Renerabbitt

What is your end goal?

In case it isn't clear, you cannot work on the same project file at the same time. Also, having your Chief architect data in onedrive will cause a redundancy over time as onedrive tries to cache files while you are working in chief which locks those files, causing onedrive to say create a duplicate of your user library with a suffix which will not be read by Chief. Furthermore, as someone else said, you would need to set your onedrive to offline all files for Chief. I would not use onedrive for projects, its terribly slow and has terrible caching and redundancy algo's when compared to dropbox. I still use onedrive for backups as well as google drive for some email storage but dropbox is my main cloud backup service as well as a local NAS and secondary drives for redundant backups. In terms of using chief within an office environment, chief looks for missing files in two locations, within its data files and within the folder that the plan and layout are stored in. If those files are not there, missing file errors will populate. So either export plan material libraries from one machine to import into another or backup your plan file to the cloud and then extract contents on the second machine. (if you want to get fancy, just drop the extracted image and pdf files from the backup to the second machines data directory

See attached video for solution on what you are asking for: 250108.mp4

Murky waters...Do they have permission from the designer of record to modify there original drawn plans per the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act?

you could do it, a polyline for area and then you need something that reports elevation reference to bottom like a geometric shape.

take it one more step and put a check mark in always open with

one polyline for lot size and just a bunch of schedules...didn't do any work but shape the polyline which you would have to do anyway and choose my room types

If I understand you right, this would be really easy to do just by making custom room types with a prefix or suffix "Below" and then doing a schedule that includes area from below grade room types

Can you expand on this?

This is using one of my macros which Ethan asked me permission for, thank you ethan. Its also letting loose a bit of info that I have largely kept to myself for the last year or so, that you can build a calc into a summed row total. This works particularly well for mixing and matching different objects into a total formulation.

What do you mean. Windows do report their room name and schedules can report windows by room

I have stated this before, and unfortunately this is not one of those things that I would give away for free as others sell a similar system. All I am willing to tell you is that it is totally doable without the need of a rich text box. My next version of the Pro Plan has an expanded area analysis that is very easy to adapt to many different conditions. It only requires one polyline for the lot size. The rest is done automatically.

Most cloud point services offer a converted obj file which chief can import. Regarding Ai request...it's just not ready for prime time...you might get 1 good image out of 20 and it will just cause a bunch of support calls. I am with Jason on this one. Drastically improve the style palette tool to incorporate roof and trim styles and exterior materials and landscaping and then we could get great images programmatically which would be accurate.

Thanks to whoever took this floor plan down. It was downloaded 29 times and is my proprietary work product, I would appreciate it if those that downloaded it do not distribute it.

You can also type 4 in 12 for an angle

You could change Edit Handle Tolerance in Preferences but I would not recommend it..instead use a stylus

haha, poking fun for funs sake, you're right of course, but the comment is from almost 3 years ago when we didnt have that feature

Split the calculate area of what? what area are you referring to in terms of their reported values? What area are you trying to produce? I show conditioned and unconditioned floor area which per the IRC is to the outside of my walls main layer. I show coverage based on the same thing Also, we do get into splitting hairs..my system saves me $1000's on the year for the number of projects I do, and I have never had anyone call at a discrepancy of less than 2 sq ft on a 2000 sq ft home that's below tolerances for sure. Unless I am up against a land use issue this wouldn't bother me one bit.. I doubt many people truly build plans that are built to 100% accuracy...pretty sure mine never have been. Especially considering we are showing a break down of room sq ft, separate from the accurate conditioned vs unconditioned space I am reporting which is what really matters. If someone tallies my room totals they will reach my area totals, so noone would even know that the garage was technically 2 sq ft larger than the porch. Kind've a "pick your hill to die" on scenario You could also always script in a modified amount that is plugged in by you as number of sq ft adjustment for that rooms Oip

Its only using a global variable for my polyline based Lot Perimeter

So I'm basically helping guide everyone here to my exact system that I sell, haha but that's fine. We don't have default room OIP but we do have default floor based OIP and rooms will follow floor defaults. So you can get automatic area analysis which is what I have in my pro plan plus some tools and conditional check macros. The only thing I have to do on a single story analysis is shape my lot polyline and my analysis is done

you would need to create a seemless texture, one that when butted to itself continues a grain, or create unique textures and change the offset in x or y of the texture panel

Its a known issue since all the way back to x16 beta 1. I have been the ONLY person to report it and I've reported it several times now. It only occurs when you have a negative bounding box spacing AND a stretch plan/stretch zone. Its a big bummer for me as it has rendered many of my tools useless. Back in public Beta, you could build it in X14 and import it into x16 and it would work. not sure anymore if that still works

Most of us who sell them switched to a room schedule in X16 because chief gave us an Object Information Panel for rooms, which means we can utilize Custom Fields

can you explain this more...keep in mind reported sizes can easily be manipulated with a macro. (Just trying to help) Also note that we can do some very advanced things with symbols in the stretch planes and bounding box offsets. can you show an example of what you are talking about? Also yes absolutely, here to help. We can even make the drawer symbol offset in the y plane so that it sits flush against a face frame cabinet. The only draw backs to this method are the plan view representation of box size and the vector line at the drawer face in elevation. The box size as stated can be reported as whatever we like to a schedule