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Thanks Rob!

Thanks!

Thanks Michael. I was just getting ready to start a ticket but as usual I cannot find the link. It's as if Chief does not want you to open a ticket. Do you have a direct link? Kevin I've also noticed that you are unable to select a vertical segment within a molding polyline in a camera view. I prefer doing my take-offs in 3D if there's not much to count as I find it faster than creating a material list.

First, when adding molding from an elevation view, the resulting profile gets offset quite a far distance from the intended location. After created, it must be manually moved into place every time. 3D molding polylines used to fall into place perfectly. Second, the Length/Perimeter under the Polyline tab is totally inaccurate - see attached. This example is made up of 4 sides with two segments at 36-1/2" wide and two segments at 10" in height - although I am unable to select the vertical segments in a 3D camera view. The total perimeter should equal 93" while the dialog box reports 73". I very often use this feature to calculate molding quantities which is totally useless to me now. Instead of orbiting around the room in a camera view and adding up the total lengths, I now must create 2D elevations of each wall and manually add all the segments together. It doesn't seem to be a problem in plan view where I often use "Make Room Polyline" to calculate shoe and baseboard. I no longer trust Chief to return accurate molding measurements. Granted, this is a file created in X15 now being edited in X16 if that factors in. Has anyone else experienced strange behavior from the new Molding Polyline? Can someone confirm the Length/Perimeter readings are off?

Shayne - thanks for the breakdown. I will give it a good. Kevin

Thanks Jim. I'm going to give it a try. Kevin

I thought about that too but thought it would be difficult to get everything to align properly, but maybe not if it's an exact duplicate of the same elevation. This will, of course, require that I have two elevations for every view I'm after. This might be worth a try though unless the topmost layout box hides the one below. Do you know the behavior of overlapping layout boxes? Thanks.

Thanks Shayne. Just so that I understand, are you saying send the elevation as a plot view and disable updating, Any changes/additions to text and dimensions will be updated automatically without changing the original plot lines as long that they aren't generated again? What does this have to do with the line weight adjustment though?

Bob - thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I follow you. Are you saying take a screen grab of the elevation without the dimensions and then overlay the dims in layout?

Thanks DB.

I believe I’ve asked this question before but can’t find the original post. I would like to create a live view of a wall without color but have my dimensions and notes in red. For example, keep everything in the view attached exactly as it is, but have the dimension line of 95-5/8” in red. Thanks, Kevin

Signature Designer Light Fixtures | Experience Visual Comfort & Co. I'm not sure what you mean by "who has the largest selection to do so". The link above is directly to the manufacturer's website. Find a fixture that you like and scroll down a little to the .skp or other file type. Note that they have many of their fixtures available as CAD models but not all. I can usually find what I'm looking for most of the time. On those occasions that I cannot, customer service is quite helpful IF they have the model.

Got it. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Michael - thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I follow you though. Would you mind giving me some more info on your technique? Kevin

Thanks Dermot. I have tried deleting the unneeded lines; however, that creates a 2D plan symbol that is not as large as the 3D symbol. This means the 2D symbol does not align with the 3D geometry (there's an offset). As far as I know there is no way to align the 2D symbol. Any ideas?