stevenyhof

No - see above image on my first post - it gives me an Db and does nothing

6 minutes ago, solver said:

 

What's stopping you?

My brain! Your question makes me believe I must be missing something obvious.

1 hour ago, richoffan said:

Have you tried File>Back up entire plan ?

Not sure what that would do. I need to copy an old plan into a new template.

Hello,

I have continually updated (exported) my layers, defaults, etc and imported them into older jobs where I am using the older plan for a new job. However, there are things I have done with my .plan template (always fine tuning) that have other things I would like to have for a new drawing. I even tried to copy the plan floor to paste into a new plan, but that does not work.

When I draw condos, I use an existing plan, copy and rename for a new drawing. It would be nice as I learn more and fine tune things to have those things available.

What do others do to accomplish this?

https://www.loom.com/share/57602a5852f14e4ba4272bf383018a5a

15 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Steven,

 

The first error was because you hadn't selected an object that had a width.  Nil Class indicates that there's no object to evaluate.

 

These macros supplied by Chief do not have "error handling" so they require that they reference only objects that have the attributes width or height.  That can also cause an error to occur.

 

When I create a macro I include "error handling" so that the macro will either:

• report why it failed ---  example:  No Object Selected to Evaluate
• or return simply a blank string
• or return a value of zero

It depends on what the macro is supposed to do.  I try to anticipate what the user needs to see in order to know what to return.

Ah! I understand. Thank you

Here is a final update on what I did...

https://www.loom.com/share/2583d3cb491c44c5b3f2016d66fb9d41

So I think I am all back to working again, but again, can anyone else verify that FormatterHeightSixteenths does in fact show obj.depth. I changed it to obj.height and now it is working.

And now it is working... Chief may want to look into this. Maybe Height and Depth give the same result, but something went wrong only by me making a copy of the formattedHeightSixteenths macro

I did not touch this, but noticed that FormatterDepthSixteenths and FormatterHeightSixteenths have the same code for obj.depth. So I did changed the FormatterHeightSixteenths to obj.height and now it gives me a valid number in the Expanded Macro Value field.

Hmmm

Now many are back showing valid

It seems something might be wrong with the height as the width works. But when I look at the macro formatting it looks the same other than width vs depth

Hello,

Maybe someone can help me on this. I'm hoping I didn't break anything...

https://www.loom.com/share/ae809a120e45408aac103b43353b9b2f

Thank you,

Steve

I'm sure someone has figured this out already, but turning the cabinet base layer on and setting the line to blank shows the sinks. You still need to use the point to point dimensions, but now I have the sinks and other fixtures all showing up in my Plan View overlay layer.

 

12 hours ago, solver said:

 

Again, I've not read through or watch videos in this thread.

 

Did anyone look here: 

 

Yes, I did find this - thank you

2 minutes ago, DzinEye said:

Since I've only ever needed to do this after the fact, just like you're doing here, this was my solution, but as Ryan suggests, if you insert the original sink in this way you won't need double sinks.  They really should let the sink remain on the original layer.

 

I believe he IS using reference set Joe... the problem is you need to have the base cabinet layer turned on in order to show the sinks in those cabinets.  If you don't want to show the base cabinet then you're SOL without a 2nd sink.  I don't know why the sink layer needs to change... 

I will remember that down the road if I use this again. Thank you

1 hour ago, DzinEye said:

If you need/use material list etc. then this will muck it up, but you can insert another sink(s) free-standing then move it into position over the embedded sink and it will maintain it's layer.

https://www.loom.com/share/0cd505c7a19f4828ab08b171a39b87c3
I am using this method - works fine

Thank you!

I found this - checking it out...

1 hour ago, DzinEye said:

If you need/use material list etc. then this will muck it up, but you can insert another sink(s) free-standing then move it into position over the embedded sink and it will maintain it's layer.

I was thinking of that but wanted to avoid the extra steps.

1 hour ago, solver said:

This was discussed and I posted some images and probably a plan, although I may not understand what you need.

 

A bit of searching should find the thread -- foundation fixtures reference.

I will look into this - 
Thank you all!

See video below.

My Fixtures, Interior is set on to show these details in my foundations where I am planning a slab foundation. I like to show and dimension these fixtures so that all the plumbing is installed in the right plan per the main floor plan view overlaying the foundation.

https://www.loom.com/share/5a19955b67a64998af3640626365bc86

A sink by itself is set to Fixtures, Interior, but once in a cabinet it changes to CAD, Default

Thank you,

Steve

Very interesting. I would not be interested in the same number of characters. For now it is working for me as I have laid out and seems to be straight forward for me. Download loom and do a video of your process. I am also interested in greater automation, but it sounds like I would be restricted to name length and having to copy an existing plan to a new plan. I am always updating my .plan and .layout templates tweak by tweak. 

I think I have things back in place - maybe a little different, but I am still getting errors when trying to load from the Configurations tab

I was able to change the .bak file and it loaded. I will see how this goes. Seems I need to reset this all back up - hmmm

My computer crashed while Chief was open and now there is no toolbars. 
I reset it and got my list back, but it still is not allowing me to load my toolbars from the list.

Any ideas?

Thank you so much Sir! That worked perfectly!!