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I don't recommend a sink with two faucets at all. Much better to have one main sink for dishes, then possibly add a second smaller sink in another location as a vegetable wash station. We've also been putting in pot fillers near the range so you can easily fill your pasta/soup pots and have to not lug them across the kitchen.

Now if you REALLY want to make a statement, put the range in the island and install a massive decorative hood. Much more interesting to look at than the sink. Plus it's more functional in some ways; when I'm washing dishes, I'm not trying to be social, I have my iPad propped in the window (ahhh, natural light and air) and I'm focused on my movie and what I'm doing.

As far as raised vs. flat island counters, they're kind of a toss. Raised counters are great for hiding and separating some of the dirty work of washing/cooking, but they also have a bit less usable space.

Two suggestions:

1) Try adjusting the horizontal offset of your beadboard molding. You may have to adjust it in or out to get it to show up properly. I've had to do this for exterior stone when it didn't render initially.

2) If that doesn't work, you can always convert your molding to a polyline. Then you have 100% control over how far in and out it shows, plus you have the full power of polylines behind it so you can have differing depths, hide in areas, etc.

It sounds like you need to talk to your print shop about your orders. Our printer will send plans to us however we ask for them - bound, loose, collated or uncollated, rolled in a tube, I'm sure they'd even throw them on the ground and dance on top if we asked them to (though it might be an extra fee  ). They also deliver at no additional cost, which works out great for us when we don't have time to swing by and pick up our plans.

If you're not able to work something out, or find a different print shop that's more accommodating, I recommend you talk to a document management company - for example, H & H is one in our area that has been trying to sell equipment to my company for a while, we just don't have the volume. This company and companies like it are specialists in large format plotters and can recommend a device that will work best for your situation based on output, color needs, even units that auto-staple (true story!).

What you are trying to model is known as a Dutch gable or Dutch hip roof. CA have an excellent support article on how to create just such a detail here.

Maybe try faking it with a ceiling plane?

Probably too late now, but I can tell you how to do it easily all with just Chief.

You can use either monitor to edit the model and it is reflected on the other monitor.

The trick to opening the same floor plan on 2 monitors is to double click the floor plans (any 2 plans will do to start) in layout.

Drag one floor plan to the second monitor.

Use the up and down floor arrows to display the floor you want - the same floor on each monitor. 

 

It's also easy to open a 3D view on the second monitor and edit the floor plan or the 3D on the first monitor and have the model dynamically change. 

This is done by opening the appropriate views and then dragging the tabs across to the second monitor.

All the views are dynamic.

 

This technique will allow you to run your own programs on monitor 1 and they will not display on the second monitor.

 

It's probably not perfect because you probably need to set up any windows or views you need on the second monitor before you start and then it is not easy to switch between views on the second monitor. 

I guess you could theoretically just drag a Chief window off the side of your main screen and have it drop onto the second monitor without seeing what is going on with the second monitor - I am not sure of how you want the 2 monitors located.

 

But if it is only a floor plan you want to share, the above method will work perfectly.

Yeah, I was thinking about how to get fancy and do it in a layout and all that - and then decided just to deal with the situation as it was. I ended up craning my head around to stare at the TV screen as I was designing, so I got a little bit of a neck sore, but it was a great meeting and very productive. Thanks for all the suggestions!

ultramon will let you mirror a sinle app

https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Ultramon also appears to have screwed up my computer's multimonitor display capabilities...

ultramon will let you mirror a sinle app

https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this isn't much better than standard mirroring because I still don't get the "extend desktop with floor plan mirrored" option. I guess I'll just deal with it as is.

... On the other hand since upgrading to a new computer  & to windows 10 I've had so many crashes , swirling blue spheres  of death, and other bizarre  glitches that I have smoke coming out my ears.

Interesting, I've found Windows 10 to be the most stable and well-polished version of Windows I've ever used. Maybe it's your computer - what did you get?

Huh OK. Never knew that and wonder how it's worked for me in the past. 

Since I've always just clicked on the icon on my toolbar( and see only one break tool) how do I select between the two tools?

jeeze I'm getting simple minded!! 

[Ctrl-B] to break walls

[3] to break lines, [3, 3] to do a complete break

I mapped [4] to break lines completely, as well, ever since X8 changed the way it works.

Sounds like you're using OneDrive (oh my god worst sync program ever) or something similar. My recommendation is to map your shared drive to the same letter, so you always have the same path between different computers, if this is possible in your setup. This is easy to do in SharePoint, plus you wouldn't have to deal with OneDrive! For other cloud solutions, I'm sure there are similar capabilities.

