johnny

What is on the other side of the glass? Lake, forest, city, suburbia, territorial big sky? Each one of those exteriors demands a different glass setting. If its water/lake then your glass starts too far up the wall, if its forest its too narrow, if its city or suburbia you may be ok depending on surrounding home locations, if its territorial then you want to capture the horizontal view with the sky (so high is good).

lol...

I guess I don't understand the aversion to labeling this as a bug. Is Chief acting as the programmers intended? Great workaround by Glenn but I'd say it's a workaround for a bug that needs to be fixed.

I really think this is a bug....

Interesting that even if you place a material region over that wall section the problem remains.

Isn't this a bug? The visual dosn't match the model info - as those gaps are not showing on the isolated wall segments. Its a connection issue...Chief's #1 problem.

Ah... i see

To correct I: 1. Made sure all the property walls were "no locate" (yard walls). 2. Turned off "full gable wall" from the wall with the fireplace. Worked. Here is a vid.

I'd agree with you if Annosets weren't king...but since they are I find I have to use those primarily for other purposes unless I want to have a million different sets. My problem is that I work with several draftsman and so I try and keep the files as basic as possible. perhaps I am not dong something right then...since the wouldn't I then have to have a duplicate annoset for each dimension setting I wanted?

Thanks everyone - I guess in plot plan view the size of those markers exploded. I use point-2-point often...im not a fan of having to go back and forth on settings inside my dimension tools on what I want to dimension, and to what point. I can't leave everything on and changing that setting all the time is more effort than pt-2-pt i've found.

Can someone help me locate the settings that govern the tail length for dimensions? I've tried everything in the areas I would imagine...

Thank you for this...very helpful.

Just click this button...it turns on and off line weights. FYI I've changes my line weights down all to 3 when I start a new file, and then use special 20, and 40 respectively for "profile lines". Chief's default line weights are odd. At some point I plan to fix my template files...

I think there are even more bugs than this in CA for solid operations. I still cannot simply block solids and set their elevation with stability. I'm hoping CA is working on some new solid modeling operations for X9....

Like any of the dimensions you can manually enter a whole number...after all, if it isn't a whole number then it's actually the wrong value for your plan.

There is no question Chief can produce renderings as good as, if not better, than the examples you post above. However, in my experience Chief has the greatest learning curve if your projects aren't very simple homes.

Yep, that worked Glenn - thank you. Perhaps it is a bug but you got it to work for me.

For some reason I can't figure out how to use the ref set and show roof valleys... any help is appreciated as I am sure its something minor that im missing.

What is the best way to set the window labels to the "front group"?

Interesting stuff Facer. I wish we had something like this for IRC and Sweets details intermixed like that.

Is there any way to rebuild a single wall so that it applies the "auto" changes only to that isolated object? Id love to not have to rebuild everything.

perfect - thanks guys.

So just to verify, there is no way to simply turn off the room dimensions for the auto room labels?

Good stuff guys - thanks!

I'm curious how people are handling this situation - For basement foundation/framing walls is it better to create a custom wall type with all the layers (including the framed interior wall), or have 2 separate walls?