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To different problems going on here but I think they may be related. I changed the wall on the first floor to the center and the SF is still off. It only does it when it is a garage on one side but it should still come out the same. 400 SF each side.

Ok I have something weird going on here. Second Floor: When I check standard area nothing comes up on the plan but when I check all the area boxes the standard come with it. I have been messing with my defaults to build a new template so I may just be something I screwed up but not sure. Help??? Marquez Origional Plan.plan

I dint get it? It adds up right if I change the garage to living space. It should total 800 SF either way

How come the square footage for the garage is wrong?

I think I figured it out but I set everything up late last night and my computer locked on me after all the work and lost everything. The automatic save didn't even work. My bad for not saving as I go I guess. Thank You for your response

I added a new annotation set call floor annotation set and tried to link it to the floor plan but when I switch to another plan and come back to floor plan it goes back to the 1/4" annotation set. Why doesn't it just stay the way I set it up with the newly assigned floor annotation set?

Glad You Got It Working!

I noticed that in the Arrow Defaults there is a 1/20" scale. Does anyone know if there is a reason for this? I dont see text or anything else with that scale. Am I missing something that I should know?

Whent thru the video for annotation sets. Not much help there. I will have to wing it by trial and error. I appreceiate the input guys. Thank You

I noticed that the leader line with text uses the Rich Text which is used a lot with Me. One of the tings that confused me a little bit is that Cheif has the default Rich Text set at 30" and rgeular text at 12" and 6" depending on scale. Was wondering what the intended use of 30" text was when they set that up?

Not sure what version of windows your using but I'm in windows7 See if this attached picture makes sense to you. You need to get to the Chief program and right click to get to the default setting for the video card for the Chief program. There may be another way but this was the best way I learned through Chief tech support.

I trying to get straight in my head the difference between rich text and regular text (when and when to use them). I understand that they both have there different functions but I get confused as to which one to chose at times. Can someone give some examples how you use them? I'm also in the process of setting up annotation sets and that is what started this question. I want to set up the text to what I would use the most. I hope this question makes sense. Let me know if you don't understand it.

You have to make sure that you go to CA in the program files directly. With mine I right click and select to change the default. Otherwise evertime you open it it will go back to the the other. This info was as per CA teck support when then helped me.

Squeaky wheel gets the oil. The more that suggest it the sooner it may get done. I will do that right now.

That makes good sense Lew Thanks

The only "Work Around" I know is my honey do list. "Work Around The House" Don't know if I like that term for CA!

I agree also that you should be able to see all the materials for an individual room when you select "room materials" tool. Is there any way that this could be corrected with CA?

Mine come up in numbers of sheets

I not as advanced a you guy's but it seems to me that if your going to have a tool called "Room Material List" that it should be complete or don't have it. Maybe that is why Chief came up with the "materials area select tool" because it works great!

If you use the calculate materials with the materials area select tool it will give you everything including your wall and ceiling drywall. That is a nice tool!

I don't appear to be having that issue.

Yes, I forgot about the direction you took so thank you. It solved my problem.

I didn't think of edit all roofs. I thought when you change the default it changed it every where? Thank You

That's the cool thing about what Perry has done because you can take a drawing that is finished and make a template out of it. Just reconfigure the floor plan to a square and back away items off to the side so you can bring them back is as needed. If you want you can set up a few different variables simply by when you draw a different type of job you can save as template and do the same thing.

I would if I can remember how