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Lol.

Pretty much my morning ritual, work for an hour and a half, make a coffee and go solve a quick Chief talk problem to get me motivated for the next 7-10 hours of drafting.

I'll give a two part answer as I happen to know what you need to share in this instance For myself you can export to 3DS and zip it together with the texture files that accompany it. For other people that find this thread you should evaluate the goal of the share, in the case of a working relationship I often feel protective over my annotation sets. I always import a goofy or messed up annotation set prior to uploading to these forums. My sets make up 1000's of hours of work and are extremely efficient and valuable as well. To date I've only ever shared them with 1 other user for a long term remote collobaration that had a lot of back and forth...and even then the sets were compiled with theirsets...A ton of work to isolate Removing items such as client info etc. Is a matter of deleting macros for me, takes 2 seconds. As the great David Potter mentioned, PDFs and viewers work for clients. People that want the plan file to work in their own version of Chief need to pay for the services rendered minus a retainer IMO. Stuff like CAD details don't bother me...easy to delete, but even tougher to recreate the 100's of details I don't have in this plan....if you're structuring a biz to do a lot of sharing, maybe it's worth it to have a details-only plan that you don't share...really depends on the end goal. I'm protective of macros as some I have purchased from other users. Other than that I tend to promote open share platforms, lifts everyone up to our level and it pushes me to improve further...so long as I don't give any good reason to get sued, haha.

yeah this happened..ugh: 2019-08-19 10-43-05.mp4

Would you mind sharing an example?

nvmd, didn't know you could type in "ea", learn something new

This may be a question for @MarkMc, Taking a first stab at using material lists to create a cabinet order, how can I restrict moldings to 8' cut lengths...there is no "ea." option after I add a divisor in the "count" sub-category?

Upon closing different file in the last few days I've experienced 3 program crashes. Seems a bit unstable.

Never been happy with the layout labels/description having little to no correlation with the plan files. You could use a simple text macro for your layout sheets but it would be cumbersome and possibly lead to more error. Maybe someone else has a better solution, you can also make your sheet index and sheet labels in plan with a note and schedule. I try to avoid putting anything but revisions in my (dumb)layout sheets

Grabbed it off the net, made it tileable, made a bump/metal/roughness map...Think it's pretty high resolution. Try it out: RABS Weathered Fir Siding.calibz

helps me get motivated to start the next project If you're going to make them yourself, you can change the bounding box to be the inside edge minus your reveal on your jamb thickness...that way you can p,ug in exact dimensions and snap to center in x/y on elevation

Actually try this instead, change the bounding box to be inside edge: RABS STRETCHABLE WINDOW TRIM.calibz

See if this works for ya: stretch planes should work RABS CUSTOM CASING.calibz

You could create a symbol of the sill, casings lintel all together with a center stretch plane in the y- axis, personally I would show a detail of the casing as shown and leave elevations with a square casing with a note pointing to the detail.

awesome, glad to help, if you wouldn't mind editing your topic to add [solved] it will help other people find it

You have inadvertently shrunk your selection pane to the top of the preview screen. If you drag your mouse over the top of the selection preview window your mouse cursor should change to this icon: when it does, simply click and drag down to set the size of the selection window. Alternatively, you can deselect and re-select the "show/hide preview panel" icon as mentioned above and it will reset your "selection panel" If this solves your issue and you feel so inclined, edit your post to include [solved] cheers!

There are separate forums for the home designer line of products, try your post out over there and I'm sure someone would be happy to help. Also best to post in Q&A website: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/

Are either of these items unchecked in your library(under the library browser)? re-check them

This would be my approach, why not make it 3d so you can just use a fixture schedule and custom fields etc plus have the benefit of correct elevations etc. not to mention macro implementation/object info etc. Just use a library symbol that is similar and designate your cad block to that symbol

Would use a half wall and adjust the height according to your sunken floor elevation. You can do this after the fact by designating your invisible wall as a railing in the wall dbx. general tab and in rail style tab set it to solid. Then designate the height in the newels/balusters tab

When opening this plan it appears as if no manual editing has been done and all roof planes are connected

Solution? 2019-08-13 10-53-31.mp4

I probably need more info from the OP...if I am understanding correctly he wants the same text in 4 rich text boxes, in that case one identical macro could be placed in 4 boxes and you would only need to change the macro's text. This is particularly helpful in ensuring that redundant information remains accurate

Use Macros in your rich text, then change the macro's text

A quick vid for you: 2019-08-13 10-19-46.mp4