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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.

Got good news, I guess, I think I'm also having more grandkids # 13 and 14, in 8 months

It always changing, with new releases, new goodies. I find that more than one or two layout and plan templates are just too much to update. like raised floor vs. slab, I now use just one for both, it very easy to change them when needed.

Yes , you would sent the existing plan to the layout as a new link.

Ok its easier for me to do a short video than try to explain it. http://screencast.com/t/ocaE0vCpbNXZ

Thanks for telling me about that , fixed now.

Custom home would be different template all together, but similar. I set up the template for as builts, then with a few changes I'm ready for the remodel. once the as-built is done , its just a "save as existing" then continue with the remodel plan

Yes just select the roof plane and move it.

I set up what layer the walls go on in the defaults, new to x7 is that you can set default for walls

Motion sensor lite, we have to use them on every plan here.

Yep ,I never use that either I just did this short video on templates http://screencast.com/t/2AD1ckxAEH7

I put my interior and exterior walls on different layers so I can quickly just show what I need for a quick change, if need be. It also helps for the site plan and roof plan when you just don't want the interior walls to show.