ValleyGuy

Yes, some sort of time stamp like the Time Log Entries would be super nice. I played around with it a bit and I think that for now, I will use 'Code' in the schedule and Rename it to "Revision Date", and before each client session I'll just remember to Edit the Active View and put that day's date into the Code box under the Notes Defaults. At least each note used that day will have a little automated function. An added bonus is I can keep that same revision schedule going when the project file gets copied with each round of revisions. (... and maybe when the revision-happy customer actually sees how many times they made requests to change something, they appreciate the timeline involved and the invoice lol). I'll send a suggestion through too.

Is there a way to NOT have the date column in a schedule become current upon opening up the plan? Example: I reviewed a plan with a customer and they had a few revisions. I use a note schedule to make notes as well as a being a sign off check list before I leave them. The 'Date' column records that day's date and the plan is saved. If I open the plan the following day - the revision note schedule then replaces that date with the current date stamp. If I saw them on August 31st - I want the note schedule to still show Aug 31st not update to todays date in September. I have a work around in that I can screen shot the schedule the same day as the review, then import the picture. But I am curious if there is a way to frieze the date when the note was made?

This is kind of funny, ...and way off topic, but I though that it weirdly appropriate in this "looking for something elusive" thread.... I had a TikTok pop up the other day and I thought that they finally found you......

Framing the both the house and the deck rim boards works fine.... if the box is checked in the Auto Framing Defaults. This also prompts the deck ledger board to frame. However, all of the rim board thickness is still controlled by the Floor Structure default. So if you have two different thicknesses between the house floor rim board and the deck rim boards, be sure to frame one then change the thickness before framing the other. It would be nice if there was a separate deck rim board default section too. Other than the glitch with the Joist Direction Line, and the beam direction issue (both of which Chief is looking into), the deck seems to frame up better than before IMHO.

Are there little sections of attic walls under the slope? They might need to have the frieze board turned on. I normally build all my roofs manually, sorry no help on your side quest.

I can't get the house rim boards to frame either......

When framing a deck I can't seem to get ledger or rim boards to frame at all, nor can I get the beams to build perpendicular to the joists. Is this a bug?

You might be able to treat it like a garage slab.... make the attic flooring (or sub-flooring) a 'no material', then make a 3D solid material as your plywood to fit your space properly.

That did the trick, thank you so much.

I'm hoping someone has an idea.... Is there a way to have the call out number sequence for a plan note adjust when a note is deleted? The notes are %simple schedule number% when placed on the plan, and also appear in sequence in a note schedule. However, should a note be deleted from the plan, the notes numbered after the deleted one do not appear in sequence in the schedule.

I don't have a laptop so hopefully Rene can help you get going on that end. As far as not be as robust, it is correct about Mac only getting 4 radial dial options per button, but it is still pretty efficient. I have played around with different techniques and am currently using the two click approach, and it seems to be working very well once I got into the mind set and rhythm. The first button push brings up only four options on a radial dial, each one of these will bring up an additional four items on the next radial dial. Which means that with two clicks there are 16 items per button. I have the Enterprise model and use 31 buttons for radial menus, so that is about 496 tools and library items all within 2 clicks. I find that having the first layer working as a direction path to the group of 16 helps keep similar things grouped together nicely. Example: I have exterior walls for 1st, 2nd, 3rd floors, and the attic. Each of these have a regular default new wall, existing wall, reno wall, and a demo wall. Everyone will find what works best for them, this may just give one more option to look at. I hope that you get things figured out before you lose patience. I almost was at the point to 'Hit Any Key' ... really, really hard.... with a hammer when I first bought mine too.

Where I am from there is definitely framing in the ceiling, we use 1x4 strapping to the bottom of the trusses. These are below the top of the wall top plate - inside of the room and make up part of the actual ceiling layer components. I believe what you are after is framing inside of the attic - above the top of the wall top plate. These distinctly two different framing members I believe are not covered with Chief's framing tools. I have gone to the help desk on the 'ceiling' framing trying to get proper 1x4@16"o.c. and that isn't possible at this time was the verdict. I also haven't been successful at framing in the attic space both the roof rafter (or joist as you have on the right) and the ceiling joist at the same time automatically as the framing only follows the roof information (pitch, thickness, etc). Nor have I found a tool to frame just the ceiling joist on it's own in an easy or automatic way. Where your roof and ceiling appear to have the same pitch, I have manually framed as best I could duplicating a roof rafter/joist and reflecting it to make the ceiling joist on the opposite side with a little manipulation. CAD poly to solid may be what's needed. The flat ceiling joist will work with using general framing of course. In a nut shell, you are right in needing to solve the problem yourself.

This possibly could be the case. Even though we are a Commonwealth country, only government jobs use metric that I know of here. I agree with having a separate metric template, especially if the common wall thickness is consistent between metric using countries - changing every wall ever scanned would be a royal pain for sure!

I haven't found any global default adjustment location past the few basic ones. I may be incorrect, but I suspect that the program can't get too bulky with options and still function on the small horse powered devices. I wouldn't be surprised if the default wall thickness stays at the one pre programmed option (114mm) , just like the only door option is a hinged door. As for the triple decimal showing up, I did a quick room scan and found that once I manually adjusted the wall thickness and moved the walls to 4800mm, I had all but one wall measurement record the unwanted .001 mm add on, even though the default was set to zero decimal positions. I also placed a room and set walls to 110mm and room size to 4800mm and every dimension was correct with zero decimal positions... until I pushed one wall to 5500mm and back again to 4800mm, this prompted the .001 to show up again on all of the measurements. I'd say this is a bug and suggest that you let Chief know about it.

I agree with just relying on LiDAR for the rooms not being reno'd. So far the opening size and location accuracy from the scan has been more than acceptable for this purpose, at least for the rooms that aren't on a one or two step height difference. Those ones are just off in the elevation height.