DRAWZILLA

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    Didn't see it was a dead horse, By all means fix it.
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    I agree, sometimes there is no other way, if you need to use the new tools
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    I always draw the pocket and always did. it should be shown in every plan. I'm not on the job site when the plumming goes in. So.
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    I believe it was Dermot that told me to stop bringing plans and layouts forward, and use a profile plan and layout to start any new version with, now, didn't use to be that way.
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    I do it all the time, I also don't think your roof labels are turned on in the ref. set. You might also be using the wrong ref set.
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    It's even easier now that we have one button to update everything in the plan.
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    yep, I have got to get one of those.
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    Barrett, the video would have to be very long to detail it all. Dennis , I use to do it that way b/c Chief said no problem ,but they now have changed their minds on this a recommend you start with a fresh new profile plan and layout so nothing gets left behind. Go figure.
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    I just open X7 and X8 and copy X7 layout items ,page by page, to a new profile layout. No quick way to do it. I always allow 3 days to get familiar with new versions and setup everything.
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    I have been doing Calgreen for a few years now but all of the cities I do work in are just requiring you to just add all the notes to the plan. No calc's required yet. Haven't seen any enforcement on it yet also.
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    Actually I brought in my details from a cad program I did them in, many years ago, I just copy change and save them to my lib. to insert into the layout. The details I show are just the usual ones I use all the time. I have developed a lot of details over 40 years. Never draw them anymore, just change as needed.
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    Here is a short video explaining it. did it when using X7 http://www.screencast.com/t/2AD1ckxAEH7
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    Develop a layout and plan template with all that stuff already in it and you will not forget anything, you will probably delete stuff (its easier than adding stuff.). I always look for things that shorten the drawing time. Also I have all views already sent to the layout so you can just open them , change the name and start drawing, everything automatically sent to the layout.
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    Reminds me of a lot of 60's homes, nicely done.
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    Post the plan, I'm sure it just a setting somewhere
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    Because sections are cuts so there is nothing to reflect. Camera views take into consideration the whole model.
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    Did you turn on all the foundation items, like, footings foundation walls, slabs, in that camera view. ?
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    Walls have multi-line labels now. You can put any description in that label and turn it on to create a wall legend of sorts. Joe has been asking for Chief to release more of Ruby so we could just add it to elevations and details. Right now a wall label is it.
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    I asked the same question to Chief and they enlightened me, at the user Meeting last summer.
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    The blurriness is intended, it will print at high resolutation. It's intended to speed up things for viewing, its ok.
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    I didn't have a recovery partition to start with, b/c when I installed an ssd drive, it couldn't copy the recovery partition. As far as the boot sector , I had to enlarge it, that fixed that. I get to 99% and it always reverts back to windows 8.1. At this time I really didn't want to do a clean install b/c it takes me 3 days to do it, and I'm going to get a new computer soon anyway, so it would be a waste of time right now. Thank for the info. your right, Dell refuses to update the drivers on my 5 year old machine, the problem being it still works great. When I purchased it ,paid a lot of money to get top of the line so it would last longer. I guess I learned my lesson. 5 or 6 years was good though.
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    Not sure what's going on but I never see that, and never use Chief's pdf's. I use Adobe. Chief's built in PDF's also generate huge files as compared to Adobe. Printing to PDF of any brand has also gotten much slower with the X8 release.
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    Are you using a clean profile plan created for X8, it could make a difference b/c it's new in X8.
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    It still won't let me upgrade, good luck
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    You can also just change the material of the top cap to tile and size it to what you need.