HumbleChief

Is it that easy? http://www.screencast.com/t/RQ8EsvodA2bU

Super helpful Richard, Scott. I couldn't get the vent to work in 3D up on the first floor framing. Fine on the foundation but not so much on the stucco finish above. Just place the vent in the first floor and position in elevation and it works fine DOH. I was trying to drag it up from the foundation like original vid. Too easy, and it shows as a vent in the schedule. http://www.screencast.com/t/20mhslgrfuBk

Nice video Richard. It seems like you know quite a bit about macros and have invested enough time in understanding Ruby and its different parameters. Do you think it would be a nice feature to have Chief include a label for p-line boxes that would allow a macro to be defined within that label, or do you think it's pretty much OK the way it is now? BTW what video software did you use? It look really good.

Watched the video 3 times and was wondering how you define the windows as 'vents'? The best I can do is define them as Louvered.

Brilliant Michael. I could have sworn I tried this before and even a tech guy said it couldn't be done. Here's a thrashabout version of the stairs. Far from ready for prime time but doable and I'll always remember this trick. Thanks Michael. http://www.screencast.com/t/YAkxYARp

Thank you as always Perry. I think I got it working in a little different fashion for my Layout Template. Really wish we could wrap text in the description box.

I've never used the Layout Revision Table (LRT) and only found very brief mention in the Chief videos with what seemed like a cursory look and a lot of assumptions but no real world use of the tool. Do you add an LRT to each changed page? Or on page '0'? How do you note your changes on the plan - bubbles? Numbers that reflect the number in the table? The city here likes to see bubbled changes with a Delta 1,2,3 etc. Is there a way to add Delta to the labels? Does anyone use the table with success? I could not find any information that is useful. Maybe a video in the Chief library?

Nice tease. Can't figure it out here. Will have to wait until tomorrow Aussie time. Sleep tight Glenn.

But not on interior stairs. Spent hours once trying to get this done and the only way is to stack landings.(Mick) I didn't try to build an interior deck but with conventional stair tools it won't work on interior stairs.

Bockey, Click on the floor number to get to the reference Layer info. Make sure you are referencing the correct floors, then that you are using the correct reference Layer. I have feeling that somehow the reference Layer got changed.

You can always 'Insert New Floor' in between/under any existing floor.

Good post for the suggestion forum - would love the ability too.

Never used the Layer eyedropper/a painter in 15 years of CA useage. May have to learn that rascal.

Not overkill at all and would advise setting up ALL of your Anno Sets just the way you want them and once they are done they will serve you far into the future. Remember Anno/Layer Sets are plan specific so you either need to save them as a template (which most likely will be constantly changing as you refine your Anno/Layer Sets) or 'save as' the last plan you worked on to preserve your latest Anno Layer Set modifications. If you've worked on your Anno/Layer Sets for a long time and have them dialed in a template will work great but if, like me, you are constantly changing Anno/Layer setting the save as method may work best.

It looks like the cross section slider is only available in standard/perspective view not orthographic view (re: Bryce).

I've had this problem with PDF's for a very very long time and have just learned to live with it. Talked to the tech folks a couple times and as helpful as they are there was nothing even coming close to a solution. Was mainly wondering if it was something unique with my system or if others had seen it.

I'm thinking floor plans as in plan view. Maybe the OP wants a 3D or orthographic view of some kind? Or a floor plan in plan view? I dunno.

Have you seen this behavior Perry?

I thought the OP asked for floor plans, not 3D views?

Thanks very much for the reply Richard. After reading your post a couple times I think I'm doing just what you suggest. It looks a little messy through the video but I did indeed "put all of the holdowns on the the "holdown" layer, and the shear wall annotations on its own layer. (Both could be on a single layer, though, if you wanted)". My question was more about how to put those items on those designated layers and it seems like you confirmed that you select each item and put them on the "holdown layer' for lack of a better term, then reference that Layer Set for Layout. I was just wondering if there was a better way to select each item that goes on the reference Layer Set.

I'm just beginning to set up my reference layers and I understand how reference sets work and can set them up quite easily but I am having trouble with how to get the reference information to that set. I only want certain items to be referenced, do you select each item one by one and set it to the reference layer? Do you set your Anno set to use the reference layer by default? Here's a stumbling video that I hope makes the question clearer. http://www.screencast.com/t/jFK5LbHF

I'm obviously a pretty poor communicator and my apologies for that shortcoming. I'll try again. This pdf was created by another party and I imported it into Chief. I don't have, don't want, have never needed, the original Adobe Acrobat Program and I don't need to create pdf's. This pdf was already created by someone else. It's about a 3 MB sized file. The anomaly isn't unique to this single file, page or instance. It's constant with most every pdf that is embedded into a Layout page. My signature has my computer specs and I have a hard time thinking that my GTX780 video card is running out of of gas. Possible, but not that likely me thinks.

Yup

Neither in this case Perry, that's the simple Chief Layout page with a full page pdf imported from the engineer. It will happen with every pdf file that's whole page and sometimes with smaller files as well. It will print fine when I use Chief's pdf printer but this before I print to pdf.

I get random blank areas when zooming. http://www.screencast.com/t/6FaCMJuoB