Alaskan_Son

This simply isn't possible to do with Stretch Planes or Stretch Zones. You'll need to either model it manually or break that symbol down into 2 parts and resize independently.

Are you trying to just make the headboard taller?

There are no residential requirements that I know of. And even if there are, I've never seen or heard of anything being enforced in this regard. Almost every single house I know of has an accessory/storage building (sheds, greenhouses, etc.) with no power at all.

It can have a Fill using Open Symbol>2D Block. You just can’t get a PATTERN that way.

You could also be using the Arc with Arrow tool

You can also create an Architectural Block using a closed molding polyline (no molding assigned) to supply the desired fill. Then you can add to/pull from library and copy/paste elsewhere as a single object.

I concur. In my experience, upgrading to an SSD is one of the best things anyone can do. When I did this to my last machine, it made a HUGE difference with the speed of just about everything.

No. I just used a Polyline Solid as Robert suggested in the very first response.

I have no problem getting rid of the lines as long is everything is actually lined up. It's probably worth noting though that you do have to hit F12 or click Rebuild 3D in some situations to get a pre-existing camera to remove that line.

In order to get workable walls you'll have to very carefully model the shipping containers using very custom wall types, room definitions, etc. You can also model your shipping containers without the parametric tools by just using solids, or you could do a combination of methods. You won't simply be able to use a shipping container symbol though and you won't be able to use your normal everyday modeling techniques. It's entirely doable but pretty difficult if you're not very proficient with the software. It's just not something Chief was specifically designed to do.

Are you sure you placed and selected your new Symbol and that you didn't just select the old one?

Yup. Chief made this a lot more efficient in X12 than what it used to be too. I personally don't create a polyline for every room though. Only for the entire area I want to reference. I only d for sperate rooms when there's a specific reason to do so (covered deck vs. uncovered deck is one example). I also recommend creating a uniquer Saved Plan View for this "Area Analysis" where only the required layers are displayed, where almost all layers except rooms are locked, and where you have a Current CAD Layer specifically for your Area Analysis Polylines.

There are many many roofs in Chief that can easily be built using Auto Roof settings and others where manual involvement is just going to be required no matter what you do. I think you picked one where building Auto is an exercise in futility and where manual is the way to go...at least after getting partway there. Also, just a side note, but I would strongly recommend against clearing your plan of everything and using a single room to find a solution. Plans aren't typically modeled that way, so practicing that way is going to result in finding solutions that won't work in a real plan. Take that invisible wall that was added above...That may or may not even be possible depending on where the interior walls actually land.

Depends on how you draw the roof. Auto-built, they are set according the the room ceiling height in conjunction with the rafter or truss top chord settings. Manually built then it depends on where you start dragging out your roof plane: -Over a wall: Uses ceiling height along with rafter or top chord. -Over another roof plane: Uses height of existing roof at that point. -Over nothing: Uses default ceiling height as set for the current floor along with rafter or top chord settings.

I have my doubts.

This is one area where Chief is pretty inconsistent between the various dialogs. In the Build Roof and Roof Defaults dialogs, the display is controlled solely via General Plan Defaults>Show Pitch as Degrees In the Roof Plane Specification dialog, you have a checkbox right there underneath the setting for Pitch in Degrees In all other locations it is controlled via Number Style which you can access for every dialog down in the lower left hand corner.

By the way, Glenn hinted at it earlier, but it would really help if you were to adjust your Segment Angle at Curved Wall in your Build Roof dialog. Turn it all the way down. I think you can only set it to 6 but that will likely be enough. Using the method I mentioned above you can go even lower but that would mean switching to manual roofs.

Sort of. You have to use boolean operations (usually subtraction) to get a true arc onto a roof plane. They don't behave when they're true arcs though and you still need to Convert Curve to Polyline.

What you're showing is what I would probably refer to as a Dutch Lap. Do a quick search for "Seamless Dutch Lap Texture" and see what you come up with.

Okay. Thanks for the update.

You betcha.

Looks like I may have misunderstood the question. I thought you wanted to overlay your actual Chief Architect® Plan View so that you could view the plan view line-work over your terrain. From the looks of it though what you really want is the aerial view image? If so, never-mind the poly-line solid idea with the PNG. That won't really give you what you're after.

If the tools functioned like I mention above, there wouldn’t even be a need for the extra Eyedropper tools and we could more affectively control which object(s) we were trying to reference. It would just require a slight workflow change. Instead of clicking on Eyedropper (and hoping you picked the right Eyedropper tool) and then clicking on the desired object, you would instead select the object and then click the tool to either Paint Layer or Set As Current CAD Layer. In addition to other benefits, it would allow us to tab to buried objects (which we can’t do with the Eyedropper) and it would allow us to leave any given tool activated. You could leave the line tool activated, select a CAD Block, click the Set As Current CAD Layer tool and immediately start drawing your lines. Or maybe you realize that your CAD Block was on the wrong layer? Simply select a different layer in ALDO/OLP, click the Move Object(s) to Layer tool and then immediately click the Set As Current CAD Layer tool.

I disagree with Chop on this. Pretty easy to accomplish. Eric suggested one easy method but you can also export an image of your plan view as PNG and assign it to a zero thickness poly-line solid or face and just place that directly above your terrain. This would maintain the single plane affect that would be lost if you simply paint the image to your terrain. In both instances you'll most liekly want to properly crop your image and use a Material set to Stretch To Fit.

I'm with you Rod. I've thought for quite some time that the various Layer controls need to be better consolidated and synced up. For example, both the Current CAD Layer and Layer Painter tools give you a list of layers but no way to create or edit those layers. I suggest that we get some additional buttons or right click options in Active Layer Display Options to... Paint Layer where you select the layer and then Paint it to various objects Set as Current CAD Layer In addition, I would love to be able to move the selected object(s) to a layer using Object Layer Properties or Active Layer Display Options so I'd also like to see a tool to... Move Object(s) to Layer