Chopsaw

Jimmy, Sounds like time for some manual dimensioning. Or maybe post you test plan for someone to take a look.

A little confused as to why you are doing what you are asking for but if you have your reasons it will work. Open a new plan and insert your beam from the library into your plan view and open a perspective full overview of it. Go to Tools> Symbol > Convert to Symbol. Then you can easily rotate. Sounds like if you created the beam in an elevation view you could have saved a few steps, just maybe. Good Luck

You can apply any material you want to a wall, first check the library and if there is nothing suitable you can get a photo and use it as a material for the wall and it can be edited in a photo editor to be seamless if you like.

Larry, If you want it to look nice with control of the surfaces with for application of wood grain use polyline solids that can be exploded into surfaces if necessary. If you just need a vector illustration and drawings use the truss tool and edit the member sizes to be proportional to the timbers you will be using then open the truss detail and unlock the Framing, Roof Trusses layer and edit each member as necessary.

Shane, Select the curved edge of the roof plane and follow Michael's instructions. Works great. You don't really want to know what I thought may have to be done.

Jorge, Do you have a snapshot or google clipping of what you need. It may not to too difficult for someone to build as a light fixture or emissive symbol. I assume you have already looked in the sketchup 3D warehouse.

Yes you can set up custom scale factors in Preferences under Unit Conversions but be careful. What kind of data are you working with?

That being said, I am sure there is a way around the situation. You may be able to select everything and shift it in relation to the origin point. If it is the x=0 y=0 point on the base grid that you are referring to?

Michael, Thanks for that tip. Have not seen that in the manual. Glad I did not try to make a 1 hour video on Bolean operations. That is one to be sure and remember. Chopsaw

Mark, Unless someone suggests a simple solution here that I have not thought of... It looks like you may be doing some Bolean operations with solids. If you had curved the roof rather than the gable chief would be of some help but I don't think there is a specific tool for this. If you choose to do this and would like some more details let me know.

Does anyone know if the "Chief Architect Save as PDF" print driver can be accessed such that it can be used with other software?

Mike, Do you use the "My Content" folder? Click on capitaldesigns at the top beside Sign Out. Or maybe you mean "Content I Follow"

Johnny, Is that an electric car or a hybrid? It seems to have had quite an influence on the local flora. Nice Work.

No nothing special just select CTRL + C and point then CTRL + V and click. Literally as Scott would say 2.3978 seconds. If it does not work for you plan is available.

Lew, Please check your PM that I sent to you.

JJ, Not sure I have ever even used an auto dormer before or at least that I can remember but got this first try just with copy and paste. Dumb luck I am sure. Is this what you are looking for?

Anthony, If this is your first project, you have chosen a small but complicated one. A low slope shed roof is never an ideal situation but may be your only practical solution here for your needs assuming that the chimney is being decommissioned at this stage of renovation. Here is a quick mock up of the roof you seem to be describing. Hope this helps as you still have a lot of work to do. Leindecker concept shed1.plan

If you are still working on this problem maybe this will help from CA : https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems.html

Charles, If Joe was going to state a scale you can be sure that he would use a macro to do it, so that would be a non issue. And yes I think he means layout.

Ivan, Having some success group selecting multiple decorating items, furniture, plants, rugs etc.. and then creating an architectural block and immediately adding to library and while the library block is still selected switch to your other open plan and insert. No need to name block or even reselect from library, scale is converted and everything seems to stay mostly intact and oriented. Potentially this could work for an entire room or more if you are bold. Explode the block and adjust and edit in new plan as necessary. If this does not make sense I can talk to you tomorrow. I would like to understand your library issues. Chopsaw P.S. If you combine this method with your layers idea you previously mentioned it could be reasonably effective. As Scott says have you talked to tech?

Ivan, Could you post a couple of "set in stone" library items for us to examine or if they are from Chief maybe tell us some specifics. This could be a separate issue. Not doubting you just curious and want to help and learn.

Perry are you referring to the Boral Catalog or is there a better one?

Lew, I do not understand this either but if you draw a 1 Meter long wall in a Metric plan and import it directly into and Imperial plan file it will not be 1 Meter long or even 3.281 Feet but for some reason it is 8.333 Feet which is ironically 2.54 times larger than it should be. However if you draw a 60 cm cabinet in a Metric Plan and stick it into your Library and take it back out and insert into an Imperial plan it maintains it's size as 60 cm or 24 inches. It seems to be a scaling issue but I just do not know the software well enough to beat it or if it is even possible to do the way it is set up. Keeping the goal of maintaining a live file as I believe this is the objective of the OP. There are several workarounds that could work if a live file is not required or if transfer between files is not required then an Imperial Plan can be made to display as Metric or a Metric Plan can be made to display as Imperial. Chopsaw.

These things should be directly transferable but the thing that seems to be a problem is that they are not both drawn on a 1:1 scale. You can cheat in an Imperial or Metric plan file and adjust your Unit Conversions such that things are drawn the same size but this still does not make them transferable even if it is all planned out ahead of time which it never is. You could combine them in Layout but that does not give you a working plan file. This seems to have been done intentionally but I do not know why it would be necessary. I think there needs to be a solution to this problem since we have been living with both systems used interchangeably for almost 40 years now with no end in the foreseeable future.

Sorry but I guess I have only used that method successfully with cad. Is there a certain classification of objects that you would like to import? Anything you can put into the Library will be automatically converted so there has to be a way to do this. It is just math and computers are good at that. I will keep thinking.