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I have done this for a few manufacturers but all from an index and match system...there are typically only standard rules up until you get a one off that follows no rules to speak of which is why I switched to indexing an entire catalog, then my macros look for a match based on parameters such as size and num_doors/drawers, size of panels, etc.

I literally want to convert my plan template from imperial to metric. I have put it off for 2 years now because of how much work it is. I want to convert all of my CAD details to a system that works in metric, I want to run all of my same macros without having to re-script for different inputs and formatters, and I want to transfer defaults and cad blocks and text styles and wall types etc. There is NO easy way to do this, it is a lot of work

This was to illustrate the point of the dimensionless 1:1 conversion and why you can't simply "convert" imperial to metric. There is no tool for this, what are you suggesting? Chief does a unitless import of defaults, which means all of your text style dimensions will be wrong for instance

Bo that is a separate function. Take a text box that is 4 inches with size 4 font and copy it from imperial to metric and it will resize as a 1:1 number to number context. It does not convert the dimensions

All of these answers missing one very crucial bit of info. If you have something set as 5" in your imperial plan defaults, it will be 5mm in your metric plan. Chief just sees these as numbers not dimensions so its a 1:1 translation. I know this because i've been working for countless hours trying to recreate my templates in metric

Right click your toolbars, then:

Send in a suggestion, it's not capable, I've been asking for this since they introduced style pallets https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/28956-room-type-to-style-palette/?do=findComment&comment=230884

Make your text box the same size as the size of the extent of your symbol in place of the lines you have to delete

Why are you building your site plan in a separate file? Why not use the plan with the model, it's far more dynamic, especially since we have additional capabilities when the house is present such as flattening pad and retaining wall intersections

Would probably add a emissive material area light in this and change the glass to translucent with a clear coat

Would suggest you bring it into the very free and robust software blender and decimate it and then remap it using the tutorials available or the knowledge base.

I've started selling a standalone package for Area Analysis of your project. It is the same package that exists in the Pro Plan Template that I sell. You can download an example PDF of how the system is installed and how it works HERE It comes with free installation which you can schedule at your convenience SCHEDULER LINK The Listing is HERE The system works with a single polyline for your lot perimeter and then specialized macros and schedules that are modifiable. It does come with a free toolbar configuration with 5 tools included in the package for single click modifications to reported values.

residential template

default template is in program files if you are on a PC within chiefs directory

File/Import/Default Settings/

Use dropbox for plan and layout Data files require manual work for multiple users. Advice you to store your chief data directory off of the cloud and when needed, export or transfer the data files to another machine. If multiple users are adding symbols or textures, make sure they save them to their library then export them as a group, then take the export to your cloud server and have other users import. In this way, chiefs core data remains off cloud and independent for each machine, causing no redundant issues, and you are simply transferring assets as needed. For sharing files, make sure to create backups which will export materials and pdfs as a zip archive for another machine that does not have that asset

Export your entire user library and it will prompt you to locate missing data files and point it back to your directory where you restored them It's still free

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.