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"When you do a save as, you don't lose the time recorded previous to the save. this can become very confusing if your plan has multiple forked saves. Thanks Bill , the information on the "Forked Saves" is what I assumed , thanks for the confirmation , good to know I'm not as slow as the Time Tracker is making Out , working out the Hours now will be a mess for sure though.... And, unless you are disciplined, you don't have any record of the time you spent on research, beam calcs, meetings, phone calls, etc." that is the part I need to be more conscious of , time for a new phone and a good Timer APP I guess I am just finding out now, about how the .csv export works ( or doesn't ) especially with my limited knowledge of Excel , the Total doesn't even export out , nor does it print, if you print from the Time Tracker ....how is that useful ? M.

Thanks Jeff , I had not thought to export and compare each one for overlaps that should work , I assume there will/must be overlaps. at this point. M.

My client asked for another View of the Master Suite Area from my Current Project , no problem I thought , opened plan , setup the Full Cam at Ensuite Door , and to my surprise when the view opened the bath deck (custom countertop) , the wall Tile (wall material regions) and a few Other items like mirrors and shelving were all missing. So back to plan view and they are there and selectable, check display options ...all on ... so opened the Bathdeck DBX thinking maybe it "fallen" to the floor or something only to find it was at 125" elevation ....huh??? so took a view outside to see if it was actually on the Roof... no ...but I then remembered , this Projected started as a small one Bathroom reno , but they asked me to do the downstairs one as well and now the Kitchen and make it Open Plan too , so I "inserted a Floor" to put the Ensuite on the second Floor as it should be. (learnt my lesson now even on small jobs use proper Floor in CA) The 1st floor Plan View doesn't show any on the "missing items" but they are there in 3D view (Below) but unfortunately the WMR's have "snapped" to the living Room Walls so they are not a copy/paste/hold position back upstairs, the closet shelves are outside the window too that is likely my fault for moving walls though... The Vanity countertop moved upstairs but the Custom one used for the bath deck didn't , I guess that's in how CA "sees" each item? I made Mirror and put them on (in front of) the Closet Doors for views , they are in the Living Room, the Closet shelves are outside , so not sure what I did there ...possibly resize the plan with more accurate measurements? Don't think this messed up plan is worth posting , or that there is an easy fix just thought I'd put this out there as a Warning about the Insert Floor Option for Others , as it seems it's hit and miss on what gets moved properly. I thought this was a better option that Copy/paste/hold everything one floor up originally but maybe not. M.

Hi , I am curious if Others think the Time Tracker is accurate ? and perhaps it's just my understanding of how it works , as I don't usually use it , but I knew I had put in some hours on my current project as there were 8 options done for the Master Suite alone, but even I don't think it is right , after opening each Option Plan plus the Original As Built ,it seems I have done 119 hrs on this project in the last 3 weeks which I can't believe , since that would be 3 full weeks at 40hrs each. Most of the Time I do an As Built from my Measure drawings or Existing Plans, do a Save As with a Proposed Drawing , and continue to do Save As Plans with each Option , until the Client is happy, then do Save As with a Final Plan. The Manual says each Plan has it's own Timer but I have to wonder now , if when I do a Save As , it is bringing the hours forward with it from the Original Plan it was save as'd from too ? (which means my hours are totally screwed up on this project if so.) Thanks for any advice /ideas on this.... M.

That's what has me confused and why I asked about this , I usually work in imperial , but occasionally in Metric here , and I am pretty sure I started with a Metric Template as I cannot see me going through and changing all the DBX's ,Defaults etc to metric (mm) but maybe I did ? I don't remember what Template I used ie ProfileM.plan or perhaps an older metric Plan of my own ... (or someone else's?) However each time I send to Layout the Default scale is in Imperial and I have to change it to Metric , So I am wondering if somehow I started sending to the Imperial Template Layout and am now stuck with it.... I had planned on making this final Layout into my new Metric Layout Template but it won't allow it due to the miss matched "System" according to the Error message. M.

