tommy1

Amen. Louis Fernandez (many years ago) mentored me and taught me how to do roof manually first. His thought was that if you can master manual roofs, then there's practically not a roof you can't do. Once you understand doing roofs manually, it makes it a lot easier to take an auto roof and edit it.

I always do these roof types manually. Quite simple to do. I just like doing manual roofs.

Newell, I'll take a quick look at your plan in a little bit.

My reply from tech support: Hello Tommy,Thank you for contacting Technical Support Services.I appreciate you bringing this to our attention as what you are showing in that example plan definitely is not correct. I'll be passing this along to our development team to look into further.Best regards,KatherineTechnical Support AnalystChief Architect

Reported.

Thank you, didn't hear about it.

Just realized this happens this morning. If I place hatching on interior or exterior walls using the hatch tool, the hatching gets messed up when I place a wall niche using the niche tool. Windows and pass-thru tools don't seem to affect hatching. Anybody else notice this? Attached a simple example plan. (X10) Wall hatch tool.plan

Watch out for the face count with something that detailed.

This is correct. So far, the only symbol that I've changed the cad block for is the ceiling smoke detectors. 99.9% of my plans are done at 1/4" scale and it's real difficult to see the smoke detectors. I've edited the cad block for smoke detectors and placed them in my user library.

You need to have a terrain built to place a driveway.

Might have a lot of faces to the symbol.

Make it manually. I did one for a garage doors a few yeas ago.

If you set up the defaults for floor structure and floor finish, just check the default boxes. If not, then you'll probably have to manually reset set them.

I would not approach it like that. Just make your own wall type.

Yes, but I was just saying....

Oh so true.

WOW. Good to know for I make dwgs all the time for engineers. I deleted this layer in the exterior wall types with this layer years ago in my profile plans for I don't use the materials list which is why it's there I believe. Many years ago I had several plans where this was throwing my outside surface dimensioning off by 1/64. I also found that generally it can throw off the thickness on maybe a few walls in a plan and is not consistent. Generally most plans will be okay (in Chief) but then again in some plans you'll see it. Didn't know about the dwg factor though. Thanks for the heads up Richard.

Why don't you download the trial version of Premier and try it?

I agree with David. That would be your best option if not purchasing Premier. However, I don't believe you'll be able to open that V7 file in HD Prodessional. You might need someone to bring it forward for you.

Just moved a very difficult terrain plan to a different plan with the house. Difficult to do but doable.

CA only.

I build all my trellis's manually. This way I have total control and makes it easier for construction drawings. Once you've done it several times, it gets quicker to do. I also put the different members on separate layers so it makes it easier to edit if needed.

Try holding the ALT key when dragging the corner.

That answer will vary greatly depending on the job.

I see your response above and you are correct which is a short but correct reply. However, when I do one on one help, I walk them through each step for people that are new get lost on how to do things and probably don't have any idea on how to create a custom molding profile. I just don't like writing a book here on the forum. Many people don't even call but when they do, they're generally very happy they did. I'm sure someone here might walk it through step by step.