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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

I want some credit! I'm the one who started the "Positive Thoughts" topic because there was a lot of sniveling going on!

I typically always work from my layout first to get to the plan files that I need to edit. Its not so much I don't know how things work (but still have a lot to learn) it's more of how to organize it. I think with what everyone has shared with me I am very grateful because I have a better understanding of what direction to go now to clean things up. I really like Perry's way of setting up templates and I like Joe's way of organizing details so I learned a lot from both of you and not to mention the input from others that I have not disregarded. Everyone's input is always important to the whole picture. Thank You!!!

I did all that and I deleted all the framing and started over and set the spacing and rebuild in manually and automatic. I tried it and the spacing does not change. I went out of the plan and back it, I reset everything in every way I could think of. I have to be missing something though unless there is a glitch in the system.

1) If you have your main project plan file and 4 other detail plan files that you are sending items to your layout file that doesn't really slow anything down does it? 2) And the second part is does the items sent from the library slow things down the same or more or less?

I think if you want to use the library more I would still keep the details in a plan file so you have a backup. You can always go back in and block it and put it back in the library if you need too.

Ok, so I changed the roof rafter default settings from 24" to 16" and when I rebuild the framing my rafters are still at 24". Never remember having this problem before? Should be simple! I thing the Chief "gremlins" are attacking again! Or I'm just tired because I have been up most of the night working on this drawing. I know I have been really needy lately but Help!

Joe & Perry, I have done all these methods and so I guess I just need to decide which way I want to go so my details aren't so mixed up. Both directions are good but the important part with me is to find consistency. Thank You

Perry, Do you build you details in a plan file and send them to the layout or do you build them in the layout file? I've done both and I also have scanned details that are in my library. I need to make up my mind and bring everything together and clean things up. Can you give me a little input on that? Or anyone else that wants to comment I would be grateful. I guess you almost have to have a plan file just for details? I have all my stuff in the library but I like that you already have detail in your template. The library gets to congested and so its not easy to always find stuff quickly. Now that I working on a larger scale this is important.