Chrisb222

True, however I find the half baked new features very helpful in spite of not being fully baked. The real problem it seems is that most seem to never finish being baked.

Losing your distance ability, or your aim??

Did you check Upper Pitch under Pitch Options, and enter values for your two roof pitches for that railing wall? That's how you create a pitch break like you want. Just my opinion, but I prefer your original roof. I would always rather have a main hip be higher than all the gables, like in your first image. Differ'nt Strokes

In other words, no, you can't change the tolerance of the automatic label. There's no setting for that. You could try posting a request for that feature in the Suggestions forum, just don't be in a hurry.

@HumbleChief It works for me simply by setting a color for the window label, then sending to layout as Plot Lines which strips color out of the model. Not sure how you're sending to layout, but this is what I get:

Did you check your Library under Chief Architect Core Catalogs > Line Styles? You can also create your own under CAD > Lines > Line Style Management.

@solver brought it to my attention that having the individual panels would be useful for stacking taller doors in the Door Spec dialog, or for assembling taller doors as symbols. I updated the catalog with folders containing the individual panels, and renamed the symbols and folders to make more sense (to me at least ) Overhead Doors Revised.calibz

I've never been happy with the overhead doors available either in Chief's catalog or the mfrs catalogs. I always just wanted a nice handful of raised panel or recessed panel, in single width and double width that "matched," four and five panels high, plain and with a couple glass options. So I finally just sat down and made a mini-catalog of just that. The attached file should contain the following door symbols: "Double 4" contains four panels vertically, "Double 5" has five, for either 7'h or 8'h doors. These are all "short panel" style doors. I thought about making long panel versions, but I don't really like long panel doors so I don't spec them. If I make more it will be with beadboard panels. A couple sample images: Created using X15. Overhead Doors.calibz

You're right, shingles won't work. EPDM membrane can go down to 1/4"/foot

Ah, thanks, I was sitting on the back porch sipping an adult beverage when I wrote that, was going on memory And siggys don't show up on my phone so I didn't realize what version he was using. Probably should avoid the drink-posting. (Notice I didn't say drunk-posting, it is a weeknight ya know!)

I don't use an electrical schedule but in the schedules I do use you can just click on a row and drag it up or down wherever you want. Also, there are up and down buttons that appear on the edit menu when you select a row.

There is, but difficult to guess what needs fixed from your post alone. Posting a plan file would allow someone to diagnose the problem. Somewhere along your workflow, your settings are causing this. Again, without the plan and a more thorough explanation of what steps you're taking when this happens (switching saved plan view, sending to layout, etc), very difficult to guess at the answer.

Yep, my post shows how to do that. Why? It already exists.

Edit > Default Settings > Doors > Exterior Door On the Framing tab, click Header Label Defaults, enter whatever you want. Place new door, frame wall.

3. But if you have to leave the garage, yeah a small saddle there will work, added manually

1. was smooth when I opened the file..? 2. align the front of the temp wall with the room divider wall on the master deck, and it fixes that 3. I don't like roof intersections like that. I'd move the garage forward

Here, attaching those to the gable would be part of dressing the trusses on the ground.

Thanks Glenn, thinking it through I probably can't automate what I want to do. Maybe the Suggestion for mulling in the window dbx would offer that option.

Is this auto roofs? I haven't tried it, not at my computer so i can't answer your question but when working in manual roofs you should be able to delete the hole...

Would like a macro that reports the number of individual units in a mulled window, and their sizes and type. I checked the object properties of a mulled window and it doesn't appear we have access to that information within the mulled unit...?

Spell check is not available within the DBX but it is at the layout page level when multiple objects are selected. Selecting a single layout box will not trigger the tool. The easy method is just hit Select All at the layout page, then it checks everything including layout labels.

I thought it was clear. At least, I knew what you were asking. But yeah good to have more advice available for users.

Personally, I'm orientated towards "outlooker" as the language seems rigged against outsiders. Always looking out for the correct terminology can leave you hanging over the edge. I mean, it's whatever floats your board, but if yer canoe slopes you might consider a cantilevered solution... as long as Gable approves (I read that his Outlook is keen but that was in an email). Well, I'm gonna grab my skyhook and rig up a floating levelator to cantilever this space rafter over my hang! Been good to canoe ya!

Like TT said, they should generate automatically if the settings are right.

On the left, the valleys don't join properly: Corrected: On the right, sometimes I'll add tiny square ends to the roof plane to clean up: This is not a perfect fix, looks good from a distance but causes small artifacts: I was able to get this by adjusting the height of the main roof fascia, manually building the eyebrows and extending them past the main roof, and setting the main roof Shadow Board to "gable only":