HumbleChief

Would like to auto label my Layout Box with the 'plan view' label i.e. 'Second Floor Proposed' etc. Is it hiding somewhere? Thanks

If I understand your post, which is not easy by the way, I think I read that in your experience PDF's are jerky as hell and screen captures are not? If I read that correctly that's one tricks to speed up the display of PDF based data - that is take a screen capture, or by whatever means your PDF editor allows, and use the resulting .jpg; .png. file instead of the original PDF.

PDF's in Chief are slow. The video card will probably not help. A faster CPU can help in many ways but the video card does 3D 'rendering' and most likely not help with PDF's. At least it did not help on my machine. Let me add that even though a faster video card did not increase the speed of my machine it did get that checked off my list of upgrades and put that expense/upgrade to sleep.

Of course the video card 'comes in to play' in various ways with Chief and if budget is no object then buy the fastest, latest, greatest card. OP, let us know what you end up with.

Not sure about other Chief users but I don't find the video card to be a huge factor in the overall speed of Chief. Of course faster should be better but I think any upgrade from an older 1080 or perhaps even a 1070 is money not that well spent and money that could be better spent on a processor upgrade or one of the fastest SSD drives.

Carefully consider the video card. I found no performance improvement after upgrading to the 1080 in sig. What card do you have now Mike?

...cabinet would be my choice, saved to library as a symbol?

Looking good, glad you got it figured out.

Sometimes us posters assume too much knowledge on the part of the questioner and for that I apologize. Hopefully David's video helps you out? The part I could have added was Step 1>in plan view select a room. Step 2>open the room's dialog box for specification. Step 3> select the structure tab. Step 4>go to the ceiling finish and either check the default box (which is set to 5/8" drywall) or click on the ceiling finish/edit button and specify drywall from the 'plan materials' as David as shown. Should work, (worked OK here). If it doesn't, don't hesitate to ask again.

Not sure either and ran out of time to pursue. Wait for the smart guys to post....?

..instead of bisecting the intersection?

Brittany, go to the structure tab on the first floor and put in your ceiling finish. You can do it room by room but going in to the defaults tab>first floor>add that ceiling finish should cover all the rooms on that first floor. I see that your defaults are set to 5/8" drywall so in the dbx I've shown click the default button to set the ceiling finish.

A little confusing. 2 simple walls won't make a 'room' hence no ceiling to extend to.

GREAT video Steve. Always learn something and am also blown away by the complexity of Chief. Thanks.

As I posted on your YouTube channel, I remember a split level I did a couple months ago and it kicked my butt so badly I ended up with p-line solids and shifted walls and finally got it done but wow, what an ordeal. Even now I tried to follow your video and through no fault of your excellent tutorial I ended up with such a mess that I simply gave up as I'm too busy to mess with it. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but have been using Chief for 20 years and still can't understand some of the paradigms and convoluted methods. I'll return here for my next split level but for now it's simply over my pay grade. Thanks again.

I don't use live views for that reason. Could never 'trust' them

Have used send view as image for as long as the feature existed. As 'an image' it won't jump around because it's simply an image. Can't attest to image resolution but the larger your screen typically the higher the res if I remember correctly. Can you trust it? Dunno but works OK here. Just remember that's why I don't send the current screen as it can change inadvertently but the image remains a simple image. Curious has the OP found a solution?

I see a reason to not use the send current view might be when a higher resolution is desired. Sorry, didn't read that in the OP as a [parameter...

Probably all true but why wouldn't one use the send Current View as Image' feature? That image can be cropped and resized and I suppose that covers the aspect ratio too? Is it too simple? Or are there drawbacks I'm not aware of?

Are you sending Current Screen or Current Screen as Image? Works as expected here with no change in aspect ration or screen size. If you send as image it will not update, but you can crop and resize as needed.

Too funny - I think I might have added a few items lately. Make an offer, everything must go....

Can't remember seeing anything either Gene. This (quote above) has been my experience as well. It's a favorite thing to do during presentations to add a picture of something that might resonate with the client (surfing/sailing) or even a nice sunset or other picture to add a custom touch to the TV screen.

..was holding down cntrl key to free up movements. Should do the same thing or better correct?

So simple right? Amazing how long I'll stick with a flawed method just because it's familiar.. Thanks David.

Double click the Smoke Detector symbol and change its size in the dbx. I do it all the time for the reasons you state. I use 12 and maintain aspect ratio. Would love to be able to set this as the default size but not show how or if it can be done. Interesting, I added the larger size to my library, changed the name from Chief's default 'Smoke Detector 1' to simply smoke detector and it's the first thing that comes up in the library when searching foe smoke detector. Nice. Off to change the CO detector as well.