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Depending on the existing text and what you want to replace it with, would the Find/Replace Text tool do what you want?

Select an object and look on the Edit toolbar for the button with black and white squares and a curved arrow. It is the View Draw Order Edit Tools button.

I would start with a Box, Convert To Symbol. You then have full rotation control in all 3 axis. Takes about 5 seconds.

Bob, Why don't you post the Layout file as well to see if someone can save you a lot of work. Do a File>Backup Entire Project from a layout and that will include the plan, layout and referenced files. I am off to bed now, but will have a look in the morning.

Rob, To clarify. When you do a Backup Entire Project from a layout, this will also save the .plan file, the .layout file and all the referenced files, so maybe no need to do the Backup Entire Plan.

Yes if you are printing from layout ? Your Page 0 Drawing Sheet Setup should be set to 1" = 1" for Drawing Scale. Note, in the Drawing Sheet Setup dbx, that Drawing Scale should be 1"=1" (or, 1=1 any units) NOT 1"=1'. Also down at the bottom of the Print Layout dbx, check Update Automatically and then in the preview pane you can see what the results will look like before printing.

Rob, For plans, use File>Backup Entire Plan. For layouts, use File>Backup Entire Project. This will save all the externally referenced files that are needed with the plan and layout files, like images, backdrops, textures, pdf's, etc. During this process, Chief gives you the opportunity (not mandatory) to save all the associated files to a zip archive which can be handy for sending to others or for archiving purposes.

Open the dbx for Bedroom #5 and uncheck Flat Ceiling Under This Room. I am not 100% sure why at this stage. I will poke it a bit more.

Bob, No. Select the Layout Box and open it's dbx. Click Plot Lines. No need to go back to the view or resend to layout.

Collapse All only works on the current folder or catalogue - depending on what level of the folder tree you right click on. You can't collapse the whole library in one go - the biggest you can collapse in one go are the catalogues. ie, you can collapse all the Core catalogues by right clicking that folder. Same for Manufacturer, User, Bonus...

Scott and Steve, Just to clarify. The hilight works when you are not using a Color Theme.

Be aware that different room types have different properties that influence how the model is built. Another way to do want you want is to have 2 layers for the room names. Each layer being associated with different By Layer text default heights. You could then use the Layer Painter to click on the room names and the room label will change size in accordance with the text style associated with that layer.

Many versions back, I remember that Chief used to automatically reduce the room name text size for mall rooms like closets, etc. I haven't seen it work for like that for a long time. Anyone else remember that?

The Dimension Defaults units will determine the formatting of the input.

Scott, I worked it out! Go System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts tab> Down at the bottom of the dbx, click All Controls. Still doesn't hilight the boxes, but better than not being able to do it at all! I wonder if at some stage Chief changed whatever it is to make these boxes behave differently - either by mistake or on purpose? I have sent it in to Brian and asked for his comments.

Steve and Scott, If I start out with the focus in Latitude, I can Tab, and the focus goes to Longitude, Tab again and the focus goes straight down to Length Of Plan Symbol. The boxes are hilighted. The focus jumps straight over the Date and Time section. I am getting the same as Scott.

If that wooden gutter returns down the side and is fixed level in cross section, It won't mitre in the corner. Assuming the gutter around the corner needs to lie flat, you will need a small horizontal piece of gutter before the raking gutter turns the corner. There was a thread on this a while back where I posted the technique. I think you woud need 3 molding polylines to do that. 1 3D MP for the gutter (down the roof and around the corner), 1 for the sloping frieze and one for the flat frieze. Do you have a pic of the shop mock-up from around the corner? Post the profile for the gutter and the frieze.

Scott, I don't think you are missing anything. The ability to do what you want with the dynamic shadow changes was lost a couple (?) of versions ago. The Date and Time Fields no longer hold the focus and the arrow keys do not work to dynamically change the shadows. Could any Windows users comment please, to see if it just a mac problem. A big loss in my opinion. I can't remember if I sent in a bug report or not - I will check back and see.

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Rob, It is possible to get the note number to display level with the top line of text, but it may not be worth the effort. Add some carriage returns under %simple_schedule_number% in the Object Information>Code box - the number will vary depending on how far you stretch the note schedule. You will need to add or delete the carriage returns as you stretch out the schedule - so maybe not worth the effort if you have a lot of notes.

To get the higher roof to auto build over the bathroom, you need to increase the ceiling height to 121 1/9" in the main part of the bathroom, the 2 bits of shower and the bath area. You can then build a lowered ceiling. Can you explain a bit more about what you want for the roof over the front porch - I got a bit lost. These pics are auto built.

Why not use a Make Room Molding Polyline - very quick and easy.

Renee, All I can do without the plan is generalise. But I have said it many times before - a Terrain Retaining wall is a wall (a Foundation wall which gives you a footing) AND it also contains a Terrain Break. So using a Terrain Break along with a normal wall gives you a similar result but with more flexibility and without the problems associated with the retaining wall - like the multiple top of wall breaks caused by the retaining wall trying to follow the terrain slope. So...the approach I take is to get my terrain correct using the tools I mentioned (Elevation Regions, Elevation Lines and Terrain Breaks). Once the terrain is modelled correctly, I add walls where needed and edit their top and bottom profiles (including steps and slopes) to suit the terrain. In this pic, I deleted the Terrain Break and allowed Chief to build an almost vertical terrain by only using the upper and lower Elevation Regions.

Their directions are a bit difficult to follow and only allows you to import one image at a time, but does have a lot more options with the import. Open the Library Browser, right click, select New, Plant Image...... Or you can import a whole folder of the plant images in one go by Build>Image>Create Image Library>navigate to either the Large or Small folders in your zip file and Chief will import them into the User Catalogue. But this only imports the simple image without all the optional settings of the above method.

What zip file did you download? Windows or Mac.