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Uncheck recessed and then you can add a stacked molding for your casing..much easier to automate this process then hand drawn.

Happy to help, Is there a reason you aren't taking advantage of the built in exterior casing? especially on the windows?

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Brain fart today.. Glen you're absolutely right. Been out of it all day I think from these stupid fires and terrible air quality. Thank you for correcting me

Use the "@" to notify me when responding else I might miss it Yes that makes sense and their is no tool that will restrictively dimension just 1 room...their are a few workarounds I could think of but none worth the time. Simpler to just use the interior dimension tool. Keep in mind that you could use the auto interior dimension tool and then use either restrictive selection of dimensions or the select marquee simlar tool combined with the contained selection mode to quickly select and delete all unwanted dims from the auto interior dimension tool

If you are referring to the Automatic Interior Dimension Tool, then navigate to Edit\Default Setting\Dimensions\Automatic Interior Dimensions\ and on the Locate Objects Panel in the Wall section check the Surfaces designation

As solver mentioned, we need a .plan file so we can take a look.

All makes sense to me, just not sure what happened ..one day was working fine and the next was crashing,,,no changes in between..even went back a version and the same problem existed. I think maybe a material file got replaced at its core location.

Chief will search the local folder for all items. So long as all items are included and zipped to the same folder their should be nothing missing, unless you have not managed to include listed items. What specific "Type" of item is missing? Upload it here and we can take a look

I was just getting started on it..and it is a full home remodel ..was confusing to me that it suddenly came to a crashing hault. I had at least a couple sessions with those cabinets so I don't know what changed. Thanks again

You're the man!! It was the 2 linen closets like you mentioned..THANK YOU!!!!

I'd usually struggle my way through this but was hoping someone can help me out. This .plan file came to a screeching hault seemingly overnight. Every time I change anything in 3d it rebuilds at an extremely slow rate, unbearably slow. Any help appreciated. LV-N.plan

Does this happen with a default template plan or one of your own? can you post a .plan?

You may be missing a small detail or approach...I only say that as I feel like I know your capabilities in the software and you shouldn't think it is a lot of work. Pull an elevation Draw material region using tab-input for the width making sure the entire material region is captured by the wall. This ensures that the region is in the right coordinate location(bound to the wall) Drag the region up past the plan of the highest ridge for that section of wall. Multiple copy and drag along that walls elevation Optional to evenly distribute along the wall Same method works for a stepped back location. I can usually do a whole house in 5 minutes or less

Tried from my profile and tried from the gallery.

Do a system wide search. if you are on a PC, type "ext: .calib" without quotes in your file explorer search bar

Depends on the user. My method for collaborative work and remote work duplicates the containing folder for the plan file for every new working session, Can easily get 6gb per project, not to mention 100's of gigs in material files. If Chief switches to RT tracing we will likely have a large culture shift that will make that 2080 seem really appealing...especially if Dustin Cruz keeps pumping out better core an bonus materials as well as new light fixtures. I might've agreed with you before I had put a couple hundred hours on my 4K 15"....Now I couldn't disagree more...I would HIGHLY recommend it. I couldn't imagine going back to my 1080 17" even though it performs just as well for drafting. Reiterating that GFX mem will be a big player if we get to realtime rt. I will def be switching to 2K+ textures Agreed Some RAM disks have periodic backup as well as a backup prior to planned shut down. Most work I've ever lost not being on a UPS was a few library items. Graham always appreciate the debate, just offering a different perspective.

Long time Rocky, glad to see you are still here! If you were to think about it long enough you would realize that we are locking more than Chief gives us direct control of in the roof .dbx. If you were to lock the ridge height and the pitch, then changing the baseline height would move the eave edge of the roof plane thus changing the overhang. The system works as it should. which points us to a user error. Things to note When you draw a manual plane, the plane's adjacent edges will change a line style overlay to finely dotted, only when you have snapped to a known angle. Whatever edge you are closest to when you hover over a plane and then open the plane's dbx will report its info to the "Selected Line" panel of the dbx. You should check all edges of your planes to ensure they are correct angles. **spoiler alert is that they are not correct which is why you are having a lot of trouble.** Sometimes it is easier to pull back the edges of a roof plane and snap to a correct angle to avoid snapping to another element that is an incorrect angle. To ensure your success in correcting angles you can turn off all snaps except for the "extensions" snap. Edit\snap settings\ After you have finished correcting your angles you can turn snaps back on and start snapping planes together. You will then see that your eaves are out of plan with one another...move edges to correct this, not vertices.

I like that better..good one

I've created a rough draft instructional video on how to create a custom panel schedule. Would love the community input or possible better methods so I can produce a final video to my social channels and content thread 200901-11.mp4

you're the man..like seriously, what a time saver

I tried $test = "testing this out" in a text box and then placed %$test% in a text box and it did not work, what am I missing? PS I know it's probably annoying educating someone that doesn't know the basics or even classifications but it is how I learn, single case uses at a time

Interesting, could you think of a use case? I had responded earlier and deleted my response realizing that I was missing the $ sign to call out a global from the jobinfo macro. You summed it up nicely and am in the process of deleting a ton of macros...so THANK YOU! I still have questions about the measurement/float changes that I may post about if I don't manage to figure it out myself.

Some may argue, but hard drive performance is top priority when I think of upgrades in chief. The overall speed in the software that I have noticed in multiple machines when upgrading to an NVME drive has been paramount

@DavidJPotter is well versed in training for the HD line of products