KilianDrafting

There is probably something I am doing wrong here - I am trying to place recessed soffit lights in a gable end roof overhang, but it keeps forcing it to a small roof below. (See pic). I tried moving the lower roof away from the wall. It places them correctly then, but when I move the lower roof back into place they drop back down. I tried grouping the lights before moving the lower roof back - that works for a while, but I think when it rebuilds (F12) it shoves them back down. Anyone else have this problem? Or is it just my inexperience with this program?

Thanks for your input guys. I make it work, it's just that I have been using letters for my windows for the last 12 years on my cad program. Just a creature of habit, I guess. The window label with the superscript is that a custom text macro? Would that work with Doors as well?

Is there any way to change automatic window callout labels from numbers (01,02,03) to letters? (A,B,C,D...) I use different callout shapes for windows, doors, headers, posts, etc. - I understand you can use a prefix letter such as W01... or D01.... but I think it causes the "readable" callout label to be too large for the plans. Another similar question, is there any way to eliminate the preceding 0 to single digit numbers? (01,02,03...)

I think both times it happened, I was adding created objects or cad details I had modified back to the library as the same name. For instance this last time I modified a footing detail I have and added it back to the library. I got a warning about the block having the same name. (See attached) I think I selected yes to replace the items. I had two different blocks with the same name. The new one was fine but the old one, I couldn't move, delete, rename, or export without getting an error message. I tried to duplicate what I thought was the problem this morning, but didn't get the same result.

I was able to export all but the one sub folder that had the corrupted item in it. There were less than ten objects in it, so I didn't lose that much. I will definitely make a habit of backing it up from now on. Thanks for the input everyone.

I tried to export all but that file, but it crashes the program. I had customer support fix it for me last time, but I had to rename and delete the entire library and import their library they had with the corrupted file removed. They were able to keep all my other items, but it just seems like there should be a way to find the file myself in windows file explorer to remove just that item.

Is there any way to access individual user created library items outside of chief to delete corrupted files? I have a detail I added to the library, but I changed some things and added it back to the library with the same name. The new one is good but the old one, every time I click on it, I get an error message. I can't delete it inside chief so I was hoping I could delete it some other way. Any help would be appreciated.