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See Typo Correction above... NO Room Defintion....

I think Joey is right , stadard cabinets with a couple of Partitions like :

You appear to have a un-needed Roof opening on the 1st floor over the fridge , so I pulled it out onto the backyard. It's a bit finicky but I then made both sidewalls - roof cuts wall at bottom and reshaped them in 3D This will leave a hole in the drywall each side , which I fixed with a short piece of interior 4 wall marked - No Room Definition - and slide into place. *** edited for typo No Roof Def. was supposed to be No Room Def. Mick.

Yes..... How to Pics 1st ...will add Text .... but typically you would NOT do this process till you knew the house was at it's final Design Size , so it didn't need to be repeated. The Foundation Wall's Framing is Locked ( retained on Structure Tab ) so you don't lose the manual work and Materials' changes when you rebuild the Framing in the rest of the house. Pic 1 How to set the Build Framing DBX for the Foundation Level Pic 2+3 Select ALL the foundation Walls and Uncheck Retain Framing , framing should rebuild if you set Auto build per Pic 1 Pic 4 Select ALL the foundation Walls and RE-Check Retain Framing Pic 5 Delete any Pier "extras" you don't need, that the Auto build made. Pic 6 + 7 Use Full camera to go under Floor Framing and change Top Plate's Material and Width ti 1 1/2 or 5 1/2" as needed ( delete Top Plates on Walls if not needed ) Pic 8 ,9 ,10 Edit Top Plates in an Elevation Camera for length and numer as needed. Pic 11 1st Floor showing Foundation Framing Settings above still Pic 12 + 13 Building Framing > Walls reset to Normal and rebuilt Pic 14 +15 Floor Framing also rebuilt now Pic 16 Full Reframed "Extended Room" Mick.

This thread is about the built in Labels for the Electrical Items which are different than the Callout Labels which come from the Schedule as does the Shape , might be best to start your own thread with a Sample plan with a simple box house showing the issue so Others can give you some Pointers. Mick.

I guess that is about my plan ? I didn't go the whole hog last night but it doesn't take long to finish it the way you describe.....his Details Pics and what he said don't match ie triple 2x6 vs 6x6 PT , but either is not difficult. I added the updated plan and pics above for Others in the future. The transverse walls just needed a new material to rotate the Studs 90°. ( ie 8 x16 vs 16 x 8" ) and the top plate deleted. Frame the Foundation Level 1st with the needed settings ie single 5 1/2" top plate and no bottom plate , then lock the Framing in the Foundation walls with the Retain Framing box on the Structure Tab, you can then set the Framing back to a double top plate and single bottom 2X material to frame the other Floor levels. It's not totally automatic of course but you can then copy and paste the missing framing members and change the material to PT framing quite easily. Mick.

With a new Wall definition and a few new Materials eg a Framing Conc. Block you can pretty much automate this with a couple of tricks to make the single 6X6 top plate (only) then retain the framing and then change the top plate material to Treated Lumber and thickness to 6" on the foundation walls. Then reset the Wall Framing default tot he standard 2 top-plate and one bottom plate at 1 1/2" for the rest of the house. I have left the Cameras in the Plan file below , so check them out 1st........ PLAN FILE : MHD_Brick Foundation Wall with CMU Piers.plan Mick.

Down and dirty method.... But you then need to place you own Doors as Chief won't drop to the bottom of the Valance molding but once the door is placed in plan from the libary and copied it isn't too bad. Likewise for the Handle/knob. Actually If you remove the Bottom seperation the Door will come all the way down , you can then use one of the Shelves set at 1 1/2" from the bottom as the bottom of the cabinet and the molding will fill the gap , see the attached wall cabinet for settings. MHD 1.5 inch Recessed Bottom Wall Cabinet.calibz M.

You could use a network Drive and place a Common User library there , though there is a possibility of issues if you both access it at the same time. Use Google Drive for the common User Library location may work but again there maybe issues especially if the Internet is down or something. It is easy to make a Plan Material's Folder which can be exported and imported on the other machine or you can just export the individual materials and email them to the other person if needed. M. or

You can also disable the second instance behavoiur ( at your own risk) in the Chief .ini file. ( if you can't find it , then don't use this method.... and make a backup of the .ini file 1st if you do.)

I will look into this, thanks. good start......but look at Ref. Manual too. ( Toolbars are customisable too except for a couple of hard-coded ones Chief installs. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00238/customizing-hotkeys.html

This is also how I do it , with 2 clicks or OFF set...... PS if you are on a PC ( not is your signature) it is Ctrl-E (Default Hot Key) not CMD-E ( Mac Os) to open Objects You can print a list of Current Hotkeys to an HTML File from the Tools Menu too , and it is highly customisable for HotKey People.... M.

Mac OS Catalina? it has a bunch of new security features which limit some services till you explicitly turn them on now...for example last Week a Client had to figure out how to get GoToMeeting to work with Catalina after updating to Catalina the day before and be able to share the Video etc with me. It also turns off Scrollbars I have found with some Clients , I posted a Tip in the Tips Forum about that. M.

Post the Plan , as it seems there is something wrong with the Chief Model , the Real Door is not in a 12" deep recess.... M.

Well I read it as he/she wants to swap the Keys due to muscle memory, I see no issue with that, and assumed he/she knew what he/she was doing..... the fact that a True Escape is now done with the Space bar instead is a personal choice as I see it, as long as he/she can remember that he's done it .... and uses it as needed. M.

Each to His Own ..... Not sure why you are having an issue switching them, if you want too , seems to work for me ..... Type Space in the Show commands box at the Top > (1) select Select Objects in the List.... (2) backspace out Space on the Assign Text Area at the Bottom and hit Esc Key then (3) hit Assign. Chief will warn you about an overwrite > OK ...move on ..... then do the opposite for the Esc Key. M.

Put the needed info in your Forum Signature as suggested , this does not included your MAC OS serial No# which I suggest you don't post on Public Forums. M.

You can also in Preferences Use the Reset Options >Reset Toolbars command. If you Lock your toolbars this tends not to happen accidently too. M

If you mean in Layout ? ( you really need to explain EXACTLY what is happening and where) then Unlink the Saved Plan View ( edit Tolobar button) for the Layout box and it should hold the View that was sent , and not change as you change the SPV while in Plan. M.

That's true , but I was assuming a Longtime User with no Fills in his User Library , may not have migrated everything properly...(but maybe not ?) so it might be worth a try. Doug could also Export the Fills from the Library from an Earlier Version of Chief and import into X12, or Use Import Patterns and point it to the X10 or X11 Patterns Folder ( in the Data Folder.) M.

It appears you didn't agree to migrate the User , Bonus and Manufacturer Libraries. ( no arrow next to them to expand ) X12 now allows you to Reset the Migration, under Reset Options, next time you restart X12 ...... using this new Button in Preferences. You could also Click on the Library Menu at the Top and "install the Core library" and it will Check thatit is upto Date.

That was Michael , that posted that Tip for you, not me..... so I am not sure....maybe only Chief's Default Framed Panel Doors that allow it , most Manfacturer's likely don't , since they are symbols rather than Parametric Doors @Alaskan_Son

Make the Beam a Single 2x12 and then copy paste the other two next to it , Chief does not yet do Auto Built Up beams AFAIK.

Nice OOB thinking there didn't think I'd seen them in a Chief Library.... M.

You can set it to match the Terrain Perimeter Height eg if it is 18" below the Subfloor...... Set the Grade Level Marker to -18 ( negative 18") instead of Zero and make sure to reference the Grade Level Marker not the 1st Floor Subfloor. M.