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40 hours? Just rent the software for one or two months instead of spanning it over 6. Or if you're just solving a problem on your own house use the trial version with no saving option and print the screen ..hope that helps

Paid for itself 3 times over already with roof and framing defaults giving me automatic annotations and vent calcs...to each their own.

Which part, the pattern file or the texture? have a photo reference of the one you need?

You coming to Idaho next month?

edit area paste hold right into the default residential plan but also just share it from your library as a library symbol. right click export calib file

yes they are still there, the outside glass piece just needed to be changed to glass

what do you mean you lost resolution? Looks like the glass material just needs to be converted to chiefs glass material

sorry I missed the request about it being different for different views

what suggestion? we can do this currently?

Automatic Annotation from macros by building a custom field that can report to schedules:

Is that really much different than saving your project to a cloud based folder and opening it from a cloud based folder? You are exporting(saving) to a cloud based folder and importing(opening) from a cloud based folder. The benefit being that your files are all linked and compiled with resources in the new PM function and FYI your projects are not currently saved in the cloud in PM, they are saved locally on your machine

From #Buildertrend or #JobTread Software to Chief Architect Note schedules automatically. This new system that can be built to your needs which will take output from your favorite #CRMSoftware and #estimationsoftware and/or #accountingsoftware straight into a note schedule with custom formatting the way you like it. I can even bring in accounting data into your material lists if need be. I will build these systems custom to your requirements and on a first come first serve basis. Checkout this video as I showcase it pulling from a Buildertrend output directly into a note schedule with custom formatting and simple single-click notes from csv files. This is a great way to reduce your overhead from tedious and redundant data entry and limit your liability by taking annotations direct from your software. See video:

That texture likely uses a normal map, and normal map creates directional based height, and chief architect often times flips map orientations, to the upper texture on your attic wall is probably upside down. Baloon frame the ower wall and it would fix it

If you are asking for chief to do this automatically I would put it in suggestions, or are you using sketchup and are asking for nathan to make it work in his sketchup plugins?

Very very easy to do using opacity maps with materials on thin stacked layers in your roof surface. Weve been able to do this for years actually, I've just personally never shared that trick before

Why wouldn't you be mad at D5 instead. 3ds and Dae are pretty common import options in most 3rd party modeling and rendering softwares

hes on Houzz a lot, posted yesterday in fact he is also on the User Of Chief Architect group here and there as Jon Allen

Joe this must be one of your own custom layers. There is no electrical-power layer. OOTB with a ganged switch we only need the "electrical" layer turned on

see video example: Voice to Project Info.mp4

So I'm not using any globals when reading the csv file in that video above. That is my personal version which works as soon I open my program. The reason I am making them open an object before printing is because I DO NOT trust that they will input there offline project directory path with escaped backslashes(because many of them don't even know how to unzip and find files from a zip archive), so the only way to avoid that is have them paste there directory into a custom field, and because of that, they have to open an object in order to get the system to update.

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it stays active for the session. I really only go into it when I print. I don't need to write to globals, i use globals so that I can use them in layout easily instead of having to set up reads from both layout and plan and also it gives the end user the option to either use CSV or designer/client information. You would still need to have something to trigger the read. You dont want to be reading cvonstantly

we can define globals from a text file currently. Thats how I am doing my designer and client information

I would need a rename/add/delete in section c on that image