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Use the "Close Polyline" tool while it is still just a 2D CAD polyline.

I'm aware of the work-arounds, Glenn. Thanks. Using them causes other problems elsewhere. & besides, that's not the point. WHY doesn't it show pattern lines? It's a SHEET w/ a defined width & hgt. Not a STRIP! & it's not a BRICK either. & it does report correctly to the materials list....in SHEETS!

Well, I don't know what's not to like about it. Once I had the boxes arranged, 2 clicks to get to here. It works pretty darn good; better than I remember.

I like the simple solid-filled "EQ" over the dimension. I can copy/paste that EQ at least as fast as editing the dimension; &, when the dimension string is selected, you see the length. Doing it this way maintains the dimensional integrity of the model & is pretty obvious to see. JMO When a dimension no longer calls out a distance/length, is it still a dimension?

Bricks report correctly to the materials list. You're saying that you have been able to use a "Sheet" material & get the pattern lines to display in vector? Or something else? Please share.

I hope that NEVER changes!

Why doesn't a sheet material show the pattern lines in vector view like the brick material does? Seems this would be kinda handy for SIPS panel layout for elevations.

I usually define the room as it is. If it is 15' high, that's how I define it. Your windows will behave much better when they are all in a single wall & then you don't have to worry about bogus flr & cl'g hgts getting in the way of window placement. I don't use "Open Below" room type much for anything other than stairways. Having said that, this doesn't appear to be as much of an issue in X6 as it once was.........but old habits don't easily go away.There used to be a "Combine w/ wall below" option in the wall spec dbx, but haven't seen that in a while.

Why can't I size & position the various room boxes to what/where I want? I want them to snap to my grid (12") & drag the sides to align w/ others. I can't get the room boxes to snap to the grid. The filleted corners are not a snap point & neither are the sides. Why doesn't the displayed size match the actual size of the rectangle? I haven't used this tool in a while, but since I have a rough paper drawing of the floor plan in "boxes", I thought I would give it another go.

Great suggestion to have the LDO remain open always. I can't see a downside to this at all. Also, be nice to have an Object Properties dbx display any time the mouse hovers over something. The "Object Layer Proerties" dbx is a move in that direction. I have a few "working" layer sets set up already, but I do like to work in the printing layer sets used in layout. As soon as I have the need to change the display properties, I sometimes go to Layer Set Management & copy that layer set & add "...........- Working" to the new layer set & then make desired display changes freely. I can also delete that layer set from Layer Set Management when I'm done if I want.

It can be done w/ 6 clicks & a keystroke w/ nothing added to the bloated user library; but who's counting. I was surprised adding to library can be done that quickly, although there are a couple search/scrolls in the process. Pick your poison.

Count the clicks, Rob, I guess. Copy/paste from one plan to another & then the material painter takes a few clicks; 10-12 maybe. Adding the material to your user library from one plan, renaming, sorting, going to the target plan, open the object, materials tab, opening your library, finding it, .........you get the idea. Adding every single material to the main User Library works, but I try to keep my user library at a manageable/useable size. If I started adding every material I ever use to the main library.............. It's already too huge. The PLAN material library works very well for occasionally used materials. IMO

Copy/paste most any object w/ the material into the new plan would be the easiest/quickest. Objects that are using default materials would need the same material defaults in the target plan. Slabs/solids would work w/out fail.

You cannot change the default font for everything globally. You must change the font in each & every text style & your rich text defaults. Sounds cumbersome & it is, but it should only take 5-10mins or so to do. Get your text styles & annotation defaults all created & set up (Defaults/Dimensions & Defaults/Text, Callouts & Markers) & then put together your annotation sets using the defaults you created. A default plan font has been suggested several x's already. Maybe we'll get it in X7.

Can you sticky that please?

The line will print solid at each end the specified distance regardless of line style.

nothing unusual when I opened the plan. Did you close/reopen Chief? reboot PC? other than that, call TS would probably be your best bet.

Is there a way to get the Edit toolbar to open in the active window? wherever that may be?

Thanks Jon.

Is there a font that uses the same upper case character, only smaller for the lower case?

This is a "bug" that sprung to life w/ the latest update. It only shows when using a brick material. Until it's fixed, increase the rough opening size & the casing will magically appear.

My back-up drive & software are provided by Seagate. It's on my LAN, but not physically attached to my PC. I know I'm supposed to get files out of the building, but I'm waiting for a housefire to happen 1st so I lose everything & learn a valuable "I told you so" lesson. Those lessons are the most effective.

Didn't mean to imply that. I do have an off-site daily back-up set up for all changed files for my entire PC. I was referring to artificially/manually making copies of the plan to store elsewhere on the PC HD or other local drives.

Chief will flip exterior walls when it thinks that you have an "outdoor" room type & an "indoor" room type & the exterior wall is reversed from what Chief thinks it should be. It usually happens when one of the rooms has not been named yet. Very annoying, especially when it automatically flips the wall about it's extremities instead of about the main layer. I'm sure you have seen that dbx that says something like this......."This wall appears to be backwards.............." & then displays a circle where the wall is. Hopefully you're on the correct floor when you see the circle.The circle could be off-screen too.

Chief usually does warn user that a newer version exists in the archives than the currently saved version that you are opening. This happens when Chief is closed w/out saving or crashed. The auto-save file gets overwrote at whatever time interval you have spec'd in Preferences/Auto Save & permanent auto-archived copies of the plan are stored at the spec'd interval in Preferences/Auto Archive Files. Chief's auto archive system is so reliable, I have stopped making back-up copies on my own a long time ago. It has never let me down. You have a serious problem somewhere if Chief allowed you to close the program w/out a dbx to "save". Get w/ TS.