Chrisb222

Sink in cabinet is controlled by the "Fixtures, Interior" layer, which doesn't show up in ALDO when the cabinet is selected. Just go to that layer and change the settings and it will apply to the sink. If you have other Fixtures on that layer that you don't want that effect applied to, may need to move them to a different layer. Which you can't do with the sink.

If I understand you correctly and you're dealing with actual Chief Architect Marker objects, you should be able to marquee select the markers, open the specification dialog box and change the size to zero. They will still be there but virtually invisible. You could also change to an invisible line style. If by "marker" you mean just the dimension line's anchor point, you may have to re-attach the anchor point to something else before deleting that line.

Caveat: Depending on the particulars, this may not be an efficient method. But I would select one of the lines I want to keep and place it on a special layer. Then using the layer eyedropper, click on this line to load that layer into the layer painter, then go around and paint the other lines I want to keep onto that layer. Then you can turn that layer off, Select All, and delete the remaining unwanted lines.

It's not only that the roof is off-center. Fix the pitch and make sure the fascia top height settings stay the same. Then re-join the roof plane intersections: However since you have two different pitches, with square cut eaves, the soffit height will be different as shown at the red circle. The shadow board isn't showing on the eave because you have it set for gable only.

Yeah you also don't have the additional clipping tools Eric was referring to. I'm afraid you're stuck with either manipulating the cross section, or upgrading. An older workaround for situations like this would be to draw a CAD shape(s) filled with solid white to cover things you don't want to see. Might get you out of a jam...?

Don't know. CA X15 shows the sloped ceiling in a Wall Elevation in this simple test plan: Home Designer has its own forum, maybe ask there.

You have a flat ceiling plane under the sloped plane, blocking it. Pull the flat plane back so they're not overlapping.

Half the time I'm here on my phone and sigs don't even show. So for that reason, it would be more useful to me when they mention their version in the title or OP. But honestly, I never cared.

Same here. Especially now with subscription and the end of license transfer, most all newbies are going to be using the latest version. But it was never an issue for me anyway, even before that.

Not only that, but unless you have Maximum Files set to something crazy high (I use the default 14 which seems like pa-LEN-ty) you'll get bugged to manage the files all the time.

I would zoom out to a blank area of the source plan, then go to CAD > CAD Block Management, select all, then hit Insert, and click to place them all. Select all those CAD blocks, copy, then paste them into the target plan. There may be better ways...

Will your pdf reader save out as png? The one that comes with macs will.

I would just indicate the slope using cad in the live section view. Then if something changes, the model will update live, and you'd just need to adjust the cad for the slope.

Also works with no railing, by raising the Base Height.

Nu uh!! ALL cabinets have face frames, cuz that's all I use!!

The dimension marker may not be refrencing that object. The dimension value will change color when the object it references is selected, indicating that changing the value will move that object. Try hitting tab to select the next object and see if the value lights up, or add a new dimension marker to the center of the cabinet where you know that's what it's referencing.

Absolutely. Stop the bus, take whatever time it takes to get this under your belt. You're driving an outdated bus that's been superseded by leaps and bounds. Get into the new bus and get up to speed! Actually no, but you'll still get your desired result if the "bus" is configured properly. All joking aside, I create live plot plans using the actual building plan file, and the lines weights are preset to look correct in layout. If I want the plot plan to be 1"=40' I send it to layout at that scale and the line weights are what I want. Because I'm using Saved Plan Views and Default Sets properly. Make the move! https://www.chiefarchitect.com/search/?default_tab=video&q=saved+plan+views *EDIT: You're not actually changing the "drawing sheet scale" on individual SPVs. This has been requested but is not a feature yet. What you'll be doing is assigning various defaults to the SPV to achieve the line weights, text sizes, and other variables to suit the scale that the view will be sent to layout with.

I agree, I'm sending it in this morning just for a look-see. The truss setting should perform the same as the rafter setting. What's interesting is my setting is balloon through ceiling above. And I always draw ceiling planes to the inside of the wall and the wall stops at the ceiling. Confusing. Right, that option is also being explored. Different pros and cons.

Material Definition > Materials List tab: You'll probably want to make a new material with this new size definition.

You have no exterior wall layers in your wall specs. You need at least one exterior layer to wrap down over the floor structure. This is typical:

Finally got this to work. Initially it ballooned to the top chord, but dragging the sloped ceiling out to the outer wall layer stopped it at the bottom chord.

Yes, I already tried that. Balloons to the truss top chord which isn't workable. The wall builds correctly using rafters without any adjustment to the wall. That's the difference.

So I have a project that calls for a high shed roof with a matching vaulted ceiling, built with parallel chord trusses. The program doesn't want to build the high wall when using trusses. It will build it with rafters, including ceiling joists. See attached images and attached OOB Residential Template sample plan. I can manually raise the wall top height, but it doesn't function correctly for setting high windows, and caused other problems as well. Thanks for any insight if I have missed something, but I think this is "unintended functionality" that needs sent in... Rafters: Trusses: Sample file: High Shed Roof.plan

Make sure it wasn't moved to a non-standard location. From Support: If the Chief Architect Premier Data folder is renamed, moved or deleted, the program will automatically replace it using default information from the program's installation folder. When this occurs, customized user settings and custom user library content will not be available.

Just change some things around. Tell your clients you cannot and will not copy anything verbatim, unless they can prove they own the copyright or have permission from the owner to copy. This has been litigated to the point of establishing fairly clear lines of what is legal or not. You cannot copy someone's work verbatim, but you're allowed to be inspired by others' work. i.e., if you're working from an existing design, change some things around and you should be good, with the caveat that anyone can sue anyone for anything. I do know of one local instance where, after negotiating with a midsized regional builder, a person took the simple flyer of one of their designs (basic floor plan / ext rendering) to another small builder and copied it - just the floor plan, with significantly different exterior - and the first builder went in the building after framing and recognized his floor plan design. He threatened to sue the owner and demanded some thousands to settle. I was consulted by a mutual associate on behalf of the owner, and felt the first builder didn't have a claim since the house was greatly different. The owner decided to settle out of court, but it would've been interesting to see what a judge would decide. Interestingly to the OPs question, AFAIK the second builder, nor whoever drew the final plans were involved.