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sooooo helpful. thanks. finally got my layer problem fixed.... it just came back .... don't know why it disappeared. but you were so helpful in getting me to the finish line. be safe. maybe we will talk again? ronnie

i think i need to know how to get all the icons i want up in the schedule. do you know how to find the place where you choose the icons you want included in your chart at top? thanks for your help. you have been nice and i don't want to bother you anymore

is there a way to "uncollapse".... pardon my ignorance but how do i bring all the icons up to the top.... sometimes they disappear and then i dont know how to get them back. isnt there a place where you can say which little icons you want on top? trying to remember.... what do they call all of the icons...? thanks for the help.

i think it is "layer page display options".... is that to be found somewhere in preferences? or somewhere buried in the program?

that is the icon i check... i half live in that column then all of a sudden the height of the columns doubled or tripled. see below. never seen it before... ever.

problem with layer schedule. up until recently if i checked the tag on the side of any plan, it showed me what i did and didnt include in my plan. i could check one of the elements of the plan and it would either be removed or included. now when i click on it, ther letters are enormous and it is hard to use it compared to before. anyone know how to set the layer schedule back to normal? thanks to anyone who can get my program back to normal. ronnie

did anyone find a chiefarchitect 7 or 10 for sale? owner took off with his key to my chief 7 and i cannot get in.

did anyone find a chiefarchitect 7 or 10 for sale? owner took off with his key to my chief 7 and i cannot get in.

does anyone know of a good article, instructions, utubes....that can help me manage file management. so confusing and hard to do effectively. thanks so much. ronnie

mjltiple layout sets that totally confuse me. how do i look at them then delete so i ahve lost fewer. i have maybe 30 now and don't know what to do with them. help please? also, and i know its a big question..... how do i manage files.... saving, finding again...naming..... maybe an article or utube help? ronnie

i know this isn't a new topic but it is one i have had horrible problems since i started using chief. anyone know of an explanation that has ever been given that i can study and get this right before i expire. you help is so appreciated. will give an example: i have one file named "reed august 2019 site plan.plan" i have another which is named "reed august 2019.layout. can i rename these files to the same thing so they are in sync with each other? like open the file and call it "reed 2019" while in the plan file. then do the same in the layout file. can i bring them together? it is probably too complex an explanation to try but i thought i would ask. ronnie

for some reason, when i now click on a drawing to use dimension, i get this big starburst eminating from the center of the location i have clicked on. i know it is operator error...but does anyone know how to get rid of it?

Online Users i cant get rid of this blue layer...i have no idea what it defines but i also cannot click on a space and define it. anybody know what it is?

yes bill i was. holding down control and dragging it. i am on a mac and i am thinking most of you are PC....so maybe that is causing me problems unique to mac.

spent about 1 1/2 hour with apple tech support today....and she told me if i was using icloud to say docs, like plans and layouts, and also saving to external drive, i might run into problems because i am confusing my ext. drive. that sounds nutty to me but maybe true. it is rather confusing as you might expect. so i guess i should just keep saving to icloud and hope it never gets comprised or attacked by a starship hacker system?

i finish a plan, "save as" to desktop, then save a copy to external hard drive. both same names, same file. when i go back to the desktop, and unplug the external drive, the desktop file won't show all the files and keeps asking me to plug in ext. drive so it can grab the files. i must be saving wrong....but i save a whole file under that certain name, then drag to ext. drive and they don't match. hard to explain and i don't feel i have done a good job of it.

appreciate the suggestion. will do. maybe just leave the layers for safety sake. in the future i will just be sure to check off not to make copies. are you also on corruption island? wow what a name.

very nice of you to respond. got the text thing understandable but what do i do with this cavalcade of layers in \ layer set preferences and management. will i decimate my plan if i delete all of the layer sets?

I create a plan file view and use text to enter text in the plans. i then go to framing view and enter text specific to framing view. when i go back to plan view, the text i have entered in framing view shows up in plan view and i cannot get rid of it. if i delete the text that has transferred over from framing from the plan view, it deletes it in the framing view as well. this has been an ongoing problem, and anyone who can help will be GREATLY appreciated. thanks ronnie

THANK YOU SO MUCH. WORKED VERY WELL. may i ask you two more questions.? 1. I make my plans, details, site plans, etc and transfer to a layout. i am able to work very well back and forth between the two. i produce the pdf file so i can send to printer.....but after i close out of chief then come back later ..... my plan is there but many items that were in the layout one hour ago are missing and i have to try to find whatever saved file they were in. very frustrating i am sure you can understand. any notion why that occurs. when i later open my plan again after having gotten out of my chief programgo back to my layout.... 2. because i didn't click off make a copy of the layout, i have 98 layer sets and i am terrified to delete any for fear of screwing up something. i the future i am trying to remember to always click off on the copy function but for now i have all these layer sets i have no idea of what to do with. Thanks. Ronnie

is that too complex a question to ask?

how do i set up layer/annotation sets?

maybe i don't understand. i do different text on different layers specific to that layer. then when i move between the two, the text winds up on both. thanks so much for the help. its like its bleeding one to the other.

I create a plan file view and use text to enter text in the plans. i then go to framing view and enter text specific to framing view. when i go back to plan view, the text i have entered in framing view shows up in plan view and i cannot get rid of it. if i delete the text that has transferred over from framing from the plan view, it deletes it in the framing view as well. this has been an ongoing problem, and anyone who can help will be GREATLY appreciated. thanks ronnie