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I have used both Michael & Joe's services & both are very competent & professional. Looking at Joe's Sight Planning macro's from 2016, I think they are close to what I'm trying to accomplish. Leaving town tomorrow so it will have to wait until next week. Thanks for the feedback.

I prefer to just use polylines to define what areas to be included in my area table. Joe did a Site Area Table routine in Ruby back in 2016 which is similar to what I am looking to do. Process: Create unique layer names for the area's ["AT-Living Floor1" "AT-Living Floor 2" "AT-Garage" "AT-Balcony Floor 3"] The name prefix "AT-" [Area Table] may need to be a variable item Create polylines around your desired spaces with named layers Polylines with the same name will be added together. Add macros to a Text that will display the list of names with the "AT-" removed from the names. Sorting the names may be an issue. Perhaps the layer names should be added to a user variable in the desired order. Totaling the groups might be tricky but doable in a macro to be added to the text. There are so many ways to handle an area table. It would need multiple macros for the user to assemble as desired in the TEXT to get the desired look. I assume there is no way to do this at this time? Attached are some of my plan area tables No time to actually work on this week but I thought I would throw it out there.

OK did a test run & you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out. I've not been using the wall setting correctly all this time.

Thanks, but I was talking about bottom chord bearing for the interior walls. I'll take a look tonight, it's a little crazy today here.

Thanks for the reply, So do you set all the exterior wall to those settings? On the 2nd floor there are cantilevered area that get frame wills & a 3rd floor above that. Also the interior bearing walls, will they honor that plate height?

Here in Florida we do a lot of CMU exterior walls. I suppose the strength & termite resistance is driving that Anyway when you have 2, 3 & 4 story houses then floor to floor error (3/4") adds up. With a block wall 9'-4" common plate height and 16" common web truss the first floor plate height is 9'-4" of course. But adding another 9'-4" the plate height becomes 20'. And 30'-8" is the 3rd floor. So to add in the 3/4" plywood subfloor in the model or not? I suppose the correct method is to make floor to ceiling heights 3/4" less. (9'-3.75") How do you address this problem?

Wow, I will try again and report back.

Yes it should be fixed. This is a new tool & need rigorous testing by users. PLEASE REPORT YOUR PROBLEM.

See attached plan. Working on the framing around the stair landing first floor to 2nd floor. I can't seem to get the wall section to display correctly AND the framing to build correctly. You'll see that the landing crosses the wall & the door is below the normal floor level. Thanks in advance. North A- House Unit.zip

Eric, so the Dutch Gable in the Wall DBX created the extra shed roof. I missed that in my attempt. Thanks

As an exercise, I took a run at auto roof function and got most resolved. I could not get the front upper left to build as the OP started not the little roof above the garage door. adam mcintrye AB.plan

I use https://anydwg.com/ $180 but try the free trial. It used to allow a limited number of conversion per session, which was not a problem for me. I used it so much I finally bought it. Works OK.

No problems here

Printing with "Preferences \ Display \ Grayscale" set allows me to better control LINE display from light to dark (faded) BUT when I have Cyan Text for example & want it black. The text is usually a result of importing my many CAD details into Chief. In Autocad the objects "Plot Style" controls the output. But Chief lacks the additional plot control. I think Autocad added the plot layer / object control back in the late 80 or early 90's. Just wondering how most of you deal with this problem?

I added stretch planed to the L shaped one. Grab Bar L shaped.calibz

Here is another https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?q=grab bars Were you looking for the 'L' shaped grab bar? Haven't seen that one in 3D yet. Spoke too soon. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?q=grab bar

If you want CAD this link has some. http://www.cadnav.com/3d/Grab-bar.html

My update crashed my session while it was being downloaded. Had to restore plan from auto save, lost 15 min of work. But no crashed while using the update.

I did find a source for the 3d objects. http://seps2bim.org/revit-families.html

Thanks all. I am able to use SketchUp Free version to separate the objects. Saving each item to a SKP file & then importing into Chief. I'm not very good at this process, yet. Just realized all should be imported as Fixtures, interior, not Furnishings. Back to work.

OK SketchUp will allow editing, although I'm not versed in it, it is doable.

Thanks Bill. Looking at the DAE inserted into Chief. I can put a camera into the room & see the equipment but can't get at it. Very frustrating.

I was able to convert the IFC file to DAE but the file is the entire room in 3D. So I can not see a way to separate the individual items from the room. Attached is the DAE file for anyone who cares to look at it. My guess is that you need RIVIT and use the Rivit file, not attached here. EXW01-L.dae EXW01-L.ifc

Just located 3D files for these objects but they are IFC files! Looking into converting then now. Will post back. Thanks for the help & advice.

Thanks Bill, So the notes will provide the info. This project has 84 notes already & is a bit slow. Adding another schedule with 26 notes per room (not all rooms) will surely slow the plan down. So 25 notes in 50 rooms is 1250 notes! Can you report notes "By Room"?