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Send the Plan to Layout and the rotate the Layout Box - or - just place the North Arrow on the Layout page (scale as needed)

The jurisdiction requires the North arrow to point up on a page. When I rotate the layout to make it be up, the N rotates, or more accurately doesn't rotate. Is there a way to not have it rotate aside from creating my own north arrow?

thats what I suggested in the first post I made on this topic. a special class of text macro to show up in the client form. Then you could create as many as you'd like

I’m marking this as the solution only because it’s the most elegant and duplicatable way to make up for Chief’s severe deficiency in this aspect of the program. Even a newbie could use this method, thanks! Pretty sad I couldn’t figure this out myself since X6. It seems like this could take a programmer all of 5 minutes to bake into the client info dialogue box. At least allow us to edit the filed names? come on X18… I realize there’s always a Chief dude coming in and saying that there’s too many requests and topics to follow to keep up, but may I suggest they follow Alaskan Son and René rabbit at the very least? they don’t post that much on a daily basis.

This has been my experience as well, can be frustrating.

Hi Teressa, Can you please send the plans to my email (shawn.cooper@nedeserv.com)? Once I receive them, I’d like to schedule a Zoom meeting with my team to go through everything. If everything works for you, we can then begin work on your project. Thanks so much! Best regards, Shawn Cooper

Your glass wall is connecting to the wall behind the wall material region, and the edge is buried under the tile: In plan view, place a Room Divider (Invisible) wall along the face of the tile, and pull the glass wall out to snap to it. This will connect the shower "room" to the rest of the bathroom - if you want to define the shower as a separate room, turn the room divider wall 90° to connect with the tile wall. I pulled the room divider wall out to the left more than needed for illustration:

Try using %perimeter% which will display it in inches. I think you can use %perimeter.to_s("'-\"")% if you want feet and inches.

Thanks Mark!

I was (naively) thinking that %length% would work to display the length of a pipe. Tried as many variations as I could find, all the online help references polyline area, but I've not seen anything for length. I'm hoping to have it displayed in ft' in". Is this easy, or are macros a whole new thing I need to go deep into?

We have plans for a remodel and need to modify them. Looking for an experienced architect to modify existing plans including, raising roofline, changing/modifying exterior. Our previous architect moved to Tennessee. I have Home Designer Pro but we need someone who can get this done. We have all CAD files. Thank you, Teressa

Wall types, other than Foundation Walls, by default, are assigned to the Walls, Normal layer when created. However you can assign them to a custom layer after they're drawn, and then control the fill color through that custom layer. You can also set up custom layers for the wall types listed in Defaults > Walls, which those walls will then default to when created.

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Now that I think about it, I suspect what the OP was getting at is that the Chief tool can be fussy. You drag wall layers to where you want them and then others can suddenly spring back into their original position. That's my experience -- but I'll admit maybe I'm not using the tool correctly. The Autocad tool I mentioned is "sticky." The manual cleanups you make are permanent and truly override the automatic wall layer merging. Allows for better fine tuning.

Shane, Chris, and DB...many, many, thanks for your comments. It worked perfectly and saved a lot of frustration. Chief is very powerful, you just have to know where the power is located!

Hello, I'm back on this thread after @LevisL taught me a great solution in this thread 5 years ago! Now I am trying to achieve something different, and I don't think it's possible but thought I would ask the community. I have different wall types (eg. siding-6, interior-6, interior-4, fire-4, etc.) all defined with different fill colors (not by layer). I'd like to control the fill of these walls by layer so that I can make them different colors in different layer sets. But they are all controlled by the Walls, Normal Layer, so I'm pretty sure they have to all be the same color if the fill is controlled by the layer. Is that right? Or is there a way to make them all different colors in different layer sets? Or is there a way to turn on the fill by layer in some plan views and not others? I'm looking forward to suggestions or ideas. Thank you! Lee

I played around with using a double roof system. Like Rene, it was 'very very easy'...▼

So adding a new layer, something that you can do in a lot of different places, won't automatically put your existing revision clouds on that new layer. If you want to put all of your existing clouds on the new layer, you can group select them and change the layer to the new one on the "line style" page. You could also use the layer painter or object painter. If you want all of your new clouds to go on to the new layer, you need to also change this in your revision cloud defaults. Just double-click on the cloud tool to get to the defaults quickly. This pretty much works the same in layout views as it does in plan views. In plan views, you probably have more than one revision cloud default so you need to pay attention to which one you are changing. I find going through the "edit active view" dialog is a good way of keeping track of all of the different defaults available and which one I am using for my view.

Please note that if you rebuild your foundation then any manual changes you have made will need to be redone. For any other cases, please send us a bug report for any situations that work the way you are describing. Please include a plan file that demonstrates the situation along with clear steps indicating what you did and the results you are seeing.

Yes, as Shane said just right click and copy the layer, rename. Then you want to do a couple of things to get your clouds on the new layer. If you already have a bunch of clouds, you can group select and open, then change their layer in the Line Style tab, but that only works for the sheet you're on; go to the next sheet and repeat. If you have clouds on multiple sheets, you can also use the Layer Painter tool to go around and change them individually without opening their dialog; the tool will stay active even when changes sheets, so you only have to set the tool once to go around your layout and change all the clouds.: If you want to have future clouds go to your new layer, set that up in Defaults:

Lance.... Thanks for your response.... I have tried using that feature and not had any luck using with my foundation walls...... Either it corrects it and later reverts back OR it doesn't change anything. I will say this feature has been useful in siding and brick walls.

Have you tried right clicking over a layer and copying it? Once copied you can rename it.

I wanted to give an update here. I went into a number of my kitchen cabinet blocks that are saved to my library and updated the Bounding Box Space "Front" field to "0", and saved them back to the library (before this last Chief update). I am happy to report that this change (latest Chief update) made no difference to the plan or 3D view of the dishwasher. It seems if you updated this or not prior to this latest update, Chief handled it. Great Job foreseeing those of us that get out ahead of things too quickly!!