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No unfortunately I am not familiar with any macros at all. I keep telling myself I need to figure it out but haven't got there yet. I know I can get all the info one way or another, I was just wondering about a quick way to get wall heights, or areas for siding take offs. Preferably in a schedule.

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Hello everybody, I have given up on using the material's list for take offs, as I don't have the time to put that much detail into a drawing. I have created my own primitive take off sheets in excel and just need wall lengths, (easy to do with schedules, thanks CA) but I could really use the heights of the walls or the areas of the walls for things like, how many ft of 8' concrete walls vs 6 ft or 3 ft with steps in the footers. Or the sq. footage of siding or brick, I have what the materials list provides but its not accurate, if the program generates attic walls for the energy heels of trusses or sometimes the attic walls will have siding on the attic side of them. I just don't have the time to check every detail like that in the drawing. As a builder just knowing what the cubic yards for a concrete wall is, isnt enough. When you figure labor different height walls are different prices so I have to manually figure all that out. Or when figuring out the sq footage of a gable, It would seem that seeing as CA already has that information it wouldnt be too hard to put it in the schedule options. Maybe Im wrong, or missing something. Does anybody have any ideas. And yes I have searched the forum and cant seem to find anything on this subject. Thanks

Thank you for the suggestions. I will try the symbols first. I never thought of using the general framing member, thats a great idea.

I have done a drawing where I have created multiple polyline solids of different sizes to represent concrete forms. Inside and out side corners, panels and fillers. I have nothing in this plan except these items laid out to fit another plan. I cant for the life of me, figure out how to get them to show up in the materials list or a schedule with a count of each size solid. Any body have any suggestions? Concrete form drawing.plan

With help from support, it was easy, turns out in the walltypes box you can turn on framing and whatever material is highlighted will act like framing members. Thanks

Anybody seen these problems before? It doesnt end with the problems in the pictures either, If I do floor trusses it, creates a 3/4 x 3.5 inch osb truss and a floor truss, when I use automatic. When I manually draw a floor truss it only does the 3/4 osb and nothing else. Some foundation walls it only draws a sill plate across half of it, with no rhyme or reason that I can find not to draw the whole thing. Thanks in advance Tina's and Kelvin's Residence-Rev 2 picture.pdfTina's and Kelvin's Residence-Rev 2picture2.pdfTina's and Kelvin's Residence-Rev 2 picture3.pdf

Thanks everybody for the help. Thats what it was, The exterior railing wall type.

Joey, Creating a porch I assumed would be calling it a porch, using the room defintions to call it a porch, ect... No I didnt just change floor to concrete. Thanks Solver, if It was readily apparent how to include a signature I would, but after wasting 20 min trying to figure it out, I moved on to more productive things. Maybe if you included some instructions in your long list of things you think I should do/read you would get farther with the things that seem so important to you. IF your interested I'm using X13 and have used X12, X11, Chief Arch10 full version, and Chief Arch 6 full version as well. No Im not an expert, I just asked a simple question, I know how to to search and havent been able to find anything. So in the spirit of the message you just sent me dont send me messages with condesending comments and posts about how to ask questions and what you think I should do. If you have somethng to add to the actual problem Im all ears, if not, Im not interested. Thanks Jared

I am sure this has been asked before, but I cant find anything in a search, so here goes. When I create a porch with a concrete floor and post to beam, or railing a strip of wood shows through my concrete at the bottom of the wall. What am I missing here. I have tried the material painter but it doesnt work. Nothing I have tried has worked. Thanks in advance Jared porch picture.pdf

I am just trying to verify where it measures from. So what is the main layer? The outside of the framing? The middle of the wall? Im aware that it only includes rooms marked Include in Living area, and of what the real estate standard is but when I do a manual take off it is always different/more than what Chief does. I have not worried about it much untill recently when a subcontractor did a manual take off and came up with more sq ft than chief did also and wasnt very happy, seeing as he is paid by the square ft.

Thanks for the help guys. My guy is just learning chief and I know just enough to be dangerous, but it is easier to blame him. I am pretty sure it was an accident. I just thought it might be something in the difference between the 2 pcs. That was it Dermot, not sure how he managed that but that was the problem. Thanks again. BTW How do I know or control how the total living area is calculated. It is always less than a manual take off.

Room labels wont show on some of the plan unless the interior dimensions are turned on? I have been through the help files, but can find nothing to address this. The strange part is its only some of the labels not all of them. I have a second person working on these plans off of a one drive file. My suspicion is that the difference is in that but I dont know how to correct it. Any ideas? Thanks Jared Test-stick frame.zip