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I draw with the house front at the bottom as usual but the house must be rotated 90 deg to fit on the plan sheet. In this case the Architect I am dealing with wants the Nort up or near up. This causes the front of the house to face the left side of the sheet. House rotated 270 deg. Not wanting to rotate the PLAN I just rotated the Layout Box. The Door & Window Marks rotate automatically but the Text does not. Looks like the "Rotate with Plan" checkbox in the Rich Text only applies if you actually rotate the Plan in the Plan File. Nothing to do with the Layout. Is this the case? If this was early in the project & would rotate the PLAN geometry. Currently I have to add text & rotate it 180 deg.

Never mind I put it in the LOCK pulldown & not the Handle Pulldown. Works fine in Handle Pulldown.

Is there a setting that positions the hardware correctly? This one is obviously in the wrong place. If you adjust the handle distance to 18" the hardware centers on the door but the other side of the door actually get a handle that should not be in the center of the door.

Yes the plan was created some time back & just today I added the frieze moldings. I rebuilt the roof planes in X10 a week or so ago. PS I just files a report to Chief.

On some of the roof planes the molding is showing but not all. Yaxing.zip

There are LISP routines that could extract the contents of the viewport but you would need a cad program that would run lisp. Also some pre-processing that needs to be done. Mainly exploding blocks. So it could be done but at a cost. You would need a lot of learning to get it done. Although if you really wanted it you could get it done. Once you get the process figured out it would be easier for the next set of plans. Sorry that I have no time to invest in the project.

Not that simple I'm afraid. That is why I recommended printing to a PDF & use that to import.

Mick try this for the background. ;; BricsCAD ;; Here's a background toggle command, which changes black background ;; to white and white background to black, in model or paper space: (defun c:BB () (if (equal (getvar "TILEMODE") 0) ; if tilemode is Off, then we're in a layout tab (which can have non-tiled viewports) (if (equal (getvar "BKGCOLORPS") 7) (setvar "BKGCOLORPS" 256) (setvar "BKGCOLORPS" 7)) (if (equal (getvar "BKGCOLOR") 7) (setvar "BKGCOLOR" 256) (setvar "BKGCOLOR" 7)) ) )

TrueView is free https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers Your best bet is to print to pdf the layout page from the viewer. The use the PDF as an underlay. I don't think that list of layers is readily available. I used a LISP (Ruby like) routine to export the layers. The list may be available some other way but I rarely need that layer set.

If you have an AutoCAD viewer you should be able to see that view. In Autocad paper space or otherwise known as a layout is like Layout plan but in the same file. Model space is like a plan file so in autocad you have model space where most of you drawing take place and then you have tabs that hold each sheet called layouts or tabs. all the is in your DWG file. In your DWG there is only one layout & that layout has a viewport which is like a Layout Box in Chief. The layer state for that viewport is like a layer state for the Layout Box. Attached are the layers that are displayed in each DWG layout box/viewport VLayer 2nd Floor RCP.txt VLayer 1st Floor RCP.txt VLayer 2nd floor.txt VLayer 1st floorr.txt

PDF files attached Chief Plot.zip

That's the view from paper space In AutoCAD there is a layer state the was set up for that view. I'll plot the other drawings tomorrow.

This is what I get when I plot it. A1.10 FIRST FLOOR PLAN-A1.10 FIRST FLOOR PLAN.pdf

Oh, so that is not enough information to rule the wall as CMU. I think 8" CMU would be specific enough to identify the walls.

Rob, I open only the first DWG file & there are 112 layers. There are nested blocks. So I imported into X10 & exploded the blocks one by one & then used the Hide layer tool to turn off layers. That may work for you. If you could be specific as to what you are after I could remove the layers you do not want from the cad files & send them to you.

Looks like they all start with 8" CMU How does Chief know not to build framing in those walls? Just thinking out loud.

What if you knew the wall type names?

Looking at the Object Information looks like you could use a custom field. So with Ruby you need to process the following: Is the window or door in a Masonry wall? What is the width of the window Use a table to determine the Label text Create a custom field with the appropriate width You may need to create a layer for the new label, not sure how placement in the plan would work You would need a way to update the label if the window width was changed Is that something Ruby could do?

I use a table with call out for labeling lintels in my framing plan. As you know most are basic 8x8x? lintels & the label is based on the length. In AutoCAD I created a LISP routine that allows me to click on the end points of the window measuring its width. The routine then places a label like L-5 etc. to reference a chart. So is there any way to facilitate this labeling in Chief? LintelLabel.lsp

Thank you Eric. That method worked.

Wow Does it bother anyone else that there is NO command line feedback from Chief when you enter a command or hit UNDO. In AutoCAD when you enter a command it tells you if the command was successful or gives an error. When you undo it tells you what command was undone. I feel like I'm in that dark with Chief.

OK i turned them into solids & now they display as SHAPE type objects. But they will still not UNION Psolid Hole.plan

I was able to create the p-solid in plan view & add the hole. Then creating the turn down p-solid and converted them both to Solids. Only then could I move them together. While they were p-solidsI could not use the point to point move as only one or the other would allow a snap selection point. As Solids I was able to move then together but they will not UNION.

So to get that turn down need to create the solid in plan view, puch the hole. Create a solid for the turn down portion & then join them?

I'm trying to punch a hole in this psolid I used for a awning roof. The solid was create in elevation view. For some reason I can not create a psolid hold from that pline. Psolid_Hole.plan