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Hey John, I've had similar situations, and if your not going to be doing anything to the main residence, I'd make the house a symbol. Basically copy the house file and delete all you can to make the file smaller, for example, I deleted furniture, interior lights, etc.. Then edit areas all floors, and make a block per say. It will take a minute or two, to convert depending on the PC and the size of the home. Then on your garage plan, you insert as a block.. position accordingly.

@Renerabbitt This helps tremendously, not just piping, which lately I am being asked to provide some basic routes, but molding on a partially sloped ceiling, etc.. I never paid attention to the edit plane option before and that is a great help. I use this function all day in the Autodesk products, so this is something I will remember to use in the future. I do have one question for you though. At the 4:49 time of your video, you deleted a section of the molding, but when I pick that "X", the whole line disappears. I know if I want to delete a selected edge I pick the edge then the icon I have circled in green, but what you picked wasn't that, and three sides of your profile deleted and you were allowed to route in a different direction. How did you do that? This would be helpful in so many different scenarios, not just a pipe route. I look forward to more of your wisdom. Thanks in advance

@PitMan71 I agree, this is really the only way to rotate a lot of objects at once. Make sure to pick "Edit Area (all floors)". This will get you the foundation, roof and any other floors not shown. I use this also for a move command too.

At age 59.66 yrs old, I am still learning new things everyday. I don't use grids, EVER, so I don't have this issue, but it's good to know these settings.

@Renerabbitt You and ChatGPT are on the same page.. :-) Glad to see I'm not the only one on here on a Saturday night.

Ah, so this is an actual wall with a slider placed in it.. then you did the rest. Interesting. Curious why you went this way though? I have the manufacture catalog from Kohler that has these doors. Is there something different that I am not seeing? But honestly, I'm a cad guy, so when I model something from scratch, and it works and looks legit.. I get pretty dang excited, so cheers to a great job and thinking outside the box.

Same here...

Very Nice... but more cabinets? That's 55 now to chose from.. not to be hateful or disrespectful, just an observation.

I apologize.. the 30" was to be a positive as its "Subfloor Height Above Terrain"

What part are you struggling with Howard? The floor of the garage at grade? Remember, your main floor is always (well most of the time) at zero inches. Set your terrain at -30". Set the floor elevation of the garage at -30" as well. (that would be in the room dbx, under structure at the FLOOR input.

Bob is right, no need to hold the control key. Pick and edge, pick the other edge... Recording 2025-07-19 211045.mp4

I've seen this before on my stuff, its random though. I don't remember if I fixed it or not. I want to say, I changed it from an attic wall, but that wouldn't make sense with what you have at the window. @basketballman If only it didn't offset those post, this would be just about perfect. Its getting there.. Did you just upload Rob's picture?

NP.. glad I could help.

I haven't got x17 loaded yet.. but I can answer this. Go to your floor structure definition, item 1 should be your sheathing. Make sure "Framing" isn't checked. Matter a fact, this same dbx, see how your item 2 should be is marked.. this determines your joist style.

It's been doing this as long as I can remember.. I just learned not to worry about it, like Shane. BUT if I needed to show it, I'd do exactly what DB suggested.

Hmm.. first thing I'd look to see if the layer is locked. I haven't switched to 17 yet, so I don't know if its a bug or not. Would a wall material region work best here?

Well, if you have it all on the same level, turning off the "Framing, Deck Planking" will show you your structure.

And that's what I did, but I was thinking if I kept the same layer, everything should be fine. Lesson Learned. I wonder why nothing shows but the OOTB stairs and landing though? This is what I am going to do, so if something changes, it will be updated. Sorry for the delay in responding, the wife had different plan for me today besides work, until now at least.

Maybe I am not seeing something correctly here, being its been a 12 hour work day and its getting late. For my original customer approval, I put a Chief stairs in the model (indoor and outdoor stairs), did the room below on the second floor to show on the plan set. Went through the approval process, and one of the comments the clients wants is a custom stair case on the exterior. I decided, since this was custom and there are still some limitations on Chief stairs to just 3D model my own. I guess I never paid attention to this before, but I am no longer am seeing these stairs from the second floor (room below) even though I am still using the same layer names. So I thought, I messed up and I put a Chief stairs in the next to the custom one, and from the second floor, that stair shows, but not the custom. Interior, I thought I'd test, and sure enough the same thing. Is there a setting that allows this to happen and a setting to where we can add custom modeling parts?

I know, I really wish I could, but not enough hours in the day to load that up and play around with working two full time jobs (this being one of them). One of these days, this will be it, then I really will be bugging you all, meet you all in Idaho.. getting into the betas. BTW, I looked at your site the other day, great work Eric! Love what you did with the church.

The very first thing I'd check is if the layer is on, in that layer set.

I asked this, because I read the dimensioning has improved and really looking forward to seeing that. Like can we dimension circles and radius' ? Can we put text above and below a dimension line, not just in front and behind the text? LEADER LINES/ARROWS THAT DON'T MOVE WHEN OBJECT or TEXT IS MOVED OR ADJUSTED.. this is huge to me. I move more arrows than I do walls and doors. Chief does keep getting better, and continuously improves with every new update.

I think your right on this John, esp. on the trades side. Where I worked before (day job) was Newport News Shipbuilding, working on the Ford Class. That big bada$$ ship was design in a 3D model, down to the screws on the light covers.. the trades use a little of the 2D stuff, but now they are equipped with a notepad and they are in the model, taking their measurements from that model. I left before this was fully implemented, and this ships are being built. So must be working ok. We are slowly getting our shop to load the model (read only) here at GD (day job) and provide just enough docs more for engineering sign off. Ditto here... leaders just clutter IMO.

That's what I would try Rob.. I'm not sure if that is why your ceiling joist are wacked, but if I don't need a room definition, then I usually do a slab then do the roof on top. I model my own post and beams anyways, so it isn't to much of a bother. Railing walls are some time finicky..

Exactly what I did Jim, that's what I was say in my OP "The only way I can figure this out in Chief is to stack the same view and just shrink each one and stack..." Kind of a pain but was pretty easy. I know AutoCAD Plant 3D has this option, and the dims stay true... just was throwing it out there. Thanks, glad to see others are working on a Saturday night too.