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I hear you, and I would usually nod, apologize, and completely agree with the sentiment of threadjacking, but I think toolbars and touchpads built for hotkeys are absolutely on point of the original thread if I were to infer the intended outcome of the thread. My response was always going to be why have a top 5 when 30 are easy to setup, especially in response to someone who uses none. Hoping this ends up being eye opening for him. My top 5: 1) Select Contained Objects 2) Select Intersected Objects 3) Tab 4) A custom plan view selector macro 5) An 8 button snap toggle

Good spot, I offer recording work sessions as a service for training purposes. The icons are there just for an active visual representation of the tools being used. I charge more for this service as it is obviously slower to produce CD's while actively training and clicking icons. Seems to be more of a cost benefit for people than 1 on 1 live training. Minus the computer underneath, it got relocated last year to a data closet. Just missing a calculator, a ruler, and a cup of coffee

My brain can't remember more than 20 hotkeys..my touchpad has a graphical representation of several hundred. I swipe right and have another full page of hotkeys from framing, swipe again and I have materials...my touchpad is infinite, and works with a host of different programs. There is a new app on the apple app store for iPad that can produce a touchpad using chiefs icons...I just haven't found the time to program it yet. I have a video illustrating this exact idea :

Your shed is platform framed? your lower shed roof isn't hung from a ledger attached to framing? As for your floor framing, do you have a detail, is it not framed in some fashion similar to this detail?:

You can always make a style palette from your user library anywhere you please and then add your symbols, rooms etc to an existing palette

Dropbox has changed considerably in regards to file locking and authoring. Do you have your CA installed in a dropbox folder? Look at your folder paths under edit/preferences/folders/

There is one in the core catalogs, search library for "Garden"

There are a few problems with this model. I would encourage you set floor defaults for your conditioned spaces, and let the barn and stables be the rooms to not follow defaults. Take a look at a template plan for reference, you have floor structure elements in floor surface designations and different size floor framing than your default structure. You should be balloon framing the barn with the occasional interior lower wall type with abutting roof. Something in your wall type is creating an artifact above your lower shed roof. I would typically try and help guide you through, but a few too many problems for Pro bono work, forgive me Study the videos and study template plans etc. Also think about how you would actually build this structure, Chief is more than capable of producing an accurate pole barn

I think you have answered your own question. I was trying to grasp what the question was. If your converted conditioned floor area has a floor, framing, substructure/sheathing etc. then you do in fact have a floor below. Uncheck floor below and auto-frame...unless I am missing the issue.Cheers

You have a default base molding that is set to 48" in you room specification/moldings/ DBX

Just a note Can always create it then export the calibz for your archives and delete from the library. Import it as needed.

OK thank you!

Just curious Joe, was my understanding that California doesn't accept REScheck, am I missing out?

Ha, I wish! but then again your helmet would probably 'splode my computer on those rough days The sad part is, I found a better DIY touch interface, I have to program it all over again...if I ever get around to it, anyone could download it to ios and have it work ootb

Why not print the actual icons? In PC: Program Files/Chief Architect/Chief Architect Premier X12 (64 Bit)/Resources/Buttons/ Not sure about Mac, use finder to search "Buttons"

Christine, not singling you out here but just wanted to respond to this. I think style palettes may inadvertently do some designers a very big favor. I know many designers who build out cabinets any way they please and let the custom cabinet builder hash out the feasibility. What a great opportunity this is, to get in touch with a vendor and learn their system. Most cabinet styles already have an established name, sometimes a universally recognized name. Most custom cabinet builders just build the boxes and source the doors. Take a look at Conestoga, one of the leading cabinet door manufacturers: https://www.conestogawood.com/products/cabinet-doors-drawer-fronts/most-popular.html?p=1 Already an established naming convention. Find out what paint your builder uses, my main custom builder uses Sherwin Williams. Easy to spec "Madison 6531" and get an inside beaded shaker painted Indigo. Alternatively, for cabinets, you could always just use the established name that the style came from in the library I would encourage duplicate styles so that you can place in multiple parts of your library. Like /doors,/cabinet styles, /home style. etc. For home styles, I use the name of the project that it originated from. Or for local styles that I have studied for years- regional names. Dimond, Glen Park, Montclair, Sunset-etc, municipalities and their common architectural style in the way that a North Berkeley Craftsman is far different than a North Oakland Craftsman.

Okay, as this topic is garnering more and more elaborate setups, I'll share mine. I have 3/4 of the available tools programmed to a hotkey touchpad interface...but my absolute favorite by far is one that changes the active saved plan view with one button on my touch pad. It took a bit of scripting to get it to work but man is it a time saver...changing plan views in under a second. For plan view 16, it mouse-clicks the drop down, hits page up, then pressing the down arrow key 15 times, etc.

A "symbol" as Chop is referring to is the classification given to a 3d object, not to be confused with a 2D block which is the 2D graphical representation of your symbol. Create your 3D "symbols" and simply add them to your library using the various different methods which are laid out in CA's supporting documentation and videos. Alternatively, you can request that Chief host your files in their manufacturers libraries. You'll have to contact CA for that. I think Dustin is in that department, really nice guy.

More specifically I think Glenn was referring to hotkeys using modifiers vs hotkeys using character keys. Modifiers are simultaneous only, characters are sequential when no modifier keys are present. You can do a combination of the two as well. There are enough combinations to perform all 1200 or so CA hotkeys I have nearly 500 programmed into my touchpad

Pressing two keys together instead of one after another

Lol.

You can make your own toolbar icons as well with that method.

Please post your plan file, can be a number of reasons this happens

Feature Request Don't know why but I thought we has that feature in all schedules. Thank you Dermot

Label in Schedule Specification/Columns/Available Columns/Label no longer shows a Callout in schedule as I remembered it doing in past when designating "Use Callout For Label" in the Label tab of the Door Schedule Specification DBX. Am I remembering this wrong or missing the correct available column item?