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1) In the "Toolbar Customization" dbx. you currently have open in your screen snippet, navigate to "Tools" side-bar section. 2) In the "Available Toolbar Buttons" sub-section, search "toolbar," you should see your icon listed there with the associated name you gave for the set. 3) Click and drag the icon up to your toolbar and release.

You can right click any user library folder and create a style palette. You can also click and drag your style palette into any other user folder. Style palettes are huge for saving intricate window or cabinet details, saving me hours of searching through template plans. With the new delete tools and style palette CA really heard and answered the call from us SAM users. Need a particular stacked molding detail and toe kick on your cabinet, easy with a style palette. Need beaded face frames..boom, style palette. instead of a wall material region you can use a backsplash and save a custom layered backsplash to your palette for things such as shower walls with hardie backer, aqua-bar and tile.

For anyone finding this thread and looking for training. May want to check out Dan Baumann's program at https://www.chiefexpertsacademy.com/ he's an incredibly kind and warm person who has coached in this software for a couple of decades and is reasonably priced. I haven't taken the program but was invited to hang out with his family and constituents and can't say enough great things about him. May also want to check out @DMDesigns website for training and @SNestor's or @dshall's YouTube channel. @Alaskan_Son offers training in Macro creation, time available, @Joe_Carrick may offer training as well, not sure. May want to sit in on @MarkMc's cabinet hacking webinar next week. Lastly, I would say to direct questions @solver for roof related questions(or any questions) as he is the best and most available at auto generating complicated roofs in my opinion. Adding @joey_martin and @jbaehmer to the mix as well as they are some of the fastest drafters I know or heard tales of. Not sure how they do it but it's fun to pick through their plans when they post.(plan stalker) You can click on any of these tags that I've so annoyingly placed for these users and follow them.(sorry fellas, get back to work!,ha) Cheers!

Why are you duplicating a detail in .plan instead of sending the detail to layout and duplicating the layout box of the detail and scaling accordingly?

Mind sharing your 4 bead profiles?

Why not write from a screen recording macro? Jitbits MacroRecorder can even work on a scripting basis and increase the speed of the output substantially. Just group the symbols needed into one folder and let the macro run on that folder...you would only be hindered by the time to adjust your most complex symbol, then set timing parameters based on that symbol and let it work through your folder. I'm guessing 10 minutes of scripting and 20-30 minutes of letting it run

Why not build your wainscot using a lower cabinet, no need for creating a symbol. Just lock the recess faces and everything else will resize as you intended

@ChiefUserBigRobI'm guessing it has something to do with how you are switching to your electrical plan. Are your plan view settings associated correctly. How do you get to your electrical plan? Walk us through it. When you turn every layer on is your electrical there?

I have a system that is similar to many other users out there. Active jobs/Job Name/CAD/DATE AND PHASE IN FOLDER NAME/.plan and .template files such that I have a folder named 200203-DRVA meaning that I am in the design review phase on design iteration "A" dated today's date. Tomorrow I will copy and paste that entire folder and rename it to 200204-DRVA. That was I can reference old designs, revert back to them if needed, also keep historical data or previous textures, elements etc. AND have an active backup vs automatic which can possibly be corrupted. These all live on a cloud service. You now have the added benefit of showing previous design iterations in your active plan with referenced files.

You have to do this in a 3rd party software. CA is not capable of UV mapping. You could do it through painstacking surface deletion and symbol compiling, but nowhere near worth the time invested.

I could also do it for you, probably charge $50

This is always problem number 1. Most of the guys around here will tell you, we almost never manually drag wall heights, it just invites problems. If you want structure height to change, you should do it in the room specification dbx. Simply draw room dividers to create a room, and if that room is to have different structure than the rest of the rooms, manually override the rooms structure from the room specification. Ideally, if the property does not have split level floors, you should just edit your floor in the floors and rooms default settings under edit/default settings/floors and rooms/floor levels/

I'm out of the office til this evening building a custom bed frame. Fun stuff..I'll take a look later tonight

POST 27 We're you as excited about the Cafe line of GE appliances at IBS this year? I sure was!! so I stuffed it into my first project back in the office. I did not model these, they are from the manufacturer, I simply fixed a lot of mistakes and cleaned up a lot of geometry, then imported and covered in custom materials. I did not have time to clean these up and reduces faces so be warned, these are 30-50K face count which will slow your computer down. Download: RABS CAFE APPLIANCES.calibz CLICK ME TO GO BACK TO THE INDEX!!!

Feed back is to put this in the tips and tricks forum!

Do you have a cloud service you can upload to and share?

My suggestion was to convert your terrain and landscaping to a symbol, much easier IMO. I think I remember suggesting you copy your plan over to a new file for each new day of work so you don't listen your projects. Might have to dig through archives, no way to reverse that without undo.

MIND POSTING YOUR PLAN FILE WITH A FEW ANNOTATIONS TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ACCMOPLISH...oops sorry all caps, was draftig..not gonna re-type that

There are ways to do this with chief tools, no argument there, but my absolute preferred method is to open a new plan, draw it out to spec and save it as a symbol in my library under that jobs folder...no fussing with deck edges and walls reconnecting/screwing things up. I know I'm the minority but this is what I do every time it comes to fussy railings...its fast and bullet proof...just not dynamic cept for in the Z plane

I I could guess but it would be better if you uploaded a plan with the symbol and also the molding

I'm possibly not the most knowledgable person when it comes to SSA but they do in fact handle almost any question you can throw at them as well as being part of a yearly upgrade promo rate. Additionally, these forums are filled with very helpful and knowledgeable users that are more than generous with their time. You can also find various users that offer training services. Hope that helped.

did you try the auto stairwell tool in the stair's active toolbar ? EDIT: Kbird1 beat me to it!

See this post, it has houses as symbols. You can pull a perspective overview and use Tools/Symbol/Convert To Symbol/ and it will convert any visible geometry. Its helpful to turn all interior layers off as well as framing, floors etc. Much easier, IMO, to CAD block trees and foliage and terrain and convert to seymbol

I think he is referencing CSV import terrain tools under File/Import/Import Terrain Data/ Personally I think CA does a great job of interpolating by using a minimum number of datums to complete the terrain model. I would NOT use chief for Cut/Fill calcs, and otherwise how accurate do you need the terrain model to be? It can be 100% accurate but at an exorbitant cost with little benefit to the designer or client. The ultimate question is, what do you need to represent with your terrain? Then we can craft a viable response. I'm happy to do terrain models for clients as a contractor, please contact me if needed. I'm also happy to gift my time on these forums pointing people toward resources or creating instructional videos. To the OP. Please post all relevant files so we can take a look.