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Glen,

I can't select multiple text boxes when they are not the same text inside the box.

One more important thing is ,go to preferences and check "Color off" to be grayscale. Then turn color off (button in toolbar) and everything prints to grayscale. You don't have to set all your lines to black. Don't use light colors that you want to show up good or they will be too light, those items should be on the darker side. You really have to play with it  for yourself but once set its done forever.. This gives the plan a very nice contrast tone, walls are graytone also.

If it's a detail you want, take the closest wall detail, to what you want, from the cad detail lib. and modify it.

Ok, simple but it works for me. It's just regular text in the background. Print as grayscale of course

Elevation layerset is to large to show and get it all in.. basically walls are 45, roof planes are 75 and windows are 20 . you must also lighten any roofing material or siding using a light gray color and a thinner lineweight. Play around with it and get it just how you like it. I can still go further now that casings have their own layer, they can outline the windows and doors, just haven't done it yet. I only rely on my elevations for information, the real pop comes from a 3d view in watercolor with lines and shadows, it also prints up better than a standard view in grayscale.

The Great Scott once did a Saturday session on this topic and may have some old video's on this, I think Joey was also there.. It was very informative as usual.

Turn off everything running in the background (Taskbar)and see if that makes a difference including virus protectors. Those things can steal resources.

Sorry, I thought you were looking for something else.

Watch the video's on "Reference sets" at chieftutor.com or on Scott Halls YouTube page. I'm sure Chief has them also. They are one of the most important

tools I use.

Hey, where is Allen, Wendy and those East coasters. Are they still with us. Maybe they have their own forum

I think your out of luck, as long as you have to pay for the dongle, you might as well just upgrade to X6 for a little more. X6 is so much more than ver 10. Night and Day.

There is something new in Chief X6 that allows you to send to the layout any view you want and it will stick. You can use a Reference layerset to show what you want also. I use them on every project, very handy to have.

I wonder if you made the roof layer "0" thickness or 1/16 and made it no material, then you get plywood??

Costs too much and, you have to wait for the truss co. to build them. My guys are *****'s to the business, They just pound these thing out and don't want any delays

I sometimes do trusses with conventional framing, like if the existing house is trusses and the addition is conventional .There has been a bug around for years now that if you had conventional framing on a second floor, the program would delete some of the trusses below, so I had to fake that part. All of my Builder clients will not buy trusses for an addition. I do know that if you have a partial plan that has trusses, the conventional part will automatically fill in with rafters/ c.j. when you frame it.

Yes, I've wanted that for a long time now.

video # 350 @ chiefarchitect.com

truss base

Without the truss base the rafters will go to the lower rafters unless you have something else going on. Actually for me, it

would be easier to just place a new truss base and drag your trusses up the truss base. Maybe it doesn't copy and paste well.

I'll look and see if there is a video somewhere, or just make one.

Nice job

That's nice, it works ok for me b/c the reason for a watermark on my plan is to try to keep someone from copying it. I also don't use anything with a solid black color and print in grayscale, it seems to work good that way, but I understand everyone has their own thing going on, and the watermark might not show in every s.i. instance. I also place it (in front) very large almost a full sheet size so there is no question about what it is. Light gray (barely readable) color is the key

Scott, you know I learned everything from you. Back then, you were better than the classes we attended.   Unless anyone doesn't know, workarounds are in play in this game, and you are the best there ever was, but Joe's catching up fast.

Anytime you have trusses, you need a truss base for a california tie in.

Did you also copy the truss base in the tie-in?

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