Chrisb222

What is 4 pages? I only see a floor plan? But here's a PDF of it: ThreeMileEXISTING.pdf

What's the problem? Your plan appears to be working correctly. The original post was is regards to temporary dimensions, yet your question references auto dimensions. So it doesn't seem like the problem is similar? Or is it? What do you mean by "clean up"? And the thread is five years old, so it's dealing with a much older version than we have now, with radically different features and controls. And your signature reports that X7 is your newest version. Are you having an issue with temporary dimensions, or auto dimensions, in X17? Or what exactly is the problem you're having? You might get better response by posting a new thread with a better explanation of your issue.

Yes you do. Scroll your specification window, it's right below Hide Camera-Facing Exterior Walls:

I was having the same thought so I took a run at it. Pretty simple with manual roofs.

In my experience, the companies selling and installing those will provide engineered stamped plans that you can submit along with basic plans for permitting. When I've dealt with that, I just draw normal walls in Chief and use exterior materials to approximate the metal building, to get through the design stages, then add the stamped plans from the manufacturer. Your jurisdiction may require something different.

I agree mostly with this. I do separate basement and foundation plans about 50%, and the other 50% it's all on one plan. It's easy to create separate plans for the basement and foundation using Saved Plan Views, or to keep all the information to one plan, as you say, depending on the job. The idea of foundation on Level 0 and basement on Level 1 never made sense to me. Then the main floor, which Chief calls Floor 1 in defaults, is now on Level 2?? It seems that setting up elevations, following floor heights, and just keeping everything straight would be added mental work. And it's unneccesary, since SPVs make it easy to show different plans on the same level. Unless I'm missing something obvious...? If it's not even every plan that you're dealing with this, I would suggest managing those with separate SVPs, and just letting the basement's finished room designations supply the baseboard specifications - as soon as you define a room it will add your default baseboard. In my case, I'm usually not finishing the entire basement anyway, so I don't want trim on the poured concrete walls, and therefore wouldn't even want automatic baseboard all around the foundation walls. What I would like is to be able to specify that a basement foundation has only a slab, and not finished flooring.... but I stopped bothering making suggestions a while back.

Your Shadow Board settings are all bass-ackwards. They should be set like this (Gable Only is a preference, not required): Unfortunately I had to turn Auto Roofs back on to get it to correct the issue.

Posting the plan is always best, but I would start by playing with the Edit Wall Layer Intersections tool. Select the wall and click on this tool:

You turned off auto roofs. Roof directives in the wall dialog don't work with manual roofs.

Although I agree you should leave this post up for others to learn from, in the event you do want to delete an entire thread that you created, as the author you should see an option toward the top-right of the thread that says "Moderator Actions" with a pop-up option to delete the thread:

Change the export dimensions to "Units" and set the Resolution to at least 300 pixels/inch:

No.

Yeah, otherwise people are just guessing. You can post the plan here if you strip it down. But I'll take a stab at it. First thing I would do is compare every detail of the railing wall specs, to look for any difference between them on the two plans. Next I would compare the room definitions defined by that railing wall, again comparing the two plans. Then I'd check for weird wall intersections that popped up when the rooms changed. But yeah, post a plan and you'll get the actual correct answer.

Just to add, you can remove anything not related to the problem — including windows, doors, and literally anything that doesn't alter the issue you need help with. Any file can be reduced to fit within the size limit. At the bottom of the window where you compose your post, you should see a paperclip icon with "Drag files here to attach, or choose files..." So find the file and drag it into the window, or click Choose Files and navigate to it that way. Then, once you have attached the picture file, click in the post where you want it to appear, then click on the picture to add it. See below:

I haven't found one. They made another (unrequested?) change to the project browser I don't like; in X16 an open Saved Plan View displayed "open" in place of the icon, now it shows the icon with a tiny checkmark, which makes it harder to see which ones are open and which are closed. Why?? With Chief, it seems like every upgrade comes with some downgrades. I don't recall either of these changes - or the new project management system for that matter - being requested online. But so many requests - for years - for things that would actually improve workflow seem to go ignored. Oh well...

The siding should cover the floor trusses if the siding is within the Exterior Layers section in the Wall Type Definitions. If the siding is in the Main Layers section it will stop at the finished floor: But yeah, posting the plan is always the best way to get a definitive solution.

While it looks like your issue was resolved, I'll just add that the callout text style can also be controlled individually by editing the "Main Text Style" panel of the callout specification dialog. A specific callout can be set to use text specified in the Layer setting, or another defined Text Style, or a Custom Text Style. I typically do as DB suggested and set callouts to use the layer style, but this is also a handy option that works better in certain situations. Other settings can also be customized here:

Hi Joe, using a static template really never worked for me so here's what I do. And this may not seem right to some, but I change up my plan defaults, saved plan views, object information panels, schedules, cameras, etc all the time. Something changes on almost every job, or multiple things, during the development of that job. My plan and layout are always evolving. I created a new SPV on my current job that I'll use going forward on every new job, and I added some macros to my window Custom Object Fields. So that means if I had a one-source static template, it would now be out of date. Because of this, I always use the last plan as my source file for the next plan. Sure I can update that static template but it seems like going backwards to me. To start a job, usually I will open the last plan and pull out and delete things that are unique to the old plan, scoot common things like kitchen and bath objects off to the side, then use Edit Area (All Floors) to select and delete the entire structure. Next I update my defaults to suit the new design (window style/color, wall type, etc) and start drawing in the same 0,0 area as the last plan. Layout is similar in that I open the previous job's template and roll.

Either rebuild framing manually or have Automatically Rebuild Framing checked.

Yeah I just turned on Walls, Invisible layer, went into the wall dialog that defines the foyer, and chose Room Divider as the wall type:

The easier way to do this, if you must, is to create a separate Dimension Default that has the opposite arrow type. Then place the Dimension Default Dropdown tool on your toolbar to make it easy to switch out between dimension defaults: Draw all your Type 1 dims, then switch to Type 2 and draw those. That is, if it's that important to you - at least this is easier than changing them after the fact. (This only applies to manually drawn dimensions, of course.)

While the Giada is close, if you want to match that exactly, a molding polyline would do the trick. This article discusses using molding polylines: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02882/using-molding-polylines.html You may need to stack multiple molding profiles to achieve the exact look. This article is specifically a guide to creating a fireplace mantel, and includes tips on stacking multiple molding profiles: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00503/creating-a-fireplace-mantel.html

PtP dims will snap to snap points according to the Locate settings in the Dimension's Default settings. Where there is no Marker, the dimension snapped to a snap point on the object. If there is no snap point, it places a Marker, which is unique to PtP dimensions - all other types require a snap point.

Yes. Before making copies, Block the post and footer together using the Make CAD Block tool. Select both and hit this button in the lower Edit toolbar: Then make your copies and use the Align/Distribute Objects tool to evenly space them. Yes, after you hit Multiple Copy, click the Multiple Copy Interval button and enter your interval value:

Point to Point Dimensions use Markers as dimension points. It places these markers automatically. They don't have anything to do with Temporary CAD Points. The markers can be selected, and deleted, but then the dimension segment will disappear. They can also be reduced to a tiny, almost invisible size, or made to have an invisible line style. They can also be moved to an independent layer and turn off display of that layer. Or you could use a different dimension tool if one is appropriate.