Renerabbitt

I think your suggestion should just be allow rich text in room labels which we've been hammering for years. Because you could just write conditions for room type and accomplish the same thing and would be less work than going through every room type to produce a unique label. Also I will mention it again, I am perfectly happy to login to your machine and show you exactly how I have this done using a custom font and how simple it is once you have it setup. Its a helper manual that remaps anything you want to another part of a font family. And I can do this for any font you want in a matter of minutes. So while we are holding your breath for RT in room labels you can have the perfect system without all of this manual work that you are doing with your labels. If you are at the raining in idaho I'd be happy to set this up for you

you didnt need to use import, you can just double click the caproject file and it will open in X18 if you said yes to making x18 associated with caproject files. Its pretty quick, right click your project in x17, hit export. Then find it where you exported and double click it to open in x18

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I just handle this with details. I have a detail system that is largely automated. then callouts and big bubbles on a minimal cross section. my details stack up to look like cross sections A lot less work then trying to get the model to behave

for what its worth

yup, hence the quick and dirty, haha..talking to a GC that hasnt produced an accurate framing plan in decades..it takes too long. my details handle that, my framers handle that too, deferred truss submittals..engineers approach one could also build a room instead, vaulted ceiling, doorway, just takes a smidge longer but will actually build the framing more accurately

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simple and inexpensive to generate. will even give you a generation tool so that you can build your own. renerabbitt@gmail.com

consider drawing the second building in a second plan

To be expected high dpi and resolution displays etc and all that. It's not hurting anything

That's just bucket rendering

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Device tab Turn off Rotation Lock Turn off Dominant Leave Horizon Lock on Ignore Roll being disabled, because that appears intentional

screenshot your 3d connexion settings with chief as your active window, is spin and tilt toggled on? Also is Chief being seen as the program in focus?

this setup is described in more detail here if it helps you: https://renerabbitt.github.io/ppx18-manual/?chapter=spec-plan-project-information

Are you on X18? use the new cladding features and add any type of board and batten that pleases you

You have PPX17, there are upgrade codes for PPX18 in your accounts tab. PPX18 has an automatic CSV reader that is already setup for you in a CAD detail. See this chapter: https://renerabbitt.github.io/ppx18-manual/?chapter=jobtread-buildertrend-spreadsheet-linking

zooming shouldnt be slow. you may want to send views as plot plan instead of live view and set your layout to update on demand instead of always updating views. You can always just send a CAD detail to your template layout page from your plan where your project information is stored. Create a CAD detail, create your info such as client/designer information in that CAD detail, and send that CAD detail to layout. Leave your plan gutted and this will become your template project. See video for example: 260730 (6).mp4

3dConnexion driver registers as a HID device with MacOS so the setting "ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present" toggled off for the trackpad is your first option. Regarding the device falling asleep, when the 3dmouse goes idle, an event timer through MacOS likely puts the device to sleep through power management. You might be able to force a wake state hit command+spacebar and type Terminal then press your return key and type in caffeinate -iu -t 28800 this will tell the OS not to timeout for 8 hours If you want to cancel this go to that terminal window and press ctrl+c Dont close the terminal window, leave it open, then test your 3dmouse regarding mac options, youre limited to 4 radial menus, no workaround for that

This takes a bit of specialized scripting and approach but I would still ask the question why do you need this why aren't you just inputting your project information in the layout only?

I'm just now seeing this. Fyi I think I mentioned in another thread to show me a function and I could give you an 260730 (3).mp4 function. What you show in vector works is what chief called an advanced spline. It's nearly the same function

I do this as well but am definitely having double click issues...I will switch to another mouse to test. I don't plan on turning off logi options like joe since I use hotkeys.

If you are using a template project(pre-populated layout from plan, then this requires a pretty custom setup. why do you need this in your plan file? If instead you are using the New Project work flow, then in preferences this will help you: Personally I use a separate plan for all spec and title block info which pre-populates a bunch of different layout templates for me