Alaskan_Son

My suggested method is somewhat of a hybrid between what Eric and Lew have suggested. Please note that this is only what I would do in X10. It will work in X12 as well but X12 has some additional features that change things or otherwise make certain steps unnecessary: Copy/Paste Hold Position your Lot Perimeter polyline. Convert Polyline to Terrain Feature and set both the Height and Thickness to match your Max Building Height. NOTE: If you only care to see the uppermost limit then just leave the thickness at zero and you'll get something like Eric was suggesting when you're done; otherwise, you'll end up with something a little more like what Lew has shown. If you have Hide Terrain Intersected By Building toggled on in your Terrain Specification dialog then temporarily toggle it off. Take an elevation view of your Elevation Region being sure to place your camera somewhere outside of it. Switch to your All Off Layer Set and make sure all layers are turned off except for your Terrain Features layer and your Cuurent CAD layer (probably "CAD, Default"). Create a CAD Detail From View. Hit Control+A, and click Make CAD Block. This will make quick and easy work of finding the highest elevation of your Terrain feature. Activate your Place Point tool and double click at the top of your new CAD Block. This should simultaneously place a Temporary Point and open it's dialog. Under Current Location, copy the Y position value. Go back to your Elevation View, and click Tools>Symbol>Make Symbol Place the symbol in your plan and use Point To Point Move to position it exactly over your Terrain Feature. Open the Symbol up, set Elevation Reference to Absolute, and paste your previously copied value into the Elevation at Top field. Open up a 3D view, switch to Vector View and make sure the Elevation region and your new symbol are in the exact same position. Assuming they are, just delete the Terrain feature and toggle Hide Terrain Intersected By Building back on. You can now use some combination of layer display settings, material settings, Glass House Rendering Technique, Back Clipped section views, etc. to get what your after. I know that looks like a complicated process, but it only takes a minute if you're familiar with the tools; otherwise it might take a few minutes

You shouldn't need to do that if you have Chief's out of the box Toggle Modes toolbar turned on...

Just FYI because its somewhat related and may be the reason you got where you are, you can get this behavior with Automatic Foundations as well. From the Help files... Basement Rooms When a foundation’s type is Walls with Footings or Grade Beams on Piers, and it is assigned a Minimum Wall Height of 76” (1900 mm) or greater, the resulting basement is automatically created with a 4” (100 mm) concrete slab floor. and a default Floor Finish like that on Floor 1. Similarly, if a foundation is set up to have a Basement Ceiling Height of 72” (1800 mm) or greater when built, it is automatically given a painted drywall Ceiling Finish. See Foundation Panel. Regardless of its ceiling height, however, you can specify a floor or ceiling finish for any room in the Room Specification dialog. See Structure Panel.

If you do a Save As and change the Plan name, you will automatically unlink the new plan from the layout file. Chief has a goofy behavior though where the open layout will start displaying information based on the current plan file. The links are only temporary though and have not actually been changed. To address this, I usually just close the layout down and then open it right back up. Been that way for a long time. I really should report it. I don't like it. Is that what you're talking about?

Just an optional approach, but you can always manually add a little "Snap Rose" to your plan that includes the desired angles. Then you can simply use the Make Parallel/Perpendicular tool...

Open your mulled unit, click on the Options tab, and adjust your Mullion Depth>Outside to something like 200 mm.

Click just outside your exterior wall. If you select a wall first, then hit the Tab key or click the Select Next tool until you see "Exterior Room" down on the lower left hand corner of your screen. When you have the Exterior Room selected, click on the Make Living Area Polyline in your Edit toolbar. This will create an independent polyline shaped to show you the exact area being used for the calculation.

To be clear, there are multiple areas with Display options in Windows. The one in question can be found under Settings>Ease of Access>Display. Also, just a quick tip for you fellas who couldn't find it. That Search bar is your friend. Simply starting to type "show animations" should bring it up.

You’re just not getting it. It can seriously be done in about 10 seconds.

Use a CAD mask. Just place a large polyline with a solid fill over your plan and cut a hole in it. Just make sure all your annotations are in a higher Drawing Group and it should do what you want.

Globals are stored with the instance of Chief, not necessarily with the plan or layout file so it should already work like you want. That being said, the variables need to be defined before you can use or display them elsewhere. To help ensure this is happening, it can be useful to place a layout box containing the items generating the variables in the first place off to the side on your layout page where the variables are being used or displayed.

You’re not missing anything. Door and drawer panels don’t carry their Component information over into the cabinet. You might want to report it if it’s a functionality you want to make use of. In the meantime, your best bet is probably to add a price code to the door/drawer front name and then either: A.) use a custom macro to automatically add the price change to the cabinet itself, and/or B.) use a cabinet schedule to break out the specific door/drawer front price changes. You can always transfer the info. to a spreadsheet for further manipulation.

What did they say when you reported it?

The symbol was probably made to be inserted into a cabinet as an integrated appliance and not as a freestanding appliance as you were using it. when an appliance is included as part of the cabinet then you have to set that Y offset and the bounding box depth to match this number…

For the freestanding microwave, you're overthinking it a bit. No need for any offsets. Put those back to zero and just put the microwave where it goes. You'll need to temporarily override bumping and pushing by either toggling it off or by holding down the Control key.

This is a long standing issue when moving files from one computer or screen resolution to another. It kinda sucks. Quickest thing is to group select all text using Match Properties tool, click Open, and then click Okay.

Never had version 10 but as long as I've used Chief there has been an Import>3D Symbol option to import 3D DWG files.

That's what the Reference Display is for. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the Help files. Click Help>Launch Help (or hot F1) and search for "Reference".

Specs all look fine. I suspect there's a hardware issue and my guess is that its an issue with the Hard Drive. That's just a guess though without having access to any of the files. I would run a performance test on the machine. I usually use this one... https://www.passmark.com/products/performancetest/ This should give you an idea of how the various components are working. You can also open up Task Manager and watch what's happening while Chief is being used. In addition to all that, I would make sure Chief is recognizing and using the proper GPU. Some systems have an onboard GPU. I doubt this is your problem but its worth checking out anyway.

This is definitely Chief. I see it all the time. I’ve taken to using multiple text boxes side by side for much better justification and alignment control.

The problems you're alluding to can be largely if not entirely eliminated by changing your Arrow Defaults in Layout so that only the Tail is set to Attach...

I don't know the answer to that. I barely even know what a "porch" is or under what specific circumstances people are using that particular room type. The term just seems to mean all sorts of different things to different people. At the end of the day, Chief gave us options though, both with regard to which Room Type we use and with regard to the various framing controls (Framing Groups, Retain Framing, Manual Framing, etc.). If you don't think the behavior is correct you can always send that in. I personally don't have a problem with it and I don't know...maybe there's a good reason for it.

That's because you painted the wall on the left side with a different siding material. If you are going to change the material type being used on you exterior walls then you should really create a new wall type. At any rate, what you need is for the finish layer of the front wall to run all the way through to the end. To get that to happen, select the wall and then click on the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool in the Edit toolbar, and then drag the finish layer through to the end.

It's just a behavior associated with the Porch room type. If the bottom of the defined floor structure in the Porch room is higher than the bottom of the defined floor structure in the deck room, then the deck will build through.

You snapped to your finish layer on the left side (the correct thing) and to your framing layer on the right side (the incorrect thing).