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For me, reference sets are one of the most important things Chief has to offer , What it means is "Draw it once and never draw or copy it again". One example is, showing shear wall , holdowns and anchor bolt placement on the foundation plan, very simple to set up and saves time. I actually take that info from my framing plans and show it on the foundation plan. Another is showing 1st floor exterior walls and roof on the 2nd floor plan, you don't have to add cad lines to show that , just reference that on any plan. the All red line reference set is just how Chief set up that reference set. You can have any color, line weight and style you want. I will usually copy another layer-set, that's close to what I want, and add the word "reference" to it. There you go, you have created a reference set. Then change it to what you need to show. It is a huge time saver for those that use and understand it. .

yes, but for me I still want the different levels for for basement and foundation plans, not saying your system doesn't work for you , it just wont work for me. Reference sets work better for me I have one on every view sent to layout. and you can change those within the layout alone without having to open the view and change the anno-set.

Yes but I don't want to have to turn on and off many layers when I could just put it on level 1 and have a separate foundation with one click. Also we have to put a lot more info on the foundation plan then you do and it would get very messy. looking at your foundation plan , it wouldn't pass here. All Holdowns and Shear walls Anchor placement have to be on the framing and the foundation plans.

Remove the floor and floor finish in the room DBX

There is no workaround for it, it's the only way the program was intended to do.

Call the room in the middle a "Court" or "Porch" and you can have exterior walls with windows, but not sure if that's what you want.

Of course anything can be done, but I don't think you can do it automatically, I think you would need to do it with p-solids or a molding p-line with multiple moldings and maybe some cad work to get the plan view correct.

It a method, not a workaround to me.

You guys thinking O.O.T.Box is great.

Not a workaround when it's the only way, until Chief gives you what you want

I would delete the attic extra attic wall and keep the balloon framing

If the layout templates are set up correctly, you wouldn't need two open at the same time.

Yes. Larry, two different layouts, but they link to the same plan. One for printing small sets for subs, and one for printing full sets.

I'm talking about just copying the layout, set it up once and done, no re-numbering every time you want to print just those pages. You would just open that layout.

Scott, have you checked you internet speed lately, I remember a while back you had a real slow upload speed, did they fix that?

Scott, nice video. The only problem I see is he also loses his page # on the layout with that method. By coping the layout he can retain the page #

A lot of laptops have cards that are just fine, just try to stay with NVidia, they work well with Chief. Try some ASUS laptops, they will have what you need but others will work too.

You can save as new layout and just delete everything on the pages ,or the pages themselves, you don't want to print, just make sure you use a name like "layout pages 1-4 only" so you can tell them apart.

you can use the "wall material region" tool for a quick and easy way to do it. Or use a pony wall.

Edit it last. like Larry said, they will come back and haunt you if you ever need to open the view again. For that reason alone, I try to find a way to keep it live always. NO LAYOUT EDITING.

I have Carbonite, so I will never lose my lib, and can rebuild if needed but it has never happened to me luckily.

Yes, but as we all know, lots of cad details in your plan file can slow your system down. I don't like that unless you store them in a different plan file.

Yes that has been a problem, You could turn off "opening indicters" and draw your own, or create the sidelites out of a fixed window that looks like the door.

I have details that I use in almost every plan already sent to the template layout but have a lot more details saved to my lib and just go get the ones I might need. For a few versions now Chief has had a problem with cad details losing the auto width and height in a cad block, the text will become garbled , I then need to just unblock it , check the auto height and width and re-block. I do wish cad blocks would remember their name, when I do that. I don't care about scale with those details, so I don't need to create in a cad Detail, I don't want anyone scaling the plan details. But I can understand if you want details to scale, then use a cad detail view then send that to the layout. 10 years ago when I switched to Chief, I imported most of my details from another program, there is some fix-up but these details change over time anyway.

Rich, you dog, nice one.