GeneDavis

OOB X15 comes with many already-built SPVs, and plenty of text styles, dimension defaults, and layer sets already built. There is a lot of the use of blue colors for annotation in the OOB setup. The OOB framing for ceilings, floors, and roofs come with the planview lines in colors. So there is a lot of blue, in various shades (I think) in OOB planview objects and annotation. I rarely see my plans on paper, shipping finished work off as PDF files, and the clients and suppliers print. Wanting to see how a new plan I am completing now looks for real, I went online, and chose a guy up north of Detroit, ThePlanPrinter.com, to use for a single set of full sized check prints. They arrived and are almost unreadable in many instances, pages 1 thru 16. I though he was running out of ink, or was using ink that was tending to gray and not full black, and reacted by calling him and complaining. I could tell in the conversation he wasn't going to pay for another print and ship cost, not from the same file, nor did I really want him to do that. So I ended up blaming the blues. And then over-reacted by going through the file and its setup, changing line color and text and all other anno to black. I now think I did not have to do this, or did I? No one's ever said before, hey, all your prints look pale and washed out and it's hard to read the detail. Do you use the OOB blues?

Solved it, Joe. Thanks for looking. I had "set up" the new default set for the new SPV, but I had not saved it, so the default set was not and could not be active.

I'm having trouble understanding the right way to annotate a framing plan view done to a different scale than my standard 1/4" = 1'. There is a lot of detail in one small part of a roof framing plan, so I want a way to have a 1/2" = 1' view I can annotate to send to layout. So I thought I'd need a new SPV, right? Because I already have a SPV for roof framing, and it is for 1/4" scale, and I don't want this view to be showing any existing anno from that 1/4" SPV. The only thing I need to have in this view, anno-wise, is text, dimensions, and the arrows used with text. My anno practice for text with an arrow is to draw the text, then draw a text line with arrow. Maybe I should change that practice and do it in reverse, using the leader line thing which generates an arrow from its arrowhead end and then can have rich text input, but that is a whole different topic. For now, I don't want to change. Text first, then text line with arrow. So I set up a default set, "Framing Default Set, Roof, 1/2" scale." Also set up layers for text, dimensions, and CAD for this 1/2" scale view, all called 1/2" scale framing, roof. With this all set up, I could then do the specs for the new SPV I created for roof framing at 1/2" scale. I did that. But I cannot get the arrows to draw into the layer I want. They want to come in to the layer for Electrical. I am confused about drawing an anno arrow using "text line with arrow." Why is this so hard? Is my strategy wrong? When wanting to generate a view at a new scale, don't we need to do it using a SPV?

Looks like a Houzz pic, with the little white price tags.

The building itself includes the foundation. The drawings provided by the supplier of the preengineered steel building are of little interest to the AHJ, just as is the engineered roof truss supplier drawings for a wood framed roof in a building. You're gonna have to pay a pro with a NY seal.

Who did the construction docs? Do the docs include the foundation, its plan view, sections, notes, details, specs? Sounds like what he is asking for is a set of plans that bear the seal of a NY PE. If you are not that PE or a NY architect, you're gonna have to find one. Your inspector is the AHJ. He sits on a throne. Does the jurisdiction allow unsealed ("unstamped") plan sets for buildings less than some size, like 1000 sf or less? The NY jurisdictions I know permit that exception. If you can find it in writing in the town code, you might be able to wiggle out of this.

Use the right railing. Cable railing is a panel type.

Blocking CAD objects creates a new object, let's call it the "block," and the block can have its layer different from the layer or layers of those elements which were blocked. Think of those layers as now subverted or made moot. You now control visibility of the entire grouped blocked thing, the block, by its layer. You gotta explode it to regain viz control of the elements, which when unblocked, now retain their original layer assignments.

As Eric did, think it through, take your time, maybe use Chief's excellent CAD tools to do a cross section study to determine the mix of pitches and wall (room) heights, then draw the walls and specify their roof-spring details. Then click build all roofs. That image of the front elevation can be used with CAD. Paste it in, scale it, and get to work. Looks to me like that upper center roof mass is a cross-gable, both ridges same height, looks like a cruciform from the drone's eye.

To model a fridge panel, I used a partition, made it my preferred size, it shows nicely in 3D and in plan, but I cannot get it to report to the cabinet schedule. My term fridge panel is for the full height 26.5" depth x 1.5" width panel adjacent a fridge. Pic attached. The base fillers, wall fillers, full height fillers, all will report, but not the partition. I dropped one elsewhere in the plan to see if a newly placed one would report, but no.

Only if you show us the rest of the house

The attic wall end needed a patch done with a solid, but she's good now. Thanks, Eric. Thanks, Mick. Off to the neighborhood picnic in the lovely mountain glen. Third generation families property owners here going back over 110 years.

OK, rebuilt the foundation and it fixed the ballooning stoop edge footing wall. The foundation plan I can CAD edit to make it look right, and it has a couple problems in 3D when I look under it, but all is good now for the con docs. Look at the attic portion of the stoop roof support wall, how its end finish ain't there. I had to fix the wall below using a room divider wall for the outboard end of the wall to butt to, so maybe this same hack will fix the attic part. If not, a solid will patch it.

The attic thing seems to take away the ballooning footing wall, but there's no footing under the right edge of the porch foundation slab.

Guess I'll try that, Eric. More than just a few clicks, though.

That normal wall needs to be there and I had it all successfully modeled when I took this shot. And this rear elevation.

Try this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IukXwD7wdG0D7Jv8qhv98ET-XZ6qL1FH/view?usp=sharing

I think I can share this using Google Drive. Let's see if this works. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IukXwD7wdG0D7Jv8qhv98ET-XZ6qL1FH/view?usp=drive_link

I had this OK before but not now. See the pics. The building has a slab foundation I have drawn with foundation wall footings to create the thickened edges. As can be seen, one of the walls, specified just like the others, builds atop the slab and runs up to the roof. How can I fix this? The footing wall opposite it, where the post is bearing, has the same spec definition but is not rising up off the slab. Both it and the front footing wall are behaving as I want. All three bounding walls are room definition walls and they define the porch. All three are under a roof. There is no ceiling, as the roof soffit is the ceiling.

A roof for sure, lower the sun intensity to something like 8,000 for starters, and add more interior lights.

Methinks the OP wants it auto-labeled. It's like Americans have names for things, hoods and trunks of cars come to mind, and the Brits call those bonnets and boots. Perhaps a feature request is needed, some kind of global terms replacement. Like, even in the specs and dialog tabs. Substitute "column" for "post," swap out "lookout" for "outrigger." How about other languages? Should there be a Japanese version of Chief?

Headers are framing in Chief-speak, while lintels are trim. Are you wanting what Chief terms headers, called out in labels as "lintels" instead?

What is a garage entrance wall? I'm familiar with the term apron for the slab outside the garage door, and I draw one with the slab tool.

@kbaxterIn your original post, the front elevation shown has that garage roof hipped with only one gable, the small one, showing if you take a right side elevation. But you gabled it. Do you want to match the roof arrangement shown in the pic you attached, or do you want it gabled, as you modeled it?

I place a callout, spec it to have a section line with arrow, and how can I reverse the arrow? I placed the callout beneath a wall, section line going vertical UP, and the arrow is pointing left. I want right.