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Mick, yes, I did notice the slowness. Terry, The slowness with the plan is caused by the Custom fill you are using in some of your wall definitions. Get rid of the custom fill and change it to a Solid fill and things speed up.

Adam, I can't duplicate your problem with a 0 - I only get the 0 prefix for single digits. Try using a space for the prefix and you don't get a 0 prefix for single digits. Maybe this is controlled by a system setting?

Terry, Your garage has a 8" wide stem walls. Your house has 12" wide stem walls. Both footings are 12" wide, "Center Footing on Main Layer". You need to change this to "Align Footing on Outside". Just delete the footings around the Porch if you don't want them. Chief builds the footing between an internal and an external (Porch) room, so if you are doing an auto foundation, rename the Porch to Unspecified or an internal room name. The footing around the Porch would be the correct behaviour as there is usually a step down to a Porch for waterproofing.

Kirby, Do you want to adjust the overall size of the bay or the individual windows in the bay?

Alan, All I am suggesting is that until we get a Find and Replace in Chief, it may be possible, with a bit of sculldugery, to use Chiefs Spell Check tool to do what you want. It just means that you have to edit a couple of system files to do it. This would be worthwhile when there are a lot of instances to find and replace in a large drawing. This works pretty much the same as you describe for AC.

Alan, It is possible with a little digging and editing of the spellchecker files that Chief uses, to use it as a find and replace. The method is to get the spellchecker to recognise 2010 as a misspelling and change it to 2014. Let me know if you would like me to do a demo. Doug, I think you use a third party spell checker? Could it somehow be incorporated as part of that tool? I have had some success in the past by editing the spell checker files to find and replace text - as per Alan's example above.

Mark, It looks like you could be using Rotate Plan View to do the rotation. BEWARE of this tool. It rotates the drawing "board" which means that it also rotates the co-ordinate system - meaning that zero degrees is no longer at 3 o'clock. Also, it will not rotate the view in layout.

Scott, It's that "external room" that you have built with the railing wall. The rooms ceiling is cutting into the cladding. You can designate one of the railings as No Room Def and the problem goes away. Or you can uncheck Ceiling Over This Room. There are probably other ways as well. So..., there are a couple of solutions depending on how you want the model built and the purpose of the external rooms.

Ref Manual? You mean there is a ref manual?

What? You didn't like my "Cad mode" technique?

Shan, Sorry, I can't help an more unless you explain yourself more clearly. I am still confused.

Shane, I don't understand your post.

Start the Draw Line tool. Instead of drawing a line, left click to select only cad objects.

Mike, This is the thread. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/2175-super-quick-access-to-sun-angle-dvx-in-camera-mode/page-2?hl=shadows Have a look at my post #30

Shane, OK, try this. You may need to adjust things to get them exactly correct. All auto build roofs. Porch roof plan 2 GLENNS AMENDED 2.zip

Shane, What I posted was not a "workaround". Your 2 pictures show 2 different results. Which one do you really want? Either is easy to set up and auto build using the settings I gave you.

I posted a technique a little while back that enabled the sun to follow the camera so that the sun always shone on the visible sides of the building.

Shane, You need to reduce the height of the Porch roof and then use the Pitch Options to set the Upper Pitch to 10" as per the dbx below (this is the porch railing wall dbx) - you will need to adjust the values shown as I just did a quickie for demo purposes: Oh, to get the gable to build, break the railing wall either side of where you want the gable and change that bit of railing back to a single pitch. Auto rebuild roofs. I'll post the plan Porch roof plan 2 GLENNS AMENDED.zip

Mick, He was doing it by selecting the auto molding polyline that holds the gutter molding and then changing the molding. That's only good until a rebuildt and then the gutter molding goes back to the default. Richard, If only that were true!!

Christina, My only suggestion would be to post the plan.

Richard, The gutter keeps rebuilding with the default gutter. Double click the Build Roof icon to open the Build Roof dbx. Go to the Gutter panel and select the molding profile you want as the default gutter.

Rashid, My invoice for $500 is on the way to you for supply of my hotkey file and training.

Bernie, You can use the Point to Point Resize tool to do what you want. Select the picture box. On the Edit toolbar, look for the Point to Point Resize icon - the double headed arrow. You can use either vertical or horizontal resizing to stretch the image to the desired size. The picture boxes work more like a layout box now and I am pretty sure that at least X6 worked this way as well.

Rashid, Looks like you are using my hotkeys! I think you must have changed the hotkey assignment somehow yourself because I don't think that Chief comes with any OOB sequential hotkeys (eg, S,A) - the OOB hotkeys are all simultaneous (ugh!) (eg, Ctrl+S), same as other windows programs. So...Maybe user error?

Scott, I don't think you are comparing apples with apples. I had a look at your 2 plans and each had plenty of added lights - but different between plans. I am not sure if that is making a difference or not. But notice that in the last 2 pics you posted that the shiny ones actually have their faces in shadow and the dull ones are facing the light source. I think it could have a lot to do with them facing different directions - especially in relation to the default sunlight? And maybe the type of views you are doing and whether the camera is inside the room or outside the room?