glennw

Maybe I should have been a bit more specific: Go Preferences>Edit>Behaviours>check Concentric > Jump> enter 75'.

You could try Rotate Plan View, but make sure you read up on how the tool actually works and the ramifications of using the tool. Just try it on a copy of the plan first.

Go Preferences>Edit>Behaviours>check Concentric, enter 75'. Select the line, select Copy/Paste. Click over one of the corner (where any 2 line segments join) edit handles (NOT the centre Move handle) and drag in the direction of the offset. This will evenly offset every line segment by the same amount - unlike trying to drag with the centre move handle. It sounds like you need to offset both ways (I don't understand why?) - you can't do that in the one step. Do one side and then the other - only takes a second.

I would use some Distribution Regions with options like Evenly Scattered, Object Scaling and Random Angle, Object Scaling, etc. You can only have one plant type to each region, but it only takes a short time to copy one region (Hold Position), and select another plant. You can quickly build up a fairly complex looking plant layout. Very fast and easy to change the parameters to get different effects instantly. I think that landscaping always looks better with 3D objects rather than the 2D images which look....flat! 2D plants do not change appearance as you rotate the model or individual plants, but 3D plants will change as they are rotated. Here is a quick one I did in about 1 minute.

I believe that you are talking about how the dimension text cuts out the dimension line. This is caused by the fill for the text box. This is from memory, but you should get the idea - just have a play with these settings. At the moment, you are probably using Use Layer For Text Style. If, instead you use Custom Text Style or Text Style, you can specify a Transparent Fill for the dim text and the dim line will display through the text box. Oh, don't forget that if you want to hide or delete parts of the dimension string we can use Blank Segment and/or Suppress Dimension.

Open your profile by clicking on your picture in the top right hand corner. On the right hand side of the title bar there is a button - See My Activity. That should take you to all your posts. PS You have to be quick around here!!

For dims, you can do this in the layout on a Layout Box basis. Send your plan to layout as normal at whatever scale you want, with a default dim text size of 200mm. Open the layout box that contains the plan and change the Number Height. If you send the same floor plan to layout at different scales, each Layout Box can have a different number height.

I am not quite sure of what you are trying to do here. Are you trying to change the dimension text size in relation to zoom level? But taking a stab in the dark... Would the Minimum Display Size>Dimensions do what you want?

You can even do this in a Cross Section Slider View and use Tab to enter a platform move distance.

Kevin, You can add someone to your Ignored Users list. Click on your logon name in the top right hand corner. Select Ignored Users.

I would change the defaults. Go Default Settings>Floors and Rooms>Floor Levels>1st Floor>Absolute Elevations>Ceiling - change it to 11'. This is the beauty of using Defaults. This will also change the garage ceiling height as well, but just open the garage dbx and change it back to the original height. Auto rebuild the roof as the existing ones will be too low - or you could raise the existing ones, but I would prefer to use auto roofs which would be left on all the time. It looks like you may have used auto roofs and then turned auto off. You can auto build a roof over the front colonade - make the front wall a hip wall and the end walls High Shed/Gable. There are many ways to do what you want, but this should get you going pretty easily. You will probably have a bit of cleaning up to do and maybe things like rebuilding the framing, etc.

You don't need to explode anything. Select the bay by one of it's walls. Hit Tab and the window in that wall will be selected. Open the window for editing.

To change window size, select a wall of the box and then Tab to select the window. I think you will need a manual roof (or something else like a polysolid) and a solid or similar to do the bottom shape.

I think you may need to post the plan. The easiest way to hide walls is to use layers to hide or display. Do not use the layout to do that.

Michael, I lose my selection with an Esc. OOB Esc cancels selection, cancels the current action and activates the previous tool.

Are you aware that you can select any object with a right mouse click no matter what command is current. No need for any shortcut or keyboard entry.

Ah, So you are using simultaneous keystrokes - not sequential. I don't use any simultaneous shortcuts - too hard to use.

Have you thought of moving the keyboard a little to the left (assuming you are right handed).

Scott, You have to take what I said in context. I was talking about using a single keystroke WITH the Spacebar. I can have a single letter (well...a single letter and the spacebar) cabinet shortcut "C Space" AND I can also have a shortcut "CB".

Mark, What you say is correct. My point is that you were originally saying that you wanted a single keystroke shortcut and using Enter (or Space) to complete the shortcut. This can be done. In your case it is complicated by the fact that you have reassigned the Spacebar (I assume). This also does not preclude you from having a shortcut like SS or SSS (one or the other). The vast majority of my shortcuts are 2 letter which is almost enough to cover the majority of the most used commands. I also have several 3 letter commands which I hardly ever use. The beauty of the 2 letter commands is that they can be logical, like: ZA zoom all ZP zoom previous LI draw line IL input line HD hinged door SD sliding door

Mark, I am not 100% sure that we are understanding each other - but I could be wrong. When I say you can have a shortcut using "A+Space", this means that when creating the shortcut, you press the Spacebar this still requires you to press A and then the Spacebar when executing the shortcut. This does not preclude you from have shortcuts like "AA", "AAA", "AAB", "AAC", "ABB". Is the one thing that is precluding you from doing this, the fact that you have mapped your Spacebar to your Escape key? I guess that means that you don't use you Spacebar as Select. If so, and if it were me, I would leave the Spacebar as the Spacebar. How did you add the Shift key to your shortcuts without using a simultaneous shortcut?

Mark, You CAN do this. You can have single letter shortcuts followed by the Spacebar. You can then us that single letter shortcut in another 2 or more letter command. ie, you can have "A,Space" for one command and "A,X" for another command. Is that what you want? Shortcuts can get quite complicated. You can use either sequential shortcuts or simultaneous shortcuts (using the Control Keys+letters). Or... you can even use a combination of both in the same shortcut.

It's amazing how fast you can things built by just using the auto features of Chief . ie, my template plan allows me to draw 3 or more closed walls and without doing another thing I get a 3D model that has floor and ceiling platforms, a roof, external dimensions, the room has a fill (confirmation it is a closed room), wall, ceiling, floor and roof framing, foundation, attic walls, etc...etc, as well as things like auto elevations......and these are just the basics..... As I start to edit the basic plan, things auto update and rebuild...like external dimensions, foundation, roof.......

A quick fix is to select those text boxes on Page 1, and on the Line Style panel, uncheck Bumping>Cad Stops Move.

Or use the cabinet tools to make the vanity and insert a sink from the library.