DzinEye

What?!?!?... I thought I read in one of your posts several weeks ago that it turned out your current card was good? I guess I missed something there? I have been using X13 for just practice stuff, but a little afraid yet to bring over my X12 projects. It's good to hear you haven't had many issues...but then you also have a pretty powerful machine already even without the 3090 card.

You are not using the correct terminology, as there are no parapets visible in your picture, so it makes it difficult to help. You can make roofs like what you circled using the roof tools in Chief. Look for how to build a HIP roof. If you wish to get the hip roof caps to stand out more like in your picture, adjust their thickness in the RIDGE CAP panel of the roof dbx

Boy you hit the nail on the head with that comment. I've been sticking with X12 because of all the issues I'm seeing reported. I don't recall ever seeing this many issues at a new release ...but man after going through the list of new features it's driving me nuts to not be able to take advantage of them yet. I don't yet have a machine that'll take advantage of RTRT so I can hold off for a few more months... hopefully some of these hiccups will get ironed out soon.

I just gave the room a type.... currently you have 'unspecified'... I changed it to 'bedroom' and the frieze moldings disappeared. Probably should follow through with reporting this though, with the info that room type changes it.

Seriously?...You can snap to the footing on the original dimension pull?? We need video proof Tape measure tool snaps to all parts of the footing, but dimension tool only snaps to the stemwall on the original pull... need to manually move it to the footing after placement.

Send it to a Cad Detail page... put that in your layout

This is the future hotness... it's a food source... just need to set up a little dispenser, kinda like the old five&dime store candy dispensers.... turn the crank... out comes the days protein... get the veg from the roof garden

Look for 'wall cap'

Great run down on the different methods for options. This ^^^ is my usual go-to method when walls and windows/doors are involved. Reminds me too of another benefit to that manual floor area polyline we discussed elsewhere... if you copy that off to the side with the walls you want to use in the alternative option(s) you can use the polyline to precisely point-to-point move things back into the main plan you want to keep. Of course with the floor level alternative you can do copy-hold position which is nice but if you want to work with exterior 3D views at the same time then it's not very suitable

Thanks Mick! I've done that at times without the color change to make 3D plants look bushier.

May or may not do the trick for you, but might be worth playing with. I got this by overlapping two plants. One copy is rotated with the color modified with the rainbow tool to use a brighter green.

oh yeah... I know that it doesn't build the platform with open below, I was simply referring to why it didn't come to me to do it this way... the mindset of first having to create the floor for it but then basically undo the platform using open below and balloon frame options.

Ahh... yes, of course!...yet another option. I'll have to give that one a try. I've used the balloon through checkbox many a time for different walls before but I guess it didn't come to me as it seems counter-intuitive to go out of the way to build the chase with a floor platform and then tell it to ignore the platform and balloon frame it.

This is an unfortunate limitation on how Chief joins dissimilar walls where that 'Roof splits' option is used. I usually have corner boards to hide that when using this method, but when I have a stucco wall then I skip the 'Roof splits' option and use exterior walls all around with a wall material region on the inside. I should point out that I only use this method when it's a chimney that will likely be balloon framed. It looked like you had a sidewall chimney on a one-story house with a lower pitched roof so I guessed it would probably be balloon framed. As Michael points out, any taller non-balloon framed chase would have a plate and the method he describes with an open below floor platform is the way to go.

Great alternative! Thanks

Not really how it's usually built though. Usually the main wall would continue up. Alternatively to your solution you can break the house wall at the connections with the side walls of the chimney, then open that wall section, select the roof panel, then select 'lower wall split by butting roof' and apply the proper wall types to the upper and lower sections.

Thank you Mark!!

I've got to believe this is possible, but apparently I'm not coming up with the right search criteria. I would like to change the material of only certain drawers and doors from the default material without changing the material on the rest of the doors/drawer faces on the same cabinet.

Wow...I've never noticed you recommend this method to anyone before, but was surprised to see this because over the years I've seen what seems like hundreds of questions about getting plan areas and every time it comes up seems like there are grumbling responses about the 'workaround' that we have to make a polyline. I've been doing polyline outlines since I began with Chief and have never had reason to gripe about it. Not only do I know exactly what area is being calculated and can easily include or exclude areas which may or may not count as floor area depending on the projects jurisdiction but I frequently use the polyline outline with and without fills to display on different site plan based pages.

Is it limited to decorative attachments? Can you add on?... perhaps a covered porch along the front? What is behind that blank 2nd story wall right in the middle? Could a window go there? Need more info...

Nope

Oh... nice to see these new features...thanks for noting that Michael. Haven't delved into X13 yet as I don't have the card to take advantage of the premium feature, and it seemed like there were some issues yet to be ironed out which in my current overloaded state with projects can't afford time to be monkeying with fixes. I just wanted to point out to the OP an alternative to using the specific electrical blocks that I have been doing. I just use the labels on a standard switch and receptacle block, which can be changed, moved and rotated as desired. This could be an issue if you use materials lists for electrical, but I do not. If you do though, you could remove the tag from the blocks and just use the labels.

It's an interesting topic. I just did a little digging and it seems there's a whole lot of opinions and misconceptions etc.. I guess standard flattening will supposedly prevent text in 'fill in the blank' type pdf forms from being edited...but some say even that is not necessarily the case. Personally I never really thought that the watermarks I've splashed across preliminary drawings could be easily deleted in seconds. That seems like a major shortcoming to me.

Hmm...I don't think so... I believe that's the whole point of flattening, so that text or other such things can't be edited in the PDF. Per my original response above, with PDF-Xchange I have the option to select Print as Image and then text is not editable.