base fee plus whatever time it took for the new site plan. Also depends on how much I like the client, how much work I do for them, how much work they give me, how much new liability (either actual or implied) I’m taking on, whether or not I personally want the same house built twice, etc. etc. Definitely no one size fits all answer from me.

It WILL but its not very intuitive and I don't believe it was by design. You have to rotate the camera with your normal mouse while the 3D mouse is being used. Easiest and most stable way to do so is by lightly activating the 3D mouse as if you're trying to Rotate the view. For me this means I just very lightly twist the 3D mouse left or right. While you're doing that, you can Rotate (and even Tilt) the view with your normal mouse.

I was talking about setting the angle when rotating the camera with a 3D mouse.

I think your best bet is to just copy the notes, create a new camera view, and then Paste Hold Position.

Yes, but only if you have a 3D mouse. I don't however know of any way to set it at a perfect angle using the 3D mouse though.

You can either completely do away with the unnecessary exterior walls or you can finish adding walls and then assign the Attic room type to the appropriate areas. I personally see no reason to keep the walls and call them No Room Definition though. If you're doing that, then I can't see any reason why the walls should even be there in the first place.

By the way, read my original post again. I'm trying to clue you in to something.... You can simply change the wall to Invisible which will not only be a more accurate representation of what's actually happening but will also remove the unwanted wall layers that you're having issues with.

Did you turn off Auto Rebuild Roofs? If you did, then changing the Raise Off Plate/Birdsmouth setting won't do anything.

...and does your problem still exist?

2 additional questions/hints for you (assuming you're purposely starting to model some finished areas up on the 3rd floor): 1. Did you purposely set a negative Raise Off Plate/Birdsmouth value? 2. Are you really using brick exterior walls up on the 3rd floor? You're giving Chief some confusing information. You're not only saying that the roof is lower than the floor and wall system above but also that you're using brick walls where no walls will exist.

How to quickly crop CAD Detail linework... https://rumble.com/vfrqr3-quickly-cropping-cad-detail-from-view-in-chief-architect-x12.html

I typically handle these types of things 1 of 4 ways depending on the situation: If I want (and am able) to keep the view live I will do as @solver suggested and simply mask it with a filled polyline. This crops the view, allows for the desired annotations, and is definitely the most desirable approach whenever it can reasonably be applied.. I will create a CAD Detail From View and use the CAD mask there. Don't think I do this very often though. I will create a CAD Detail From View and just delete/trim line work as @Chopsaw suggested. If I'm creating a CAD Detail from View for the purpose then this is usually how I crop things. I'll write up another post in a minute describing a pretty quick method of speeding this process up. I will crop and annotate in Layout. This I also do pretty rarely but its definitely something I do from time to time for various reasons.

That 7" is dependent not only on the roof pitch as stated in the Help files but also on the size of the top and bottom chord of the truss. For example, using a 2x4 top and bottom chord and an 8:12 pitch that works just fine but not so much if you switch to 2x6 top and bottom chords. At any rate, it doesn't really matter what the parameters need to be in order to automatically get an energy heel truss. I can't just raise my roof up 7" to get the energy heel if that's not how we're actually building it. I need to model it accurately and Chief won't automatically build an energy heel for some of our most common scenarios. So, here's what I always recommend for most of those common truss configurations that Chief won't do on its own: Build all your trusses as usual setting the appropriate trusses to be Energy Heels... Group select at least all the energy heel trusses, change top and bottom chords to a very small dimension (1" should probably do it), check Force Truss Rebuild, and click Okay... With the trusses still selected, open them right back up, check Lock Truss Envelope, change your top and bottom chord back to what they should be, check Force Truss Rebuild, and click Okay... 

I disagree with David on this one. The Materials List capabilities in Chief are not very well understood by very many users and are a highly underutilized feature in my opinion. You can actually get a super accurate material list with an exceedingly inaccurate and incomplete model if you set it up right. The real key is understanding how to control your Material List using: Layer Settings The Components tabs of your various objects The Materials List itself ...and it becomes much more effective and efficient if you can combine the above with: An accurate model Effective use of Materials List Polylines Custom macros Post processing in your desired spreadsheet software ...and a few other little tricks

I feel like you guys are missing the point, changing the subject, and confusing matters. We all know that we can store CAD Blocks in the library and that those CAD Blocks can sometimes be referred to as CAD details. What we're talking about though is very specifically the CAD Detail TOOL and what happens when you try to copy one of those CAD Details. Has nothing to do with storing anything in the library or the efficiency of doing so.

Hahaha!! Are people perhaps just implying that the operator is a little nutty

Just to be clear here, this conversation was mostly about CAD Details and not CAD Blocks. CAD Details are stored in the Project Browser and can alternatively be managed via CAD Detail Management. CAD Details cannot be stored in the library. CAD Blocks on the other hand can be stored in the library and are managed via CAD Block Management. They are 2 entirely different things with different purposes. The issue Chopsaw pointed out is an issue with copied CAD Details.

Sounds to me like you’re talking about overlaying cabinet elevations onto actual Wall Framing Details. I would suggest either overlapping layout views or taking cabinet information from a CAD Detail From View and pasting into your Wall Detail.

Until this gets fixed, try this before copying the detail: Select All Make CAD Block Then you can Copy the CAD Detail and explode the block. If you do that, I believe the dimensions and arrows will reference only the new CAD Detail.

I wouldn't say it defeats the purpose. Dimension and connected arrows certainly aren't doing what they should though.