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You can put some text, any size you want on layout page "0" and make it a very light shade of gray and it will show up on every page. There are a lot of photo editors for free online you can use like Picmonkey, my wife uses it all the time for her photos

here is what I'm talking about

You can adjust a line drawing squiggled to get kind of a hand drawn look, but I really use a watercolor with lines and shadows to get a pretty cool look. One thing in that method, I don't use a lot of the line shaping tool to get a cleaner look to it

ok here is not the best one but one I can find quickly, I did a closer view so you could see some difference

If you say that f12 doesn't update the materials list, I believe you, but it should because it updates the plan. Say you change the floor joists to 2x12 from 2x10, are you saying the floor joists don't change in the materials list.? Remember I never use the materials list, but if that is broken then No-one should use it ever. It may not update if its open.

0k, now I'm good to go, to get some Chinese food.

I have created a separate annoset for every view sent to the layout so its automatic

I have no friends either, your making me feel bad now.

Have you been in TJ lately?

I don't think Chief utilizes the full power of an SLI setup, at least in the past they said they don't.

Yes, to get the correct answer faster post it

Bill, I know that answer is good if you do it the standard way, but somehow Ron is using a macro for his door labels, unconventional so I would have to play around with it to see if it even could be fixed.

More money means they can work on the programming longer and have more of them, Chief always does their best with what they have. Everyone always works on making things faster. Chief is actually working pretty good for me but I have decent equip, that also has a lot to do with it.

Are you using a macro to show lineweights???,, like Ron

POST THE PLAN

NOT HOW EFFICIENT IT IS JUST, A BIGGER FASTER ENGINE USING PREPIRITORY METHODS, THAT ONLY THEY HAVE. They are different under the hood

You can always just turn that off, and I always do at some point along the way but it's nice to start off with them on. Just goes quicker that way for me.

Never seen that one

Its all about the text styles, my friend, I don't think macro's have anything to do with it. You need to create a "door label" text style for it, then change it there

Here in California I've been doing energy calc's for over 20 years now, but they have taken it too far. Starting in July almost everything has to be inspected by a different special inspector, not the regular inspector but a special one, I guess the regular inspector is too busy setting in his truck. That cost money. Doing the calc's have gotten very complicated and what I use to do for free will now cost money b/c of the time it will take to do them. On top of that Chief's export to rescheck will not work with it so it will have to be done the old way. Or maybe I won't do them at all

That's what I'm doing right now.

I know I've seen one but couldn't remember where it was.

Well, here is how I do it

I always try to keep it simple b/c I hate typing. And yes, you are correct for sloping terrain (thanks for adding that) but this is your" secret out of the box method" and Chief knows nothing about that, use at your own risk and it works good.

there are a lot of video's on how to do this online. Check out chieftutor.com , also Chief's own videos at their website.