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I would model that using 2 walls adjacent to each other. In this example I used a 2X3 interior wall butted against the adjacent wall. For final plan views, I'd use a cad mask to cover wall fills.

I checked your plan and when I first generate a camera overview view the line was present. As soon as I scrolled in, it disappears and remains hidden, unless the camera is relatively far away. This telegraphing of lines at sharp angles or at distance in a camera view is normal. When I create a Section / Elevation view this line doesn't appear. Your walls are built and align correctly however I would recommend that you avoid painting siding materials wherever possible and instead set the desired cladding in the wall specification dialog.

@VANTHOF @HBBBCA Early on I experienced this and here is what Chief suggested: Try this to get your user library into X17. Open X16 Right Click on your user library and export the library This will result in an *.calibz file Import that file into X17. This should result in your library and all of the referenced files being imported.

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That's one of the first things available in the window dialog:

@PitMan71 Thanks for posting the update from support! Helpful and good to know when we're on the same page!

I can't find any reason; it looks like you've built everything correctly. I would also suggest reporting this. Until then, increasing the fascia depth to 10.6" will provide a match to 7.25". Just keep an eye out for when this fixes itself and then needs to be changed back to 7.25"...and then back to 10.6"...and so on!

I'm afraid to say it won't work any better in X17 if you aren't able to maniuplate these settings in X16. I also use it all the time,quite customized, with only occasional issues.

It would actually be faster for someone to provide you with the correct polyline based on your survey than it is to try to type up the methods and instructions. For learning / practicing, a training session would go a long way. If there's anything else I could do to help, feel free to send me a PM.

Yes, there are times when you need to adjust the angle of input by 90,180 or 270 degrees. I've seen different survey types in different provinces, but one of the reasons for this is that a survey of property lines will often treat each line as an individual segment relative to north and what you often don't know is which is the start or end of the line segment. Determining the correct angles can become especially tricky for lines that are very close to 45, 90, 135 degrees, etc. See this illustration: With a little one-on-one over a virtual meeting, you'd get this sorted out.

Whether you are drawing in plan view or in a CAD detail, you need to set up a few things: General Cad Defaults - Displayed line length format should be set to meters and 2 or 3 decimal places. Display Line Angle shoudl be set to Azimuth Bearing. Draw a north arrow. Usualyl this will point up on your screen BUT more importantly it should match the orientation of the survey drawing you are referring to. It's rare that a survey drawing is rotated, but it does happen. To draw a line that matches the survey drawing, turn on the display of the line length and line angle. Draw a line that visually looks similar in angle to a property line. Open the line dialog and enter the angle. Close the dialog. Re-open the line dialog and enter the length. You can accomplisht the same task with a polyline, paying close attention to the start and end of the line. If you haven't already, turn on the start and end indicators. Pick one segment of the polyline and enter the angle. Close the dialog, then re-open and enter the length. Repeat for each line segment.

Chief has one essentially the same. Bonus Library: Kitchen Vent Hoods / Plaster Hood / Chloe Hood

Hi Angela, I'd suggest trying a material region first. If you send me your plan file, I'll take a look and proposed the best solution I can come up with!

No, there's really no way to do this automatically. Auto-deck framing is always a bit non-sensical. Think of it as a good head start only. And to be honest, if you're good at manual deck framing, it's faster to frame it all manually than ot edit what Chief builds. The deck ledger will always need to be moved away from the wall main layer to allow for sheathing / paper, or other regional preferences. Let's not even get started on the framing method of 'chasing' deck rim joists!

https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/ I just checked this for my home and solar noon today is at 1:21 pm. Chief's sun angle only allows 15 minute increments and the results are close enough to consider this verifed. This created a shadow in Chief that is perfectly pointing north.

Obviously one could regurgitate a simple google search of this topic, but it does seem obvious that one must recognize the difference between solar noon relative to your location and 12:00 pm. At 12:00 pm, the angle of direction from the sun to my house has to be different from the angle from the sun to my neighbor’s house. Okay, that would be a very small difference because of the scale, but 12:00 pm occurs at the same time across my entire time zone. Obviously the sun angle and resulting shadow has to be different from the east side to the west side of that time zone. Chief Architect's sun anlge uses the time, not solar noon. I'm sure you could find a way to determine when solar noon is for your particular location, but that wouldn't provide very meaningful information as the time of solar noon would be slightly different every day. I can tell you from my own experience that if your inputs are correct, Chief's shadows are exact...at least at my house they are! I designed my own home in Chief and I've physically measured my shadows on different times and days to compare with Chief's output and they are exact!