Chrisb222

@JonathanK Well, in my defense I was specifically replying to your complaint about having to draw everything manually, so forgive me for assuming you weren't aware of easier methods. You mentioned manually drawing things multiple times and didn't mention other methods, so I thought my post would be helpful. You're right though, it's ridiculous that the line weight and color options for those layers has no effect on elevation views. Sadly, it's not the only thing about Chief I'm disappointed in...

Be aware, many times turning off the endcap produces a tiny dash at the end of the line that doesn't look good. I don't like the endcap, but haven't been able to get away from it because most times the endcap looks better than nothing.

In Preferences, set this value to zero:

I don't know what you mean exactly by "work correctly" since the software is working how it was designed and intended, but if you send your elevations to layout as Plot Lines, you have complete control over every line in the drawing. You can also add lines. It's not automatic, but by marquee-selecting lines you can edit them pretty fast. Certainly faster and easier than manually drawing it all from scratch.

Go to CAD > Lines > Line Style Management, copy one of the dashed lines and see how it's defined, edit to what you want. Or use one of these: dashed lines.plan

Yes, this can be done automatically using the "conditioned = true/false" Room object property. You'll need to insert a call to that property in the OIP for each room. Pull the value for this property into your room schedule. Set it up in your template plan and layout so it works on future plans without any further manual work, unless you add a room type, then just copy an existing type for the new.

All my SPVs that go to layout are specific floor. But I tested it when switching to the design-stage SPVs I use that are set to Any Floor, they maintain the floor level of the previous view before relinking.

Yeah, put it on the partition:

I've found the copy/paste hold position, then relink the plan view to be the fastest and easiest. Something's off on your SPV settings. This doesn't happen to me.

So I showed that the software generates accurate numbers. This is a question for your designer. Sure there is. Change 500 to 472.

No clue. See attached, these are "software generated numbers" derived from an OOB factory Chief Architect template file: What software is your designer using?

Fix the stair tool!!

Something needs to actually be included in the schedule that is different between the two styles of windows. Doesn't matter what it is, but if the schedule doesn't see any difference, it will group them together.

Huh that's strange, it works for me. My template has been brought forward over many versions and still has master bed and bath, and the rooms show up in the Room Finish schedule when starting a new X17 plan. I also opened an old plan in X17 and added a room finish schedule and it populated master. Not sure why it didn't work for you.

The "finish" at the floor framing is determined by the Exterior and Interior Layers of the railing wall specification. These layers will extend down to cover the exposed floor thickness but the Main Layer will not. If you only have a main layer, then only your framing will show in 3D views (or nothing, if you haven't built the floor framing) because the main layer does not extend below the floor level. On a railing wall these layers do not appear at the railing level, but you need them to finish the face of the opening. It can be any material: It works the same way on exterior walls. If your finish material or wall cladding is in the Main Layer section, and you don't have it in the Exterior Layer, the "finish" won't extend down and cover the floor framing.