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    Opinion will differ on this. But my method is to separate the 2 view with layer/anno sets. I have a different layer/anno set for FOUNDATION PLAN so that everything can be turned off...except for the interior bearing wall, which I hatch fill and keep on the layers for WALLS, FOUNDATION so that they show on each plan. This plan is an example of that. Same plan file...just different anno/layer set.
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    I haven't tried, but would the material region tool for a "skin" added to the post & beam structure?
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    I think he is trying to add a barrel arched ceiling on his front porch. Yes?
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    You need to use the curved ceiling tool.
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    Without opening the plan, I would say your foundation wall is offset slightly causing an "attic wall" to shoot up through the building blocking the doors and windows.
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    There are profiles in the library that you can place in your detail, but for now, there is no way to assign a siding/shingle profile to the exteriors. They are under the detail components area of the CAD Blocks.
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    Well, it's just my opinion, but I think you are putting too much in to this. I simply leave my doors and windows as they are and move on. Unless you create 2 different plans, or create CAD boxes, or etc.....Chief doesn't work the way you want it to. I understand what you are saying, and I know that in a perfect (Chief) world the doors would show as closed per layer, and windows would show headers, but that is not the tool set we have. Adapt or drown.
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    Layer sets all the way.
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    Check the layer WALLS, NORMAL and see what it is set at. It would need to be set at a thicker line weight for it to work. I set WALLS, NORMAL and ROOF PLANES at a heavier line weight in my EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS layer set, and then send them to layout. This is the results I get. emma front.pdf
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    No....kinda. You can place the file in Chief as a "backdrop" and trace over it once you scale it, but to upload a PDF and have Chief recognize it as anything usable, no.
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    And I might add....make sure you are using the line weights attached to the view when sending to layout.
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    You need to make sure the setting are the same between the plan view, and the layout view. Go to EDIT>PRINT>DRAWING SHEET SETUP and make sure they match between the plan and layout.
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    Don't use it then. We haven't needed them for a while, so the price jump is probably due to the fact that they don't buy them in bulk any longer. The $$ gets passed on to those that think they still need them.
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    Dennis look in the upper right hand corner of the picture. The SSA is there...meaning if you have SSA, you don't pay.
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    The brick is also load bearing, and notice the 2x wall is located directly above the concrete. Pretty typical detail. Why do you see failure?
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    This building concept will have a small restaurant on the main floor, and a bar on the roof. Does that count?
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    Hmmm...you're right, it doesn't work for curtains. I know it works for the appliances though.
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    Place the curtain in the plan, change the layer, then add it to your library. Now when you add it from your library it will retain the properties you gave it.
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    Honestly, unless it's a W.I.C. I don't label them any longer. My closet CAD block tells those that are looking it's a closet.
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    Glass block is a good option. I have a couple builder clients that swear by this set up.
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    Even a circular staircase would have to have to faces that meet at the top for connection. Either make a small section of the upper area perpendicular, or as others have said, use the landing tool for the last step and make the connection.
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    I use the cross box CAD tool to display my "posts" on upper floors. Then simply COPY and go to floor 0 and PASTE IN PLACE. Lock the layer you create for them, and now you have a representation of all the posts where they need to be, and on a layer that can be controlled throughout different plan view.
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    It's all the same floor. I NEVER put basements on level 1....my basements are my foundations. That's the only way I work. I use layers and the main layer only function to get what I am after. Here is another example where I simply turn off the interior walls of the basement, except for the walls I have assigned to a layer for WALLS, BEARING so that they can show on both the floor plan and the foundation plan. I use layer sets for everything.
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    Or turn off the option to automatically connect the island rooms.
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    https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2967-chief-training/page-2