HumbleChief

Defaults?

I think roof groups is going to help me immensely in the future. Thank you.

Did NOT know that. Thanks Dermot.

NICE - Thanks Michael...

Curious, let's say I cut a section on floor 1 but now I want that callout to show on floor 2, and not on floor 1. Is there a way to do that? Or once cut on floor 1 it must stay on floor 1? Thanks

...or even a "Pony Wall"

Yes, whenever "1/4 " =1 ' is too large for a vertical orientation." There's no convention that I'm aware of that requires plans to be oriented 'vertically'.

Hey Dan, it can be frustrating to continually make changes to your template plan (and Layout Template) but over time you may find, like I have, that eventually very few, if any, changes need to be made to those templates. I have my templates pretty well dialed in but sometimes I'll run into a little niggler change that I haven't made for a while and have ignored. I simply open the template plan make the change and get on with things. Or even leave that template file open and make changes as you're working on other plans. It takes time, but eventually there's very little work that needs to be done to your template files.

VERY good chance it was started in X12, not sure but would think so...

Nice and thank you again - sadly I'm out of likes for a single day...

Thanks Michael, your tip worked great! I don't use anything like the Save As Method and none of my templates have any of the settings or defaults as they appeared in this plan nor has any plan I ever worked on had those default settings but there were many prior plan iterations, as you suggest, and that may have been the culprit. Either way thank you and if it happens again I'll know what to do.

Yeah the "AFTER" is the secret sauce. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for taking a look, very helpful and much appreciated.

That was weird, there was a forum update notice that killed my response. Anyway THANKS for confirming that mysto 115 returning, super weird. Did NOT know that there was a "Create Footing/foundation" setting - brilliant!

Thanks Doug and realize the vids are not that easy to watch but here's what it looks like is happening. The foundation will not build to the defaults but will build to the mystery 115 1/2" as if it were the default. If, after that 115 1/2" stem wall is built I then change the defaults as you show it builds to that 36" default. Is this expected behavior? Why can't I build the foundation stem wall to the 36" default?

Thanks Mick got that one figured out.

Thanks Doug, that's the behavior I am expecting but when I click the default check box I get this... and have no idea where that that 115 1/2" came from?

Yes Doug, 100% true but I when I change it to the 36" I want it reverts back to the numbers you see. Cannot seem to change those defaults. The vid shows the phenomenon...

Figured out the additional foundation walls were being created from different first floor heights but still can't get the stem walls to behave...

I'm sure this is simple but I've been flumoxed for the last half hour. It seems no matter what I set my defaults to the stem walls always seem to build to the same height. I closed Chief, rebooted, checked the defaults a dozen times but can't seem to get the basement to build to the defaults. Usually user error here and prepared to be embarrassed by the simple mistake, but I simply cannot see it. EDIT: A new plan from my template behaves as expected. THANKS STEM WALL 1.plan

Not that easy to understand but you will find Chief's videos and teaching guides to be second to none and probably a better place to start than here at the forum. Hopefully the vid below adds some clarity but again, not a simple paradigm to understand but certainly doable.

Really confusing Kelly. Can't understand the terminology. Set of Layouts? What's that? ...and SPV tabs correspond to plan files not to 'individual layout pages.' I'm not making these distinctions to be difficult but without clear terminology we don't have a chance of helping. Most plan files (SPV's or otherwise) are sent to a single Layout page. When you double click a plan that's been sent to Layout it opens its SPV if one has been created. The name of the SPV is saved within the project browser where it can be 'edited' renamed etc. Sound like there a fundamental misunderstanding about how Chief works in relation to SPVs Layout etc. That's understandable but once you get it it's really powerful and not that difficult.

Or vice versa?

Excuse me Dermot but my "advice" posted above was to contact technical support. Seems like pretty good advice wouldn't you say? Oh wait you did say...

The tabs here show the Plan File Name:SPV name. Is that what you are looking for? Do you need to clearly name/rename/add additional your SPV's?

Interesting, and safe to say you are also experiencing frequent crashes as well? I don't have a RTRT video card so can't use the 'features' you describe but sheesh, that seems like a lot of work and caution to get a program to work as it should.