JLU_Design

Since you brought it up.... I use linux for everything except Chief Architect. I have a headless PC running Windows 11 specifically for Chief Architect that I use over a 2.5G network connection. I have been doing this for several years now with great success. If Chief would run on Linux I wouldn't have any real reason to have a Windows machine. Linux is way more stable than Windows in my experience. I'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition because I wanted long term stability not the latest flashy tricks. Earlier this year I had a bad Windows update that I could not recover from and had to reinstall Windows on that machine. This setup saved me a lot of headache because I don't keep any critical documents or files on the Windows machine. I'm thinking of trying to visualize the windows machine on a Proxmox server sometime. Linux does what an operating system is supposed to do with out imposing itself into your business "Copilot"

I am working toward using the project management option because of all the advantages it brings. My plan is to export "archival" copies of the .caproj file to my project directory which is also stored in dropbox. This means I can remove completed projects from Chief to reduce clutter but can reload a project at any time I may need it. I really think the new project management is a huge improvement.

You could try this: It's a little hard to say for-sure without the plan file.

You could try this: %"First Line \n Second Line"% There may be other ways to accomplish this but it's the first one that popped into my head.

Drop the roof plane 2 inches and rebuild the trusses.

I think this may be part of your problem I don't think Chief likes the baseline out at the edge of the roof. For some reason I can't select that particular roof plane in the plan you sent. I can select the other roof planes but not that one.

Style Palette for everything!!! I know there's probably limitations but still...

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Do you have a picture of a cabinet with one of the moldings you mentioned? I have some Ideas but I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/10199/productivity-tips-saved-plan-views.html?playlist=169

You made me think of this book: Get Your House Right Chapter 10 talks about Cornices and Eaves

You definitely need a larger hard-drive. You may need more ram as well. If you are short on ram your computer may be trying to use a swap partition on the hard-drive as well which could be exasperating the problem. I would also recommend this tool box to fix common windows problems which could potentially improve the performance of your PC. https://christitus.com/downloads/

My guess is you may want to adjust your exposure.

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This was kinda interesting. 260 mb 11 mb

Thanks I did search the help but couldn't find an explanation the first time around. I wish that when you search for something the link would open to the exact spot where the search term is used. I missed it when I looked the first time.

Anyone know what the vacuum does?

This is what I use: RO Sill Height: %bottom_elevation-rough_opening_clearance_gap_bottom% Quite simple actually.

Thank-you! I tried everything but the square brackets.

As Ken noted I can't guarantee Edit Area won't mess some things up so it's a good idea to save a copy before doing that.

If you want to rotate the entire model you could try using the Edit Area (All Floors) tool. You'd want to make sure that your selection box surrounds the entire model.

I'm trying to access some data I have stored in an Object Information Custom Field. I tied searching the help but can't seem to find any Info. This outputs all the info in all of the custom fields: %custom_fields{}% I want one specific custom field data output.

Default Sets This is super powerful once you can get your mind wrapped around it. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/240/understanding-default-sets.html I think the most important thing is to have the following specific layers for each default set. A specific CAD layer for each Default Set: A specific Dimension layer for each Default Set: A specific Revision Cloud layer for each Default Set: As you can see I don't have a specific revision cloud layer for all my default sets. Some of them share Revision Clouds, General. A specific Text layer for each Default Set: I've thought that it would be nice to have a wizard to create all of the important parts to a new default set because it's a good bit of stuff to try to remember to check when setting up a new default set.

I don't believe GPX is supported by Chief Architect You could try this: https://online.reaconverter.com/convert/gpx-to-dwg