Chopsaw

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.

Not exactly sure what may have caused the eval error unless you did not set it to evaluate and Owner Object with a room selected in plan. Always best to go with simple when simple works. That other macro is old and much more complex than necessary for this specific task.

I am not sure what was wrong with the answer you got yesterday that was quite simple. Something like this if I remember correctly ? "CLG:" + (ceiling_elevation-floor_elevation).to_ft.round .to_s + "'" However if you absolutely need to work with the old code you could try this but no guarantee it does not throw an error at some point. arr = (ceiling_elevation-floor_elevation).to_f.divmod(12) inch_frac = ((arr[1]-arr[1].floor)*16).round.quo(16) result = case inch_frac when Rational(1.0) "#{arr[0]}'-#{arr[1].ceil}\"" when Rational(0.0) "#{arr[0]}'-#{arr[1].floor}\"" else "#{arr[0].floor}'"#"-#{arr[1].floor} #{inch_frac}\"" end "CLG:" + result

No problem. It works on the other side and I can't find any significant difference that would cause it to behave different.

Good call Rob. Did you accomplish that in X14 or X15 ? I tried in X14 and yes it does reframe but no birdsmouth ?

Ok I get it, but that is the same logic that presumably CA programmers used in thinking we would not need base NVP's, which leaves a lack of flexibility when you want that information displayed in the label.

Do you have a secret you are not sharing Joe ? If you really need to you can get the height if you have the area and volume, but how do you propose getting the rest of the dimensions assuming they are not the same ? The OP needs area, volume and three dimensions.

Yes I don't think that is possible. You mentioned using Joe's Object Properties macro. That shows you what is available for each object you apply it to. So for the "General Framing Member" you are working with width, length and depth rather than width, depth and height for the symbol. We are limited to what is available and if you are dealing with any significant quantity of these items you will want to use the simplest item that serves your purpose.

It sounds like maybe you are trying to use the 2D people. They are primarily meant to be used in elevation views. Try these or do a search on the forum for 3D People. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/3d-library/index.php?r=site/detail/1222

Sorry my comment continues on from what you have shown in your screen shot. Create in plan view then edit the Z components in elevation view.

You need to create an elevation view to work in the Z axis.

Yikes ! Now there is a challenge. Unfortunately I am not a mathematician but I think that would only work if you had a perfect cube and you took the cube root of the Volume and that would give you the width x depth x height. Same with the Area. Take the square root of the Area to get the width x depth, but only for a perfect square or it is magic not math. I would suggest that you use a general framing member and stick with the same methodology as the symbol, since your example is not a perfect cube.

It looks to me that what you are building would most suitably be a symbol so just do the math....

Chief will almost do that with regular settings. I would need to tinker a bit to see if there was a way to clean it up with spaces and an extra dash though.

I think you are referring to the "Child Toolbar Palette". This is set in Preferences > Appearance > Toolbars

No Sorry. I don't think that can be done with Chief alone. You would need to use a 3rd party editor for that type of requirement.

It looks to me as you may have colour toggle off in your section view.

If all those points are recorded in a .gpx file the file can be used to import the data into Chief. However you may need to curb your expectations on the level of accuracy using a phone to record the GPS points. File > Import > Import GPS Data... If that is not an option you can convert your GPS coordinates to your local Projected Coordinate System in meters and then plot that out in Chief using the x and y grid. Note that this is not technically correct as a slight scale factor should be applied but depending on your location that is often quite negligible.

Humm..... I am not sure but that may have automatically changed the setting I was referring to above. If you have any more issues please post the plan file so we can better analyze the situation.

You should be able to set the camera to use an "Absolute" Camera Height and make it work for a short and simple walkthrough. However that is not the way it is supposed to work so please let us know what software version you are using and we may be able to help better.

Yes I can see how that would be convenient. Perhaps a 1:1 print preview tool ? No harm in making a suggestion.

Yes, Always print to PDF to review before printing. PDF viewers should give you a magnification level setting... ie 100% Then print from the PDF for most predictable results.