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Sorry, but I can't agree with this one. I find the strength of SPVs is for navigating around the model in plan. If I am on the first floor and want to zoom in to the bathroom area on the second floor to some detailing, I can do that with a SPV. I may then want to go back down to the second floor and zoom into the kitchen area to add some notes. I can do this very easily with a SPV. The fact that I can send those views to layout if I want is a bonus.

Are you using a Leader Line with Rich Text? I can get what you describe if I use Disconnect Edges on the leader line once it is drawn. But as far as I know, you cant set Disconnect Edges and then choose the Leader Line tool - Choosing the Leader Line tool automatically toggles off Disconnect Edges. Or..are you using Text Line With Arrow, in which case the Connect CAD Segments toggled off, will result in what you describe with the arrows on each segment when you drag a multi segment line. Can you post back and describe exactly what tools you are using.

Or...Match Properties/Apply Properties using Door Handle Style. And there are probably even more ways.

Larry, Move up/move down is only available when you have 2 or more reference plans.

I think you re asking the wrong question. Why not select all the cupboards and then change them all in one go.

OK, my library list gets a bit cut off the width, but not nearly as much as yours. I am on a mac which may make a difference.

Mick, Works OK for me. I assume you have the option turned on in Preferences (I am sure you have already checked that). Otherwise, I don't know.

Scott, Try shaking the cursor and it should get bigger! (a system preference that should be toggle on by default) There is a way, but there is a downside. Go System Preferences>Accessibility>Display>Cursor Size - increase the size if needed. This should change the general cursor size - even for Chief's toolbars and menus - but it will still be small in the Chief drawing area. Now, in Chief, goto Preferences> Preferences>Edit>Synchronise With Cursor - uncheck. The mouse pointer should now stay the same size as the general pointer when it is in the drawing area. Downside is that the cross hairs and pointer are not synchronised. The other way is to toggle off crosshairs which fixes the cursor size - but not much good if you want crosshairs! Maybe worth a bug report. You need a third party app to change to a custom cursor - you can't do it in the mac settings.

Larry, You could come at this from the other way. Why not use Chiefs default templates folder as your main custom templates storage folder. Move all of Chiefs standard template plans to another folder that you can navigate to when and if needed.

Try Hide Top Edge in the door dbx AND turning off the Opening Header Lines layer.

Sometimes you need to create smaller rooms using invisible walls when you want your building to have different ceiling/floor heights over the one room.

I would suggest that you post the plan.

Try Option+left click. I have no idea why it was changed.

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Try this: http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/11/multiple-instances-application-mac/

Yes, it can. I am away for a couple of days and don’t have access to my Mac. Do a search and try and find the post. Or maybe Scott Hall will chime in as I think it was him who asked the question about the Mac. Or wait a day or so and I will post.

Chad, Use a stacked molding and you can then apply different materials to each molding in the stack. This has all been covered in othwer pots in this thread.

Post a layout and plan file.

Are you drawing your joist direction and bearing lines on the floor below the platform you are framing? Do you have a framing layer in your floor structure?

So...it sounds like you want the new defaults to apply to the old plan? If so, look at it the other way around. Open the old plan, and then use Import Default Settings tool to import the selected defaults from your new template plan into the old plan. Doing it using Import Default Settings is way easier than exporting all the defaults and importing into the old plan.

Generate a ML - Calculate From Area and draw a marquee around the deck - don't worry about including house walls and other objects - just make sure you just get the 1 deck. You should probably get an empty ML. Whilst in the ML, click on the Display Options tool. The Material List Display Options dbx will open. On the Categories panel, you will probably have nothing selected. Check Decks-Walks (DW) - and anything else you need included (you can change this in Preferences if you want) The ML list should update with just the Decks-Walks section showing. I just reread Mick's post and this is what he was saying as well. You can also control what displays in a ML by using the Mat column in the LDO dbx. PS. I just noticed that you have Foam Underlay included in the floor finish of you deck at the front door. Is that correct?

Ah...., but that single molding component can be a stacked molding from the library. And as Eric says, each molding component can have a different material applied because each molding making up the stacked molding is listed separately in the Materials panel of the window dbx.

Steve, You only need to do 1 stacked molding and save it to the library. Once it is saved to the library you can apply it to any size window, no matter the width or height.

You can also use the stacked molding to show the window with a bottom casing. Make a stacked molding to represent the sill and the casing above. When you use the stacked molding, you can apply the casing material to the top molding and the sill material to the lower molding. Here is a quick one - the bottom casing is part of the the stacked sill molding. I was just in the process of using the stacked molding to get the lower casing when Eric replied.

If there are any floors that are identical (and I imagine that would be a good bet with 30 stories), there are ways to model a building that exceeds the floor limit.