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Lower the porch ceiling height until it looks fine. You're seeing the ceiling break. In plan view, you should see it if that layer is on.

BTW, something else I do. After it's placed on the column, slab, solid or whatever so it looks good in plan view, I then open that symbol and set all the origins to "0" so the bounding box is good.

That's the ticket and is what I do. Much easier and faster. No walls. If the symbol is set for wall mount, just place it on a wall and do as Michael said.

Room dividers really aren't necessary. They've made this a lot easier to do in X10.

I'll call you.

Katharine, if you like, I would be happy to do an online meeting with you and see what's going on. I would have to watch and see how you're doing it. If interested, please call my cell 832-754-6160.

Has anyone found that they need to enlarge the cad block for the ceiling smoke detectors? I have. 99.9% of my plans are ay 1/4" scale and the plan checkers find it hard to see the smoke detectors. I've been using a larger can block and have had less comments from the city plan checkers. I never hear anyone comment on the size of the smoke alarm cad blocks so I thought I would bring it up.

I remember when a test like this was offered many years ago like maybe back in Version 10 or so. Can't remember who set it up.

Cherel, I may be old school but IMHO I would always make a separate plan file of each design and name them "option 1, 2" etc.. You could always use one layout with multiple plan files linked. As you see, you have many options on how to do this.

Good answer. I agree about drawing manual.

Took a look at this plan. Something is wrong with a setting somewhere. The only way so far that I can get the 2nd. floor roof to build automatically is to not have it build a roof for the front porch. I can redraw the perimeter walls as shown in his plan in a new blank plan with the front porch and it builds all roofs just fine. Spent 25 minutes trying to find the problem and still haven't found the problem but could actually draw all roofs manually in 10.

Instead of saving it as an architectural block to the library, try creating a symbol of it instead. Then save that symbol to the library. You'll probably have better results. I quit saving architectural blocks years ago for things like a trailer.

I had this issue many years ago with the program freezing up when closing an elevation. The problem was that I had a couple of things in the plan that had real high face counts. You might check a different plan and see if you still have the problem. If not, the problem might be plan specific.

My rule of thumb so for is any dwg received from a surveyor will be in feet....everything else in inches.

Mick, I don't believe it's a snap grid issue. I don't use snap grids and have them turned off on my profile plan but I'll check later this afternoon if the control key helps. Didn't try that.

Rob, feel free to call me if you like Cell- 832-754-6160. I often help a lot of people on-line for free to show them something if they get stuck. I can use Skype or Team viewer but I prefer Team viewer.

Tracer, just my thought. You mention that they "sometimes won't show" or "don't always show up". This tells me that it might be a plan specific problem. To help with a specific problem, it could be helpful if someone sees a plan with cameras that aren't showing the ceiling planes.

If the existing barn was drawn in Chief, try doing an edit area (all floors) and then copy and paste into the other plan.

Here is a Marriott Hotel where I just did a render of a new porte-cocher they were wanting (no construction drawings). They liked it but found they couldn't justify the cost. This ray trace was done many years ago. There are people here who will take your plan and do high end renders for you.

If you're interested, email me at the email address below or call me 832-754-6160 and I'll do an online meeting (free) with you and show you an approach to doing your layouts using anno sets and layer sets. As mentioned by David, in most cases, you only need two plans, existing and proposed for each project. BTW, it would be helpful to know what version of Chief you're using in advance...especially if you're using a home version.

Okay thanks. So I guess it's really not a "point to point" dimension anymore. There's already been a few times I wished it worked the way it used to. But there's always the workaround. I guess no big deal in a few extra seconds right?

Has something changed in X10 when using point to point dimensions? In all previous versions, if you draw a dimension line using the point to point dimensions tool, it would ALWAYS place a point where you start the dimension and where you stop the dimension, no matter what. It doesn't do that in X10. If you're close enough to an object it picks that up instead of placing a point. See my image. I drew these dimensions using the point to point tool. I guess I should mention that all snaps are turned off.

Are the sides you're trying to dimension parallel to each other? They might not be truly parallel to each other.

Jen, as mentioned from Scott, change the floor heights from the floor above. It's also very helpful to do a back clip section view of the rooms your changing showing both floors. Tile the views so you can watch what's happening as you make the changes.

Turn on your angle snap.