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In the north-east we use dormers pretty regularly. I always build them manually.

Maya, I'll send you an email.

or try this: pick the date you created the file

Also know that if you download the "DataCAD" hatch pattern you can translate it to Chief pretty easily. I translated a number of them a few years back. I cannot recall the exact process off the top of my head, but it was not difficult.

It is a matter of coordinating with your printer. Each printer and each screen will render the images differently. I usually bump up the brightness on my images to manipulate how they print. It is really a trial an error process to find which settings work best with your equipment. If your co-workers typically print from PDF, I'd suggest you do the same as a method to fine tune the printed result,

I aim for a setup where most of the hot keys I use are accessible with my left hand. that way my right always stays on the mouse. Currently that setup is devised with a few programmed hot keys and a few out of-the-box hot keys that fit the left hand reach constraint. Otherwise I pick from the toolbars. The "hand on the mouse" approach is a pretty good time saver as well. (I did print out Glenn's list to see if there are any I can incorporate.)

Trippy

Did you check the Knoll website? or 3D warehouse. I think these are readily available.

Johnny and Richard may be right. Sketchup's "follow me" tool could do this. (Though I would not be surprised if someone else comes forward with a way to make this in Chief.)

In General Camera Defaults, enter a lower number for Ambient Occlusion to lessen the effect, or zero to eliminate.

This is a symptom of an outdated driver not a need to change preference settings.

Jonathan - Thanks for the tip about Ambient Occlusion. I was not fond of the shadows in the corners in X9. Now I know how to change them.

I agree Johnny. In Maine, unfortunately , there is no contractor licensing. You can be a store clerk one day and a builder the next, if you can convince someone to hire you.

Alex - I found out what it was and where i was by turning off layers one by one. When I found what layer it was on I turned off all the layers except that one.

The offending object is your porch slab polyline solid. Not sure why it is doing that, but it goes away when the slab is deleted. Try deleting and remaking the slab.

Mixed use. Maybe like a big house. I have designed larger houses.

Thank you Ozgur!

Model and reality.

If you click and hold when placing the door, you can move the mouse around to various different door orientations. Let go of the mouse button when the door in in the orientation you want.

I would draw all the walls at the narrower width and add wall material regions for the thickened parts.

When I plan to use a custom color repeatedly I make a new material.

Edit the overhang settings then rebuild the auto roofs. Unless you've fiddled with them manually and want to retain that. Then you will have to manually edit the overhangs.

Use .csv It'seems second on the list in your 2nd attachment.

Export it as excel. Sheets can import excel.