KilianDrafting

On 4/8/2024 at 4:20 PM, TeaTime said:

 

Much faster to select a room and just use Marquee Select, Select All.

 

Still haven't figured out the trigger for this problem. But I did learn about this great tool, thank you!

However, I did realize when using this to "select all similar" that the bay window area shows as a room even though I can't select it as such with the tab key. Maybe this is what is causing the issue? Not sure who to tag from Chief to suggest as the potential issue or if I have to fill out a new support ticket.

On 3/19/2024 at 4:47 PM, KDsnyder said:

Is there a way to change it's "stripes" if I've made an oops

Would changing it to an interior door in the "include in schedule as" work for your situation?

1 hour ago, community said:

So if you have selected that option for your enter key, how do you create a new line in Rich text?

On a PC, I can do it by holding the shift key and pressing enter to create a new line.

On 12/12/2023 at 11:32 AM, HHDesign said:

I started having this issue with a plan started in x15 and it does have a bay window. 

Just today I started a new plan in X15 and the room labels are disappearing again! This plan has a box window. These window types (Box, Bow, Bay) must be what is causing the room label issue somehow.

14 hours ago, SNestor said:

I'm surprised you aren't using any "Saved Plan Views". You are working way too hard...

I briefly looked at using saved plan views, but I already use the active default sets drop down as my different plan views. It only takes one second to get to the floor I want with hotkeys - and then I don't need the project browser open all the time. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the advantage.

Thanks, that is another way of fixing the issue. I was hoping there was another solution that would reflect actual framing. Most of the time I rejoin the roof planes to get rid of the main roof below the over-framed gable portion and that seems to fix it as well. But then I have to manually adjust the framing to show it accurately for the framing plan.

I often have a similar problem with the valley protruding through the ceiling.

I'm not sure why it does it or how to fix it. I have tried re-joining the roof planes.

I want it to frame the main roof to the flat ceiling and the dormer to be built on the main roof deck, but to get it to frame that way it protrudes through my ceiling. I have attached the plan file.Interior Valley.plan

I was having a problem with a gap showing in the perspectives where the sill plate should be. I had to change my wall types to make sure the framing box was checked on the main framing layer of the wall type. Maybe that is the issue you are having?

Anyone with this room label issue have any bay or bow windows in their plans. I just realized both of the plans I have this problem with, have bay windows. Not sure if it has anything to do with it, just trying to come up with some correlation so I can send a bug report.

It seems like it gets stuck on that particular command. It also does the same thing in reverse going from layout to plan.

I have an issue after placing an item form my library into my plan view. Once I place the item and enter a new command (even the select object command), when I switch over to a layout, the "place cad block" command shows by default causing the layout to be covered by the ghost image it is trying to place. Is this a bug or did something get saved in a template that is causing the problem

I had this happen to me again on a completely new plan started in X15. I thought maybe the issue was when pulling in a plan started in an earlier version, but it just happened after several new x15 plans had no issue. So much for that theory! I still have not been able to reproduce the steps that cause the labels to disappear. At least I'm not alone.

10 hours ago, Dermot said:

On a side note, it seems that if you can use "undo" to bring them back, then in theory it should be easier to figure out what change caused them to disappear.  Figuring out the exact steps that can cause this to happen would be very helpful to include with your bug report.

I had thought this as well, but I still am unable to reproduce the results that leads to them disappearing. Once I can, then I will send in a bug report.

Good thought Adam, but not my issue. I made sure to switch between default (anno) sets as well as turn on all layers to see if that was causing the issue.

I was able to cycle through the undo button to get them back, but then I lose the work I've already done. (If I catch it within a reasonable amount of time.) It's easier to just multi-select rooms to check the box when I'm finished for the day. 

I've been trying to duplicate, but haven't found a consistency yet.

It happened again while working on the same plan. This time while working on the second floor, the labels on the first floor and basement were removed. I removed a wall on the second floor that defined a room and then I noticed the room labels were missing on the floors below. Is there a hotkey or something that I am accidentally turning off the room lables? I would think it would turn them all off not just certain floors.

I just started working with X15. Anyone else have an issue where all the room labels on a floor level get turned off? I have been working on a plan and when I take the file home to work, I lose the room labels. The first time I thought maybe I had not labeled them. As I was going through turning them back on, I realized the room definitions were retained but all the "show room label" boxes were unchecked. It has happened multiple times on the same plan now. It seems to be happening only when opening the file on a different computer (home, work, laptop). Any help would be appreciated.

27 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

Why not switch to tiled mode..also ctrl+mouse wheel for different preview size

Haven't watched your video yet, I'll def. take a look. I don't like the tile mode, bc I like to see the name as well as a preview since I have a huge custom window catalog I built. I use the ctrl+mouse for different preview sizes, but would like the option to have it locked it at that size when I re-open a new plan.

42 minutes ago, rgardner said:

Sorry I don't think we are on the same page

I understood what you were you saying. But look how much space I lose in the filter results by putting the toolbar on the bottom. Chief adds a title to the toolbar plus the toolbar icons which shrinks the height of the filter results preview panel. We lost height in the new filter area with the new system, just trying to regain some of that height for the results panel.

23 minutes ago, rgardner said:

If you grab where it has the T and ... you can actually move that to the bottom for example or somewhere else where it gives you the space you need.

You can see that in this shot from one of the previous posts.

That takes up prime vertical space for filter results and folder panels. The toolbar is too high and the filter "search" panel is at least twice as high as the original x14 search.

On 6/17/2023 at 3:03 PM, DRAWZILLA said:

It does take up larger real estate though

The ability to turn off the library toolbar would help. It would free up some of that space. All of the options can be found by right clicking in the library windows, top drop down menus, or in the preferences anyway and once set, I hardly use them again. Right now, I have it next to the filter results so it keeps that area larger by default. It would also be nice if the zoom factor could be locked in the filter results as well. By default I can only see one or two items at a time. I feel like overall it is slower than the old library search. Perhaps an option for the new system as advanced search mode, old system as default quick search.

On 1/25/2022 at 2:02 PM, ACVNarch said:

Its typical in my designs to specify multi-ply beams, for instance a (3) 1-3/4" * 11 7/8" LVL for a mid-span floor beam, (2) 2X6 for a window header. 

Chief has functionality in the window & door header DBX's to specify the "count"

Maybe Chief should just add a similar "count" feature to beams, rafters, posts in the manual framing dialog options for multi-ply framing members similar to the door/window header framing.

Good to know. Let me gather a simple plan and some pics to clarify what I'm looking for, and get back to you.

Thank you both for weighing in. I thought since you can create a material list from a room, there might be some way to automate the info similarly.

Is there a custom macro that can pull information from multiple objects in a room. For instance, I would like to generate a list of all codes (under object information panel) on all doors and windows inside of one specific room, without creating a schedule or material list.