Chopsaw

If you are rounding to the nearest 16th then 17.7 is actually 17 11/16". Perhaps if you are working to those levels of accuracy you should be using decimal inches ? 11/16" is .6875" Not so say these issues never happen in chief. If you are primarily using single dimension strings for precise details of fixed dimensions I would set up a special dimension set to use Distance Rounding rather than the default Grid Rounding.

How about a Rope Light ?

Good point Ryan. I guess I should have a disclaimer on my example " for display purposes only".

I think I remember having one that was too short one time and had to make the track into a separate symbol so that I could control the length. Now the library has separate components so you can place them independent of the door and size them accordingly.

Frame your roof without ridge boards and you will most likely need to do a little cleanup on the framing then add your gusset plates.

I am assuming it is the horizontally trimmed rafter tails you are having issues with ? If so you will need to apply a Rafter Tail Molding to your rafters and Gable Sub Fascia. Unfortunately I think you will need to omit the automatic Fascia for a build like that.

You are using the right approach and Robert has kindly provided the procedure to apply it. The problem being that X12 does not provide the surface area as a macro. This was not available until X14. For a perfect cube try area * 6 or for an irregular cube area * 2 + perimeter * thickness

The "Eave Sub Fascia" is what the Soffit attaches to so it must be less than the "Eave Fascia" by the thickness of the soffit and usually a bit more which creates a drip edge.

3D solid is not possible in a Cad Detail View. Sorry. Paste back and forth perhaps ?

That is just a reminder that you have "Auto Rebuild Terrain" turned off and have made a terrain modification that is not displayed. Your terrain needs to be rebuilt. No reason to have that turned off unless you are having significant computer performance issues.

If you are using stock sizes you should ask for the specification sheets so you know exactly how they are meant to be supported before you decide on your beam locations.

Give 531.61 a try. There are newer ones available but others seem to be happy with it.

Sure. You likely want to make a copy for each variation though.

Yes and No. This is not an option with the tools chief provides for plot lines. However you can have a text box that references the plot line with a leader line. If you are not worried about keeping your layout live this works fine. To keep it live such that things can be rotated or adjusted and it will update then you need a significant amount of Ruby know how. Relevant attributes available for a line are limited to %length% and %angle%. Length is relatively easy to work with but when it comes to providing Quadrant Bearing formatting for the angle then it gets exponentially complicated. Not impossible by any means just really time consuming or very expensive.

I would check with your truss supplier in your area. In my area they will ship trusses up to 77' without special permits so even longer can be done but it raises the shipping expense so should be avoided if it is not necessary. I am not sure they actually need to be broken. You will need less material and achieve more strength if you just specify where the bearing points are so that can be designed for. Certainly 48-50' should be an option without using any specialized equipment.

These are floor trusses ? It sounds like they are behaving like roof trusses but likely they are programmed the same way. Is there some advantage to breaking them ? If so you will most likely need to do it manually. Not usually any need to lap I joists either but they are programmed like regular joists so you have that option. What kind of spans are you dealing with ?

A few things come to mind... A - I think the trough needs to run through even though it is not horizontal through that section it looks like it will still drip and the profile of the trough will help it connect. B - The flat section needs definition (yellow) as a vertical wall with siding to match the house or a sloped roof section with shingles on it that would tuck back in with a soffit above, or some combination of the two but preferably one or the other so it has definition but does not appear too busy.

Maybe a few more details would be helpful like what driver version you were using and what you updated to. I am definitely having the text typing issue you describe but have not noticed it in Chief. It has been showing up in Outlook for me. I would test the dashed line .jpg issue if I knew exactly what version and update of chief you are using along with the line style/weight and .jpg resolution and viewer etc.... Lots of others that have either the same video card or are running the same driver in a similar card that can test different scenario's. I am actually suspicious that I might have a display cable issue so I swapped that out the other day and am currently testing the new one.

Pretty sure that you can have a referenced 3D view that uses its own rendering technique. I just have not had the situation to try it out but yours sounds like a good one. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10211/remodeling-how-to-generate-as-built-overlays-in-2d-3d.html?playlist=120

Assuming your .jpg does not include a repeating pattern you will need to set your Pattern scale ( that controls vector views ) the same as your Texture scale ( that controls standard views ). So it appears that your example might be something like 1200 mm x 1200 mm and your current Pattern setting is approximately 600 mm x 600 mm and you don't seem to have any visible sizing scale in your Texture. That may also be due to a lack of any thing that resembles a grout line in the border of your .jpg so that my require some photo shop work. Or perhaps it would be ok to just use "Stretch to Fit" since the grout line is quite fine anyway. If that does not work maybe post your original .jpg and one of the material gurus may spot the problem or be able to help.

You are likely overthinking this one. Decide what size the step is going to be and place a dash ahead of it for your floor level of the deck so it is a negative value. Done.

I think you will need to edit that manually or turn "Automatically regenerate deck framing" back on in the Room > Deck DBX Not sure what happened to the fascia though ?

You many want to post the plan file and let us know what version of the software you are using. I think I can see two base lines in your plan view screen capture so perhaps your ceiling plane is too low creating the impression of a roof structure that is thicker than the existing. I think the room should be able to provide the flat part of the ceiling and the roof should provide the sloped part maybe.

The setting is in plan scale rather than paper space but you can set it as a default for each of your Dimension Defaults for your Automatic Dimensions if that helps.