glennw

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

X10

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.

Larry, Just to be clear, there is no Prference (or other) setting that will allow you to retain the open (or closed) status of those DBX's. The Side Window Drag Docking does not control this behavior either - that just controls the docking behavior. The only reason you are retaining the status (open or closed) of those DBX's is that they are open when you quit the Chief session. Chief remembers their status between sessions and there is no way I know of to overide this default behavior. So what ever DBX's you have opened or closed when you quit Chief will be retained when you next open Chief.

Chad, You can go the Symbol Molding route, or what is easier, is to use the "Course" brick materials. In these pics, the wall is Red Brick and the sill is Red Course Brick. You will probably have to rotate the material's pattern to 0deg (defult is 90deg) to get the sill to look correct in vector view.

Tommy, A molding profile is different than a Symbol Molding. It is the Symbol Molding that is causing the problem - not the molding profile.

Chopsaw, I sent in a bug report and Brian could duplicate the problem and has added it to the list. But the more info and reports, the better.

Chopsaw, My default text size is 125mm. And you are correct, the bigger the text, the less of a problem. The attached pic is using a text size of 1000mm, and there appears to be no problem. But go down to a text size of 100mm causes the text to overlap the grid. I will submit a bug report. 1000mm text: 100mm text:

Eric, I believe that Chad is talking about a Symbol Molding. For those that don't know, a Symbol Molding is a 3D symbol object that can be repeated along a path. It is created by using the Molding option when you create a symbol. As opposed to an extruded 2D shape - which would be the more common way to do sills. I have sent this in a s a bug report - I think this is the same as what Chad is showing. In X10 and earlier, sill Symbol Moldings are represented well and work without problem. In X11 the Symbol Molding displays as a square box - without any slope or shape that may have been included in the original Symbol Molding. This is in X10: This is the same Symbol Molding in X11:

You need to change that in the material's definition. There are several ways to do this, try this way. 3D>Materials>Plan Materials. Select the material. Edit>Materials List panel>Materials List Calculation, change this to Area. You can also get there quickly by selecting the Adjust Material Definition (rainbow) tool from a 3D view. I am assuming you are using X11 as the method will be different for X10 and earlier.

You should probably have Auto Rebuild Floors/Walls/Ceilings toggled on by default so that the model is always up to date.

It could be a mac thing. I get the same problem with the grid lines in X10

I don't understand why you need to manually control the row height - unless you want different size text on different rows - which you can't do. The row height is automatically determined by how much the text in the cell needs to wrap. I just noticed there seems to be a problem with the location of the row grid lines.

Chopsaw, The row height is handled automatically. Ie, the text will wrap and make the row taller if it is too wide for the column. So each row can be a different height. You can drag the columns to be narrower or wider and the contained text will wrap and change the row height dynamically.

If you toggle on "Arc Centres and Ends", you can snap an End to End dimension from the centre point to the arc/circle. Make sure you have at least Centre snaps toggled on and start your dimension on the centre point.