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Copy it to your user library and either modify the symbol to be used as a lock where you will need to change the symbol's X Origin Offset or convert it to millwork and apply it as a closed one side shutter where you will need to rotate the symbol in the Z axis 180 degrees and do an x and y offset for your condition

I would first post this in the Q&A forum. This forum really should just be for Chief ready symbols IMO. I've asked chief if we could get some mods in here to clean up and properly sort these dang forums in past. Maybe some day Next can you post the original link you downloadde from? The obj fil is missing its associated material file and without it someone would have to texture this by hand and it would be very time consuming

This is because chief is wrapping your brick back to the siding wall. You should create your own return instead by taking the continuation handle of your brick wall and returning it back. See screenshot

Tiled vs List is not set in preferences. It is set in the browser itself. Lock only locks your windowed arrangement

@Doug_N Throw this in the Tips and Tricks Forum

Provide a pic and could probably make one for you

Not following. A plan template you copy and paste? Why would you copy and paste a plan template? Why not create a new template with your current settings? The user library loads an old copy of your user library? When you do what exactly? There should be no reason your User Library reverts to an older file state if you are just copying and pasting content from a plan file. Can you give more information about your process?

You could set a macro with a conditional statement that looks for a specific room name and then assigns a global variable to the ceiling height of the open below room that will report in that specific room names ceiling height

Matterports Lidar rig or a intel realsense will give you accuracy. Nothing will do the work for you in chief but you can use the measurement tools for any point cloud based tool or import a 3d object file and line up your chief elements with the 3d mesh.

Just requires a method. This is an old video, my method has changed a bit but basically he structure of it:

wwhat would be an example of a dbx field that would need spellchecking? The spell check tool works for layout box labels

Yes you can. I would NOT advise it. Chief will try to re-write the user library for every change that is made on ANYONE's machine so long as that machine is running Chief. When Chief sees that the user library is locked it will make a new file User Library_1 for instance, which will just get lost. Chief will only open a file named User_library. There are more advanced ways of setting up a cloud sync option but these all require a process that the entire team must stick to. Alternatively you could regularly export the days new library items and at the start of the next day have the team do their respective imports. I have 4 different methods for User Library syncing but every method is a process that must be trained to the team

If you dont need the wall cap then you can use a custom stringer:

Just did a video for this posted here:

Switched to tab breaks and its even worse...seems to be duplicating data..this has to be a bug .Also tried a new line to start and that doesnt change anything

Why when I script a macro to read from a CSV the reported value looks like this in regular text whereas it works perfectly in rich text:

You are showing them in your schedule already? Also it would be helpful if you give more info for these requests...as I can only assume you were putting room in your attempt because you were trying to reference the dimensions vs the owner data from the room publisher...but that's just a guess..what are you trying to do?

LOL, I liked your approach

yes

No, I have requested it. Add a note to this suggestion and it will help it move along:

are you deleting the room labels in other saved plan views? I ask because this is a common mistake

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missing important details here...a note is not the same as a room, and though a note will report a rooms information you have to access it. so in the note it would access standard area by calling room.standard_area. You can put this directly in the custom field without going into TMM %(room.standard_area*(room.ceiling_elevation-room.floor_elevation)).round(2)% Which is in the case that your version of the software doesnt have the measurement class of room.volume

Hard for some of us to provide support for older versions. How did you get a reported value for volume? Was it a predefined macro? Are you including a macro in a custom field that is reporting to the schedule in columns to include? Or was there a volume column to include?