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Johnny, You can't use Text Styles with Rich Text. On the Text Style panel of the ordinary Text Specification box, you can select Use Layer For Text Style (which I think is what you want), Use Text Style, or Use Custom Text Style. This is also available with text defaults. These options are not available with Rich Text. All your text boxes are Rich Text. Unfortunately, you can change ordinary Text to Rich Text, but you can't go the other way. But, it is easy though, to multiple select all the Rich Text boxes and open the dbx. Change any settings you need (like font) and do all the Rich Text boxes at once.

Preferences...Architectural...Roofs...check Automatically Place Roof Intersection Points.

The only differences between the Preview and the Final View Options can be found at Preferences...Render. These are Show Images, Reflections in Mirrors, Use Textures and Software Edge Smoothing. Apart from those options, there should be no other differences between the two 2 view types.

They are baseboards belonging to your dormer. Why do you have the dormer drawn on Level 1? Probably better to cut and paste it up to the attic. Also, why do you have an invisible wall and window there?

Scott, I mean the "live" or automatic association is broken. ie, you have to manually update the view in layout, just as you describe. I think we are agreeing.

Johnny, No, you do not need to send a pic to get color and shadows on an elevation in layout. If the view in Layout is a Live View and Update always, the layout view should be exactly the same as the actual elevation - ie, the color toggle, shadows and view (vector, standard glass house, etc) type. So get your actual elevation setting set up correctly and send as Live View, Update Always and all should be OK. If you use Plot Lines (with or without Color Fill), the live association between the actual elevation and the layout view is broken.

Hold on, I'll just polish up my crystal ball! Post the plan!

I would leave auto build roof on, create another floor for the loft and check "Ignore Top (1st) Floor" in the Build Roof dbx.

As long as you have View...Color toggled on.

If you want to use a sun, from the Sun Angle Specification dbx, change Lat and Long to zero, Sept, 22, 2015, 12pm, GMT 00:00. That should get you fairly close to overhead. Or, better yet, upgrade to X8.

Johnny, I watched the vid, particularly the bit you mentioned on the massing. I believe Chief can do it just as well AND auto build the roof, foundation, etc as the model is being built. As I mentioned above in the last post, you are not restricted to drawing in a 2D plan, Chief allows drawing and editing in 3D. If I get time, I will try and do a vid that duplicates what you see in the Vectorworks vid.

Nic, I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "elevation views". But, in Chief, you can control levels, room heights, etc in cross section views and even 3D views by direct dragging or through the dbx. This is great for massing studies. If you turn on auto roofs, auto foundations, etc, it is a very fast way to manipulate and visualise a concept. I did a video a while back on this, but can't remember where it is.

Mark, What does that mean?

Barrett, In your picture, it looks to me like you are using the Point To Point Dimension tool with Grid Snaps toggled on. The points are snapping to your grid - the way it is designed to work. You should be able to string a Running Dimension line across all the framing - it works for me. Do you have Framing checked on the Locate Objects panel of the Dimension Default that you are using? Maybe post a plan demonstrating your problem. I think the problem could be user error.

Perry, Are you 100% sure about that? I know in older versions that was possible, but that was a few versions back. It used to cause a lot of problems that way. Layers can have different names in different layer sets, but as I understand it, layers exist in all layer sets. How do you create a layer in only one layer set?

Shane, You first need to build the framing (I will let you work that out). Select the wall and on the Edit toolbar select "Open Wall Detail".

I don't understand what you are saying about the walls moving, but does this setting help? Wall Specification dbx...General panel...Lock: Start, Center or End? If not, can you post a pic or video of the problem.

Send it in as a bug.

What happens when you turn Print Preview on? What happens when you print? Is the same problem visible in the print?

Select the Room Divider wall and open it's dbx. On the General panel, change the thickness to whatever you want. The beauty of doing it this way is that Chief will automatically create a new wall type that is invisible room divider wall and the thickness that you specified. The new wall type is added to the will types list named something like "Room Divider-100". The 100 is the thickness - 100mm in this case.

Curt, End To End Dimensions and Point To Point Dimensions are 2 different tools.

This is because the garage floor is being supplied by the foundation room below.

Joe, No need to apologise. I was just pointing out a very simple way to get those totals. I personally don't want to keep track of and organise a multitude of macros to perform what are essentially fairly simple tasks. I would probably be a lot more enthusiastic about these sorts of enhancements when they come as simple plug-in or app that I can install with one click and control with a graphical interface. I admire you perseverance and the time you have put into the utilisation of Ruby though. I was just looking at your video. Can you easily control what particular roofs, areas or rooms are included in your tables, or do you have to have all roof planes, rooms and areas included?

Why even sum them when the information is already available. Here is one way of doing it for roofs without messing around with macros. This keeps it nice and simple (I like the KISS principle) by using the Polyline panel in the dbx's. Jerry - I guess this data is not available directly using Ruby? I note that Jerry was saying that his macros need to be redone after a close and reopen of the plan - I reckon it's easier to copy and paste. http://screencast.com/t/SOmJe4twc