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"They are custom and can be big problems to fabricate correctly." True. Most of the time, these would be site built. If they are built off site, then it's up to the cabinet company or cabinet maker to site verify everything. That would be stated in my plan. "This is one of the cases where we have to do the work we get paid for." I get paid by the hour. I let them know that it will cost more time to show this.

When I have an wall cabinet that is angled at the top to follow a sloped ceiling, I make it manually piece by piece. PIA.

You will have some editing to do with the elevations. Haven't flipped in X11 yet though. I don't need to do this often though.

Have you tried drawing a marquee around all of them to group select? By doing that, you should be able to move in any direction and rotate.

If I'm understanding Scott right, I think I work similar to him. Most of the time, I also place my columns manually. This makes it easier for me to dimension beam spans for the engineer. I've been doing it like this for so many years that it really doesn't take long to do it.

Rob, If you're still having issues trying to do this, I would be happy to show you via online meeting (I use Team Viewer), or I could walk you through over the phone. Feel free to call my cell: 832-754-6160.

Create your own line style.

Try closing Chief completely and reopen. Maybe an issue with mouse or video card.

You could make life easy on yourself and just place a slab or solid there and place it as needed under the deck and change materials to whatever you want for the ceiling under the deck.

Glad it helped

Here is a tutorial I made for placing a stair volute. This was made with version X8. Most people will be able to open it. Hope this helps. Volute Tutorial.zip

Steven, I'll be available sometime this afternoon if you want some one on one help with this. Should be an easy fix. Using Team Viewer, we can do an online meeting so I can show you and you can ask some questions. No charge of course. If interested, email me or call me 832-754-6160.

Use solids or slabs or molding poly lines

Very simple if you use elevations.

If you're on a different computer, yes.

I think you're going to have to do what you don't want to do. It's not too bad once you get used to doing it and use the trim tools. I would send the elevation view to a cad detail and edit it from there.

An option if you want that specific image would be to do a "print screen" from your keyboard. Open a photo editing program and paste it as a new image. Crop as needed. Might help.

Rob, I'm in Houston, TX and don't know if our details match what you all do there. I have to show a typical exterior wall section (edited for specific situation) along with the foundation detail that specifies steel (rebar) and everything. I also have another detail I use for rebar at corner connections. I can send you a library of these 3 details (cad items) in a Chief library if you like. You could edit them as needed. Email me if interested or call me at 832-754-6160.

Did you find anyone to help you?

Good morning. I'm in the Spring Branch/Memorial area. If you like, you can contact me and I may be able to find someone to help you. My engineer is leaving town for 10 days starting July 13th and I have two more projects I need to get to him for engineering before he leaves. I would not be able to get your plan ready by your timeline. If I could help in any way, let me know. Cell: 832-754-6160

My way is similar to Scott's.

I don't really ever have this problem. I guess it's the way I do it. When selecting the library from Chief's library content, I never do "open". I always do download and save it to my PC. then I open Chief >Library> import library and select the one I downloaded. Works just fine every time.

Graham is correct, but also keep in mind that if you have plants such as trees, flowers, etc., that could slow you down as well. If you are heavily detailing the views with other interior fixtures, then that could slow things as well. Don't use high face count symbols.

Looks like you have 3 different plate heights. Three roof planes.

Didn't save it. Maybe I'll do another one later.