tundra_dweller

Yep, I have to hit F6 three times every time I open one of those views for the first time during a session.

Nice work, thanks Joe.

These lines have been an issue for me since X14 on most large, filled objects with radius corners or multiple breaks, including driveways & slabs. I haven't found a way around it other than not using fills on these types of objects, or keeping the objects as simple as possible to minimize the lines. It's Chief, so choose your battles and move on.

I was baffled for a bit by this same issue while working on a foundation plan yesterday and stumbled upon the exact same solution that @Alaskan_Son presents here. It works!

I don't know about your example, but I've found the manufacturer's catalogs to not all be 100% inclusive or accurate. For example the Marvin Windows catalog is missing several windows and some of the window symbols' sizes don't match the window you select, they might be a size up or down instead. I take the manufacturer's catalog content with a grain of salt and often just find something close and adjust the size/label to make it work if needed. And in my opinion, It should be up to the manufacturers to make sure their content is correct, not Chief or its users, so I don't take the time to report every error I find.

It's a wonderful feature, I know that for sure.

Larry, I think you're misinterpreting the "Override Line Style" dialog. What I believe that checkbox means is if you check it you will be overriding the current layer/object style setting with whatever line style is shown at the "Override Line Style" checkbox.

It looks to me like your shed-style porch roof plane is continuous across the front and the gable roof is built on top of it. What I would probably do is copy-paste in place the shed roof plane, pull one end of the shed roof plane across until the corner of its fascia meets the lower corner of the fascia on one of your gable roof planes, then use the "join roof planes" tool to merge the gable roof plane with your newly edited shed roof plane. Repeat this procedure with the other copy of the shed roof plane for the opposite side of the gable roof.

Oops I should have said Symbols & Content section, but same deal.

Go to the Label tab of your door/window dialog box and adjust the label position using the x-y coordinates. In the future you should post these questions in the Q&A section of the Chieftalk forum. This Tips & Techniques section is for sharing your tips & techniques with others. Also providing the version of Chief you are using in your account signature is helpful for others trying to help you out. Cheers!

Yeah, I find the X15 library in its current form to be cumbersome and not very intuitive at all. Also very slow, as in waiting for results, compared to using the search function in its previous form. Maybe it will just take time to learn how to use properly, and I guess I have faith that the direction they are heading with it will eventually result in something better than what we had. I do agree with the majority of what @MarkMc is laying down regarding the library. And for (hopefully) near-future releases, I am also wishing for a complete revamping of stair and deck tools, along with a major cleanup of wall intersections and a more precision control of them. "Nuts and bolts" types of things relating to how things are built in real life.

Glad to help. I've done the same thing before.

Do you have another set of stairs drawn on another floor but at the same elevations as those stairs?

Are your stairs set to be open or closed beneath? It's strange they would be doing this regardless but might be worth seeing if it makes a difference.

I agree.

Just to follow up, tech support did not find a solution for this case. They recommend framing the walls with a flat ceiling, selecting "Retain Wall Framing", unchecking "Flat Ceiling Over Room", then build your trusses. There may be a possible fix in a future release.

Okay good, hopefully that gets you close enough for what you need. The flat truss seat thing could be because of X15, truss framing in general seems to work better so far in X15.

I should mention that I made those adjustments in X15, but it should work the same in prior versions of Chief.

If all you want to do is close that gap and you don't care about the ceiling height being correct, you can open up that wall and select Balloon Through Ceiling in the structure tab. If you want the lower slope of the ceiling planes to match your room ceiling height, open up your ceiling planes and select radio button to lock pitch at 6, then enter 109 1/8" for the Bottom Height of ceiling planes. Then you probably want to open up each of your trusses and select the radio button for Force Truss Rebuild if you want your trusses to have a flat seat to sit on the wall.

I had this happen and I just copied my X14 libraries into the corresponding X15 folder. After that my X15 libraries were populated, and I got the little update icons on most of the library folders. I then hit the "Update Library Catalogs" button and everything updated and seems good now. Not sure if this is the best way to do it but it seemed to work.

Yes it is. This and the automatic dashed lines below grade are massive improvements for exterior elevations.

This is perfect

I have submitted this to tech support, will post updates in this thread.

Up until today I still wasn't sure that the problem wasn't just me missing something. I'll take a look at the process for submitting a bug to Chief and do it, unless someone else wants to or already has.

I can confirm that the behavior is the same in X15 beta, although the new "Heel Height" feature in the roof DBX seems to work very slick, thanks Chief!