robdyck

I hear ya. I can tell by your example that you also want your aluminum railing on stairs to look somewhat realistic! I wish they'd give us stairs, railings etc, that are can be exploded (sort of) ...allow us to edit the parts, but with a reset button, or something like that.

Place a stair at each edge, then just drag them close together.

Can we seriously not rotate the layout box of a section or elevation view? I'm gonna have to use an old-fashioned CAD detail, right?

You need my special wall type the "Deck Defeater"! You can use it to define the deck perimeter, then set the deck's actual railing to "No Room Definition". Caution though, having those 2 walls in the same place can come with extra hassles!

I'd be curious to know the origin of the wall you used and if that had some effect. I use single layer wall types for 2 scenarios: concrete foundation walls, and as-built plans. I've never had the problem you demonstrated and I can't replicate it in a new plan or in an existing plan. But there's no question that something's buggy in the plan you posted, but I don't know what it is.

Are you Jimmy Ray, I mean GordonRay as well? I was obviously responding to a different user. For all we know, this user may have their walls setup differently than yours. The point was that if a plan is posted...not yours, but GordonRay's, then we could investigate a bit further. And the comment about layers was simply a reminder that using wall layers, if possible, may help solve the problem. I never suggested or intimated that you or anyone else was doing something incorrectly. So unless you are BenPalmer and GordonRay, then only you posted a plan which identified the problem. GordonRay did not.

You'd need to post a plan so we know exactly what wall types are giving you the problem. Keep in mind that Chief would like an interior and an exterior layer.

Interestingly enough, rotate the texture and pattern 90 degrees and see what happens.

@kaitadams13 I'd suggest making sure that p-solid is on the 'furniture' layer. In the last camera view, it appears as though it's layer isn't displayed.

This isn't helpful for walkout foundations using pony walls because all portions of the foundation wall will have dashed lines including the framed portion. I think it ends up looking pretty dumb. On a flat lot, even the shorter portion of the foundation above grade that ends up dashed looks bad. So, the reason people "struggle" is because it's a fair amount of work to show the dashed lines below grade ONLY. It's not the "how" that is the problem, it's how to make it really simple and have the drawing 'perfect'...that's the issue. As @Chrisb222 mentioned, I've settled on a CAD mask that's already in each plan, and I only show / adjust it for the final plan set.

That pretty much covers it. You've missed nothing new. It's still a nuisance.

It's very simple to create that from scratch. Just draw the shapes using polyline solids, making sure you create a repeatable pattern. Then marquee select the group of solids and use the Convert to Symbol tool and select the Molding option.

I can tell you Gene, that for me, recording a walkthrough simply wasn't an option on X12, using my older gaming PC. It just took more time than it was worth, financially. X13s new features, plus a new gaming pc with my 3080 card has changed that. I still don't do it often, but its much faster and the preview feature makes it much more user friendly.

If the framer were mis-reading that correctly, it would be 12' and 11 quarters. So the framing should have missed by 6/4 of an inch. The trades need to take responsibility for their own work, not pass the blame on to the designers or the software (if that is what happened). As Mark mentioned, font choice is critical to legibility for dimensions, as well as text size and the printed document quality and scale being used on site. A font size (in Chief) of not less than 4", printed at quarter inch scale will be clearly legible, or min. 8" for 1/8" scale plans. I framed for 20 years and this issue is pretty simple. The GC points out the mistake, the framer says "doh, sorry" then gets to work fixing it, and learns to be more careful during layout. If Chief were to implement the smaller fractions, the next excuse would be that the fractions print too small and can't be clearly seen. Or the plans are printed at a low quality setting, or photo-copied, and again same issue with the smaller fractional text. And what about us? Don't we spend enough time zooming in and out? I for one, hope that such a change would not be implemented without a user choice.

It can, but it requires some heavy lifting. You'll either need to learn to create macros, or hire someone to create them for you, then modify your schedules to incorporate those new macros, and modify all the framing members by adding Custom Object Fields to place the macros. There's nothing good to say about the entire process.

and how would they know?

In the past, I've made the image into a material and added it to a polyline solid. Although an image may not be the same as a jpg in Chief. Did you mean an image object?

The door has an interior and an exterior and AFAIK that is based on the main layer of the wall. Remember walls have an exterior which is at the top of the wall dbx. If you were to reverse the layer of the wall containing that door, I think it's display would change in the schedule.

That's awesome Joe. Great info to quickly help us use those double doors!

How thick are your shingles? Make sure they are at least 1/4" thick.

Hey Rob, here's a simple nut/washer to help you out (just cause you updated your BA profile pic). You can rotate this symbol however you need. What I do, is download a Simpson dwg file into plan view, convert the outer shape (no holes) to a solid, 1/8" thick, then place this nut/washer centered over each hole. Then convert the solid with nut/washers to a symbol, and then add to your library. BTW, are you riding a motorbike down your hallway without a helmet or jacket?! STN22 WASHER.calibz

Thanks for pointing that out. That's quite helpful.