Chrisb222

Set your screen to a shape roughly equal to your target dimensions, go to File > Export > Export Picture, and click "Units", type in the dimension you want, keep "Retain Aspect Ratio" checked, then enter something like 200 DPI. That will produce a pretty high resolution picture, about 3.6 MB. Some clipping may be required to change it to the exact dimensions, unless you can set that ratio up before saving.

+1, I had forgotten about the 2D CAD plants, which DO show in plot line views.... and I even use them in layouts!

The standard 2D plants are just "pictures, " they are not 3D objects and cannot be converted to plot lines.

There's a couple of window wells in the library. Might be a bonus catalog, I'm not at my computer. Automatically cuts the terrain, has separate material settings for the retaining wall and the "floor" so you make that gravel, dirt or whatever you want. Resizable.

Actually, you definitely want to use Roof Beams to get the benefits of automatic placement under ceiling, easy adjustments, plumb joints and ends, and automatic grain direction. The easiest and best method IMO is to create another separate roof at the pitch of your ceiling, draw the roof beam there, then move the beam into your project. If using Auto Roofs, make another building with the roof direction, size, and pitch matching your target ceiling, draw the beam there then point-to-point move the beam into your project. This will allow you to retain Auto Roofs. If you're already in manual roofs, just draw a roof plane outside the structure somewhere and create the beam there. See pics: Plumb ends with auto grain:

You don't mean a cricket do you? I'm a little confused by your question. I don't know that we actually "add" a valley, they are simply the result of two perpendicular planes... A screenshot with some notes would be helpful...

I'm sure there's a good explanation for this alternative workflow, and that I'm dense, but I have no idea how these various elements and phases can be "automatically controlled by the software" without some user directives that I would think would require some amount of setup work and diligence, not greatly unlike the directives we assign with Chief...? If you want a chance at catching lightning in a bottle you at least have to hold up a bottle (i.e., nothing will change by posting here, head over to the Suggestions forum)

I think you'll want the additional RAM in Option B. Or upgrade Option A to 16GB for $200. Rendering speed won't be a problem with either choice, I use a Studio / M1 Max and it flies. But it has 32GB unified memory, so that may be a factor...

Open the Room Specification > Structure > Ceiling Finish and delete all layers: Do you have the layer Framing, Floor Joists set to display in your Standard camera view?

You can raise the roof without affecting the wall heights.

Then the poor framer has to think!

It's doing that because your Dimension Default is set to Distance Rounding. Change the Primary Format to "Grid Rounding" and the problem goes away. And I would absolutely urge you to change your dimension defaults. Most of your user dim defaults beginning with an * are set to use Distance Rounding, which has the potential to introduce dimension errors in your dimension string. (You also should check "Use Greatest Common Divisor" instead of "Use Closest Fraction.) From Help:

Did you link to the right plan?? I'm not seeing anything like your screenshot above. And no need to back up the entire plan. Just save, close Chief, zip and send.

IDK when I set the smallest fraction to 1/16 and type in a 2/3 dimension it automatically displays 5/8. Maybe post a plan showing the behavior.

Why not add a second ref display. Or a third?

I've done it before using an invisible railing to close off the slip.

I do not see doors in your ref display. That leads me to believe you have the Door layer turned off in the ref display layer set. However, pocket door pockets will still display even with the Door layer off. Change the Door layer to gray with dashed line.

X15 is very stable for me but I'm still on Monterey. Do you have the latest X15 build? I think I remember that early versions were somewhat unstable.

Edits are applied when you close the edited CAD window and hit Save. Did you do that?

I use triangle markers, but I have one for every pitch already in all four saved elevation cameras in my template plan. Grab the correct one, slide it into place. Maybe a tad bit easier than pulling from the library?

Just guessing here since OP hasn't returned, but probably not easily:

Yes, and you're right, it's fairly simple. This took about 15 minutes: What exactly are you struggling with? Posting the plan would allow someone to work it out.

Thank you!!

Lol true. I eliminate as many 1/2" as I can by switching the marker to the other wall side, but sometimes it looks like it might be confusing to the framer. That plan also looks like whole numbers dictated where the dim marker goes...

I'm using Chief on my PC laptop remotely this weekend. 99.9% of my work is done on my office Mac. The most annoying difference is that the Zoom operates in the opposite scroll wheel direction. It's maddening, and I'm looking for a way to reverse the scroll wheel on the PC. I checked the hardware settings in the control panel, but no luck. Win 10 home.