rlackore

Thanks for the Preference option Perry - this helps me a lot.

Lew, Of course there is variation - all ANSI standards are voluntary unless mandated by the governing jurisdiction. That said, there is broad use of this standard throughout the industry, and the CA implementation conforms very closely to the ANSI methodology.

General Plan Defaults>Living Area To Selecting Main Layer will calculate Standard Area to the exterior face of the Main Layer. Selecting Surface will calculate Standard Area to the exterior face of the exterior finish of the wall, minus bay, box, and bow windows. This is in line with the ANSI Z765 method for calculating square footage, which is what developers, marketers, and realtors use.

You may want to check this post: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/1743-recessed-window-casing-brick-walls/?hl=window

You probably can't until you generate a window schedule and notice the extra entry. I took a guess that it was a problem with the window buy examining the dialog boxes for the wall, both in plan and elevation. If you examine the 3D representations, the framing for the wall goes missing at the window location. So I selected the window and deleted it. That's when I noticed there were two windows. Here's the plan view dbx that shows half the framing missing: and the elevation view dbx that shows half the wall missing:

Can you explain your intent a bit more? There is no roof plane over the porch. Is this what you're trying to do?

When CA cuts a section, it generates Cross Section Lines (placed on an eponymous layer). The Cross Section Lines are what the dimensions will locate; unfortunately CA doesn't produce Cross Section Lines for everything. If you turn the Cross Section Lines layer off - dimensions won't locate anything, even thought the section appears unchanged. By assigning a bold color to the layer, you can see exactly what you can locate.

There is an extra window pasted over the Pella 4859. Delete one of these windows and your problem should be fixed.

Jim, When the problem arises, it is persistent across commands, saves, and sessions. Regardless of the Edit Behavior checkbox. From the reference manual: Note: Unlike other Preferences, the program always restores the Default Edit Behavior whenever you close the program. So, you'd think that closing/opening would resolve the issue. It doesn't.

This has happened in our office. It appears to be plan specific. And it's not always the terrain cursor either - I've had the intersect tool cursor stick also.

...which is also a really strange behavior, isn't it?

Yes, but then I lose the very convenient fact that while the command is still active I can keep inserting polygons. I know, I know - inserting into a blank area, terminating the command, selecting and copying the polygon so I can start pasting is only a matter of a dozen clicks and keystrokes - but that's the way this forum evaluates CA, by the number of clicks and keystrokes.

Yep, got it. Thanks.

When I use the Regular Polygon tool (CAD>Boxes>Regular Polygon) I can only insert it into an open area of the drawing. If I move the cursor over (or close to) existing geometry or objects, the polygon disappears and when I click to insert the polygon the command terminates. Why do I care? Because often when I'm inserting a polygon I want to snap it directly to a known point on another piece of geometry. Is this the default behavior for this command?

Thanks for the clarification. Common enough, even outside of California.

What's a California Tie-in? Do you mean the method of hip framing?

If you have the room to provide a large heel height, you could probably achieve a true cathedral with sloping parallel chord trusses.

Activate the truss tool: Build>Framing>Floor/Ceiling Truss Now hold down the shift key and window around all the floor trusses - they will all be selected. This behavior works for all kinds of Chief objects; first activate the tool, then shift select.

Click on the Drawing Sheet Icon, or use the menu: View>Drawing Sheet.

Jim, The OP wanted a quick way to transfer a few materials from one plan to the other. 3D>Materials>Plan Materials (3 clicks) Select the material>Add to Library (2 clicks) Open the new plan, if it isn't open already (1 double click) Select the library browser (1 click) Select the material in the library browser (1 click) - you automatically have the spray can Click on the object to apply the material (1 click) 9 clicks 1 right click and 1 left click to delete the material from your bloated user library

If the plan is stored on the same computer (where your user library is) you don't even have to export/import - the materials will just reside in your user library. I don't understand how it could be any easier than that.

Curt you are correct. I missed that entirely. Thank you.

That checkbox applies only to text boxes, which most labels don't use. AFAIK, only the Room Label uses a text box.

Tools>Material List>Material List Polygon Edit the polygon for the shape that matches the extent of the flooring. Open the polygon's dbx, clear all checkboxes, then select just the flooring checkbox to assign that material to the polygon.

Save them to a folder in your user library, then export the folder as a library file, and import the library file into your new plan.