You're right, that is an option, however with as much [insert naughty word] is on my screen I much prefer to extend rather than duplicate my display. That way, if I get an email or something that pops up, the client doesn't have to see it as well.

EDIT: Not to mention the benefit of being able to work on the floor plan and have the 3D view update in realtime for the client without having to switch my display methods constantly.

Hey guys, have a client meeting in 45 minutes - does anyone know how to create a new windowed view of the standard floor plan, where the same thing updates on two screens at the same time? Similar to what you can do in MS Office and Adobe Acrobat. Thanks!

It was quite the plan - hopefully you and yours can figure out how to build it without going bankrupt!

Roofs are definitely a pain in the keister once you move past the simple stuff. If you can figure out how to do general polyline stuff, you should be able to figure out roof planes, and then it's just a matter of drawing them in the right direction and setting the correct height and other settings.

That did it! The deer and the antelope are playing now. 

It looks like you're going to have to use some combination of changing roof pitches, changing roof styles, and manually modifying roof planes to make sure the roof over the second story doesn't interfere with the walls and windows of the third story. Automatic roofs are a great starting point, but oftentimes, especially with more complex designs like this, you have to go in and make adjustments manually, or all-out redraw it yourself.

I'm getting an error when trying to open your plan file (happened in both X7 and X8). Probably needs more deer and antelope.

I think the cause is improper procedure: you used transform-Replicate when you should have use the "scale tool" on the layout page. If you want to change the scale you change the scale or for unscaled views you simply use the corner handles to upsize or downsize an image or other unscaled view. No bug just using the wrong tool.

 

DJP

Correct, the problem arose because I used the wrong scaling method to rescale those views. I ended up copying the views from an archived version of the layout file and re-scaled them properly so I didn't have to try to redo all my sizing.

However, that doesn't mean this isn't a bug - there shouldn't be a circumstance where I do something "wrong" and can never recover from it, such as transform-scaling a layout view instead of changing the scale properly. I'm guessing nobody has found a way to correct this if it does happen then?

After another short experiment, it turns out you can also assign the markers to a different layer, so you can show the dimension but hide the object it's dimensioned to.

I have several views of details I sent to layout in both Plot Lines and Live View mode, which were created from elevation views (head-on instead of in 3D). I moved them to another page, and then used the transform/replicate dbx to resize them - and they vanished! I used the dbx again to resize them back, and then rescaled them using "Rescale Layout View," but they refuse to show their faces, even if I switch between Live and Plot Lines. I've double-clicked them to open them up, said "yes" to update layout when I closed, even restarted the program, but nothing work.

Anyone else encountered this? If so, have you found a way to update these views without having to delete them and resend them to layout? I've attached a screenshot that illustrates what I've described - C2 and X1 are both selected and you can see how these views do not display, whereas C1, which is a live view of a 3D camera, shows just fine. (The corner framing view is a static image so just ignore it.)

It doesn't look like you can (or I could not find any way in any of the preferences, defaults, or documentation). My suggestion is to learn how to adjust your mouse movement to control it more precisely, and keep your finger near the escape key.

Select the room and click the Make Room Molding Polyline tool.  Then you have an automatically created molding polyline you can edit however you want. 

 

P.S.  I noticed you sent me a P.M.  I'll check it out in a bit here.

And once you've done this, you can select your molding polyline and you'll get a tool in the toolbar at the bottom that switches between "Remove Molding from Selected Edge" and "Add Molding to Selected Edge," depending on which polyline segment you have selected. It's the very last icon, which makes it easy to find as you're editing the polyline.

You have to select the marker itself, then set its size to 0" - however you may still end up with a dot, so you can also set the marker's line style to the "Invisible" style.

When this happens to me, I update the view.Then it is clear. Sometime just zooming in fixes..I think...

Same here. I've found that when you have a view showing in layout with Live View selected, you can zoom in and update the view and get much thinner lines, or you can zoom out and get thicker lines. I assigned the F4 key to "Update View" for this very reason. 

Glenn, any plan to modify this or add a new one with extensions at the bottom?

Found it. Thanks!

Does anyone know how to affect the background (fill) color of labels on the "Electrical, Labels" layer? It becomes difficult to properly place these labels when they start overlapping other symbols, and then hiding what's behind them.

In the attachment, you'll see two examples of GFCI-protected outlets. The one on the right is the standard GFCI library object. The one on the left is a quadplex outlet that is GFCI-protected, but because there is not a separate symbol for this, I used the object label to specify it. The problem is that the label is now covering the symbol (if I leave it here). I run into many situations where I have tight space and the label fill starts getting in the way.