Nice Tip Michael , thx , had not thought of doing that either.... M.

It's still there Bernie, I just checked , I posted in the Tips Forum a few months back about it , but Google can get in too. If its stuff other could use best to copy and paste it back over here though as no one seems to know exactly when it will disappear totally. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/5510-old-forum-is-still-there-if-you-need-it/ Use the search bar up on the very top right to get in

Thx Rich. https://3dlibrary.rubysketch.com/

On or In ? what version of the software are you using ? ( you haven't filled in your Profile's Sig.)

Not sure I have seen that asked for before as usually the Drawer Box size is calculated depending on the Hardware (slide) used ,so is left to the cabinet Company to determine on their Shop Drawings. M.

Thx P. have a good weekend...

Joey will confirm but I know not everything you do Auto Updates currently , requiring an update but I think CAD Work and TEXT are supposed to M.

Noticed that myself recently so used one of the other methods... M.

In following along in your instructions in #16 I basically found what you did ...should of read more 1st as Joe cleared it up some and so did you... I guess you attached the wrong layout file in the zip ...... cos on A6 in mine is a Roof Plan (it is the file Oest.Large Plan.layout) but never mind I guess, just wanted to make sure you were using the Right Layout as usually the layout name matches the Plan Name , which is Oest.Plans. Good luck. M. EDIT: in the layout I have page 7 (A6) and Page 8 are labelled (A6) though neither has a window schedule on it. there are also 2 sheets labelled A5 (pages 5 and 6)

There are no schedules in the layout that I can find ...what page are they supposed to be On ? You did send the Schedules from the Cad Detail to Layout right ? or did you think this was automatic? the ADLO says there are no Schedules too? There are two other plans linked in this layout too.... which aren't in your zip file so I'm seeing errors on that. I am also getting a warning about missing LayerSets when open the plan and layout up... M.

I think Graeme is right , are you in Plot Plan annotation in X7 and 1/4" annotations in X6 ? (both say "active defaults") M.

make sure to hit the Attach button in the More Reply Options Area to attach the file after you have selected it. And make sure Plan is not open in CA or it wont attach either. M.

Been following this thread , as I use Schedules in CAD Details too.... so good to see this is an error somehow, ( not good for RG) as I thought that was the default behaviour , so I hope it gets sorted out, please update the thread , if you get it fixed thanks.. M.

I have been running into this for a while too, and am no Expert but usually find it is because the Original material in SU is not a "True" material as we know it in CA , it is usually a jpg applied to the surface (face) of the SU Model (I have seen this a number of times on Furniture eg the KARE Brand) and there are several posts on this over on HT where I help out too about it. https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/698-importing-symbols-an-experiment/#entry3819 In this particular case I used the Material Def. Tool with the Global Symbol Mapping setting for the Material worked for me , ( a Coronado Stone material) though the Stretch to Fit option works too, it obviously changes the scale of the applied material which is what I think the default Eye Dropper Method used. (uses?) Edit: I tried the eyedropper/spraycan tool too and each time I had to use the Rainbow tool to Set Global Symbol afterwards on this Fireplace.

I watched a video on this type of covered walkway a while back and they used Mark's method of the Angled/Parallel baseline can't quite remember whether here or ChiefExperts or ??? sorry.

My guess would be once mulled you can't change the Stacking , but un-Mulling , restacking and re-Mulling may work ? or if the "Bad Window" is the same Unit as the "good window" delete bad and copy and paste a new good one. M.

Thanks Joey ! Good Tip especially if you aren't Sure with the view settings how it will look.... *** Note for others....Not sure if my internet or Jing but I had to try 3-4 times before the video finally loaded for me.

Haven't heard of that trick , can you elaborate a bit Joey M.

Yes I have seen this , and it's what I was meaning above about sending at the right Scale to begin with.

Nick, you know better ........ post the Plan... sorry no idea from your PDF's