Kjellar

All the predefined "macros" that Chief provides in the Global and Object Properties selections are what CA calls "Name-Value Pairs".  The output of these are "fixed content text", not "interpreted by Ruby".  Consequently the data can not be manipulated or changed - except by CA.  We do not have any ability to modify the text that's displayed or use any numerical info for calculations.

 

Perhaps the easiest solution in the case of the Room & Living Area Displays would be for CA to just drop the units.  Then we could just add what we want to the end of the Labels.

Yea....that will be okey....:-)  

It is quite easy to get Chief to display m2 in the dbx's by creating a new Unit of Measurement and making it the Default Unit.

But it seems that Chief doesn't use this when it reports things like Living Area and Room areas. 

Yea....i have tried that to...:-(

Hi Kjell,

 

I agree.  AFAIK, only the USA and (maybe Canada) use the Imperial System.  Everyone else uses the Metric System and "m²" is the standard for area.

 

You should post this as a request in the Suggestions Forum.  I'm not sure exactly where in Chief SQ M gets displayed.  Its probably just in the Room Area displays.  If you know of any other locations - include them in your suggestion.

Done in request forum :-)....yes in Room and  Living area...hope this can be done :-)

I do this in macros that I provide in my "Macro a Month Club" subscription. 

 

You can of course simply enter in a text box m and then insert the Global Special Character > Superscript (2) to get m²

 

Create a macro named %m2%

 

result = "m²"

 

then just add %m2% wherever you want those characters in a text box or label.  Of course, this won't replace SQ M that Chief puts in anything automatically.

Okey !!....i can do that :-)....but Chief Architect is used in many countries and some of these uses m2 (as sq m ) .... this should not be locked but selectable ...is my opinion ....

Hey there :-)

Just wonder....is it possible to use m2 ( as we use in Norway ) instead of SQ M ??

Not a clue what you're talking about, but is that an old Les Paul you're holding in your picture ?

 

(actually what you describe was happening to me too a few days ago.

Just stopped on it's own)

Yea....its an Gibson Les Paul from 76 i think...my favorit guitar among my 13 ;-)

Yessss.....here we go  :-).. ...thanks ...but way is it like that ??...never had this prob with x6-x7...

Kjell here..need some help..some problems here in X8....okey i open a layout page ( only the layout ) with my plans in...and when i click twice on one plan in the layout...then the plan should open right ? But i got a page with nothing in !!! Then when i click on " send to layout  "....it send the plan to layout...and in the layout page is okey !! What happens ?? The plans and layout is in same dir!!!

Yes....all is okey :-) ...Thanks for all help....and Dennis and Lew....get your instrument and go rocking..never to old   ...to Michael...it was "Slash" who visit me ....

In my band we play today Gary Moore - Joe Bonamassa ....blues-rock :-)

Okey...so when i have to wait for the SSA  ....Kjell is also playing his guitar :-)..hehe...yea i'm 63  and still doing this stuff....this is a jamsession outside in e tent in my place in summer 2015 .....me on left ;-)....jamsession is...we never had played together before ..so here we go...hope its okey....any here who play in band ??

kjell, you may have better results if you email customer service (not sure since you are out of country USA) what they can do, but they might be able to offer a link for you to connect to in order to pay the SSA.

I mailed to sales@chiefarchitect.com...

Maybe it's hard to call from Norway kjell? If not they are a very helpful bunch at Chief and will surely get you fixed up..

Yea....but my  english is bad..hehe...  ...so i wrote a mail...so i have to wait...but never had such problems before !

What did Sales say when you talked to them?

No answar to my mail yet....but hope its not any problems....not can i pay the SSA and not any X8 beta...frustrating ??  YES !!

Okey...but when i try to pay the SSA today...i got this message....

Kjell here :-)

I have problem to download X8 beta and also renew the SSA Renewal....it expire on 2/1/2016...other with same problem ??

In my digital locker its only X7 i can DL....

Very nice work pkegles :-)..

Very nice indeed Kjell. Pray tell, how big  

a file size does a video like that generate?

I have a 6 1/2 minute walkthrough of a 2

acre site that I created solely with Chief

software and that file is almost 400 MB.

Hey..Rich..my mp4 fil is 61,5 mb..3,19 min ...a little low res. but .. ....higher res. big fil size.......

Hey...yea Dennis...Lumion is used.....imported only the houses from Chief.....all mountains and terrain are made from scratch in Lumion....and it is sooo easy to work with :-)

Chief58....it go fast to make the terrains.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowSmBGORxw

Some of my projects here in Norway .. . ..why not make a small village    ?? everything is drawn in Chief  and exported as 3ds

Some poor resolution and my " drone " flying a little fast

http://www.hagen-snekkerverksted.no/media/landsby.mp4

Hey....how to change sq m to m2 in room area..?? We use m2 in Norway

using X7