Chopsaw

Your Garage is already labeled. If what you want is a Grarage/Kitchen they would need to be adjoined by the Hallway. Super strange situation though. There must be an issue with your party wall. As Eric says post the plan and clarify the question. Other wise... Welcome to ChiefTalk.

There are more advanced methods that you will learn later on as you get more experience but for now just create a Schedules, Doors Layer and turn that off in your Walls Layerset. Same with your Wall Schedule, create a Schedule, Walls layer and have it off in your Doors Layerset. Welcome to ChiefTalk.

Frame your wall and make sure Framing, Headers are turned on. Then select header and insert label macro etc. Make sure Framing, Header Labels are turned on.

Occasionally I do find myself scrolling in an awkward way with my middle finger but as you get more experience you will get used to selection and zoom settings even thought they are not all perfectly intuitive.

Molding Polyline

I believe the proper term is "Polyline Distribution Path"

Yes there are a bunch in the Simpson catalog under 3D Objects. Just place and position one and then multi copy.

Take a look in the DBX. See what happens when you make the bottom height the same as the top height of your wall plate.

Not so sure that ghost could be captured any other way Eric unless you were recording video.

That seems like a new technique to me. Can you drag other thing from the library into plan view ?

I guess that did not originally come from you then. Not sure as I have not done it in a while but one of the newer versions of Gimp may even have an automatic seamless feature, but it is good to understand the theory as well.

Here is a short tutorial I have that likely originally came from the forum here somewhere. Seamless textures with GIMP.txt

Gene I think doing that twice should be sufficient.

The more variation there is in the photo the more difficult it is but did you try making a seamless texture out of it ? You can do it in Photoshop or Gimp.

Try using a framing reference marker with your ceiling joists and roof rafters on the same centers. Or maybe manually. ALDO (Active Layer Display Options) is the best tool to search for and turn layers on and off.

Not really sure why but I think the maximum distance is 24" and it looks to me that it is within that but something to check for sure.

Thanks guys for the help and clarifications. It seems I still have a lot to learn. Nice to see that Microsoft is stuck in a 2017 time warp.

Sorry I am not sure I have read any of those threads and without that your comments are really confusing. I was not referring to a Text Macro in my example and I am not sure how chief could possibly know what the date is, some external source would be required. It would make more sense that chief would internally know what the %scale% would be but having difficulty wrapping my head around the concept. I thought ruby was required to calculate or retrieve data from the program. Is there somewhere that Chief Architect explains it that I missed ?

The idea is to just hold the fence off the wall by a couple of inches with the room divider so there is no contact or virus transmission.

Is the room divider set to be invisible ? Regardless I think tech support should have a look at this one unless you have a corrupted stucco wall definition or something rather irregular in there.

Not sure what exactly you're referring to either Chop. There's nothing special about the version of Ruby Chief is using. They're currently using Ruby version 2.4.0. What is it that you would like them to publish? Sorry for the delay. I was really busy and not sure if you were being serious. There are plenty of examples of this in chief. Ruby seems to come naturally to you but not so for most of the rest of us. One of the first problems I had when I started using chief was a macro to display the date. The embedded system macros they provided were not suitable for me as I use to use a software program the would use both formats of a 6 digit date code and then randomly mix them when printing reports. So what you would get on a 60 page report would be 60 pages of wasted paper and lots of ink use up ! I don't use 6 digit date codes anymore. So as the new kid trying to get my first set of drawings produced on completely foreign software I am faced with the decision of using a date that I don't like the formatting of or typing it out multiple times and hope to not make an error somewhere, then do that on every set of drawings from then on or try my best to learn a new programming language and make my own date code macro. Well maybe it will only take and hour or two so I give it a try and google ruby stuff all night. Get no sleep and then make some other mistakes one the drawings because of lack of sleep and still have to type the dates in. Hopefully you get the idea and can remember some of your struggles starting off with the software ? The point being that it is much easier to modify existing ruby code than it is start from scratch if you don't know ruby. So if chief was to provide the ruby code for %date.long% and %date.short% I would have looked at those to see how they work and likely would have been able to modify the code to create my %International.date% without wasting so much valuable time. Just a few minutes for someone who is proficient but maybe a few hours or a few days for someone who is not. Or maybe even a few days without results.

This one seems similar: Or search FTH as there are others as well.

Is that stucco newel post a triangular shape ? If so I am getting something similar at the junction.