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I am still a virgin when it comes to the ruby console and Macros. I tried reading the book they recommended but it still would not connect the dots for me. I suppose if someone who knows this stuff inside and out sat down with me I might finally get it.

It would be nice if you are developing a plat and wanted to show something nice in front of the City or County council when trying to get your project approved.

Thanks Ben for pointing me in the right direction. I am going to try turning off angle snaps. Point to point dim work but you cannot move anything with those. It was getting very frustrating trying to dimension to things that are not parallel. Everything in might sight plan does not have lines that run true N/S and E/W. Even if the line is off by 1 degree the dimension line won't stick. Thanks again. PS: I did not know that the make parallel tool performed 2 functions. Nice to know.

Thanks. I have done that to make the buildings, driveways and roads parallel to where I need them. I have to show dimensions. If you try to dimension to a line in chief that does not run exactly north/south and east/west it will not stick.

I have a site plan that does not have any 90 deg angles. Its more like a parallelogram. I am trying to lay out buildings around the perimeter at the set back lines that run parallel to each lot line. Chief is having problems (actually the operator) dimensioning to these slightly off angle lines. Is their a trick to get a dimension to stick to the lines that do not run parallel to each other besides drawing a line at each location to snap to? I am finding that chief dimensions do not like to snap to anything off angle. Any and all help would be appreciated.

I remember my Grandparents house. It was about a 600- sf square box. On the main floor it had quite a few walls and rooms including1 bathroom for the whole house. The mast bedroom was on the main level. The upstairs had 2 bedrooms built under the roof and the garage was located under the main floor. I remember the stairs up to the bedrooms and down to the garage were very steep and narrow. There was an old oil fired furnace downstairs that would creek, bang and scare the crap out of me.

Eric, thanks for the link. I have already downloaded 30 or so patterns.

Here is all the fill patterns that come with chief. Chief hatch patterns.pdf

I opend 3D view I was able to make multiple copies of the end rafters at 24" OC across the roof. They show up on the roof plan. I closed the file and reopened and everything stuck. Hope this helps.

There is not one in custom. I cannot find my sheets that shows all the custom fill patterns.

Send it to layout as plot lines. In layout select edit layout lines.

Attached is how I show a detail for a California Valley. California Valley.pdf

Sweet. Thanks Chopsaw.

I give all the Credit to Scott hall and David Michael for teaching me how to use and making money with Chief. I gave up on Dan as he made a lot of promises he did not keep and follow thru with. I gladly paid for a Chief Tutor membership. I felt I needed to pay him back for all the years of free tutoring. Now Scott will wonder where his fee is.

It was David Michael. I learned how to use Chief by using the old Chief Tutor site. He used trusses for the main part of the house and garage. He auto framed the valley with rafters causing a valley rafter to be formed in the trusses which looked odd until he rotated and pulled out of the trusses. That what I remember.

I think you may have to send it to layout as plot lines. Maybe someone can chime in about that.

Send it to layout with auto update off. Do not update the drawing in layout or you will lose all your work.

You can use these in the garage. The lid has to be self closing (the pull down stairs all ready are) and the lid has to be fire rated (just attach 5/8" type x to the lid overlapping the opening). We put these in garages all the time. Detached garages require no fire proofing of lid if more than 10' away from a residential building.

You can manipulate the cad lines in layout.

David Michael of Chief Tutor if you are following this thread please show your method of doing these California valleys. I cannot find your video. David can do this under four minutes and it is really easy, involves no polyline solids by using the existing framing. I cannot remember how to do it as I never show it in 3D. I just draw 2 lines on each side of the valley on the roof plan.

Can you make a cad detail fix it and bring it back into the plan and overlay it ? Or send it to layout and fix the line drawing there.

DMD has a great video on his site Chief Tutor.com on how to lighten and darken the lines in layout.

I have not seen a garden window in new construction in over 20 years. It was popular in the 1970's thru mid 1990's. Same with Skywalls.

I agree with Johnny as it does not look good on sloped ceilings. It's where the slope meets the wall and its the top and bottom edge of the crown molding is where it does not look good and the steeper the pitch the less attractive it looks. The joint at the peek is also not very aesthetically pleasing either. Crown molding is designed for a 90 deg. corner at the top and bottom edge.

I second or third for GE Appliances, Whirlpool Appliances, Updated Jen Air appliances, Delta, the Simpson catalog is way out dated as well as all the paint mfg catalogs, tile catalogs ect.... When was the last time anyone at Chief went thru and updated the manufacture catalogs ?