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Joe, This came up in one of the one on one training sessions that I sat in on.

Russ, Don't forget that if you still can't get the walls to join correctly, we have that "adjust wall layers a junction" thingy tool to edit the wall layers to get exactly what you want. Sorry, I don't have access to Chief and can't remember the name of the tool - accessed from the Edit toolbar.

Rob, This just came up at the UGM. You could try using an invisible ramp with the rail you want and then place it on top of your sloped wall.

Wendy, I use jing also and usually don't have any problems viewing my own or others vids. Do I need a username and password? I will keep trying.

Hey Wendy, I would love to see your videos, but I can't access them. I am on an iPad and therefore can't use flash player-is there another way to view them? I usually don't have any troubles viewing vids done with jing and posted to Screencast. Any ideas?

Joe, I would be interested to see how you macros handle those complicated floor level situations like complicated split and multilevel houses. As you know we can draw a room on one floor and assign it a floor level that equates its height the equivalent of drawing it on another floor. If your macros are only recognizing areas by a certain height increment, will they be able to cope with those sorts of situations? Or will they only work with standard type floor levels. Ie, it sounds like your macros will find and total floor levels within fixed 3M high levels?

Ross, It could be your Window Level setting in the windows dbx.

How can you answer this question when you don't know what you don't know!

Maybe because the dimension is correct and isn't rounding?

Isn't a room made up of walls, floor and ceiling just a box that you can drag in 3D - plus I can have auto roofs to roof it as I go, and get auto dimensions as I edit, plus...plus...plus...? I now do all my concept and design work in Chief.

Open the Build Roof dbx...Roof panel...Specifications. Do you have Trusses (no Birdsmouth) checked? If so, Chief is getting it's rafter size from the Trusses panel in the Framing Defaults dbx. If you uncheck Trusses, Chief will use the Rafter size from the Roof panel of the Framing Defaults dbx. So...set up your rafter size in Defaults...Framing...Roof...Rafter. Uncheck Trusses in Build Roof...Roof...Specifications...Trusses. Build roofs.

Terry, What sheet size do you want to print to? What scale do you want to print to? I think the problem is your scale setting in the Drawing Sheet Setup dbx. I don't think that you really want to print at a scale of 1:1 - that is printing full scale! At a scale of 1/4"=1' your plan just fits on a Arch D (24"x36") sheet. Do not worry about measuring the sheet size in the plan - Chief is indicating how the plan would look printed at a certain scale on a certain sheet size (the sheet size is being scaled - not the plan) - just set your drawing scale in the Drawing Sheet Setup dbx. Also, do you really want to print directly from the plan? It would be more common practice to sent to Layout and then print.

Keith, I don't believe that you can control the schedules with layer sets. This is a copy of my post from the other thread that may help: You may be able to get some of the functionality you are after. Open the electrical symbols "Symbol Specification" dbx - not it's "Electrical Service Specification" dbx. Go to the Options panel and then the Options section. Here, you can specify different categories for the symbol - like Outlet, Switch, Light, etc. You can then open the "Electrical Schedule Specification" dbx, down at the bottom of the General panel, there is a Objects To Include section where you can choose from Outlets, Switches, Lights or Other. In both locations you can check more that one box. In the Electrical Schedule Specification dbx, you can also restrict the schedule to a single floor. http://screencast.com/t/C4xaJPDtE2Q9

Not good! I may have to cancel my trip to the UGM!

Ah......, I have finally reached my life long goal of being a "short term bucket", something I have strived relentlessly for - it fells very satisfying to have finally reach my goal!

I don't think that you need to build the roof manually, although I am not sure how HD Suite works. If it is the same as Chief, my guess is that you are changing the ceiling heights in the Floor Defaults dbx - with auto roofs toggled on, this will effect all ceiling heights (and thus roofs) that have Default checked in the Room Specification dbx. So, if this is the case, don't change the floor default ceiling height - change the ceiling height in only the pool house Room Specification dbx. Otherwise, do as Mick says and go over to the HT forum.

Larry, The reason that you are seeing different behaviour depending on wether you are using the scroll wheel or the in & out hotkeys to zoom is that you have Zoom Using Field of View checked in the render preferences. When this is checked, zooming in and out with the scrollwheel leaves the camera in the same position and just changes the Field of View so that it looks like you are zooming by moving the camera - BUT, the camera isn't actually moving - the FOV is changing to make it look like a zoom. Also, when this is checked using the in and out hotkeys (or the arrow keys) the camera actually moves and the FOV stays the same. (I am assuming that the in and out hotkeys do this as I can't test as I have changed my hot keys). So..when you are playing around in the vid with the different zoom methods, you are getting different results. You can see the above effects if you tile your 3D view and plan view and note what happens to the camera in plan view as you use the different methods to zoom. Have a play with the Zoom Using Field of View setting toggled on and off and see what the differences are.

Mick, This behaviour should be controlled by the Snap Distance. What value is yours set to? Try decreasing the snap distance to about 10 and see what happens. This is a screen pixel setting, so it is affected by the zoom level. I guess it is also affected by screen resolution.

Mick, I think the default text indicating the wall framing layer is there to cover the cases when a wall has more than one framing layer. In that case, you get a wall framing detail for each framing layer , named Wall Layer 2, Wall Layer 3, for example. The name in the cad framing view title bar will be the same as listed in the PB and is editable.

"Wall Layer 3" is telling you that the framing layer is layer number 3 in the wall definition - it's not the wall detail name. To get the wall detail name to display automatically, open the text box that says "Wall Layer 3" and use the Insert...Global...Plan Info..."View Name" macro. This will display the name of the wall detail as it appears in the Project Browser. Did you know that you can change the name of the wall detail in the Project Browser by right clicking and Rename. This is then reflected in the above text box if you use the "View Name" macro.

Tim, They are on the locked system layer called Cross Section Lines. I suggest that you copy it (or trace it) to it's own custom layer where you can separate it from other cross section lines.

Scott, Try Tools, Toolbars & Hotkeys... Customise Toolbars...Toolbar panel...Reset Toolbars in the bottom right hand corner. Dennis is telling you to right click any vacant toolbar space and then from the drop down menu, select Toolbar Configurations...Extended Tool Configuration. I don't think this is what you want though - that only changes the configuration. II think you are asking how to set the toolbars back to factory defaults?

Dennis, Your posts are confusing. But...You won't get the Build Framing For Selected Objects icon on the Edit toolbar unless the selected wall/railing has a framing layer in it's definition. If that's not the problem, you need to explain in more detail.

My guess is that the roofs with the white (Bone) framing have Roof Plane Specification dbx...Options...Roof Layers...Soffits, unchecked. When this is unchecked, the framing material uses the fascia material instead of the rafter material.

There are heaps of ways to do this. Select the wall, scroll wheel (or centre button) click (should be Pan) and drag to do the pan, pick up the selected wall and drag. Aerial view also works.