DRAWZILLA

Iagree

UGM every two years

as long as the block is checked as (by block layer) no problem changing anything

Put it on it's own layer and just change the layer color and line-weight to what you want

I FIXED IT FIRST!!

Joe's system is also nice.

No problem, I just use my method b/c, when I started to use Chief, I installed all my thousands of details from another program and didn't have time to re-draw any of them.So I imported them, turns out there was some fix-up, anyway, so I did it a little each day.

Larry I really didn't look at anything else and saw what you are talking about, try to drag an extension around the corner, or you might need to use a symbol there. good luck. I have never tried it before just like that. Jon I just locked all the deck framing in the layerset and made sure that the rebuild deck was unchecked.

Larry, here is your plan fixed, I built the deck then locked all deck framing and planks then dragged the roof plane back against the wall. DECK OVER ROOF 1 fixed.plan

Right now there is no organization method other than what you name them, but we have been asking for some folder type property's to be added to Ruby. You could just copy all your notes to a macro and that's it. Just try to keep your names straight for now

well, if you use template plans, it's a no brainer.

no image

You can put them anywhere you want even in the layout, as Joe was saying. they are not plan specific. Copy or import your macros to your template plans and layout as you want, if you just copy a bunch of text macros to another plan, the macro automatically comes along for the ride. Try it, just copy the macro text from another plan to your plan and you are done. Similar to copying walls, the wall definition auto comes along for the ride

You can copy a fill using the eyedropper from the appropriate DBX

Here is how to create a simple text macro. http://www.screencast.com/t/KV6kdcftHJ

I put notes that I use all the time in a simple text macro, the good thing about that ,is when you change the macro note it automatically changes everything in the plan and layout also. Change one place only.

Maybe Jonny was talking about himself as an intermediate , that seems correct.

The arrow problem is much better than it used to be , but it still happens from time to time.

I remember before Anno-sets, it was a real big pain to annotate anything, and have said ,it could be the most time saving feature ever developed, been using them since they started and never looked back. we also wanted something like this for a long time.

Not secret, I use a very much toned down version of what Scott does.

I said 200 for property lines or terrain perimeter to be exact, and that is in the plan and transferred to the layout when printing, I never touch the layout line-weights and keep that setting at 100 where chief puts it. Any changes to line-weights are done at the plan level. Changing the layout line-weights Change all of them at the same time. The bookies don't have the la chargers doing very good this year.

I think by adding the word anno- as a layer was confusing to me.

What I think he does is create a new layer, instead of a new layer-set in his video. I do still think Scott has way to many layers, Anno-sets, layer-sets for me. But don't let me influence you b/c you have different needs than I. Larry's video seemed a little confusing and he does it different than all of us.

My line-weights start at 15 and go up from there to 200 for property lines. Anything below 10 is probably to light. You can also use a grayscale line to make it seem lighter.