Alaskan_Son

Not sure I understand what you're after, so this may not apply, but the ceiling shouldn't be a necessity. All you should need to do is set the truss to Sloping Flat Truss.

While dragging, hit tab.

You shouldn't have any problem moving your dimension lines to snap to the center of those walls without using any workarounds other than actually moving the node...

Wait for it... ...wait for it....

This is an inherent problem with all tutorial videos and support articles and the main reason I tend to think they're a pretty stinky and inefficient primary learning source.. They can't possibly be sorted through, reorganized, and/or rewritten for every version, especially considering that they may or may not apply to multiple versions and that users of those older version are still out there. People just need to take them with a grain of salt.

This article no longer applies. Those settings don't actually exist in the Symbol Specification anymore. They actually live in the Fixture/Furniture Specification dialog where we just use the Elevation Reference now. Depends on how accurate you need your model to be. The problem is that although the tilt gets adjusted beautifully, Chief doesn't create an accurate 2D Block when an object is set to reference the roof. The quickest thing in my opinion is probably to make a single symbol that is set to Reference Roof, Flush Mounted, place it, select it, and then click Convert Selected to Symbol. That new symbol will have the correct tilt and 2D Block. the height just might need a little adjustment.

In my opinion, Launch Help is hands down the best and most underutilized learning resource at our disposal. It can be accessed via Help>Launch Help, by clicking on the little blue question mark at the top of your screen, or by hitting the F1 key. It can also be accessed from every single dialog box that I know of by clicking on the little "Help" button down in the lower right corner (lower left if you're using a Mac). If you access it through the dialog box, it will take you straight to the section covering the use of that specific dialog and all it's related settings. In addition, Launch Help can be utilized in 3 other basic ways... 1. If you click Launch Help while a tool is activated but nothing is selected, you will be taken straight to the section covering that particular object type or tool. 2. If you click Launch Help while an object is selected, you will typically be taken straight to the section covering how to edit that particular object type. 3. By simply opening it and searching through it the old fashioned way using Search, Contents, by following links, etc. Re: learning Chief in general via the documentation and various resources that Chief provides us without charge, it is my general recommendation that people start with the Tutorial Guide if they have the time to do so. It does a good job covering all the basics from start to finish and does so in such a way that helps you understand how the tools were intended to be used. During that tutorial, you'll be actually following along and using all the tools so it's great practice as well. After that I recommend always going to the Help files first (the Help files are basically the User Manual). Make sure to read carefully. Chief generally doesn't include all the extra fluff and misinformation you have to slog through like you do in places like this forum, and follow links where necessary to read up on other applicable areas. The videos are okay, but I've never seen anybody make nearly as much progress or learn the program nearly as well or as quickly as they can by simply reading the documentation. You can glean a lot of accurate and pointed information in a half hour by reading the documentation sent with the current version or you can spend that half hour watching a video that may or may not be using a current version, that may or may not be using the best method available in the current version, that may or may not apply due to some intricacy about your specific plan and situation that sets it apart, or that may or may not even cover the detail you were hoping to learn. It's really a crap-shoot. The absolute LAST place I recommend people go to learn the basics is this forum. It is one of the best and absolute worst things about Chief in my opinion. Its fabulous for peer to peer tips and clarifications and is a great place to learn hacks and tricks that aren't covered in the documentation or videos, but it has to be the least effective way of learning the basics and is terrible as a primary learning tool. In comparison to the aforementioned resources, it's a jumbled mess of disorganized, conflicting, and oftentimes downright inaccurate information and new users are easily the least qualified people to be filtering through that mess. Anyway, don't get me wrong, the forum is a useful tool but it should be pretty far down your list of places to go and helps foster some really bad and inefficient learning habits. When I personally forget something or when I don't know what a tool or setting does, the first place I go still is to the Help files and do so on a very regular basis. If I can't find what I want after a few minutes of searching there, then I might go search the forum, but I very very rarely find answers on the forum. It really serves as more of a distraction and time sink than anything.

Edit>Reset To Defaults>Roof Directives In Walls

Ya. It's not gonna do everything. It gets you partway there though. Really depends what you're after I suppose. If for example you want to create a mono slab underneath you can still do that without turning auto foundations off.

Not sure you're fully understanding. No need to turn Automatically Rebuild Foundation off. Simply open the walls defining the porch and set them to Create Wall/Footing Below...

You bet. Glad I could help.

Are you displaying the Date Modified or Date Created?

I hope you're using some custom macros for those.

The Note method is really all we have right now and its really not a bad solution. It can all pretty easily be set up with custom macros to be fully automated so all you have to do is copy and paste the note from room to room as you go.

Not if they don't read the documentation anyway... Easy to find by simply searching the Help files.

It will if you open those walls and tell Chief to Create Wall/Footing Below.

Same basic naming convention but just written differently using superscript... 2⁶6⁸ or dashes... 2-6 x 6-8 or slashes... 2/6 x 6/8 etc. I know what 2668 means but I still have to expend a lot more mental effort to sort it out in my mind when I read it that way. I prefer the superscript labeling to any other hands down. It's clear and it takes up less space.

A few biggies IMO that will really hamper your abilities (even just on interior design), and I'm speaking from experience as both a designer and as a trainer, consultant, and coach... Active Layer Display Options CAD Detail From View TAB input method Custom Dimension Text Match Properties Ruby Limitations The average user could probably do without the last one, but the other 5 alone are worth the upgrade IMO. And that says nothing of the other tools that your bound to end up wanting for the little side jobs, unexpected requests, and other opportunities that are almost certain to come up.

By the way, just a side note, but it’s totally possible to do superscript labels in X12 without a custom font. I still prefer a custom font because the superscript numbers are too small with most fonts and look just plain terrible with others, but Chief does fully support Unicode now so all it takes is a pretty simple text macro.

I’ve never been a huge fan of the 2668 nomenclature either, and I still find it confusing even when I know it’s happening, but in Chief’s defense, it’s really not uncommon. Plenty of window and door companies call sizes out the same way.

Don’t think it could ever work properly that way. Chief needs some kind of placeholder in order for Auto Rebuild to remain toggled on.

Not entirely true. If you delete an attic wall while Auto Rebuild Attic Walls is toggled on, the wall is automatically changed to an invisible wall and put onto the "Walls, Invisible" layer. Delete it again and it changes back to a normal attic wall and put back onto the "Walls, Attic" layer.

I think you should ONLY post it in suggestions. It wasn't a question and your thoughts on the matter are of little effect if you don't send them to Chief.

Completely subjective. It could be just as easy to start from the bottom using the Height (Starts AT Height) or from the heel (In From Baseline). I've framed houses for many years, and I honestly don't believe I would ever use that top number you're talking about as my main point of reference. Is it a lower pitch?

Another thing you can consider and what a lot of us do is skipping double and single digit numbering altogether. My first page in every sequence is 101 (A-101, S-101, E-101, etc.)