GeneDavis

If you want an image to share, or import to a layout page, doing the surface-delete thing doesn't take much work.

Only way I know is to break the wall into multiple segments.

3D molding polyline.

Are you well-trained in HVAC design? Are you being paid by the hour to do this? Chief CAD will work OK to do this. If you have some 2D images or drawings of fittings in plan view, you can use to draw Chief CAD atop, then copy and place wherever needed.

So you have a layout page that is titled "Main Floor Plan," and you want a SPV named "Main Floor Plan?" Is this it?

Nice technique, Mark. When it comes to Chief cabinets, you're my favorite guru. I bring my applied ends out with their frontside edges flush to the drawer and d'box fronts, so when modifying your model I get the countertop projecting out also. Do you have the trick, or is it custom countertop time when doing applied ends my way?

You are correct, but without the right symbols for such an arrangement, we just have to do one door and stack a symbol. If the client wants to get it built, is it really really necessary that the 3D view show the detail seen in the attached pic? In another thread that focuses on cabinet doors, do we want our 3D (or rather do our clients want this photorealistic detail) to show those little cabinet door bumpers when the doors are open? Knob screwheads on the inside face of drawerboxes?

'Cuz that's what it is. Two doors, two tracks, stacked.

CAD objects? Text? Dimensions? Symbols? Need much more detail to be able to guide you.

Sounds like you have some specifying to do. Whatever you put in your plan at whatever spec, it what the program counts.

Why not "3/4" PANEL" callout with an arrow? When would a kitchen plan have differing end panel thicknesses? Why couldn't one note suffice to ID all applied ends? If the panels are integrated into carcase build and not applied, why cannot that be simply annotated? But my bigger question is, did Rene make it nice and clear and easy, and if no, why not? Are you able to give us an example of what your fully dimensioned kitchen elevation (one will do, just screenshot it) needs to show.

Attach the image please so we don't have to download the file. We'd like a look, but don't want your file on our drives.

Yes! And thanks to the guy in the great white north. Or great wet north. In the northern Adirondacks, we had 8.5 inches of rain in July. Edit > Arc Creation Modes > Start/Tangent/End Arc is the mode one wants for this elegant curvy mode of annotation. Put "Arc With Arrow" tool on your toolbar and you are in biz to leave the world of linear anno.

You are right, Michael, but I am such a dummy that I don't know how to use it so the arc always goes tangent (horiz.) to the start of the arrow, which is my preferred style for anno (if I feel curvy when doing it), so I do it the two-step way. Is there a way to maintain horizontal tangency when drawing such and arrow?

For simple curved leader lines, see the pic below. The steps are, do text, do arrow, then select arrow by end point at arrowhead, press ALT, and take the point where you want. Try it.

I posted the plan. "DeckProject", above. No codes apply. Or rather, there are codes, but zero inspections. We can offset balusters, but we cannot offset panels, and railings center on the wall so a mid rail and toe rail cannot be made to work. These "rails" are 1x6s and fixed to the inside face of the 2x4 newels. What I really need is a much more rich spec for deck railings, in which one can offset newels, lengthen them down below deck elevation for attachment to fascia, and apply "panel boards" to newels on whichever side one chooses.

Thanks, but the gap between panels is still there. Solution?

This thing is driving me crazy. I have done a test deck with invisible railing walls, then did a railing wall as a standalone wall up tight to the deck, outfitted with a custom newel and custom panel. I'm unable to drag the bottom of this railing down the 8-1/4" needed to reach the bottom of the 2x8 rim (fascia). I am unable to get the 1x6 boards (the panel) to butt and meet at each newel. Any ideas? DeckProject.plan

The lumberyard that prints for me (free!) doesn't have 12x18 sheets, but they have 24x36. How can I rotate my sheets so they print "tiled," i.e., side by side, pp. 1 and 2 on sheet 1, etc.?

So if I created a CAD detail I'm going to send to layout at 3/4" = 1', but came from a view with anno all at 1/4", how can I set my anno?

Have you downloaded Nashville (you can!) and inspected layers? Yes, one can put framing on a floor on one layer, and that same framing (wall, for example) for another floor on another. It's work, but the tools are there.

Thanks, Mark. I see what you did, sort of. I am wanting to do this arrangement of railing on a flat exterior deck, not the ramp. And again, the railing goes on the outside of the rimboard and its bottom is same elevation of rimboard bottom, which is 1" (decking) plus 7-1/4" (structure) = 8-1/4" below deck elevation. So total rail height with cap at 36" off deck is 44-1/4".

If you have done custom panel railings, you know drill and can save me some time, and it would be a nice instructional for readers here. Attached is a screencap from a Sketchup model I did of a ramp for an exterior wood deck, and as you can see, the railing is an arrangement of 2x4 newel posts on maybe 36" centers, with a middle rail and top rail of 1x6, and a top cap of 1x6. I did this to match an asbuilt arrangement that is getting an addition, the addition needing a ramp, a wood-framed one. Note the railing is outside the deck rim. I'm thinking the symbol is made, one newel and maybe a foot or so of rail-rail-cap, and a stretch zone done, but you've done this, and so please, expound.

Link, please? I searched and could not find.

There's a workaround that's not too bad. Since I cannot spec a layer for framing in a wall framing layer at wall def time, nor after a wall is built (in the wall spec dialog), Chief gives a path in the wall detail. Wall detail is a special kind of 2D view that allows extensive 3D editing of all framing. If you frame a wall you've defined as having a framing layer (the array of spacer pieces that form the air vent cavity), that "framing" is in its own elevation view above the wall framing. Shift-select a box to open the whole array for spec, and change the layer. Mine's called "Framing, Rainscreen Spacer." Now a 3D framing overview can show only the structural framing, or all if one wants to see the furring. Since rainscreen's only done on exterior walls, it only takes minutes to march through the wall details and do this edit.