WesternDesign

4 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Can't you go to the window and under the label tab, just mark labels to show the individual labels, and not the mulled unit label, even if they are mulled.

Perry, Thanks for posting this.  I have never noticed that option.  Is it new in X9?

We have (but don't use) Room Planner so I don't know how this might work for you but we recently purchased a Disto S910 (in the pro pack) and absolutely love it.  You can use it like the lower cost Disto units but you can also use it like a simple theodolite total station for gathering data.  We can do a quick as built or a basic survey. It can put each shot in live or create a dxf file with photos.  I love the fact that I can measure any vertical or horizontal item from one spot on the ground.  Example: we end up working in areas of Scenic Rivers or Landscape Management where we have to identify all ridge heights, chimneys, stove pipes, vents and satellite dishes on the home and the exact height from existing grade.  We just did this last week on a home and also captured many architectural features a few inside measurements as well as basic topography, driveways, visible utilities, nature trail and property corners.  It took one person about 75 minutes and no one had to get on a ladder.  The accuracy is staggering, between 1/32" -1/4" at 1,000 feet.

We have done 3 as-built drawings for remodel projects since getting this tool and it has move than paid for itself already.

https://lasers.leica-geosystems.com/disto/s910

best deal I have found

https://www.amazon.com/Leica-S910-Distance-Measurer-Measuring/dp/B00UP2WAFG

very nice.  thank you

From what I have seen, Chief is the cleanest export and the 3ds is also the best version (from what I have tested).

Go to the extensions website and look for a tool called "Clean Up".  Try it out on a piece or an area first before trying the whole model (could take a long time on a big model).  Works well (not perfect but well) and you don't need to explode everything.

Hope this works for you.

On 2/15/2017 at 7:09 AM, KilianDrafting said:

Is there any way to access individual user created library items outside of chief to delete corrupted files? I have a detail I added to the library, but I changed some things and added it back to the library with the same name. The new one is good but the old one, every time I click on it, I get an error message. I can't delete it inside chief so I was hoping I could delete it some other way. Any help would be appreciated. 

I am having the same problem.

Okay, I'll give you an example. I'm working away on the electrical anno set, which has an electrical plan layer set attached to it. Oh, wait, did I get that light centered over the dining room table? So I turn on my furniture layer just to check. Probably better turn on the the framing layer, too, to make sure there are no conflicts there. Now the electrical layer set has two extra layers turned on. I need to remember to turn them off, or remember to re-import layer sets like Glenn suggested. I SHOULD be able to just double-click the electrical layer set, or press a "restore" button, to get my electrical layer set back to the way I usually want it in my ConDocs.   

+1

It is great that we can specify the number of trimmers but it is strange that they have no impact on the spacing from the corners.  I would like to specify the distance from corners without messing up the casing.