robdyck

100% matches my experience. Not to mention the additional hassle of accounting. I'll gladly email the plans to the printshop and cc the client.

It is always easier to include a typical exterior type of door at the bottom of the stairs. Then the separation at the stairwell is simply the wall around the stairs; a typical garage-to-house wall. I insist on this when discussing these scenarios with the client! If it's difficult for you to draw and detail and get through permitting, then it'll be even more difficult for the trades on site! In the example you provided, you shouldn't need to do any detailing to the underside of the stairs; the fire / insulated separation should be the walls around the stairwell and furnace room.

I handle this type of thing with a p-solid or a 3d molding drawn in that section view. Very simple to edit if some height changes are required. And I always start with a basic CAD mockup to ensure I have the correct layers / depths assigned. My p-solid would only be a single layer, just to show the finished depth. Actual drawing of all layers would all be cad and only in a detail of 1" scale or greater, not in a general section view. In the section view and in plan view, I would include a heavy, colored dashed line to clearly illustrate the location of separation of compartments, whether that's for fire or for conditioned space.

A simple way to clean that up visually (3d) is to draw an invisible wall aligned with the basement frost wall. Then you'll have a small room over that area which will provide a floor structure and finish. You could create a default room type specifically for this purpose if you wanted a shallower structure depth, with different finish materials and moldings.

Once those are 'broken' they rarely can be repaired. I'd suggest you try to resend that view to layout using your desired settings and see if the new view in layout has the same issues. I'd experiment on a new layout page before I replaced that one.

You may be referring to 1 of 2 things: • Default Settings / CAD / General Cad or •Polyline Specification / Line Style / Show Length & Show Angle

@Chopsaw It only works using tab and you need to be zoomed in to pretty tight to the grid, about 24" seems to do the trick. edit... turning off grid snaps makes no difference to this function, at least not in my chair.

Sorry, what doesn't work? Using Tab?

When the 1" snap grid is on, drawing a line will (obviously) snap to the grid and segments will want to be in 1" increments. To draw a shorter segment, start to draw the line, then press tab. You can then enter the desired length. Another simple way to draw a small u-channel is to draw a 1x1 polyline, then resize by using the temp dimensions, transform / replicate, or adjusting by snapping to line segment center points.

Single click on the property line, then click Object Layer Properties. You can then select or edit the Text Style.

The text size for a displayed line length is controlled by the Text Style for the actual polyline. For a property line in a site plan I use a text size that will be about .125" when printed. For most of my site plans that ends up at about 20"-30" depending on the scale of course. TIP: a much simpler way to control text style (than Chief's OOB settings) is to name your text styles based on the font / text size / bold / underline / uppercase, etc. For the bearing angles, I use the azimuth bearing (just because the angle display is typical in my region) which requires an accurately placed north arrow.

Unfortunately Plant Images will not cast a shadow in PBRT, only in CPU RT.

Living Area is controlled by the Room Specifications. Certain room types contribute to the Living Area and others do not. And like many things in Chief, these defaults can be customized or controlled manually on a per-room basis. To see what is included in the Living Area calculation, single click about 1 foot outside of the building. The Exterior Room will be highlighted and the Make Living Area Polyline tool will become active. Single click this tool to create the polyline. Note that changing the shape of this polyline will not affect how the Living Area is calculated.

Those particular Room Labels have their default layer changed to the Rooms, Interior Dimension layer. Select all Room Labels and reset the layers to "Default"

I guess Chief would need to answer that one. But the intent of that tool is to create a view of a single wall and the items that are hosted on that wall.

From Help: "The Wall Elevation tool creates an interior elevation of a single wall defining the room that the camera is drawn in." I guess that's just how that tool works.

What type of camera did you initially use? Wall Elevation?

I haven't used this product but if I were I'd set it up as a single layer in the wall spec. and I'd show it as a single layer in cross sections, and both layers in details. And then I'd probably change my mind after finding a reason to show it as 2 layers, and then I'd change my mind again and go back to a single layer.

Edit Camera / uncheck Clip to Room

A simple way to create a matching door symbol is to draw a 36" long section of that railing, then convert it to a door symbol.

The CAD detailing does NOT auto-update. Create a new section view, then click "Auto Detail" to see the difference. NOTE to CHIEF ARCHITECT: PLEASE remove the auto brick ledge depth created by masonry materials!

I've got an inexpensive cordless mouse with 2 buttons on the left side and I'm still trying to figure out what they're for! I've got the 2 on top pretty much nailed!

Does anyone know of a very simple way to adjust all plan view electrical symbols to be large enough for 1/8" scale plans? Many of the existing symbols have a text icon that's less than 3" which is really a bit too small for 3/16" scale plans and far too small for 1/8". Adjusting each CAD symbol one at a time is not an option!

I may have actually had less issues since installing Windows 11. Of course I have no idea if it's even a factor but I was just able to get this complex symbol out of the library on the first try!! Now that's what I call performance! Finally X13 and Nvidia are getting along!!

You can just delete the 2nd floor. Chief will rebuild attic walls as needed. Just make sure you don't have any objects still on that floor that you don't want deleted, like roof planes.