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The Local City Explained It This Way: The set backs in CA is because of fire. 10' in between structures which would be 5' on either side of the property line. Its figured to the framing because stucco is not flammable. So if it was wood siding than the set back is to the siding.

I'm glad you confirmed that Perry. I thought maybe I was loosing my mind! Well actually I think I am loosing my mind, I have to write everything don't or I will forget walking from one room to the other.

The living space drawing in this photo is correct in my understanding. Figures square footage to the center of a shared wall. The one with the garage makes no since at all. Go Figure!!!??? BTW: I figure to the outside framing, not the stucco for SF. That's what the plan checkers have always told me anyway. It came up one time when we had to have a 10 foot set back and they were ok with figuring to the framing. I could have been doing it wrong all this time but I never heard of going to the outside stucco.

I have a layer set up called "Square Feet" and I do polylines around the areas I'm calculating square footage. Its extra work but quick and easy and I don't have to worry about being off on square footage.

The garage is 20x20=400 SF It will be a correction with the plan checker if the number isn't right on the plan so I have to put it in manually.

I didn't see this post. Glad everything worked out!

Let me if you loose your info after you restart or whatever you have to do. I'll be curious about that because I lost mine today?

I guess the second screen wouldn't help because it wont allow you to get out of the box.

That's a new one on me. I would be afraid of losing info also. I got locked out today and lost a lot of info and had to start over. If your hooked to a second screen you may be able to drag over to start the second screen and possibly it my split up your program enough to hit save. Long Shot!

I have something messed up. I added interior and exterior wall layer sets that I copied from the "Walls, Normal" layer set and then I set the interior and exterior wall to my defaults. It works fine that way but when I build the second floor it picks up the "Walls, Normal" again. What's up with that? This is frustrating! I put the plan in one of my past post if anyone wants to check out what I'm dealing with?

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