Chopsaw

Here are a few ideas: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/6267-transparent-faded-text/?hl=%2Btransparent+%2Btext

Not so sure that X8 has anything better but is sure would be great.

Just to expand on Lew's layout procedure you could use contrasting colours for the terrain and overlay the two views in layout.  This may work well depending on the complexity of your terrain.

If you make the shower an independent room you can change the floor height and it should auto frame accordingly. If you drop it too far you may have to double up joists or reduce the centers as you are in charge of structure in Chief. Post the plan or some screen shots if that does not work for you.

Ross,  Set your exterior pony walls to "Furred Wall" and you are good to go.  Have a great Weekend.

P.S.  Video worked fine keep up the good work.

Select a dimension when they are visible in the all on layer set and with your Active layer Display Options open it will highlight which layer it is being placed on. Then you can track it down and see if your defaults are set correctly.

Not sure why level 0 would behave different than level 1, maybe a good one for tech.

Thanks guys,  I was in a rush and this one made me panic a bit.  I looked up and down but forgot to look sideways...   Joe, I think maybe I customized this one a bit but will send it in if it was stock library.

Awesome, I will give that a try and let you know, great to have you over there on the other side when pulling an all nighter.

That was it, why it happened and how you figured it out I will never know but thank you so much for sharing your experience with me. It was inside the wall !! Great to have the new x-ray camera in X8.

I think that looks fine but if you were to give the 9' 7 7/8" overall would you need the 2' 9 15/16" dimensions 4x ? And maybe extend your center lines back towards the side walls with a dashed line style.

Electrical Panel is on Electrical layer and shows in Floor plan and Electrical Floor Plan but will not show in camera view or elevation view both with Electrical layer turned on when all other items on electrical layer display fine. Panel is surface mounted and set at 70" and has not been lost to basement or attic.

Sorry plan is not available, but wondering if anyone has experienced anything like this?

You can round off the dimensions if you like but it would be better to give the drawings to a builder with a sharp pencil if it is to be built correctly.  Maybe you don't need to include all the dimensions.

Not sure about the angle lines but you may have your snap units set too large and you just cant get anywhere close.  So try setting your snap units temporarily to 1/16 or some small amount and get the railing close then move it in with your arrow keys.

You might also set your siding-4 main layer to be the studs.  Or try the point to point tool if you are aligning with main layer.

Works fine in X8.

Thanks Scott, ( and that other unnamed person )

I think it must be time to hit the suggestion forum with this however until Chief makes this a little easier there is a trick to create a new current cad layer which the auto details will be placed onto and then you have some control by going to the all off set and turning on your custom layer to edit or delete.

Chief is working on making this easier but here is a current discussion on a lot of the aspects you seem to be struggling with.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10651-the-jpcgraeme-floor-level-workshop-wednesday-aug24-at-400-pm-pst/?p=93348

Please watch video on post #22

Is this really a one way street for auto detail or is there a way to refresh, updated or delete and redetail?  I did put it all on a separate cad layer but this seems to be an unreasonable amount of work. What am I missing?

I Don't see any steps in your thumbnail.  If you are going to allow wheelchair access you may want to check out this thread:https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/9864-sloped-floor/

Rod, I would be quite interested in unscaled cad blocked text rotation issues because tech is for sure not aware of this. If you could post a sample plan that would be great or just send it in to tech and reference my ticket #62820 Lets get this fixed!!

I already talked to tech and after I sent it in figured out that this only happens when the text in the cad block has been scaled and you no longer have a 1:1 factor ratio. They have not provided a fix yet but I figured out a temporary workaround to create a .png capture and re import back into Chief and then rotate but what a pain.

Text Rotation Test.plan

I would have to confirm but I think plans can be exported to Chief Architect Premier but not transferred back. There are a few people on this forum that are familiar with both versions. Should not be an issue to do a little editing and finish the plans.

Did a quick test for you and 24 sides at 15^o and 4' works fine.  If you would like a few pointers just let me know. 

Buzzsaw,  You have it all figured out but you need to use CA logic.   +23^o  is ccw.

I will be talking to tech support today but if you would like me to post the plan file so you can take a look just let me know.

With rich text you can set a default style colour, size, font, etc.  Or just copy paste and then open and edit.

I thought I remembered reading about this on the forum as an X7 issue but it still seems to be an issue in the current version of X8.  I will report this to tech next week but is there any way to get around this for now?  I can over rotate to compensate but there is also a distortion issue.  Ok to rotate 180^o but squished at 90^o and distorted any where in between.

Yes this can be done in Chief but you will find it quite challenging simply because of the number of surfaces in this particular file. What component would you like to isolate?

 Have to run now here is some reading.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/8375-editing-3d-warehouse-objects/

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/9483-how-to-explode-or-ungroup-imported-skp-models/

Ryan,  Thank you for that clarification.  In my conversation with AMD tech support they explained that their Workstation cards are optimized for vector display and although they were not familiar with Chief Architect did recommend the Fire Pro series for 3D architectural rendering.  I took the time to explain to them that I felt that Chief's most demanding use of the GPU was not for vector display. They explained that their gaming cards excel with display of material application to polygon surfaces for Virtual Reality gaming.  I explained that this is what Chief Architect is all about.

It might be good for you to have a chat with them, maybe get some free products for testing.