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Gang and my new friend "P". I never did hear back from the troll under the bridge. I have it figured out. Some of the door stuff in chief still doesn't work well, like most interior doors I use that have locks have only one lock, not an interior and exterior lock. As I keep saying Chief needs architects to co-ordinate their software NOT software architects. In my way of thinking the word is a misnomer they are programmers not architects and in that lies many of the problems with chief. 

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

Hey I just added you as a friend

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

You can count me as a friend

I don't know why its not working for 'Ron', God bless him and his endeavor to seek the solution to the pocket door conundrum!

 

No macros needed!  Just create a 'Text Style' that fits the need.. Its not  rocket science!  Or just change the 'default'...  Sorry, I'm just bent out of shape from what is so simple of an answer...

 

Again my apologies for being such an "A%% Hole'.....

I just looked at your info. You do not have any friends, now I know why. The bridge troll has more friends than You.

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

No it isn't, it is the macro as I stated earlier It works just fine with auto labels. For some reason I'm not making myself clear.

I just spent 30 minutes with support. It worked for Auto but not Specified labels. go figure. I know it must be something I'm doing wrong but we can't figure it out.

Well, here is how I do it

I just sent it to Support. I don't know if this is my problem, I have the door label set as [%schedule_number%] macro. When I set to automatic labels the size does change.

have you tried this one

Yes I did that resized the hexigon but not the text

Open the layer display options dialog.

Select the "Doors, Labels" layer.

Change the text style there.

Did that no change only schedule text. I want the label larger, but it does not change size

Door Schedule Specification dbx.

Label tab.

Callout size.

Check Size.

Here is what I have Label is small

create a text label style for door labels and make it anything you want

Didn't work for me. I want the labels larger than shown. I changed the text size but nothing happened

Uncheck this box.

Thank you. now how do I make the label larger. I got the schedule text the way I want it but not the label

I should know the answer but I forget. What macro do I use to get each door to have a different number in my schedule. Thanks

Yep, those despicable 'pocket doors' especially....

Bill I can't believe how you like to pick on an old man. I thought just Scott was up to that.

My Adobe X work great, try the Repair option in the Help tab

Thanks WICO

Ron,

 

You do know that you can reorder the Doors and Windows.  You just move the lines in the Schedules up or down and it will renumber.  X6 enhancement.

Thanks Joe, I just think Doors, Schedules, Slabs, and Stairs are sadly lacking in chief. They don't seem to have the time or don't get it. I think the problem is the difference between software architects and architects.

Why not upgrade to Adobe X or XI never any problems with that. I use X and it work great.

I have X11 and that is the problem for me. Won't print from X5, or X6. I downloaded pdf995 and it worked just fine. Its time for adobe to get with it.

thanks Scott I changed it to a 3/4" thick temp glass wall. It worked fine to a point as Chief always does. Just not enough features for people doing custom stuff. We need more hardware, need a better way to show hinges. Better door numbering system, etc.

I have been using polyline solids to show butt joint glass. I don't bother with the track. Track is shown on my details. Does anyone have a better way to show it.

When I do a camera view the polyline does not show.

I just up graded to Windows 8.1 and found out that my Adobe Acrobat 8 will not work with 8.1.    So I need to get some feed back for a new PDF program.  There are some free but I know nothing as to how they work with CA or other programs.   Thanks

Chief support led me to pdf995 it works just fine.

I am having trouble printing a pdf file and never had this problem before, I make a pdf file and save it, it opens in adobe reader X1, here is where the problem starts and it started happen in my previous version of adobe reader, I will go to print and when I print I get the attached messages, does anyone have a clue.

I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM YESTERDAT WITH x5

10'x19' deep is our city minimum.

In PHX it would have to be 11'x. They require 24" on each side of the door. I guess you could use a smaller door. I use 9' as a min. When I was back east 12'x24' was min.

I just attempted to print form Chief to Acrobat Pro XI and nothing happens. Are there settings I'm missing to print from WIN 8.1 to Acrobat Pro. HELP PLEASE.

BTW I'm printing from X5

I just attempted to print form Chief to Acrobat Pro XI and nothing happens. Are there settings I'm missing to print from WIN 8.1 to Acrobat Pro. HELP PLEASE.

Attached is a Library of Pocket and Surface Sliding Doors with Pull Hardware included. There are Symbols for Closed, Open 18" and Open 26".

I set the z-origin at 1/2" so that there's a 1/2" gap between the floor and the bottom of the door.

 

The surface Sliding Doors are exactly the same as the Pocket Doors except that I offset the y-origin -4" to move the door outside of the wall.  This works in 3D but not in Plan View.  There's also a Symbol for the Surface Door Frame/Track.

 

Note:  I still need to work on a "Broken Arch" Raised Panel Door.

 

I would like to request that CA do the following:

 

1.  Add an option for Door Symbols that specifies Door Type so that any door symbol inserted by selecting from the Library would use that designation (IOW, if the Librarty option was "Pocket" or "Sliding" that it would be inserted into a wall as that Type.

 

2.  Add the ability to switch the "swing side" of a "Pocket" door so that the y-offset value would be reversed (+/-) in the 3D Views.

 

4.  Make the Plan View of Pocket Doors consistent with the 3D y-origin offset.  This would make it work for Surface Sliding Doors.

 

5.  Fix the problems with Casings disappearing when Doors are edited in the dbx.  This might only occur with door symbols - I'm not really sure what causes it but it is really annoying.

 

6.  Don't suppress the Door Jambs just because the Casings are suppressed.  There are cases where we need Jambs without Casings.

 

7.  Fix the RO, Header Size and Framing for Pocket Doors.

Joe,

As my Father the carpenter used to say. " you hit the nail on the head Son" . And you have to know that my favorite color is orange. Chief programmers, are you listening? This is not to much to ask for a Mature program that markets its features as being professionally proficient. This is so bad that I'm being teased about it.

Ron