Steve_Nyhof

Well, the adventure continues... I opened my normal template and drew a simple house and basement and everything works perfectly. So now I need to find what I am doing in the process of adding a basement on a drawing. Typically click the button to add a basement using my template defaults... hmmm

So I went back to an older plan and things work fine there. So I must of lost something along the way. https://www.loom.com/share/5ba4235f90c1481992301b6b36e1a3ba?from_recorder=1

But I have also found that when doing this, that I need to add my heights, which I don't remember. Right now I click the wall I want in the Library and draw - done. I'm going to try what Eric mentioned and go back to a drawing where things worked and save as a template. Thank you

Ah! Thank you so much! I will look out for that.

I have had others tell me this, and if it were something that just was always messing up, I would agree. However, Chief offers this function and it works very well and is fast... when it works. Once again, it has worked well for the past several months as I have learned and fine tuned the system. I can go back and work with other plans that everything is working as expected, so I think I changed something in my template as the last 2 jobs I ran into this. I'm going to send my template to support and see if they can find out what I changed so I know. I have a number of pony walls that are all set with daylight walls, upper stud walls and lower furring walls with a wood cap and all I do is drag it over my existing wall and I'm done - heights and all. I like that Chief offers this. I can see where some may not need it, but I do some wild things with daylight and walkout walls and from the time I set things up it has worked perfectly. I'm not ready to give up on something that was working well just because I made some setting change. I will go back to my older plans and look through each of the settings and find out what is different and try that. Thank you

Even in some situations, even 1" away does not help.

That was most of it. But I still have the issue of once I move the wall against another wall it takes on the materials of the wall I place it against. I have run into that before. If I move it 1" away, it goes back to drywall. I have drawn like 15 plans already without an issue of this - so makes me think I changed something. I have a fur wall that I put against my concrete wall. It is set to Furred Wall. I've not had this issue with any walls in my basements - so this is new. I will keep pocking around.

I think I found it. I went to my Foundation default and found the Interior Wall Surface was set to Concrete but was not set as Default. Once I checked the Default option my walls work as they should with drywall. When I went through everything on my template, I must have missed this default. Thank you, Glenn!

I do have some of my interior walls in my library in the Foundation folder, but they are interior walls - not Foundation. And even those walls change if placed in the space - not even against another wall. So it must be something to do with what Glenn is suggesting. I will try some tests on different levels and see what happens.

You are correct. I just have them set up using the same materials as my defaults so everything looks congruent.

I will check that. Like I say, it was working for many plans and now this just started. But that does not mean I changed something because I am always fine tuning my template.

Has anyone run into this before? This is now the second plan where this has happened. I did go through my library and make sure things were set up as defaults. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qVTH6gugwTKaiwnmg6aKkczmyCNVFGW-/view?usp=sharing

I just made one - that will work. Would still be nice to know what I am missing...

Hello, Hoping one of you guru's out there can help me. I added the roof returns to a number of gables and it all worked perfectly - a week or so ago. Now I am completing the plans and see the my front porch gable roof return is missing on the right side. I removed it and tried again, but no go. I tried on the porch wall and the attic wall - both add the return to the left side but not the right. I even mirrored/copied the roof from the left to the right and that did not work. I know it is something I may have done - because that has proven over and over, but cannot find any issues. Thoughts? I wish they would increase the size a file can be... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSLeZLDIRSsZWin7R1bfHL-OOxYNFiQZ/view?usp=sharing Thank you, Steve

Yes, I am now paying more attention to this for sure. Thank you

Not in there. My template is in another folder I set up, but it is not there either. I opened up my template and that is blank.

Nothing in my template folder - it typically saves to the same folder as my .plan file.

Now I am seeing the layout file in the Archives. I wonder why my other previous work was not there.

I guess I would like to ask what the Save button does - or Ctrl+S ??? I use Ctrl+S all the time. If I am in the layout, does Ctrl+S do anything?

As soon as I placed my first elevation into the layout, the name changed from untitled to the clients name and shows up in the Browser. Seems to me that it should be saved.

I guess it is not my day. So I was working on the next job and putting things together on the layout. I have all my elevations, and my floor plan in place. I was working on a cross section and just completed it. I saved it into the Browser with Save Active View, and it went in there, and took a break. When I came back, I was messing with my printer and accidentally hit the power button to the whole system. After I rebooted I went back into the job and my section was gone and in fact there is no layout. I checked the Archives and there was an older copy - no layout exists. So, now I am a bit gun shy. I had my autosave set to 5 minutes, but how often does the archives save a backup? And, does the system save the layout in the same place or somewhere else? Again, I am starting over and putting things back into a new layout.

So I redrew my sections - saved them before I moved them to layout. They all show up in the Browser. I saved the plan, closed it and opened it - all still there Hope that doesn't happen again.

Section - It saves in the Cross Sections as Cross Sections 1, etc. next to my elevations

It was there

This time I'm using "Save Active View" on my sections. But they were all there. I did just find out that hitting Cntr+S does not save the section into the Project Browser.