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thanks for responding scott, it was, one of your team and i figured it out, it has to do with it having a tray ceiling, logged as a bug

I feel like this changed? My temp dims are going to ceiling structure not surface

So I guess I am missing what the request is since a beam will not and will likely never be BIM based in this software nor do I think it should be( too uch potential for liability). So I guess I am wondering, what is the request? Since with a macro you could create variable inputs for yourself so you plug in your engineering parameters and the beam could output based on those variable inputs using comments/manufacturer/code/ or custom_fields etc. ?

see previous post, we have framing member defaults, add your accessory component to your default so you don't have to keep repeating. what would be the criteria for determining the size of the rebar? can you just create a calculation for this based on the size of the beam? can't you calc this based on the beam size? can't you calc this based on the bame size ? this is just another macro in the components of the default beam member that sums qty So far this all seems doable

yes, in X17 we have framing member defaults which have an OIP. build your macros and place in the OIP or in components depending on what you are reporting to, schedule or material list. Regarding everything else, you have all the info that we have if you've managed to use the object properties macro in TMM, it's just a matter of working with the data thats there to come up with your script(s)

many users I know having the same issue. I haven't reported it yet

This is pretty common because of 2020's cabinet ordering capabilities. Would be a monumental step forward if Chief could build that into this software. I can get chief to have this functionality but not on the big massive catalogs like crystal cabinet works

The other workaround is sending an orthographic camera set to 90 90 direction and tilt but you can't directly annotate that with regular cad based text and polylines

If you are sharing from X17 I would just export a project, because you were missing the as built plan. If you are sharing from X16 or prior make a backup which will include all files. You cant do a reference elevation in layout, just send your elevation from the as built and send your elevation from your proposed and layer it on top

FYI db stands for Dan Baumann as in Chief Experts Dan Baumann, so you could always reach out to him. That font got purchased and I believed tweaked a bit to become the chief font..it should be almost identical

There are no alt modes for painting multiple objects in either mac or PC so this is a confusing question. There are however scoping modes, so maybe your old machine was defaulted to room as a scope to paint multiple objects or potentially you had a hotkey established for one of those scoping modes that is not an OOTB hotley. Regarding orbit, middle mouse will pan and alt+middle mouse will orbit. Now that you are on a PC I would highly recommend picking up a left hand 3d mouse for much easier navigation in 3d and 2d. Also you can test out mnemonic keys. Without touching your mouse, tap the alt key then B and watch as the build menu flies out...then hit corresponding underlined keys for your nex drop down menu

Yes I show fill in the screenshot. Can you screenshot your label panel of your beam and paste it here?

I find that I very rarely need a separate as-built file from a demo file, the two can be one in the same for most JAH across the country

OOTB chief has beam labels reporting to the Framing, Labels layer. So the text style of the Framing Labels layer needs to have transparency unchecked

even when I turn it off they dont show. if you switch to text labels do they show for you? im in orthographic with standard view with line over. Its only on windows. doors show correctly

This image shows where the label is but no information is populating

Why not just do a pony wall with the trim integrated as part of the pony wall

For reference I no longer do it this way, I use a custom texture instead and its part of the wall. So I just draw out walls..the way it should be

You can curve panels very easily by converting them to a cabinet door and then applying them to a boxless cabinet and then reconverting to a millwork symbol. The whole process only takes a few minutes

That is correct and that's what I put in the last line of my post. A schedule doesn't have any way of knowing what a window or door is, so there is no distinguished way for it to determine that when its rebuilding labels. But your plan view will show w ans d prefixes on the window and door labels. Otherwise you could do this with custom window and door label macros instead where you don't use the automatic label system but rather specify the label instead

Create a macro in CAD/Text/Text Macro Management/ or tap alt,c,t,r Now in your Window Schedule put This method will not be able to distinguish windows from doors if automatic_label is included in the schedule, but it will put "No.-" as a prefix in the schedule There are other more robusts ways to accomplish this automatically, this is just the simplest method with that small trade off

Took a glance at this, and am a little unclear as to what the deliverable is. This seems like just a straight CAD job that an autocad user could do. Are you looking for 3d topography and retention? Do you have this survey in a dwg format? Marking up a dwg survey is easy enough, building 3d topography with retaining walls is more work, what is the full scope of this job. the block from scratch-- Do you mean modeling the entire neighborhood block(not shown in PDF's) with neighboring parcels? services shown on a second copy--second copy of what exactly? second plan file, or put on an isolated layer or? third copy---so you need a before and after plan file, 3d? one without the retaining wall and one with the retaining wall? deliverable is just a pdf?

could show you how to build this in chief if you ever wanted to would need a custom schedule and macros. Pretty cool MM

People can always remove the 3d column... This was more for illustrating the font remapping

You're missing a step then. Explode it if it came in as a cad block ...else make sure it's a closed polyline. Can't convert a open polyline to a solid